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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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 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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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
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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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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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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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