Psycho-Pictography Quotes

“The following brief points are like magic moccasins. They
guarantee safe guidance through the forest of people. To walk
safely, wear them!
1. The most persuasive power you have toward others is a
mature self.
2. The mark of greatness is to be superior without feeling
superior.
3. "The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest
pang." (Joseph Addison)
4. The turning point in all your exterior relations comes
when you start changing your inner self.
5. Strong people attract the weak.
6. Possessiveness and dependency are not states of love.
7. Your own level of being attracts the kind of people who
enter your life.
8. "He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey
nor command in order to be something." (Goethe)
9. Your True Self cannot be afraid of anyone.
10. You break the cord of painful thought toward another
person by snipping the connection within your own
mind.
11. It is very painful to pretend to be someone.
12. Any sincere effort at bettering your human relations
returns a reward.
13. Don't drain your energy by thinking negatively toward
people who harm you.
14. You get along with others to the exact degree that you
get along with yourself.
15. A real person stands out like a human being among statues.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“A positive virtue—the real thing—is not something that you do. It is something that you are. A genuinely kindly person and his kindness are a single unit; they are one. A really gentle person cannot help acting with kindness any more than a cruel person can help but act with cruelty.
Do not be afraid to face the existence of negative attitudes and emotions within you. Simply see that they are there. Remember, they are not the real you; they are acquired negativities.
Once you really see this you will go to work on yourself in a new way.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“The truth that frees us into health and happiness might be likened to a beautiful woman with a dozen ardent suitors. She asks, "Do you love me above all else, or are you merely seeking a new thrill?" Or, "Will you be faithful to me in spite of temptations?" Or, "Do you want me for myself, or merely to prove how persuasive you are?" The man who gives the right answers will hear the truth respond. She never fails the man who pursues her with ardent sincerity and affection. When he places her before all else, she willingly comes to him.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“Remember, you are not your negative thoughts. You are not
your painful imaginations. See yourself as separate from your
thoughts. This will aid you in dismissing the horror films. Just as
fire fades when not fed additional fuel, so do emotional fires fade
away when we cease to fuel them with negative imagination.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“To return to the basic idea, you must see that there is a difference
between your True Self and your False Self. The True Self
is the essential you. It is pure, unconditioned, natural, spiritual.
It has nothing to do with ego-competition, pretense, self-deception,
pride, vanity, arrogance, and other negativities that keep a
man afraid. All such items belong to the False Self.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“Your level of mental awareness attracts the habitual life you lead.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“Whenever we resist something—perhaps an unkind remark, a shocking event, or a depressing feeling—our very resistance indicates a belief in the power of that event to hurt us. Although it is really powerless, our mistaken belief in it induces despair.
But by not resisting, we dissolve the false belief and consequently the false power for harm.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what
it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word
happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works
favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty
with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on
the right track.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“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.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“Don't make a direct effort to understand things. Rather, concentrate on your present misunderstanding. Try to see through your own false viewpoints.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind

“Now, thought is both good and necessary for the mechanical
processes of life, like building a house or cooking dinner. But
because your spiritual self is not mechanical, it must be elevated
by an entirely different power. That power is awareness.”
― Vernon Howard, Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind