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Post by Admin on Aug 24, 2018 9:35:49 GMT
"Let's see how we can call the bluff of negative films that run in the mind: Suppose an anonymous voice on the telephone tells you that a tiger is prowling in the basement of your house. You scoff, hang up, go about your business. But you sense a strange uneasiness. Your imagination runs a film of a tiger prowling the basement. Realizing that what bothers you is the imagination, you turn on the basement light and look down. No tiger. You are relieved. Your anguish vanishes. You wonder why you did not look down immediately when you felt the anxiety.
That is exactly what happens in the psychological world. The mind unreels an imaginative film which frightens us. Then, we mistakenly assume that the fright is based on reality, which it is not. The tiger is not really there. We have the relief of that fact when we simply _see_ that fact."
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 7, p. 112
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Post by Admin on Aug 26, 2018 9:50:52 GMT
"So I have to ask you now, how many of you were an unwanted child? How many of you now know the reason for it? (Laughter) There is something very interesting to look it, and here it is. You may not have been wanted as a child and felt that very often, but I am telling you, and you will see right in the talk, truly something is looking for you, wanting you in order to give some- thing so marvelous words can't explain it.
You are a wanted human being. Now that will mean nothing unless you've got a glimpse of the hostile world and questioned the hostility and want to grow yourself beyond your own hostility. Something, which is God himself, which is spiritual health, wants to get through to you. It wants to get your attention.
Who do you know who wants the attention of God? No, they want to put their attention on the only thing that interests them, which is the boat down at the lake or the package of demands they have. Here’s the question to this point. How do we allow what is seeking us to find us?"
Powerful Secrets for Self-Awakening - Part 1 The Laws of Spiritual Development - MP3 CD, track 6
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2018 9:42:39 GMT
"The greater the problem, the greater the victory when you overcome that problem. Now, you’re to remember that, so that when you have a severe depression or the storm of any kind is raging inside, you will never go into automatic thinking that the storm is stronger than your real nature, because it isn’t.
You’re to remember the simple plain fact that there is something stronger than your weakness! It exists. You may not have it. You may have no idea of what it is, but it exists."
from a talk given 3/19/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 2, talk 45, track 17
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2018 9:57:23 GMT
"Understanding can only come when two elements come together. The first element is for you as an individual to be shocked by what happens to you. You suffer a pain of some kind, a loss of some kind. You have a shock, a suffering, a jolt in life.
Now that’s not enough to start understanding of life to come to you, not enough at all. All day long do you not suffer from pain, from loneliness? How many of you are lonely? You are all lonely, aren’t you.
To have suffering is certainly not enough, to have tragedies is not enough. The other element is something which few human beings want to develop. It can be developed by anyone who wants it, but few want it. And that is a wish to understand why you suffer. A wish to see what part you play in the fact that you always feel rejected, that you feel unwanted, that you feel unworthy, that you feel inferior.
The shock plus your wish to understand it instead of go along with it, like crying, those two elements together will always lead to a higher level of insight. This puts you outside of the mechanical problem so that you can indeed see that the world out there and the world in here takes you over only because you’re unconscious, only because you live in a state of spiritual sleep thinking that you’re wide awake."
Questions and Answers 8 DVD # 11, talk 4 Blu-ray # 4, talk 9
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2018 9:39:27 GMT
"You must make a mighty effort to see your great error. You presently think - though you may deny that you think it - that a mental idea can understand the whole cosmic picture. Your ideas about life, yourself, and God must go; your ideas as to how higher insight will come must go. Now you come right back to the same fear you and bil- lions of other human beings have. The idea is simply expressed, "But if I am not an idea about myself, who am I?" You will know when having the persistent courage to drop the question itself. To even ask the question indicates protection of your false ideas about yourself. This question "But who will I be?" is always asked in fear, and you must see that the fear itself is false. This is because it is not necessary to be a labeled self at all. You need not be anybody because you are not anybody. And that is your complete sanity and freedom."
The Answer, Letter 5, p. 31
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2018 13:58:06 GMT
"It is not as disastrous as we might suppose to see our own nothingness; it is actually fulfillment. It only _seems like disaster_ because of our fearful hesitancy to give up the false ego-self. We pass through this dark tunnel by first entering it.
No idea you could grasp will do more to free you from unnecessary burdens, including false guilts and duties. Human egotism is hell on earth. How much of the synthetic human self have you allowed to fall away from you today? That is the test of today's success."
The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 2, p. 19
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Post by Admin on Nov 5, 2018 10:56:58 GMT
"I want to give you a tested technique for gradually and surely increasing your inner peace. It works for you regardless of the noise and confusion that may surround your day.
You will detach yourself as a mental participant in these noisy events. You will observe them, be aware of them, but will not involve yourself mentally or emotionally. Perhaps you ask, "But can this really be done? It sounds impossible to separate myself from the constant clatter around me." I assure you that it can be done by you.
