Vernon Howard Quotes

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

Truth is pure awareness.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.