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
thinking lasts planning
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
years trying nonsense
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
believe looks belief
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
challenges feelings way
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
understanding acquisition
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
truth honesty doors
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
emotional feelings assumption
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
running transformation proportion
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
healing failing easier
Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
motivational book reading
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.
night guidance guidance-and-direction
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
loss thinking opposites
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
mistake creativity dark
It 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.
secret teachable whole
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.