When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
VERNON HOWARDThe answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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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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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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