When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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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