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.
VERNON HOWARDWhenever 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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