Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
VERNON HOWARDJust as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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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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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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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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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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