Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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Anger 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.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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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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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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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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