Vernon Howard

“Study carefully the law of cause and effect.”

“Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.”

“We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.”

“Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?”

“Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.”

“Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.”

“When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.”

“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

“We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.”

“It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.”

“Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.”

“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.”

“It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.”

“Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.”

“Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.”

“For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.”

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

“In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.”

“Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.”

“What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.”