Vernon Howard Quotes

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Vernon Howard

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Birth : March 16, 1918

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

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

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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

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

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The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

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

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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

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Problems are cured by facing their cause.

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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

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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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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

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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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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

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