“Peace of mind, spiritual innocence, natural goodness, is the absence of all the positions you could ever think of. The absence of all the attitudes and beliefs and defenses and offenses that you ever had. Giving up your life for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven is doing just what I’ve described, which is this: Letting, allowing, both sides, the opposite positions to be wrong, to be useless. To suspect at first, and know later on, that they have no value for you, no support for you, no good for you, because they are nothing more than a mere thought.
You just try to corral, like wild horses, you just try to corral your wild thoughts, round them up in the hills and bring them back to the corral and train them, put saddles on them and try to use them. Can’t do it, can you? They’re too wild, they’re too used to going in their direction and doing what they want to do; they’re not going to submit to you.
The thought horses are always thundering somewhere, the thundering herd. They’re always suddenly changing position in front of you. You think you just about get the rope over the head of one of them, bring it back and that it will be yours. You cut the stallion out in the wilderness out there and you’re going to bring him back and you’re going to train him and he’ll serve you, and other people will admire you as you ride into town on your fancy saddle. You have never been able to catch just one of them and train it and make it your own – and you never will.
Now of course, that’s not a thought to cause you dismay, but understanding what I am talking about should cause you to rejoice because you don’t have to do it anymore. You don’t have to claim ownership, not to one, not to a dozen, not to a hundred horses out there. You can just let them go and understand their nature.”
-Vernon Howard, from a talk given 8/15/1986, Vernon Howard’s Higher World
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