Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARDInner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARDHappiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
VERNON HOWARDPersistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
VERNON HOWARDBitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
VERNON HOWARDOne false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
VERNON HOWARDWe are exactly where we have chosen to be.
VERNON HOWARDYou know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
VERNON HOWARDThe power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
VERNON HOWARDBe teachable. That is the whole secret.
VERNON HOWARDAll heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
VERNON HOWARDThe only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
VERNON HOWARDWhen the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
VERNON HOWARDThe leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
VERNON HOWARDA 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.
VERNON HOWARDWhen you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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