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.
VERNON HOWARDMysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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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 search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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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 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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