Quote

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

Vernon Howard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Slaves
Slave
Understand
Become
Things

More quotes by Vernon Howard

Image
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard
Image
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Vernon Howard
Image
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
Vernon Howard
Image
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
Vernon Howard
Image
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.
Vernon Howard
Image
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
Vernon Howard
Image
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality authentic mysticism wants to live it.
Vernon Howard
Image
You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
Vernon Howard
Image
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
Image
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon Howard
Image
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
Vernon Howard
Image
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people it is your reaction.
Vernon Howard
Image
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
Vernon Howard
Image
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
Vernon Howard
Image
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
Vernon Howard
Image
To change what you get you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard
Image
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
Vernon Howard
Image
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
Vernon Howard
Image
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
Vernon Howard
Image
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
Vernon Howard