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.
VERNON HOWARDYou must never fear anything at all.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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