Vernon Howard Zitate

“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”

“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.”

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

“What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?”

“Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.”

“You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?”

“If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?”

“If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.”

“The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.”

“People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!”

“You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.”

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”

“Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.”

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

“Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.”

“Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.”

“The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.”

“God himself has made it possible for you to live without the dark place and the pains that rush out and flood out and take you over. Your choice of wanting to see and work is essential to you if you want to get rid of your feeling of emptiness, of futility. You've lied to yourself and said, 'I know what to do to get rid of the pain.' You've never gotten rid of the pain and that's evidence of self-deceit. You have to stop playing cruel tricks on yourself. So stop. Now.”

“Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.”

“Whether a person is aware of it or not, he is assaulted constantly by misleading and hostile voices within the mind. They speak both through you and to you. Everyone is their target, but because of their extreme cunning, few people ever detect and dismiss them. So the only problem is a lack of information about these foreign voices. The curing facts are as close as your desire for them. It is extremely important for you to remember the following truth: these hurtful voices are not you, and they do not belong to you, but merely speak through your psychic system. Don't take them as being your own voices, any more than you take radio voices as being your own. They simply use unaware human beings. Your true nature has nothing to do with them. When finally dismissing these sinister speakers you make room for spiritual health and true life.”

“All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.”

“If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.”

“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.”

“Ask spiritual questions with intense integrity, and inspiring answers will surely arrive.”

“We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.”

“The only activities of true value are those which aim at inner transformation.”

“Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.”

“The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.”

“It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?”