Month: October 2012

Vernon Howard:

“Now is the time. Tonight is the night when you will decide that you no longer want to be kicked around by the world. And do you know what you just thought? You just thought of the exterior world, didn’t you? You slipped into it just like that because you don’t think clearly.

Well, of course, you’re weary of being at the mercy of things out there, but you do not realize that the world that you’re tired of is you. Oh, I know how easy it is to lie. You know how easy it is to deceive yourself.

Let’s try it again. The world that wearies you, that wears you out, that confuses you, that gives you more questions than answers, that world is inside of you. Now, if you reject that, you’re just going to have to waste the rest of your life as you’ve wasted it heretofore.”

from a talk given 10/14/1987
Vernon Howard’s Higher World – MP3 CD Volume 15, talk 362

“Peace is native to you, buried beneath all your thoughts about Reality that aren’t true. Beneath mental noise is the Stillness that is like a tranquil lake, like golden sunlight streaming in through a clear window into space. Your thoughts about Reality form a web of deception that ensnares you, and you’re in the middle of it. In fact, you’re the one spinning it. Since you are creating it, you can stop it.”

-James Wood, Ten Paths to Freedom