Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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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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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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