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.
VERNON HOWARDYou 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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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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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.
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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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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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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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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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