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.
VERNON HOWARDQuit 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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 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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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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 false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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