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.
VERNON HOWARDIt 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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