Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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 mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Genuine effort is success.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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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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