Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
VERNON HOWARDAloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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 miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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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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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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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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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 thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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