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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