110+ Vernon Howard Quotes On World, Universe And Death

Vernon Howard was an American author and spiritual teacher. He wrote over 60 books on self-improvement, spiritual growth, and metaphysical subjects. He was a popular speaker and the founder of the New Life Foundation, a spiritual organization which continues to teach his work today. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Vernon Howard on life, love, world.

Top 10 Vernon Howard Quotes

1. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
2. You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
3. Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
4. Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
5. We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
6. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
7. Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
8. The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
9. It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
10. Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

Vernon Howard Image Quotes

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

Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard

Vernon Howard Short Quotes

• Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
• A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
• You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
• Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
• You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
• The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
• It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
• Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Vernon Howard Quotes About Life

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination. — Vernon Howard

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note. — Vernon Howard

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

Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them. — Vernon Howard

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

Vernon Howard Quotes About World

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. — Vernon Howard

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

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

Vernon Howard Quotes About Negative

Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person. — Vernon Howard

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves. — Vernon Howard

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. — Vernon Howard

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

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

Vernon Howard Quotes About Freedom

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. — Vernon Howard

Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both. — Vernon Howard

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

Vernon Howard Quotes About Conflict

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

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

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

Vernon Howard Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens. — Vernon Howard

Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so. — Vernon Howard

Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being. — Vernon Howard

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

You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you. — Vernon Howard

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop. — Vernon Howard

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind. — Vernon Howard

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

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

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

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented. — Vernon Howard

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. — Vernon Howard

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

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

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

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward. — Vernon Howard

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

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise. — Vernon Howard

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints. — Vernon Howard

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. — Vernon Howard

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. — Vernon Howard

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance. — Vernon Howard

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard

Who asks a king for a penny? — Vernon Howard

You must never fear anything at all. — Vernon Howard

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

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand — Vernon Howard

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. — Vernon Howard

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

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. — Vernon Howard

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself. — Vernon Howard

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. — Vernon Howard

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them. — Vernon Howard

Study carefully the law of cause and effect. — Vernon Howard

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. — Vernon Howard

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. — Vernon Howard

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. — Vernon Howard

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. — Vernon Howard

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

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way — Vernon Howard

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

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. — Vernon Howard

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want. — Vernon Howard

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it. — Vernon Howard

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. — Vernon Howard

There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature. You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see. — Vernon Howard

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

The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence. — Vernon Howard

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right. — Vernon Howard

Genuine effort is success. — Vernon Howard

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion. — Vernon Howard

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness. — Vernon Howard

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature. — Vernon Howard

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy. — Vernon Howard

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day. — Vernon Howard

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are. — Vernon Howard

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them. — Vernon Howard

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is. — Vernon Howard

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is! — Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are. — Vernon Howard

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

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding. — Vernon Howard

A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie. — Vernon Howard

We can become slaves to things we don't understand — Vernon Howard

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

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction. — Vernon Howard

Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. And most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman. — Vernon Howard

Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature. — Vernon Howard

How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that. — Vernon Howard

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them. — Vernon Howard

Change is never a loss - it is change only. — Vernon Howard

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something. — Vernon Howard

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm. — Vernon Howard

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns. — Vernon Howard

Life Lessons by Vernon Howard

1. Vernon Howard encourages us to be aware of our thoughts and feelings, and to take responsibility for our own happiness. He teaches us to be mindful of our actions and to take control of our lives by making conscious choices that are in alignment with our values.
2. He emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and encourages us to strive for personal growth and development. He believes that by being honest with ourselves and being open to change, we can become the best version of ourselves.
3. Vernon Howard also encourages us to be kind to ourselves and to others. He believes that by practicing compassion and understanding, we can create a more peaceful and harmonious world.