When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
VERNON HOWARDThe world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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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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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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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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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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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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