Vernon Howard Quotes
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Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.
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Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.
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The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
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Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
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Why do you permit a mere word to stand in your way? Forget the word 'difficult' and take your next step.
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You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?
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Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.
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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.
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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
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Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.
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Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.