Vernon Howard's wisdom - about your life

"Your carelessness is stealing your very life away from you.

You keep your carelessness in wrong domination of your day by
not knowing that you are careless about your life and you’re
careless about what happens to you.
Isn’t that awful? Isn’t it terrible that you don’t care what
happens to you? And don’t tell me that you do because you don’t.
If you cared what happened to you, you would respond to that
sense of wonder, of awe, of mystery, you would respond to that
by asking yourself what’s going on, what’s going on with me?
And how come I and that neighbor across the street are exactly
the same, always fighting, always tied up to the petty little
schemes and plans inside ourselves.

Carelessness is based on the fact that you have not responded
to this sense of wonder inside of you, which is there, I tell
you it’s there."

    from a talk given 5/3/1987
  Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 11, talk 266, track 9