An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
VERNON HOWARDIs 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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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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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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