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Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Mental sickness has set up a system by which it never loses. No matter what you do and no matter what the results are, you will win an ego-victory. That means that when you send your desires out into the world: 1. You will get what you want, or 2. You won’t get what you want. Of you get what you want, the pseudo-nature says, I have at last been given what I so richly deserve, and the sickness feels affirmed. If you don’t get what you want, you feel sorry for yourself. You still feel affirmed because you get a feeling, and that’s all that neurosis wants is a feeling.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
The last thing on earth which should bother you is the sudden failure of your carefully laid plans. Do not take your plans as being you and the disruption of any plan will be as nothing to you. Your plans are not you; they only appear to be so because of that human mistake called identification.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
There is only one tyrant in life, which is a lack of understanding of life.
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Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
One can dream of something more terrible than a hell where one suffers; it's a hell where one would get bored.
One should be cautions not to speak anything that hurts others. Such kind of speech never helps but always brings destruction.
One should eat nutritious food and exercise regularly to have sound health. Virtuous deeds performed with intelligence shall naturally bring good wealth. – Rig Veda
Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning. All this was an indistinguishable sea. That which becomes, that which was enveloped by the void, that alone was born through the power of heat.
A time is envisioned when the world was not, only a watery chaos (the dark, indistinguishable sea ) and a warm cosmic breath, which could give an impetus of life.
All good, intellectual people come together at one place and try to bring harmony by means of exchange of thoughts and ideas. When all of them unite they progress rapidly and attain their aims. The external forces cannot harm them in any way.
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
To discover that there was any semblance of art in a concentration camp must be a surprise enough for an outsider, but he may be even more astonished to hear that one could find a sense of humor there as well; of course, only the faint trace of one, and then only for a few seconds or minutes. Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. I practically trained a friend of mine who worked next to me on the building site to develop a sense of humor. I suggested to him that we would promise each other to invent at least one amusing story daily, about some incident that could happen one day after our liberation. He was a surgeon and had once been an assistant on the staff of a large hospital. So I once tried to get him to smile by describing to him how he would be unable to lose the habits of camp life when he returned to his former work. On the building site (especially when the supervisor made his tour of inspection) the foreman encouraged us to work faster by shouting: 'Action! Action!' I told my friend, 'One day you will be back in the operating room, performing a big abdominal operation. Suddenly an orderly will rush in announcing the arrival of the senior surgeon by shouting, Action! Action!'
Indispensable | Knowledge | Meaning | Nothing | Search | Wisdom | Words |
One gets good and bad results according to the good and bad deeds performed.
By enthusiasm one acquire unimaginable strength. – Rig Veda
A devotee, who spends his time in austerities has nothing to worry about as God fulfills all his needs.
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People on the righteous path always progress, while people who are ignorant always falter and regress.
By the Grace of the Saints, I sing the Praises of the Ocean of virtue; after countless incarnations, I have been released.
Can you eat a meal with a single finger? When the five fingers work in unison, the stomach is filled in five minutes. So, no attachment should be developed; no wish is to be welcomed, nothing is to be sought for; and no defeat is to be taken to heart, without solving deep into the consequences.