Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
VERNON HOWARDPersistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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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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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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