Vernon Howard Quotes

Everyone has the answers.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

I know what I don't want.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and your world; that's why you don't ever see it as it is. Once your eye is completely clean, clean of all the dust, once it becomes a pure mirror, it reflects that which is. And that is truth and truth liberates, but it has to be your own. My truth cannot liberate you, Buddha's truth cannot liberate you. There is only one possibility of liberation, that is your own truth. And all that you have to do is to create a dispassionate eye.

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

When I realized I could actually make my decisions, it was a very strange feeling. It's like a switch went off in my brain, like, "Oh, then why am I doing this? I don't enjoy this, so I'm just gonna stop doing this."

That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

You know more than you think you do.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.