Vernon Howard Quotes

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.