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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2020 10:52:57 GMT
"We are either rewarded by being what we are or penalized by being what we are, and there is no other reward or penalty on earth or in heaven."
LET ESOTERIC SCIENCE SUCCEED FOR YOU The Power of Esoterics, Chap. 7, p. 115
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2020 9:56:34 GMT
"A wrong act stimulates a wrong man; a right act inspires a right man. So we want to know the difference between inspiration and stimulation. And with some earnest investigation, you can do that and it will lead you to a better place inside of you.
Stimulation is an artificial shot of some kind. Stimulation is a thrill. It's something that feeds the vanity self and then fades away, making you hungry for more of the same and putting you on a ceaseless search for repetition of stimulating and worthless experiences.
Inspiration, spiritual inspiration - that's the only kind of true inspiration there is, that comes from a higher place than the human level. Inspiration is characterized by being effortless on your part.
Now contrast the two as I talk, so that it's fixed in your mind which one you want. Stimulation, you have to work for it, you crave it, and when it comes you get excited for a little bit and then the thrill passes away and you have to spend time, money, energy, wandering around to get the next one. Characteristic of drugs, isn't it? And other artificial stimulations that men have invented for themselves because they can't stand living with themselves.
Inspiration is very easy. You don't have to do a thing to invite it - and you'd better not."
from a talk given 11/22/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 7, talk 174, track 20
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Post by Admin on Sept 29, 2020 9:40:18 GMT
"Man is fearfully separated from himself by illusion only, so when the illusion is cured, so is the man."
FREEDOM FROM FEAR AND NERVOUS TENSION Inspire Yourself, Chap. 8, p. 119
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2020 10:39:20 GMT
"You've heard the phrase, many times no doubt, the phrase, 'inciting to riot.' You see it in the newspapers and on television in which it goes something as follows: There's a crowd out somewhere, a mob, and they're milling around the streets, or in a large auditorium. And there is something wrong with the mob to begin with and all it takes is one individual to serve as a stick of dynamite to inflame the mob, and he incites the mob to riot.
Now, this is a very sad, terrible thing to behold. Human beings - wait a minute, people who are called human beings - behaving a lot more like something less than human beings. But there it is, there's a crowd out there and someone, some leading idiot or madman incites them to riot, which of course is illegal, which is destructive, which is a terrible sight to behold, human beings acting like that.
Now, that is one thing you can see out in the world, and you see it every day. And would you like to know that this outer expression of violence has simply an inner cause; do you know that?
Did you ever stop and think about that simple fact alone, before we go on, that all this insanity you see, this cruelty, viciousness, all the slandering of each other that you can see, must have an invisible cause. Something has to make it happen.
And what makes it happen is human beings who are lost, who are petty, who are cruel, who don't know what else to do with themselves and so they go out and hurt other people.
Wherever there's a mob ready to be incited, there'll be an inciter out there just ready to lead them in the direction they want to go, which is to go out and hurt.
That's out in the world. Now I want you to know that I've given you a very clear parallel to what happens inside individual men and women. Men and women have inside them a mob - let's see if we're talking about you or not - have inside of them a mob of emotions, of feelings, of moods, of changing attitudes, of wildness of one kind or another. Have I described you? You answer to yourself as I'm speaking. You know I have; I know I have - I've described you exactly."
Command Your Emotions DVD # 8, talk 4
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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2020 9:34:43 GMT
"The simple alternative to worry is to remain receptive to a force higher than misunderstanding."
Cosmic Command, # 807
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2020 9:22:00 GMT
"THE LION'S DEN Impress your mind with this slick trick of irresponsible people. They refuse good advice, then find themselves inside a lion's den of trouble. Frantic, they try to lure you in with them, hoping that your mauling will help them escape. When foolish with money, they plead for a loan. When things go wrong, they blame you. Tell them, 'I will not enter your lion's den. No law requires it. Only you can free yourself.'"
50 Ways to Escape Cruel People, # 6
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2020 9:37:31 GMT
Certain things i agree with Vernon Howard on & other things i don't.
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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2020 10:47:50 GMT
"HIGHER LEVEL
'In what way is an awakened man on a higher level than I?'
'You think. He sees.'"
ROYAL ADVENTURES ALONG THE WAY OUT There is a Way Out, Chap. 10, p. 169
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Post by Admin on Oct 5, 2020 11:40:17 GMT
"You must want to be a genuinely new person more than you want anything else, more than _anything_. That leads to inspired action. Then you can climb, and with resolute persistence, you will stand above the world."
