Think...

Think of how pleasant and easy and powerful your day would be if
you were able to think through your day with a clear mind. Think
of how you think now, so that you can begin to appreciate the
alternative.

Think of how your day would go if you could make quick, accurate
decisions, if you could avoid gloom.

Think of easy everything would be if your mind was in charge of
the world, which it can be. Just now you can't do that because
you're a part of this world, not above it. You're on its level.
You're fighting with it, struggling with it. We're going to talk
more about struggling in a little bit. As long as you're strug-
gling with something, you're not free of it, you're involved
with it. You win an advantage, and then it wins an advantage.
You strike a blow; it strikes a blow against you, so that
there is no really triumphant person inside at all.

from a talk given 7/23/1986
Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 5, talk 105