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
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.
slave
We can become slaves to things we don't understand
simple worry world
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
trying
Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.
storm moments ends
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
needs obsession obsessed
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
men self two
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.