What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
VERNON HOWARDWhat you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
-
-
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
VERNON HOWARD -
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 HOWARD -
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
VERNON HOWARD -
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
VERNON HOWARD -
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
VERNON HOWARD -
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
VERNON HOWARD -
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
VERNON HOWARD -
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
VERNON HOWARD -
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
VERNON HOWARD -
You 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 HOWARD -
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
VERNON HOWARD -
Who asks a king for a penny?
VERNON HOWARD -
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
VERNON HOWARD -
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
VERNON HOWARD -
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
VERNON HOWARD