"I might as well tell you right at the start of this talk that
you're not living your own life and I want you to listen to the
talk tonight so that you can get a start on living from who you
really are. You're living from who you are not now, whether you're
aware of it or not. You don't have any true strength inside of you,
anyone can do anything to you, and that is no way to live. And doesn't
this make sense what I'm going to say next? Regardless of the
endless anxiety and the deep wounds and the scars, regardless of
how many you've collected, isn't it about time you stopped? Isn't
it about time that you see through the enemy called suffering?"

                   from a talk given 2/10/1988
      Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 18, talk 433