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.
VERNON HOWARDTruth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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