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.
VERNON HOWARDExamine 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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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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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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