A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
VERNON HOWARDBe teachable. That is the whole secret.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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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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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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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