Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
Vernon HowardA perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
Vernon HowardAwareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
Vernon HowardA chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.
Vernon Howard