When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
VERNON HOWARDWe clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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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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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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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 clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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