Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Freedom
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Mind, Power, 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
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: Sin, Good, Live, Power, Business, Mind, War, Think
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: New, Happy, War, Persona, Success, Yin, Experience, Health, Truth, Reason, Light
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, Giving, Mind, Power, Love, War, Defeat
A clear understanding of a negative emotion dismisses it .
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Emotions
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, War, Mind, Power
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Chance, Circumstance
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth
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
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, War, Doing, Power, Nature, Water
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Learning
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Conflict
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: Live, Persona, War, Pain, Anxiety, Peace, Happiness, Happy
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Understanding
You must never fear anything at all.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Mind, Fear, Power
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Mind, Power, War, Energy
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
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth
Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist within the individual’s own essence.
—Vernon Howard
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Freedom
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: War, Action, Doing, Power, Act, Mind, Slavery
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, Mind, War, Spirit, Wise, Teach, Spiritual
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: Attitude, Bravery, Courage
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Try, Live, War
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Mind, War, Persistence, Power
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: Rich, Power, Think, Thinking, Mind, War
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Simplicity, Happiness
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