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

Vernon Howard

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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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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You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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