Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
VERNON HOWARDEvery day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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!
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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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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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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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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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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