Frasi di Vernon Howard

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“Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.”

“The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.”

“A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personal idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it.”

“The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.”

“You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.”

“Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.”

“A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.”

“The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.”

“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.”

“Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.”

“You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.”

“When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.”

“Why do you permit a mere word to stand in your way? Forget the word "difficult" and take your next step.”

“Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.”

“The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.”

“To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.”

“Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.”

“Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.”