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.
VERNON HOWARDOne 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Whenever 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.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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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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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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