Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
VERNON HOWARDAn 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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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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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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