You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
VERNON HOWARDSee human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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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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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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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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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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