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 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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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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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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