Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it. — Vernon Howard Mysticism Copy Share Image
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions. — Vernon Howard Ambition Copy Share Image
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard Character Copy Share Image
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest. — Vernon Howard Character Copy Share Image
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman,… — Vernon Howard Excellence Copy Share Image
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead,… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and… — Vernon Howard Apology Copy Share Image
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is… — Vernon Howard Battle Copy Share Image
The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of… — Vernon Howard Bears Copy Share Image
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The… — Vernon Howard Bitterness Copy Share Image
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have… — Vernon Howard Personality Copy Share Image
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. — Vernon Howard Choices Copy Share Image
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. — Vernon Howard Beauty Copy Share Image
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination. — Vernon Howard Imagination Copy Share Image
Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path. — Vernon Howard Day Copy Share Image
A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way — Vernon Howard Desperation Copy Share Image
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. — Vernon Howard Agreement Copy Share Image
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. — Vernon Howard Being happy Copy Share Image
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.” — Vernon Howard Identity Copy Share Image
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is. — Vernon Howard Breathing Copy Share Image
