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.
VERNON HOWARDWhen you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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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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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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