Quotes from Vernon Howard

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.