Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth
You are free when you have no anxious thoughts about what happens to you.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Thoughts
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Power, Mind, War
You must never fear anything at all.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Power, Fear, Mind
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Planning
Genuine effort is success.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Success, Effort
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
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: Power, Mind, Money, War
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Live, War
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: Bravery, Attitude, Courage
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Conflict
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Chance, Circumstance
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Water
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Honesty
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Persistence, Power, Mind
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: Mind, Great, War, Power
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Live, Try
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth
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: Truth, Happy, Reason, Experience, Persona, Success, Yin, Health, Light, New, War
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Energy, Mind, War, 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: Think, Mind, Live, Business, Power, Sin, Good, War
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: Water, Nature, Power, Doing, War, Mind
Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist within the individual’s own essence.
—Vernon Howard
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Truth
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Understanding
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: Try, Act, Fear, Mind, War, Teach, Secret
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: War, Spiritual, Mind, Wise, Spirit, Power, Teach
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
—Vernon Howard
Topics: Learning
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: War, Think, Thinking, Mind, Power, Rich
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