Vernon Howard - Self Quotes

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

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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?

Vernon Howard