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.
VERNON HOWARDJust be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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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 must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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