Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
VERNON HOWARDInner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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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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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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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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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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There 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.
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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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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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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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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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