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Post by Admin on May 11, 2018 9:39:26 GMT
"Spirituality is too intelligent for unintelligent people. Human cuckoo birds prefer to live without intelligence because it takes effort to be- come intelligent and they don’t want that.
Most people would rather live looking good on the outside, looking good on the outside while being bad on the inside. That’s a product of cuckoo bird land and it is very punishing and very sad.
If you feel punished and just don’t know who’s battering you, check the aviary, check the bird cage, check to see where you do not want to go through something, where you’re balking at something because, and I'm not saying this insultingly - no one is ever insulted here - but because something in you prefers the false comfort and security of an unintel- ligent life.
Spirituality and intelligence are the same thing."
from a talk given 9/20/1987 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 14, talk 348, track 16
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Post by snowstorm on May 11, 2018 19:10:24 GMT
"Spirituality and intelligence are the same thing." from a talk given 9/20/1987 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 14, talk 348, track 16 A controversial statement, not sure I agree with Vernon there. Maybe he's saying life without spirituality is a cloud cuckoo land
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2018 9:33:33 GMT
"'My chief negative emotion is depression. What causes it?'
'Follow carefully. Your understanding rids you of the problem. Depression occurs when you catch a sudden insight into the emptiness of your life. A man thinks he is happy with all his business and social activities. But he catches a glimpse that it is all an act, which depresses him. It is like dreaming about a palace and waking up in a mud hut.'
'And the cure?'
'Be willing to see through your pretensions of having a purposeful life. This is an awakening shock. But when we abandon a pseudo-purpose, when we have nothing left of the false self, a true purpose enters the life. Then, depression is absolutely impossible.'"
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 4, p. 67
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2018 9:34:06 GMT
"Spirituality and intelligence are the same thing." from a talk given 9/20/1987 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 14, talk 348, track 16 A controversial statement, not sure I agree with Vernon there. Maybe he's saying life without spirituality is a cloud cuckoo land It got people going on my facebook page as well.
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Post by Admin on May 17, 2018 10:16:56 GMT
"FREEDOM FROM HARMFUL VOICES* - A Series - helpful voice
The source of any true and helpful voice is God, Truth, Reality, which is All-Powerful all the time.
SOLVED The Mystery of Life, p. 150
*"Whether a person is aware of it or not, he is assaulted constantly by misleading and hostile voices within the mind. They speak both through you and to you. Everyone is their target, but because of their extreme cunning, few people ever detect and dismiss them. So the only problem is a lack of information about these foreign voices. The curing facts are as close as your desire for them.
It is extremely important for you to remember the following truth: these hurtful voices ARE NOT you, and they do not belong to you, but merely speak through your psychic system. Don't take them as being your own voices, any more than you take radio voices as being your own. They simply USE unaware human beings. Your true nature has nothing to do with them. When finally dismissing these sinister speakers you make room for spiritual health and true life."
SOLVED The Mystery Of Life, p. 145
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2018 9:30:38 GMT
"A botanist unexpectedly discovered a rare and beautiful flower growing on the heights of the Alps. But he did not have the equipment needed for carrying the delicate flower down the mountain. Later, when prepared, he had his flower. Be ready! That is the secret of inner achievement. Be ready to place the invisible world before the material world. Be ready with a 'Yes' when asked to increase self-study."
Secrets for Higher Success, p. 62
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Post by snowstorm on May 23, 2018 9:39:12 GMT
"A botanist unexpectedly discovered a rare and beautiful flower growing on the heights of the Alps. But he did not have the equipment needed for carrying the delicate flower down the mountain. Later, when prepared, he had his flower." Secrets for Higher Success, p. 62 He could have just taken a photo rather than pick it
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2018 10:24:35 GMT
"A young archer was imprisoned for accidentally trespassing upon the king's private hunting grounds. The king, notorious for his harsh justice, ordered the young man imprisoned indefinitely. Though allowed to roam around the prison yard, he could see nothing of the outside world, for the prison was surrounded by a tall wall of eucalyptus trees. Years passed. The prisoner gradually lost interest in the outside world. He felt a dull sort of comfort in his routine existence. He walked about as if in a daze, performing his labors mechanically. To most of his guards he appeared content, but one or two noticed a horrifying hostility deep down in his eyes.
One day a new and kindly king took the throne. Hearing of the prisoner, he ordered his release. His jailers took him to the prison gate and opened it wide. The prisoner glanced puzzledly and apprehensively outward, then turned around and walked back to his cell.
The king, as wise as he was kindly, gave new instructions: 'Each morning set a new attraction outside the gate. Set them progressively farther and farther away. Then, open the gate before the prisoner.'
The attractions were set out as instructed. One morning the attraction was a friendly villager, then new clothing, then fresh fruits.
Step by step, the prisoner lost his liking for the habitual and suppressed life. Each new attraction of the other world gave him a fresh sense of freedom. Gradually, he led himself to liberty and happiness.
