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Vernon Howard Quotes from Pathways to Perfect Living

"To place the universe on your side means:

To be aware of cosmic forces already with you, which need to be awakened, revealed, put to practical use.

To realize that the placing of these forces on your own side is the same as putting yourself on your own side, for a mind divided against itself cannot stand.

To admit to a power above our own humanness, which we refuses to do whenever we meet events with resistance, instead of understanding." -p. 130

Vernon Howard Quotes - 1

Vernon Howard Quotes from The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power


"The time will come when you no longer try to make good things happen. They just happens. You will be astonished. You will be astonished, because you now see that whatever happens to you is good. Is this as yet a mystery to you? If words could only show you. Someday you will delightfully exclaim, "So that's it!" -p.44

Manifestation - Kathy Cordova Quote

"By forming intentions, being flexible with our goals, and surrendering our results, we work together with the Universe to create a beautiful and unique life with a free hand, instead of forcing ourselves always to color between the lines."

-- p. 42, Let Go, Let Miracles Happen, Kathy Cordova


Comment: intentions must be strong in order to let the Universe know what to work on.

Lester Levenson Autobilography

"I was undoing the subconscious hang-ups, tendencies, pre-dispositions, realizing more and more that I am free, that freedom is my basic nature. I was getting freer and freer and I automatically went into a state where, having undone enough of the mental limitations, the real Self of me began presenting itself to me." - p. 72, NANA

Surrender - Marianne Williamson Quote

" When we surrender to God, we surrender to something bigger than ourselves - to a universe that knows what it's doing. When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.


Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside."




-- p. 50, A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson 

A Comment on Law of Attraction

"Law of Attraction is talking about the same thing, just in a more limited way you might say.  Lots of people and traditions have felt and sensed 'how things work' in creation, and have tried to talk about it as best they can from their perspective.  In the first lines of 'The Dhammapada' Buddha says, 'The experience of life is created by mind.  Thought preceeds experience.' Understanding that and trying to figure out how to use that 'law' to your benefit is the point of this kind of investigation and practice.

Whether it 'works' for someone or not is a whole other subject, with many variables.  On the other hand, it is working perfectly for everyone all the time -- it is what creates the life you now have.  Changing your thought/fear/desire mix will have a long-term effect on how your life unfolds, but may not get you the new car you tried to 'manifest' in the time period you've alloted before deciding it doesn't work."   




-- Anonymous Teacher

Awareness vs Consciousness

"Yes, awareness and consciousness (mind) are different. Consciousness is the universe. All of creation exists only in consciousness. Awareness is the empty clear light in which it appears.

Body, mind, consciousness, universe, world, you, me--all is illusion. The mechanism for believing it is real is not explainable, but can easily be seen through by direct experience of it. Even if I or someone else were able to "explain" it in a way that is satisfactory to your "mind," you would have nothing. Understanding is worthless. Only direct experience will settle the matter."         - Anonymous Teacher

Forgiveness - Emmet Fox Quote

"If your prayers are not being answered, search your consciousness and see if there is not someone whom you have yet to forgive. Find out if there is not some old thing about which you are very resentful. Search and see if you are not really holding a grudge (it may be camouflaged in some self-righteous way) against some individual, or some body of people, a nation, a race, a social class, some religious movement of which you disapprove perhaps, a political party, or what-not. If you are doing so, then you have an act of forgiveness to perform, and when this is done, you will probably make your demonstration. If you cannot forgive at present, you will have to wait for your demonstration until you can, and you will have to postpone finishing your recital of the Lord's Prayer too, or involve yourself in the position that you do not desire the forgiveness of God.


Setting others free means setting yourself free, because resentment is really a form of attachment. It is a Cosmic Truth that it takes two to make a prisoner; the prisoner--and a gaoler. There is no such thing as being a prisoner on one's own account. Every prisoner must have a gaoler, and the gaoler is as much a prisoner as his charge. When you hold resentment against anyone, you are bound to that person by a cosmic link, a real, though mental chain. You are tied by a cosmic tie to the thing that you hate. The one person perhaps in the whole world whom you most dislike is the very one to whom you are attaching yourself by a hook that is stronger than steel. Is this what you wish? Is this the condition in which you desire to go on living? Remember, you belong to the thing with which you are linked in thought, and at some time or other, if that tie endures, the object of your resentment will be drawn again into your life, perhaps to work further havoc. Do you think that you can afford this? Of course, no one can afford such a thing; and so the way is clear. You must cut all such ties, by a clear and spiritual act of forgiveness. You must loose him and let him go. By forgiveness you set yourself free; you save your soul. And because the law of love works alike for one and all, you help to save his soul too, making it just so much easier for him to become what he ought to be."


-- p. 173, The Sermon on the Mount, Emmet Fox




Comment: The key concept learned from this quote: search your consciousness/mental space and eliminate all negative thoughts that hold back your life.

Forgiveness - Joel Osteen Quote

"The reporter stared at him in disbelief. He finally asked, "Rudy, tell me, how'd you do it? How could you possibly forgive that man who hurt you so badly?"


Rudy replied, "I knew if I wanted to move on with my life, I had to let it go. I didn't do it for him. I did it for me. I did it so I could be free." 


That's good advice. You need to forgive so you can be free. Forgive so you can be happy. Forgive so you can get out of that bondage. We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation. We think we're protecting ourselves, but we're not. We are simply shutting other people out of our lives. We become isolated, alone, warped and imprisoned by our own bitterness. Those walls aren't merely keeping people out; those walls are keeping you penned in. 


Do you realize that those walls will also prevent God's blessings from pouring into your life? Those walls can stop up the flow of God's favor. The walls of forgiveness will keep your prayers from being answered. They'll keep your dreams from coming to pass. You must tear down the walls.You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison."


--- p.161, Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen


Comment: To see how much you have forgiven a person, you can picture him standing in front of you in your mind. Can you face him and talk to him? Or you don't want to face him at all and feel like or see an invisible wall between you and him?