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Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2018 11:39:33 GMT
"Declare your personal independence. Say NO to human nonsense. No matter how popular it may be with others, you cannot afford it any more. Remember the letters NTN - NO TO NONSENSE. Write these three letters on a slip of paper and carry it with you. Glance at the secret code every so often during your day. It contains the great secret for a new you."
Vernon Howard
Your Power To Say NO, p. 23
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2018 18:34:31 GMT
"When thunder and lightning strike your mind, remind yourself instantly, 'I am apart from all that!' Now, you translate thunder and lightning into your personal experiences. Your worries and your half-seen concerns over what's going to happen to you. And remember this fact. What is known in heaven, as a fact, can be known by you as a human being here on earth. It's a heavenly fact, and you can learn how to bring it down to you. Yes, right at the office there, right at the home.
You can bring that fact down to you because it doesn’t depend on you to build it to keep it going. It is up to you allow it to descend inside your mind so that something that is stronger than the thunder and lightning can take over your entire life. The next time, that means during this talk if necessary, you feel a shaking and agitation or an unnamable bother of any kind that you're only dimly conscious of, you will remind yourself of the heavenly fact that you are apart from all that.
The thunder and the lightning is not you! Hostile forces want you to believe in it. They tell you that’s you. Therefore, you'd better get sick and stay sick. Don't you believe it again. Now I know that the fact is not yet a personal experience with you, and that’s not anything for you to be concerned with."
from a talk given 12/9/1990 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 30, talk 745, track 15
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2018 11:43:27 GMT
"COSMIC GOAL
'Help us stick to our lofty aims.'
'Imagine a party of explorers in unknown territory. They spend all their time avoiding the dangers of marshes and storms and wild animals. That is all they do - avoid dangers. Because of this they never set a goal of reaching the mountaintop from where they could view everything. That is man. He is so busy avoiding dangers to his faulty beliefs that he has no cosmic aim. Forget the so-called dangers. March toward your elevated view.'"
There is a Way Out, p. 58
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Post by Admin on Feb 24, 2018 10:16:47 GMT
"THE SHADOWS AHEAD
Three friends were passing through a strange land at night. Just ahead they saw some moving shadows which seemed to menace them.
'We had better run away,' whispered one.
'N0, it is best to rush forward and fight them,' stated another.
Advised the third man, 'Let's sit quietly here until we understand what they are.'
So that is what they did. At dawn, the shadows which seemed so menacing turned out to be broad branches of a tree.
The inaction of a quiet mind is the only action leading to perception of things as they are."
Inspire Yourself, p. 109
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2018 13:03:35 GMT
"There is definitely a part of you that is superior to all confusion and that part is superior to it right now. That part is called a wish to understand. But this part which wishes to understand confusion is blocked in its operation as long as you take comfort and refuge in your confusion - the confusion you claim to want to end. Think deeply about the following principles: I just said that you want to find comfort and refuge in your confusion. Already we have acquired new and helpful knowledge about your mental fog. We have seen that you claim to want to end it, yet you also don't want to end it, for it has a false value to you. The false value is that it permits you to remain spiritually lazy, requires no new effort, allows you to drift through your day with the same old familiar thoughts and feelings and acts."
The Answer, Letter 2, p. 10
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2018 10:33:13 GMT
"Nothing on earth is more comfortable than living with yourself - living with a self that is real. Get along with yourself — listen to this sentence now — get along with yourself and you'll get along with everyone and everything else on earth, everything.
Now look, that’s such an enormous thought that you might assume you understand it. Let is be a heavy, kindly blow to you that when you get along rightly with yourself, there's no need for quarreling with anyone about anyone. There's no need to be competitive for anything."
from a talk given 11/8/1991 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 32, talk 795, track 15
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2018 9:18:48 GMT
"If you find yourself walking around in a fog you will also find yourself walking uncomfortably. You can't see where you’re going, you don't know what direction you’re heading in and there's an urge in you to do one thing, to get out of the fog so that you can see where you’re going. Maybe you’ve had that experience down at the seashore or somewhere else.
Now that’s a physical experience. There’s also, very parallel to that, an inner, psychological, spiritual experience in which human beings are lost in a fog. Would you agree with that - what’s your life like? Would you agree perhaps that you’re wandering around and stumbling over things and unable to see where you’re going, and it’s a very uncomfortable experience? Well, when you’re out in the fog down at the beach or in London, you have the urge to get out of it.
What has happened inwardly is that most human beings never stop and say to themselves, just a minute, my mind isn’t thinking clearly, I’m not seeing, I don’t know where I’m going. So my question to you right now is this: Have you ever suddenly stopped, wherever you’re going in life, in that business of yours, in that home, in those plans you’ve got, have you ever slowed down and asked your- self, where am I going? Probably not, and I’ll tell you why. Because, very unfortunately for human beings, imagination has taken the place of seeing."
