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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

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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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We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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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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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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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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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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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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