Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon HowardYou cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
Vernon HowardBe very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward some goal. Look very closely to discover tense feelings and nervous thoughts whirling around inside. Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
Vernon HowardEveryone 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 HowardNo 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 HowardWhen told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
Vernon HowardA truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon HowardIt 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 HowardLiving 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 HowardAwareness 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 HowardRealize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
Vernon HowardMysticism 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 HowardAll forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon HowardIgnorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
Vernon HowardSuppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.
Vernon HowardWhenever 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 HowardDon't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
Vernon HowardDon'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 HowardHappiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.
Vernon HowardThe most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
Vernon HowardA 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 HowardThe 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 HowardYou can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
Vernon HowardFind yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
Vernon HowardInner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
Vernon HowardThe only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
Vernon HowardThe reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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