Vernon Howard
Vernon Howard
Vernon Linwood Howardwas an American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 March 1918
CountryUnited States of America
moving secret mind
You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If you don't like your headquarters, you can move any time you like. Break away. Don't tell anyone about it. Others will either smile tolerantly or mouth sanctimonious babble. Make your escape plans in secret. Never mind if you lose certain friends, you will find others who also have dared. They will be ten-thousand times more valuable to you.
movement outcomes bitterness
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.
money absurd cures
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
love mistake home
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
water understanding desire
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.
wise ambition defeat
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
courage thinking negativity
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
reality want pseudo
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
waiting enjoy-life finals
We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
answers willing
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
people suffering world
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
thinking people problem
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
kings pennies asks
Who asks a king for a penny?
bears reason great-things
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.