There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Bitterness 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.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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