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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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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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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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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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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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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
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Change is never a loss - it is change only.
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Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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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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