Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
VERNON HOWARDAll 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
-
-
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 HOWARD -
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
VERNON HOWARD -
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
VERNON HOWARD -
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
VERNON HOWARD -
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
VERNON HOWARD -
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
VERNON HOWARD -
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
VERNON HOWARD -
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
VERNON HOWARD -
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.
VERNON HOWARD -
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
VERNON HOWARD -
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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.
VERNON HOWARD -
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
VERNON HOWARD -
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
VERNON HOWARD -
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
VERNON HOWARD