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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
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Attitude
Change
Never

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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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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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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception hence his delusion.
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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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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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