A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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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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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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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 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!
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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