Vernon Howard: Trending quotes (page 2)

“All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.”

“If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.”

“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.”

“Ask spiritual questions with intense integrity, and inspiring answers will surely arrive.”

“We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.”

“The only activities of true value are those which aim at inner transformation.”

“Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.”

“The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.”

“It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?”

“Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.”

“Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.”

“The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.”

“A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personal idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it.”

“The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.”

“You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.”

“Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.”

“A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.”

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

“We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.”