A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. Vernon Howard More Quotes by Vernon Howard More Quotes From Vernon Howard Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. And most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman. Vernon Howard practiceforevermen Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. Vernon Howard mental-illnessmindremember See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it. Vernon Howard nonsensetryingyears Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd. Vernon Howard examplemindwatches It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition. Vernon Howard oppositionmiraclemen The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. Vernon Howard sufferingpeopleworld Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. Vernon Howard imaginetruthinspirational It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the Vernon Howard sensiblefeetyears Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so. Vernon Howard selfrainwind No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another. Vernon Howard mindyearsthinking Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. Vernon Howard intelligentagreementpeople We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. Vernon Howard assumingemotionalfeelings Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. Vernon Howard poorskinsbeauty Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself. Vernon Howard easierfailinghealing Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS. Vernon Howard psychicsselfsea Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last? Vernon Howard planninglaststhinking The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician. Vernon Howard yieldhealthhealing Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are. Vernon Howard genuinekindness We can become slaves to things we don't understand Vernon Howard slave When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion. Vernon Howard delusionmenthinking
