Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
VERNON HOWARDYou must never fear anything at all.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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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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