Vernon Howard > Quotes

“You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.”
― Vernon Howard

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”
― Vernon Howard

“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
― Vernon Howard

“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.”
― Vernon Howard

“Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.”
― Vernon Howard

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”
― Vernon Howard

“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”
― Vernon Howard

“It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.


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― Vernon Howard

“We are exactly where we have chosen to be.”
― Vernon Howard

“When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.”
― Vernon Howard

“The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

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― Vernon Howard

“A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.”
― Vernon Howard

“Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives”
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“The truth , when it arrives is always different from what we thought it would be..if we imagine that we already know the truth, that imaginations based on old and habitual ideas. But the truth is always something entirely new to the mind; so we cannot possibly imagine it. Just as we cannot know what a new day is like before we experience it, we cannot think accurately about a new truth until we first live it. As we dare to drop our conditioned opinions, we make room for the truth...”
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“Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.”
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“Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.”
― Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

“Don’t think that you must involve yourself with complex intellectual philosophies. Don’t try to be profound or educated. That only wears you out. Just be simple. Let everyday life be your teacher.”
― Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

“The following brief points are like magic moccasins. They
guarantee safe guidance through the forest of people. To walk
safely, wear them!
1. The most persuasive power you have toward others is a
mature self.
2. The mark of greatness is to be superior without feeling
superior.
3. "The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest
pang." (Joseph Addison)
4. The turning point in all your exterior relations comes
when you start changing your inner self.
5. Strong people attract the weak.
6. Possessiveness and dependency are not states of love.
7. Your own level of being attracts the kind of people who
enter your life.
8. "He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey
nor command in order to be something." (Goethe)
9. Your True Self cannot be afraid of anyone.
10. You break the cord of painful thought toward another
person by snipping the connection within your own
mind.
11. It is very painful to pretend to be someone.
12. Any sincere effort at bettering your human relations
returns a reward.
13. Don't drain your energy by thinking negatively toward
people who harm you.
14. You get along with others to the exact degree that you
get along with yourself.
15. A real person stands out like a human being among statues.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.”
― Vernon Howard, 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle

“Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.”
― Vernon Howard

“A self-working individual will be sitting around home one day when the startling thought occurs, “Here I am, sitting around, doing nothing of interest, nothing to hope for, no one to talk with-and I am not depressed.”
― Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

“Doing good to someone in order to reduce self-guilt will only ruin things for both of you.”
― Vernon Howard, 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle

“Whether a person is aware of it or not, he is assaulted constantly by misleading and hostile voices within the mind. They speak both through you and to you. Everyone is their target, but because of their extreme cunning, few people ever detect and dismiss them. So the only problem is a lack of information about these foreign voices. The curing facts are as close as your desire for them. It is extremely important for you to remember the following truth: these hurtful voices are not you, and they do not belong to you, but merely speak through your psychic system. Don't take them as being your own voices, any more than you take radio voices as being your own. They simply use unaware human beings. Your true nature has nothing to do with them. When finally dismissing these sinister speakers you make room for spiritual health and true life.”
― Vernon Howard

“A person radiates what he really is, not what he imagines he is, and attracts what he radiates.”
― Vernon Howard, 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle

“You command a condition by having no negative attitudes toward it.”
― Vernon Howard, 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle

“Circumstances are conquered simply by having no egotistical need to conquer them.”
― Vernon Howard

“There is great wisdom in asking, "How can I get out of this?" There is even greater wisdom in asking, "How did I get INTO this?”
― Vernon Howard

“A positive virtue—the real thing—is not something that you do. It is something that you are. A genuinely kindly person and his kindness are a single unit; they are one. A really gentle person cannot help acting with kindness any more than a cruel person can help but act with cruelty.
Do not be afraid to face the existence of negative attitudes and emotions within you. Simply see that they are there. Remember, they are not the real you; they are acquired negativities.
Once you really see this you will go to work on yourself in a new way.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?”
― Vernon Howard

“To return to the basic idea, you must see that there is a difference
between your True Self and your False Self. The True Self
is the essential you. It is pure, unconditioned, natural, spiritual.
It has nothing to do with ego-competition, pretense, self-deception,
pride, vanity, arrogance, and other negativities that keep a
man afraid. All such items belong to the False Self.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind