When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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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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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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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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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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