We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
VERNON HOWARDResistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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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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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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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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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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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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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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