All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
VERNON HOWARDDon’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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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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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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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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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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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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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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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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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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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.
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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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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