Seeing is Winning DVD #19, talk 1 Blu-ray #7, talk 5
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Post by Admin on Mar 20, 2018 12:44:14 GMT
"The secret of spiritual success is to be utterly discouraged but continue to work."
Vernon Howard
A Treasury of Trueness, # 1757
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2018 9:15:58 GMT
"A true teacher and authentic spiritual guide will always have certain fundamental characteristics about his message. He will, of course, always put truth first and foremost. Nothing comes before that, not the threats of people who hate the truth, nothing whatever.
But there is one special characteristic which we are going to discuss which a true teacher, such as Christ, always possesses and possesses completely; that is, he understands it, he knows it. And that is, and these are opposites in a sense, what a true teacher knows is the complete ignorance of human nature. He knows that man is undeveloped. He knows that he is self- centered, that he is egotistical and therefore hostile toward anything that threatens to take away the one thing that he falsely believes in, which is himself.
Now, Christ understood this and because he was a complete man, he also understood the opposite of that, which is the height of divine wisdom. Christ understood the existence of God – more than understood it – he lived it, he was it, the spirit of God was in Christ as he occupied a physical body here on earth."
The Higher Teachings of Christ - Part 2 Heavenly Help Awaits You - MP3 CD, track 10
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2018 9:16:44 GMT
"Cosmic nature and your nature are just right for each other, in fact they are the two covers of the same book. But we have acquired an artificial nature that causes conflict by claiming independence and superiority for itself. Use these facts as handy erasers to get rid of that uncomfortable claim."
700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 191
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2018 9:38:33 GMT
"Clear your mind of unnecessary thoughts, and in that new clearness and power you will be astonished at the great number of unnecessary thoughts you once believed necessary."
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, # 604
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Post by Admin on Apr 7, 2018 10:08:48 GMT
"What a shame that human beings have nothing real to live for. Would you like to tell yourself now what you're living for? What is it? Bring yourself into the talk this early.
What are you living for? Now look at it. Breakfast tomorrow morning? Trying to achieve something during the day while worried that you won't achieve it? Are you living for the hope that you can sort of keep things together at least so that they don't get any worse?
You hope for the best and you know you're going to get the worst and the reason you know you're going to get the worst is because that’s what your nature is.
Now what does it mean to live for something real? Don't try to think what it is. You can’t succeed. Instead, do the right thing. Do the intelligent thing of asking yourself what you are living for and see the nonsense of it."
from a talk given 2/11/1987 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 9, talk 220, track 15
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2018 9:33:45 GMT
"KEEP YOUR DAY SIMPLE
A complex mind cannot understand simple ideas. Only mental simplicity has contact with simple ideas, in fact, the two are really one. Simplicity is understanding.
The simplification of your own life frees you from the complexities which chain other people around you. You can be in daily association with confused people, understanding them perfectly, and being personally unaffected by the problems they have not as yet solved for themselves. This peaceful position is a natural outcome of self-simplification.
Take a commonly bothersome belief and work on it. Take the idea that the thoughts of other people can harm you. That is absolutely false, so determine to see it as false. When a person gets hurt it is not the thoughts of others which do it, but the person's own wrong thoughts about their thoughts. Self-correction is total correction. Others may have harmful thoughts, but mental maturity provides immunity from them. A fox may be dangerous, but not to a lion."
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 113
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2018 9:22:00 GMT
"The wish to discover the higher world must be encouraged and developed. The very fact that you have the desire, wish, yearn- ing to rise above your present way of living and thinking, the very fact that you possess that is the guarantee of a successful conclusion.
You will never, never be disappointed at what happens to you as a result of you wanting to transcend yourself. The reason for that being that there is a compassionate force that understands you that exists, which recognizes even the smallest portion of higher desire in you, which recognizes and immediately races to your rescue.
You will not be able to recognize the rescue at the start, be- cause when you make the wish, that is all you presently have, and that’s all you need at the start. But you do not have the wisdom and comprehension to understand what good things will happen to you as a result of your request to the higher world. Nevertheless, you have set in motion something different. You have asked for another nature in spite of the ninety-nine percent of opposition of your present unyielding old nature."
from a talk given 11/15/198 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 7, talk 170, track 16
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2018 9:53:02 GMT
"BE GLAD You have no need to become anyone at all. You have no need to become someone who is rich or famous or protected or loved. Just gladly realize that you are not required to go anywhere to acquire anything. You are not that frantic need - you are the absence of it, just as a beautiful sky is the absence of a storm. So don't believe in the false need, no matter how long or loud it howls. You will escape a delusion that wrecks millions. Read this item dozens of times. "
SOLVED The Mystery of Life, p. 206
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