HOW TO BE AN ENTIRELY NEW PERSON The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 12, p. 196
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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2020 11:29:50 GMT
"It is the truth that sets us free, and there are two forms of truth involved in the process of self-liberation. There is first the shock- ing truth and then the healing truth. This is the correct and the only order of procedure. If we will not face the shocking truth about ourselves we cannot know the healing truth about ourselves."
THE SURE WAY TO HEALING AND STRENGTH Secrets for Higher Success, Chap. 9, p. 180
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2020 0:34:52 GMT
"The next time you're troubled, I'll tell you what to do with it. Just realize that you have better things to do with that problem than to believe in it.
The challenge comes up, the disappointment at your work, someone doesn't behave the way you expected them to and you have a difficulty inside of you. The difficulty exists no place else except inside of you, and you believe in the difficulty and accept it because it's your bad habit to do so.
And you don't want to realize that you can break the habit anytime your heart begins to take its right place in your life, that is the spirit. Now, say that same thing again in another way.
I want you now, starting right now, to no longer believe in the power and the permanency of grief, of troubles. Who believes in them? You do, you believe in them in a very subtle attempt to try to maintain your position inside yourself as someone who exists the way you prefer to exist. We better go into that a little bit."
from a talk given 11/23/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 7, talk 175, track 21
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2020 9:02:51 GMT
"There is a simple test by which anyone can determine the depth of his own evil. His evil will equal the eagerness with which he detects and denounces evil in others."
COMMAND LIFE A Treasury of Trueness, # 1270 New Version, # 1273
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2020 9:21:04 GMT
"Have you ever considered _attention_ as a personal power for your benefit? It is just that. By attention I mean the simple act of directing your mind toward something specific. A distressed person is someone who has not learned to attend to distress-dissolving ideas. He gets distracted by negative emotions or wanders off into profitless desires.
Picture a man lost at sea in a small boat. He is blocked off by thick fog. But he remembers something that he saw before the fog set in. He recalls a cottage set high on the cliffs of shore. So he turns his attention and his boat in that direction. Every so often the fog drifts apart just long enough for him to catch a brief glimpse of the cottage. But that is enough. He realizes that his attention to that cottage is all that is necessary.
By attending rightly, he cannot fail. And so he succeeds in cutting through the fog and reaching shore. [Mental Picture 51]"
HOW YOU CAN EXPEL EMOTIONAL TROUBLES QUICKLY Psycho-Pictography, Chap. 9, p. 165
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2020 17:07:57 GMT
"Now let me tell you a major, spiritual, psychological law, right now, and if you saw this when you ran into these situations, where you didn't know how to handle someone who wanted help, if you could see this, all problems would go, all of them. You'd be able to say no without your tee shirts that say NO — it would be built into you.
Do you know what the word heinous means? This isn't a grammar class but heinous, it looks like it should be pronounced heeneous, but it isn't, it's pronounced haynous, as if it was spelled h-a-y. Something that is heinous is something that is terrible, that's horrible, that's atrocious.
It is a heinous crime to prevent that other person from growing up. It is a heinous offense against him or her to put a block in the way of him learning his lessons so he can be free of himself and cease to be a dangerous rock in the ocean to himself and to other people.
Ah, everything in you is going to rise up and protest against you seeing that. We are so egotistical, we take the place of Truth itself and where Truth won't help someone, you will. How's that for conceit?
From now on, you will know that it's a crime just as much as robbery or homicide, you will know that it's a crime to help another person when that person should be thrown on his own in order to grow, to grow strong, to grow in insight. If he refuses, that has nothing to do with you. Most will, but that's not your concern either."
Why You Should NOT Help Other People - Part 1 Practical Guides to Healthy Relationships - MP3 CD, track 7
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2020 9:51:24 GMT
"Everyone secretly cries out "How can I save myself?" Here is how to find eternal existence. _Listen to what your heart says is true even when fearing to do so. Ignore protesting shrieks from yourself and hear while it hurts. Release and obey the majestic message within._ A virtue won is yours forever. Nothing can ever take it away. You will sense its permanent presence. You can feel eternal life in this life. Spirit succeeds and at last you know that you know."
The Mystery of the Secret World Your Power of Natural Knowing, Chap. 18, p. 143
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