When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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What 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.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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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.
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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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