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

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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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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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We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
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Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table it is the water poured into all of them.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Genuine effort is success.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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