We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
VERNON HOWARDWe cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
VERNON HOWARDThere 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.
VERNON HOWARDJust be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
VERNON HOWARDQuit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
VERNON HOWARDThe world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
VERNON HOWARDWe are exactly where we have chosen to be.
VERNON HOWARDGenuine effort is success.
VERNON HOWARDA false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
VERNON HOWARDYou must never fear anything at all.
VERNON HOWARDWhenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
VERNON HOWARDThe outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
VERNON HOWARDWhen the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
VERNON HOWARDChange is never a loss – it is change only.
VERNON HOWARDYou 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 HOWARDThere 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 HOWARDDon’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
VERNON HOWARD