black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There 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 Howard

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 HOWARD

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

Nonsense Trying Years
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
VERNON HOWARD

Hurt Ideas Revenge
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
VERNON HOWARD

Secret Teachable Whole
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

Loss Opposites Thinking
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

Events Movement Outcomes
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

Apology Men Spiritual
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
VERNON HOWARD

Confusion Grief Self
Genuine effort is success.
VERNON HOWARD

Effort Genuine Success
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
VERNON HOWARD

Needs Obsessed Obsession
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
VERNON HOWARD

Important Understand Way
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
VERNON HOWARD

Fun Really Truth
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
VERNON HOWARD

Proportion Running Transformation
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
VERNON HOWARD

Mistake Past Regret
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
VERNON HOWARD

Emotion Negative Understanding
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

Goal Self Supermind Upset

There 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Vernon Howard Quotes