Anyone who feels imprisoned by life can do likewise."
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 5, p. 88
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2018 9:30:31 GMT
"The human mind thinks that the way it presently thinks is the only way possible for it to think. It believes that it is exclusive, that the way it now revolves and makes decisions and presents ideas, that this is the only possible way it should work or can work.
Being a false assumption, when something comes along that is different from these series of thoughts, of ideas, set of beliefs, the human mind gets disturbed, it gets defensive, it gets afraid, because it says, how come there is a rival to my right, true, and exclusive world. And I just described to you in a few words the cause of all human hostility.
An immature mind, enclosed behind its own walls, demands that it be the only mind that operates in this world, the only one that’s right, the only one that’s true, the only one that’s intelligent. Now since millions upon millions of human beings think in this very same way, why human beings collide daily should be very clear to you."
The Power that Sets You Free DVD #17, talk 3 Blu-ray #10, talk 5
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2018 10:16:22 GMT
"You Do Not Exist
You are either in the Kingdom of Heaven, or you are not. Sickness is not part of wholeness.
Don't believe in people! No human being exists at all. I don't, you don't.
Labels exist, but no people exist.
You have a name, a body, the tone of your voice. You have education, or none — you are American, or British. All these are attributes, but your attributes are not you. It is because you believe they are you that you have every grief you have."
Vernon Howard
Your Power of Natural Knowing, p. 163
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2018 9:07:31 GMT
"There is a marvelous energy that wants to approach and help you. You can call this energy by different names all meaning the same essential power. You can call it the spirit of truth. You can call it the secret self. You can call it superior intuition. You can call it the inner kingdom.
This single power is present to help you to change from what you now are to what your heart wants to be. But you have to be very watchful for its approaching you. You have to be alert, so alert that you’re willing to put your usual thoughts and beliefs out of the way.
It’s like wanting to see a shooting star and if you continue to watch, one flashes across the night. You saw it because you were wanting it more than you wanted anything else. You were looking up, right? - instead of looking at the level of this earth which can only give you uninspiring, dull and unprofitable things."
from a talk given 2/29/1992 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 33, talk 820, track 16
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2018 9:41:58 GMT
"When you finish this letter you will be just as confused as you were at the start. Why? Because you still insist on using the toy of intellect to understand. Being the only instrument you have you cannot comprehend anything besides it. And you will never have any- thing higher than it until you are so defeated in your attempts to live on your own terms that you are willing to give up everything you have and are. So this is the primary purpose of this letter - to increase your insecurity to the point where you are willing to give up. And you won't even know what it means to give up until you do it, and not once, but a hundred times a day in both large and small matters. For example, neither mentally nor verbally defend yourself when criticized; instead, quietly study your wish to defend and ask why. This would reveal the false existence of your so-called self. And this in turn would answer your questions about non-existence."
The Answer, Letter 5, p. 29
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2018 12:28:59 GMT
"You really live in two different worlds at the same time! We will refer to them in this book as the Inner World and the Outer World. The understanding of this does much to clear away confusion and to add psychic and cosmic strength to you.
You live in the Outer World of the physical body, other people, homes, finances, government, travel, automobiles and so on. You also dwell in the Inner World of your thoughts, feelings, desires, insight, curiosity and other psychological items. You must place your Inner World first in your order of thinking. This is a primary teaching of every _true_ religion and philosophy, including those discussed in this book."
The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 1, p. 5
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Post by Admin on Aug 19, 2018 9:56:20 GMT
"The lack of demand for control is control. And you think about that as we proceed tonight because we’re going to go into a very mysterious subject, that of the control of one’s life.
Can you see how much of your day, of your life, is spent, along with the rest of the world, in simply trying to control things? In trying to influence people to get what you want from them, trying to control your temper, trying to put out your personal kind of propaganda in order to influence someone to your way of thinking, to get their vote, or get their money or get their applause, or get their friendship, or whatever. Maybe you’ve never thought very deeply about how involved the whole world is in trying to control other people and events. Trying to force them to conform to what we believe will be a favorable result for us.
And if you haven’t thought about it, then you’ll go away from here tonight giving a lot of thought to it, and you’ll see that you have rarely touched the very surface of the topic of control."
Control Your Life the Easy Way DVD #23, talk 4 Blu-ray #8, talk 7
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Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2018 9:24:30 GMT
"Refuse discouragement. You always have just one more chance. You have one right now.
You're seated in a place which can show you something you've never seen before, which will change things, to use a simple word, will change things amazingly for you in a way in which you can't now see. So, let it come to you.
You have regrets? How many have regrets? I'm going to tell you what to do with regrets. You toss them out at this moment while I'm talking to you. You toss out those regrets as if they were trashy, yesterday’s trashy newspaper. Toss out regrets."
from a talk given 5/17/1992 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 34, talk 845, track 16
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