Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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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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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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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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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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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