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Change is never a loss - it is change only.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Difficulty
Loss
Attitude
Change
Never

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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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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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It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
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You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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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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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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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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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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