We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
VERNON HOWARDAnger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Genuine effort is success.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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