Vernon Howard Quotes

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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.

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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.

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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.

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God himself has made it possible for you to live without the dark place and the pains that rush out and flood out and take you over. Your choice of wanting to see and work is essential to you if you want to get rid of your feeling of emptiness, of futility. You've lied to yourself and said, 'I know what to do to get rid of the pain.' You've never gotten rid of the pain and that's evidence of self-deceit. You have to stop playing cruel tricks on yourself. So stop. Now.

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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!

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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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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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Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.

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Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.

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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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To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.

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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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Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

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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 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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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.

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