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 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 HOWARDWe are exactly where we have chosen to be.
VERNON HOWARDA person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
VERNON HOWARDThe search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
VERNON HOWARDOur life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
VERNON HOWARDThe world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
VERNON HOWARDWhen you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
VERNON HOWARDHappiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
VERNON HOWARDDon’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
VERNON HOWARDThe genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
VERNON HOWARDIf you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
VERNON HOWARDAlways walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
VERNON HOWARDJust be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
VERNON HOWARDSociety is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
VERNON HOWARDWhen the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
VERNON HOWARDWe clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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