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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Vernon Howard

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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Honesty
Door
Doors
Honest
Justice
Truth

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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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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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Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
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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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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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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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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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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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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
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