Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
VERNON HOWARDJust be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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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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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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