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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

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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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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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
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Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.
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The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
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Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Change is never a loss - it is change only.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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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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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.
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