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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2013 11:22:34 GMT
"If you love Truth you will enjoy your life. You will enjoy your life for the first time because the love of truth is life. What you have now is a muddled blundering, unhappy existence and the reason it is unhappy is because there is no authentic love in it. All there is is ‘you’.
And as much as you talk about love and affection and kindness and goodness, you’ve never been able to make it stick, have you? You’ve never been able to believe in it. All you’ve got is the expression ‘I love you’ to the girl that you want something from or I love live which merely means that for the present moment things are going well for you in the family or in your financial pursuit.
We might as well look a little bit at love right now, and the first thing you should realize is that you’ve never known what it is. You’ve never known what it is because you have never lived it. You’ve lived your life in which authentic goodness, kindness, decency and love have been absent. That is exactly why you’re so stunned by everything that happens to you because you have your way of meeting the challenges."
from a talk given 2/26/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 2, talk 33, track 5
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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2013 11:16:01 GMT
"THE TRULY GOOD WOMAN
A woman who felt guilty over past misdeeds said to herself, 'I must repent. I will start by doing good to others.'
So she joined charitable organizations and said nice things to people. But to her surprise she felt a vague resentment toward her activities. She felt _forced_ to be good. This doubled her guilt, for now she felt guilty over her resent- ment toward doing good.
Though confused, she intelligently reflected, 'There is something dreadfully wrong. This is not goodness at all; it is self-enslaving stage-acting. True goodness must be something entirely different.'
So she began a search for true goodness, which she finally found. She explained to herself, 'True goodness blooms in the absence of an unconscious self-picture of being good.'
_Abolish conditioned thoughts about personal goodness and badness and authentic goodness flourishes._"
Inspire Yourself, p. 45
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2013 10:23:09 GMT
"Many people publicly claim that they have uplifted themselves, which is simply more deceit from the Old Nature. Imagination has replaced reality. There is a hazard in anyone imagining he has changed his inner nature when he has merely moved from one part of the inner jungle to another part. This is a favorite trick of people who are religious but not spiritual. When no one is looking these people are just as irritable and unpleasant and terrified as before their so-called conversion. Do you know re- ligious hypocrites like this?"
Be Safe In A Dangerous World, p. 30
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2013 23:10:10 GMT
"I will read some verses from the New Testament. 'And the light shineth in darkness and the light comprehendeth it not. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil, hateth the light. Neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.'
There exists a rarity on this earth which is called a conscious, aware human being. An aware human being knows two worlds. He knows the world of consciousness, of being awake, of being saved. That’s what it means to be conscious, to be saved, to be saved from un- consciousness.
He knows what it means to be in the higher world and because he is living in that higher world, he understands the lower world per- fectly. There is nothing about the world of evil, that I just read about, that he doesn’t understand. All very clear, therefore, it can’t be a danger to him, can’t be a threat."
from a talk given 6/6/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 4, talk 85, track 6
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2013 11:28:20 GMT
"Cease to break the law which forbids you to lean on human schemes. The people you hope can solve your problems are the very causes of problems."
Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 57
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2013 17:26:34 GMT
"The condition on this earth of men and women can be described as a world of swaying shadows. Let that picture go into your mind because we’re going to discuss it.
The world of swaying shadows. You have seen physically some night when the light in the night was in the right combination and the wind was blowing a little bit and you were outside perhaps in the garden or a field and the wind blew and shadows swayed and you felt maybe a little lonely out there and it’s getting dark and you’re used to getting home when it gets dark but you are out there for some reason or other. Now you have in your mind the physical description of what we’re going to talk about inwardly.
Humans live in this world of swaying shadows and it’s very unclear, obscure out there in the shadowy world isn’t it - and inside isn’t it? The whole inner world of your swaying shadows is obscure and very, very frightening and you try to explain it. You try to tell yourself that there’s no danger out there.
I'm setting before you the picture, the fact that you’re life is nothing but one obscure happening, swaying after another, which you don’t understand.
The reason you don’t understand it is because you don’t want to. This is very profound. Follow.
You prefer to be part of it because when you’re out there, in there, you can have a multitude of successive impressions, fiery moods. You can be active in your own life and know what to do and how to complain and you can see all the enemies you want out there."
from a talk given 7/27/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Vol
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Post by Admin on Feb 20, 2013 11:11:03 GMT
"Never forget that the vast majority of human beings have no interest at all in inner awakening."
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, # 1109
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2013 19:45:30 GMT
"Here is tremendous and helpful spiritual advice. Do nothing. Say nothing. Think nothing. Live nothing. That’s the only chance you have and I’ll explain what that means and then you think about what it means when you go out of here."
from a talk given 9/13/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 6, talk 135, track 6
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Post by Admin on Feb 25, 2013 9:14:54 GMT
"People who say that spiritual truths are impractical for earthly affairs are merely evading their inner dishonesty."
Cosmic Command, # 37
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