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.
VERNON HOWARDInner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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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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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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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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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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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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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 need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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