Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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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 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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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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