black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
VERNON HOWARD

Nonsense Trying Years
Who asks a king for a penny?
VERNON HOWARD

Asks Kings Pennies
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

Assuming Emotional Feelings
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
VERNON HOWARD

Life Order Vanity
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

Desire Understanding Water
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
VERNON HOWARD

Spiritual Teacher Wise
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
VERNON HOWARD

Conflict Conscious Perception
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
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
VERNON HOWARD

Imagination Life Reality
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
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
VERNON HOWARD

Proportion Running Transformation
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARD

Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
VERNON HOWARD

Inspirational Strength Strong
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
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
VERNON HOWARD

Challenges Feelings Gratitude
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
VERNON HOWARD

Agreement Intelligent People

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Vernon Howard Quotes