See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
VERNON HOWARDDo not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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 answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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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 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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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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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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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