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
Vernon Howard quotes about
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.
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.
block acceptance simple
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
heaven break specifications
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
personality identity might
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
mind trying dawn
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
water tables cups
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
reflection trying world
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.
grief self confusion
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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!
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
trying
Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.
kings pennies asks
Who asks a king for a penny?