Quotes from Vernon Howard

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

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.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

To change what you get, you must change who you are.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

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.

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

Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.