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.
VERNON HOWARDSee human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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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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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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