All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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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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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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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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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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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