We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
VERNON HOWARDBitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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You 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.
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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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