Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARDA perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Genuine effort is success.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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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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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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