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.
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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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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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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.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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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 must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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