All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
VERNON HOWARDDo not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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 told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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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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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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