Vernon Howard Quotes

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.