Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARDAn 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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 world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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