Vernon Howard Quotes

Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Living, breathing, and being present is the practice that can lead us to having a full and authentic in-the-body experience. If we can shift our perspective from being separate to being part of it all, psychological hang-ups, insecurities, fears, and disorders dissolve.

Yoga is not about the history of yoga. Yoga is not about being in a sacred community of the initiated few. Yoga is about uniting inward, which takes place in the present, not the past, in each and every moment.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.