Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
-
-
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
VERNON HOWARD -
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
VERNON HOWARD -
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 -
There 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 HOWARD -
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
VERNON HOWARD -
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
VERNON HOWARD -
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
VERNON HOWARD -
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
VERNON HOWARD -
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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 -
Who asks a king for a penny?
VERNON HOWARD -
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
VERNON HOWARD -
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
VERNON HOWARD -
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
VERNON HOWARD -
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
VERNON HOWARD -
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
VERNON HOWARD -
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
VERNON HOWARD -
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
VERNON HOWARD -
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
VERNON HOWARD -
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 -
The 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 HOWARD -
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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 -
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
VERNON HOWARD -
If 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 HOWARD -
Whenever 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 HOWARD