You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
VERNON HOWARDThe need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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