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Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2016 10:51:29 GMT
"There are many cosmic secrets which a man cannot be told until he is ready to receive them. When he is ready for great things, he will surely have them. The process starts when a man stops trying to change the truth in favor of letting the truth change him. He then becomes a psychic magician who performs the fine feat of turning painful puzzles into healing revelations."
Secrets for Higher Success, p. 228
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2016 10:35:51 GMT
"To make all this practical, you must watch the thoughts and feelings which parade through you, but not say 'I' to them. You must not identify yourself as being good, bad, right, wrong, or anything else. This impersonal watchfulness breaks the de- structive habit of false labeling, and sets you free.
Try being exactly who you are. At first it shocks, then it heals."
Vernon Howard - Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 19
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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2016 10:18:02 GMT
"Everyone has areas calling for special consideration. Some must reflect upon their inability to be friends with themselves, while others must consider how often their emotional floods carry away their natural logic. But everyone should concentrate with maximum force upon this area: think about what it means to be in a state of psychic hypnosis."
Vernon Howard - Secrets for Higher Success, p. 61
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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2016 11:02:37 GMT
"I want to start this talk off with a very positive statement. Human life on earth is ten thousand times worse than it appears to be. That’s a positive statement because it’s a true statement. It’s as if you heard that a certain town had a village idiot and you go into that town and you find out that everyone’s an idiot. Are you discovering that on your own, wherever you go? Well, we’re going to do something about our shallowness of perception. We’re going to learn how to dig deeper into the problem and uncover it so that in the uncovering, the problem has no place to live, to dwell and to continue to cause harm."
from a talk given 10/7/1988 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 23, talk 567, track 13
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2017 11:47:11 GMT
"Do you think you have problems with other people? That is what it appears to be from one viewpoint, from your present thinking. But there is another way of viewing things that can be a pleasant revelation of solutions.
When anyone has problems with others it is because he first has problems with himself. All difficulties are really personal difficulties, though it is an unwise human habit to glare outward and blame someone else. You are your own world; therefore, when that world is free there is no other world to dis¬tress you. The external world of suffering exists only for those who have an internal world of suffering. A free spirit sees and understands the outer world but he is not part of it."
Vernon Howard - 50 Ways to See Thru People, p. 6
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Post by Admin on Jan 25, 2017 11:23:07 GMT
"We have seen that everything in our day can be used for self- enrichment. In this chapter we will discover the mystical way to healthy human relations which lead to that supreme state called love. These principles present you with entirely new ways for living in self-harmony while living with others.
Ask fifty people for their definition of love and you receive fifty different answers. Obviously, love is not something that the conditioned human mind can discover through personal view- points. Human reasoning can have opinions and attitudes about love, but only a spiritually attuned mind can _know_."
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 6, p. 93
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Post by snowstorm on Jan 26, 2017 12:04:32 GMT
I like this comment by Vernon Howard;
"Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen."
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2017 10:59:19 GMT
"Goodness is intelligence. Intelligence is goodness. The more you are truly virtuous in a spiritual way, the more intelligent you are in a spiritual way. Intelligence and goodness go together. They're like two oars that you're rowing the boat of your life with, so that you can sense and see the harbor and row toward it. You are in conscious command, conscious command of where you're going which is toward the true harbor.
Otherwise, and you consider this now, be very reflective inwardly, otherwise, if you don't have the two oars of goodness and intel- ligence, the boat is going to be taken over. You don't have charge of it; someone else will have charge of it. And what will have command of your life will be the underground currents.
I'm talking about the subconscious parts of you. They don't care where they take you. The currents themselves have no intelligence and goodness, psychologically speaking. They'll take and send adrift anyone who is not guided by being above the currents, by being a good person, a nice person, a decent person, an intel- ligent person. Now already you have a lot to think about."
from a talk given 2/15/1992 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 33, talk 816, track 12
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2017 9:19:54 GMT
"We must reach the place where we actually see that we don't know what we are doing with our lives. We must recognize that we don't know where we are going — and never have! This must be done without anxiety and without emotion, just as we might recognize that we took a wrong turn on the highway. We must see that our human opinions are worthless; they can do nothing for us. When this happens, we are on the edge of a monumental discovery."
