Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
VERNON HOWARDWe 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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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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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Genuine effort is success.
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