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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
Vernon Howard
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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Massachusetts
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Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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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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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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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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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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