Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARDThe leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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.
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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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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Bitterness 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.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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