A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
VERNON HOWARDA clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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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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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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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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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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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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Genuine effort is success.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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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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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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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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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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