When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
VERNON HOWARDThe power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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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.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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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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