Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARDA truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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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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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 leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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