Vernon Howard

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

Vernon Howard

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

Vernon Howard

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

Vernon Howard

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Vernon Howard

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Vernon Howard

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Vernon Howard

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Vernon Howard

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Vernon Howard

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

Vernon Howard

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

Vernon Howard