We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
VERNON HOWARDThere exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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