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 HOWARDWe 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 HOWARDBeauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
VERNON HOWARDSuppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
VERNON HOWARDYou 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 HOWARDThe 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 HOWARDSee human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
VERNON HOWARDIt is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
VERNON HOWARDMysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
VERNON HOWARDThe miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
VERNON HOWARDA truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
VERNON HOWARDJust be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
VERNON HOWARDAll forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
VERNON HOWARDA false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
VERNON HOWARDNo 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 HOWARDA clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
VERNON HOWARDFreedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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