Vernon Howard Quotes

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• 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…
• No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it…
• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
• A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
• 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…
• Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You…
• You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
• 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…
• 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…
• Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Genuine effort is success.
• You must never fear anything at all.
• Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
• When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
• 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…
• 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,…

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