Top 100 Vernon Howard Quotes
#2. It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
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#3. Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
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#7. Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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#12. The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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#13. We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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#14. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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#15. Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it ... but those who do will become well.
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#16. 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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#17. It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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#19. Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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#20. The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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#21. The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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#22. 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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#23. Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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#24. 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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#25. Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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#26. One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
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#27. Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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#31. Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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#32. The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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#33. Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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#34. A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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#35. A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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#36. We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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#37. We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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#38. Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
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#40. Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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#41. We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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#45. You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
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#46. Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
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#47. 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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#48. The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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#49. Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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#50. It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
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#51. Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
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#52. 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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#53. Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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#54. It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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#55. If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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#56. 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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#57. The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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#58. When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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#59. Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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#60. When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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#61. What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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#62. 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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#63. It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#67. The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
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#68. A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
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#69. Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
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#75. Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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#77. Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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#78. 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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#79. Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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#80. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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#86. 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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#87. The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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#89. Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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#90. See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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#91. Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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#92. Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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#93. Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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#94. 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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#95. Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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#96. You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.
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#97. You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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#98. When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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#99. 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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#100. 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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