Vernon Howard Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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?

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

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.

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

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

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.

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