Zitat des Tages von Vernon Howard:
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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.
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.
To change what you get, you must change who you are.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
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.
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.