Vernon Howard (1918 – 1992)
American writer and spiritual teacher.
The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.
Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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.
Mental sickness has set up a system by which it never loses. No matter what you do and no matter what the results are, you will win an ego-victory. That means that when you send your desires out into the world: 1. You will get what you want, or 2. You won't get what you want. Of you get what you want, the pseudo-nature says, "I have at last been given what I so richly deserve," and the sickness feels affirmed. If you don't get what you want, you feel sorry for yourself. You still feel affirmed because you get a feeling, and that's all that neurosis wants is a feeling.
The only activities of true value are those which aim at inner transformation.
What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.