black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Vernon Howard

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
VERNON HOWARD

Causes Law Study
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Events Movement Outcomes
Genuine effort is success.
VERNON HOWARD

Effort Genuine Success
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

Knowing Men Self
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
VERNON HOWARD

Conflict Conscious Perception
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
VERNON HOWARD

Conflicts Else Flowing Things
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
VERNON HOWARD

Belief Believe Looks
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
VERNON HOWARD

Energy Mind Strong
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 HOWARD

Needs Reality Self
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

Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
VERNON HOWARD

Rain Self Wind
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
VERNON HOWARD

Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
VERNON HOWARD

Slave Understanding Whatever
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
VERNON HOWARD

Healing Honesty Self
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
VERNON HOWARD

Feet Sensible Years
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARD

Home Love Mistake

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Vernon Howard Quotes