Vernon Howard Quotes

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• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

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  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

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  Action, Reactions, Destructive

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• We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.

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  Hurt, Reality, Thinking

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• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

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  Freedom, Numbers, Being Free

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• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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  You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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  Life, Happiness, Success

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• 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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  Hurt, Acceptance, People

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• 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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  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

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  Secret, Teachable, Whole

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• Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

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  Running, Movement, Walks

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• You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

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  Prison, Can Not, Knows

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• Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

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  Running, Transformation, Proportion

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• Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

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  Understanding, Acquisition

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• 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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  Spiritual, Apology, Men

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• To change what you get you must change who you are.

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  Change, Who You Are

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• Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

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  Hurt, Block, Higher Ground

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• How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• 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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  Mistake, Creativity, Dark

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• 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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  Letting Go, Journey, Delay

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• 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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  Stupid, Rude, Frightened

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• 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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  Gratitude, Challenges, Feelings

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• Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

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  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

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  Choices, Path, Wise Words

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• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

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  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.

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  Self, Sea, Psychics

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