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.
VERNON HOWARDQuit 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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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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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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