Top 172 Quotes & Sayings by Vernon Howard - Page 3

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

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.

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

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

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

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

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature. You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.

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

Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

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

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

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

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

The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

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

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.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

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

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

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

You must never fear anything at all.

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

You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If you don't like your headquarters, you can move any time you like. Break away. Don't tell anyone about it. Others will either smile tolerantly or mouth sanctimonious babble. Make your escape plans in secret. Never mind if you lose certain friends, you will find others who also have dared. They will be ten-thousand times more valuable to you.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

Genuine effort is success.

Who asks a king for a penny?

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

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

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

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.