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.
VERNON HOWARDThe most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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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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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Is 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.
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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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