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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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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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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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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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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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