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.
VERNON HOWARDYou 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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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 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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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