To change what you get you must change who you are.
VERNON HOWARDAll 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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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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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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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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