Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
VERNON HOWARDPseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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