There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
VERNON HOWARDBeauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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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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