Vernon Howard Quotes
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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.
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
