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Inspirational Quotes by Vernon Howard (American Spiritual Teacher)

Inspirational Quotations by Vernon Howard (American Spiritual Teacher)

Vernon Linwood Howard was an American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Freedom

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Water, War

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Learning

We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Freedom

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Conflict

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Mind, Power, Nature, War, Water, Doing

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Mind, People, Power

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Power, War, Spiritual, Teach, Wise, Mind, Spirit

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Honesty

You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Power, Mind, War

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Thinking, War, Mind, Rich, Think, Power

Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Nature, Spirit, Try, Spiritual, Power, Principles

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Conflict

All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Give, Power, Mind, Love, Defeat, War, Giving

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Conflict

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Success, Persona, Truth, Happy, Experience, New, Health, Yin, Light, Reason, War

Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist within the individual’s own essence.
—Vernon Howard

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Great, Mind, Power, War

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Understanding

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Money, Power, War, Mind

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Anxiety, Peace, Happiness, Persona, War, Happy, Live, Pain

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Simplicity, Happiness

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Doing, Mind, Slavery, War, Act, Action, Power

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Mind, Think, War, Business, Power, Sin, Good, Live

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Think, People, New, Power, Act, Mind, Fear, War

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Circumstance, Chance

You must never fear anything at all.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Power, Mind, Fear, War

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.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Act, Mind, Fear, Teach, Secret, Try

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Mind, Power, Energy

You are free when you have no anxious thoughts about what happens to you.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Thoughts

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Morals

A clear understanding of a negative emotion dismisses it .
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Emotions

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Power, Mind, Persistence, War

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Live, War

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Planning

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Courage, Attitude, Bravery

We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Understanding

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