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.
VERNON HOWARDWhat you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Genuine effort is success.
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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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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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