Vernon Howard Quotes - Page 4

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

You must never fear anything at all.

Who asks a king for a penny?

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

Genuine effort is success.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

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