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 HOWARDTruth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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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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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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