The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
VERNON HOWARDA perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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