Vernon Howard
Vernon Howard
Vernon Linwood Howardwas an American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 March 1918
CountryUnited States of America
perfect awakening needs
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
self self-knowledge great-power
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
breathing personality finding-yourself
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
intelligent agreement people
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
example watches looks
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.
inspirational hurt fear
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.
talking people challenges
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.
care made dont-care
You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
honesty healing self
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
men practice forever
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.
thinking years treasure
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.
running procrastination men
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.
change who-you-are
To change what you get you must change who you are.
men self knowing
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.