Vernon Howard Quotes - Page 2

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. And most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.