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 9, p. 156
"The realities of life are all powerful and this power will accept no excuse from any human being. Human beings in the normal, usual, social relationships, in the home, out in the world, human beings eagerly go after the slightest opportunity to excuse themselves for their bad behavior. 'I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that,' they say, and you say.
We excuse our weakness, we excuse our bad manners, we excuse every- thing about ourselves that we possibly can. It is a dominating trait of human beings to say, 'I am not at fault, I am not to blame, don’t blame me.' It is so characteristic that human beings have this little phonograph record ready to put on at the slightest threat to their self-images of being right and good and true, that they’re ready to put the little phonograph record on instantly, 'It’s not my fault.' It is your fault for living the way you are."
Let Rescue Come to You DVD # 23, talk 2 Blu-ray # 8, talk 5
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2017 9:26:46 GMT
"If we say, 'There is a vastness to life which is unseen at present,' we are stating a fact. It may not be our experience as yet, but it is still a fact which nothing can destroy. So we are in a good position. From this position we can begin to see life in a different way, the way of non-division, of wholeness. We can begin seeing the entire ocean instead of individual waves. What are some of these waves? Obsessive ambition. Finding false comfort in crowds. Demanding respect. Pretending to know. Individual waves cannot support a ship. But the smooth and entire ocean easily does so."
Secrets for Higher Success, p. 56
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Post by Admin on Jun 27, 2017 10:29:58 GMT
"TRUE GOOD People ask, "If I see social injustice, should I not try to correct it?" Answer: Who is doing the correcting? What is your _actual nature_ beneath your show of concern for others? How much greed and deceit and violence is concealed inside you? What self-gain and self-glory do you want? When _that_ person tries to correct anything he ruins everything. Leave the world alone and correct yourself. Only that is good."
Live Above this Crazy World, # 25
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2017 9:13:52 GMT
"Here are various roadblocks along the esoteric highway. You can break through them with self-insight.
Dishonesty: As long as the ego-self gets a reward from evil, it will lie about it and shamelessly call evil good. The detection of dishonesty is a first step toward true happiness."
Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 35
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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2017 9:34:23 GMT
"When a human being feels anxious, his next reaction is to find a way to relieve the pain. Anxious over some specific problem in his life, some crisis that’s come up, or the whole general haunting anxiety in which he feels that the world is pressing him down, in which he’s pressed down in a very dark place and cannot find his way out. And when a person feels anxious, he searches around for a wide variety of ways to relieve his pain. And if you look around at the world and look around at your own life, you will see that you have indeed invented thousands of them and it’s important for you to find out what they are.
Find out where you try to escape the pain instead of facing it and understanding it."
The Truth about Your Future DVD # 27, talk 2 Blu-ray # 9, talk 8
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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2017 9:35:07 GMT
"Once upon a time there were two angels — a veteran angel and his assistant and friend, an apprentice angel. One day this pair of angels were on their routine patrol around the world and they were looking down, studying human beings, wondering how they were ever going to get through to them.
See, they have their instructions too, from Heavenly Headquarters, which is to pass on all the help possible to struggling, miserable human beings. But struggling, miserable human beings are so involved in their struggles and their misery that they don’t want to hear anything higher than their pain. So it’s not easy work for angels, but they’re persistent and very, very patient."
Defeat Has No Right to Exist Powerful Guides for Spiritual Freedom, p. 55
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2017 9:32:33 GMT
"Because both domination and submission are false, a man quickly shifts from one to the other at the first sight of supposed ad- vantage. We see this in a submissive prisoner who turns cruel and arrogant when overpowering his guard. A whole mind has nothing to do with these alternating states, which are only the exchanging of one anxiety for another. A whole mind is above these opposites, just as the moon is above the rising and falling tides."
Esoteric Mind Power, p. 140
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