Vernon Howard Quotes - Page 5

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

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.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

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. 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.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

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.

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

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.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.