214 Quotes by Vernon Howard

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

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.

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.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.