Quotes from Vernon Howard

Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

To change what you get, you must change who you are.

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

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

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 following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

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

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

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

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

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

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.