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!
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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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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