Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
VERNON HOWARDThe answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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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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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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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 look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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