Top 100 Vernon Howard Quotes
#1. Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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#2. Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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#3. You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
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#4. 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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#5. We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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#6. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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#7. Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.
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#8. Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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#9. A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
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#11. One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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#12. We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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#13. Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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#14. When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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#15. The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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#16. The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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#17. If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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#18. It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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#19. Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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#20. As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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#21. Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
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#22. Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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#23. Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for
you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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#24. When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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#25. You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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#26. Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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#27. The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
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#28. Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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#29. Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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#30. See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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#32. The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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#33. If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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#34. Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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#35. Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
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#36. No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind ... The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.
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#37. A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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#39. We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
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#40. Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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#41. The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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#42. Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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#44. Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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#45. Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through ... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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#46. Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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#47. Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.
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#48. The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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#49. Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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#51. It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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#52. No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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#53. Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it ... but those who do will become well.
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#55. The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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#56. Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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#57. A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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#59. Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
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#60. A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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#61. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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#62. Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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#63. The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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#64. There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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#65. Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
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#66. You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
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#67. You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey ... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.
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#68. Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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#69. We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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#70. Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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#71. One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
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#72. Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
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#73. We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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#74. We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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#75. A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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#76. Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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#77. Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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#78. Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.
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#79. Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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#80. Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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#81. An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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#83. The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
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#84. Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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#85. Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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#86. It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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#87. We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
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#88. Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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#89. To change what you get you must change who you are.
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#90. By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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#91. The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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#92. Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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#93. The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
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#95. Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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#96. We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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#97. You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.
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#98. A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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#99. Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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#100. Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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