Vernon Howard

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

— Vernon Howard

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

— Vernon Howard

The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

— Vernon Howard

To change what you get, you must change who you are.

— Vernon Howard

Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.

— Vernon Howard

Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.

— Vernon Howard

To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.

— Vernon Howard

We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.

— Vernon Howard

You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.

— Vernon Howard

Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.

— Vernon Howard

Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.

— Vernon Howard

If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?

— Vernon Howard

The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.

— Vernon Howard

When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.

— Vernon Howard

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

— Vernon Howard

Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.

— Vernon Howard

Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

— Vernon Howard

The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.

— Vernon Howard

Ask spiritual questions with intense integrity, and inspiring answers will surely arrive.

— Vernon Howard

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.

— Vernon Howard

It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?

— Vernon Howard

You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?

— Vernon Howard

Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.

— Vernon Howard

Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.

— Vernon Howard

The only activities of true value are those which aim at inner transformation.

— Vernon Howard

Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.

— Vernon Howard

The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.

— Vernon Howard

The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.

— Vernon Howard

Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.

— Vernon Howard

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

— Vernon Howard

The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

— Vernon Howard

Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.

— Vernon Howard

If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.

— Vernon Howard

No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.

— Vernon Howard

To change what you get, you must change who you are.

— Vernon Howard

We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

— Vernon Howard

People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!

— Vernon Howard

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.

— Vernon Howard

Why do you permit a mere word to stand in your way? Forget the word "difficult" and take your next step.

— Vernon Howard

You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.

— Vernon Howard

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

— Vernon Howard

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

— Vernon Howard

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

— Vernon Howard