You see, your True Self is detached from everything on the outside. It has _awareness_ of exterior conditions but does not get emotionally upset by them. You have a True Self at this very moment. At the very instant of reading these lines you are capable of mental detachment from all exterior problems."
Psycho-Pictography, p. 166
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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2018 11:58:53 GMT
"HUMAN STUPIDITY Satan and stupidity must be studied together, for evil and ignorance relate closely. Badness is madness. Stupidity is the absence of _spiritual_ wisdom. A man can run his business ade- quately and still be spiritually stupid. A stupid person does not see himself as stupid, which makes him a typically horrible human being. His mind is stuffed with useless clippings from yesterday's news, which he proudly calls his library. Intelligence starts with awareness of personal stupidity."
SOLVED The Mystery of Life, p. 190
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2018 15:04:35 GMT
"JEWEL OF JAPAN
An inventory was once made of the imperial Japanese jewels. The royal treasure had been kept in a guarded building called the Shosoin. For nine hundred years the jewels had rested in the Shosoin, never seen by the public. When a string of amber beads was examined, one bead in the centre of the string appeared to be different from the others. The accumulated dust of centuries was washed off the beads, and the centre stone was examined with deep curiosity.
The examiners found a treasure within a treasure. The special bead was not made of common amber, as were the other beads. It was a high-quality pearl of pink-green colour. For hundreds of years the unique pearl had been mistaken for a piece of amber - but no longer.
No matter how long we have lived in a mistaken identity, self- examination can reveal our true and tranquil nature."
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 105
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2018 12:10:56 GMT
"ACTIONS TOWARDS OTHERS
You can sweep aside all arguments and questions concerning your actions towards others with one simple rule. Any action that is _truly_ right for you is truly right for another. And what is truly wrong for you is also harmful to your neighbour. You are not separate from your neighbour except on the physical level. By this rule it is not only unhelpful to practise man-made moralities towards others but downright damag¬ing, for they increase the illusion that the artificial is the real. Put it another way. Any action of yours that fails to develop your own inner strength is useless to others. If a lighthouse is to help passing ships, its own light must radiate into the fog.
When hearing this, a learner asked, 'What do you mean by man-made moralities?'
'Anything pretending to be good while having cunning self-interest behind it. Examples are all around you.'"
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 8
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Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2018 10:42:14 GMT
"Q How can people be so wicked and yet appear so happy?
A. Because evil is their entertainment, in fact, doing sick things is a human's single most popular amusement. Your refusal to admit this puts you in danger from humans."
SOLVED The Mystery of Life, p. 174
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2018 10:43:19 GMT
"What would you give for a system, a certain system that always works, that would enable you to clear away every perplexity, pain, and problem you have? Would you give five dollars, would you give five thousand dollars? You’d look down into your resources and pull out every bit of money you have, wouldn’t you, to find a system, that would solve you? Well, isn’t it nice to know that such a system actually exists; it will be given to you here this morning.
You’ll hear in the next forty-four and a half minutes exactly how to never be assaulted any more by your own inner nature; and when that happens, you will find, magically, that no one else and no evil can harm you from the outer world. Because you’ll have a spiritual armor that will protect you.
Now, what is the system? Very simple, and I'm going to ask you to watch your reaction to it when I give you what it is. Notice how you respond to this solution. The certain, absolutely always successful system by which you can solve all of your life prob- lems, such as fear of the future, that one system is a systematic study of your present nature. Pause while you ponder a bit."
from a talk given 4/17/1988 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 19, talk 474, track 17
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2018 10:32:42 GMT
"The more unusual an experience the more value it has for those who are tired of self-shackles. The entire secret is to take the unusual or the unpleasant experience with conscious attention, not with habitual fear or resentment. Self-shackles are cut with something stronger than shackles, and conscious attention is a thousand times stronger. Practice this secret power."
700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 199
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Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2018 10:51:17 GMT
"Here are various roadblocks along the esoteric highway. You can break through them with self-insight.
Searching outside ourselves: Nothing exterior to us can do it. Zen teaches that salvation is so close we cannot see it, like a man crying for water, while waist deep in a lake."
Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 35
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2018 12:06:16 GMT
"THE INNOCENT JEWELER
In Germany many years ago a powerful baron possessed a ring he prized highly. One day he gave it to his jeweler to be polished. But one night some enemies of the baron stole the ring and hid it in their own quarters. When the anxious jeweler reported the theft to the baron's guards, he was imprisoned. The jeweler tried to ex- plain his innocence, but his own fear and confusion made his story seem false.
While seated in his cell, the jeweler put his mind to work. Remem- bering the baron's enemies, and his own carelessness, he realized what had happened. He requested a few minutes with the baron, which was granted. As a result, the ring was recovered and the jeweler was set free and restored to his former position.
Man's psychological imprisonment is a result of a gigantic misunder- standing, a cunning hoax, but a hoax he can expose."
Inspire Yourself, p. 157
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