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Post by Admin on Dec 18, 2018 12:49:16 GMT
"Love is the full, free and uninterrupted flow of life-energy through your psychic system. It is a river of energy with no dams or whirlpools or broken banks or dividing islands. Love is oneness, wholeness, mental health. This free flow starts by first becoming aware of self-division, and then by dissolving it through spiritual insight."
Secrets for Higher Success, p. 189
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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2018 10:36:27 GMT
"There was a man, a scientist, who lived in the very world you live in. He was a world-renown scientist, and he knew the answers to the stars and the seas and the earth; interviewed by newspaper reporters all the time. And on the surface, of course, as we look at him, we would say, here’s a man who has it made. Here’s a man who has everything that this world has to offer; he has his fame and he has his fortune and he has people seeking him out.
But this man, being a scientist, was a little more investigative of his own life than other people are and he understood that the fame and the acclaim that he had throughout the world, he understood that that was really a very shallow thing.
And he understood it very close to home because in his personal life, when he went home, all by himself, he was intelligent enough to see the difference in his condition when he was all alone and the condition he presented to the world when he was out there among the crowds.
For a long, long time, he wondered about the difference between his public self and his private self. And being a scientist, he decided to investigate it, look into it, put his life under a microscope and try to find out just why there was this difference between his apparent happiness out at the banquets and joking with people and giving speeches. He wanted to find out why there was a difference between that and the way he actually felt when he was all alone, or thinking to himself even when he was with other people.
So he studied for a long, long time. He made his mind sort of a scientific laboratory, studied himself as he went around out in the world as he had studied in his own laboratory and wrote scientific reports.
And after a long time of investigation, a very startling thought came to him and a startling thought that the sooner you come to it, the better it will be for you too. And here’s what it was - now think how startling this might be if you were to see this all at once to yourself here tonight - it became obvious to him that he was not living his own life."
The Secret of the Invisible Man DVD # 29, talk 2 Blu-ray # 6, talk 9
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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2018 12:15:15 GMT
"Authentic self-enrichment is preceded by a feeling of emptiness and insecurity, which is like shaking a bag empty to make room for jewels."
The Power of Esoterics, p. 144
"This is very practical information for you. If other people, someone outside, can send so-called confidence to me, power, if they say I’m real by giving me attention, then maybe one day I’ll be able to believe it. It never works, does it?"
Defeat Has No Right to Exist Powerful Guides for Spiritual Freedom, p. 58
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2018 10:35:15 GMT
"In warfare, an army sends its messages to scattered regiments by means of a secret code. If the opposing army doesn’t crack the code, then the sending army has great advantages; they can talk freely to each other on how to defeat the enemy. But if the opposing army breaks the code, which happens quite often, then the advantage and the power and the subtlety of the sending army is broken. And the power and advantage that it had with the use of its secret code is banished forever.
Not clear to you yet, but increasingly clear after this talk is the fact that evil itself, the dark world, has its own secret code. It operates almost with one hundred percent efficiency and effectiveness. It can communicate around the whole world in a flash; that is, all human beings who have dedicated themselves to first self-destruction and then the destruction of everyone else, all these servants of the false world do have a great, and I'm going to emphasize the next word, a great but brief - I was going to say temporary, I changed it to brief - a brief advantage and control over unawakened, ignorant, foolish human beings.
It is your positive duty to take these introductory remarks and to make the subject of cracking the enemy code, to make that subject a foremost feature of your inner development. There is really no knowledge on your part of how much is put over on you because you haven’t cracked the secret code. All the evidence that you need for what I just said is within you right now."
from a talk given 8/27/1988 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 22, talk 547, track 17
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Post by Admin on Dec 23, 2018 10:52:20 GMT
"We wrongly look outward to get something when we should look inward to understand something."
Cosmic Command, # 1794
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2018 13:25:59 GMT
"Opinions are for your false nature and against your real nature. You want what is really authentically on your side. Therefore, take a new attitude starting right now toward rebuke. Take a new attitude toward correction. Take a new attitude toward anyone or anything who comes along and points out a fault, any kind of fault, small or large.
Yes, for a long time you’re suddenly going to freeze, with what, fear, irritation maybe anger, yes, you are going to freeze with that when someone has told you the facts about yourself which go against your beloved opinions. And you love your opinions and you don’t love the facts and so you are going to fight them. From now on, you are going to be a non-fighter.
You are going to learn by experience 20 times a day, 50 times a day what it means to take it. Just suffer from seeing your own hypocrisy and self-division. And then if you suffer knowingly, that is, you admit it is a fact, you will be carried beyond that fact of your self-division. Something, which is spiritual power, will pick you up and carry you over that rock in the road. And every time you do it, the spirit of God Himself will pick you up and carry you over the next rock. You know how many rocks are in the way, don’t you?"
Your Treasure of Higher Pleasure - Part 1 The Secret of Spiritual Awakening - MP3 CD, track 1
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Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2018 11:23:48 GMT
"THE FIGHTING FOX
'I now see how I used to fight against my own liberation.'
'Yes, the facts we fight the most are the very ones we need the most. This is one of the most incredible features of miserable man. He fights and fears the very medicine which could cure him.'
'Why does he do this?'
'It connects with his foolish defense of false positions. A fox fights when you get close to the stolen goods he is hiding in his den."
There is a Way Out, p. 15
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Post by Admin on Dec 29, 2018 11:09:55 GMT
"Listen to me, the smallest amount of desire on your part to have help from Heaven arouses the delight and the immediate and certain response of heavenly forces to come down and try to become your new ways of thinking and acting and will do so to the extent that you allow them."
from a talk given 10/14/1988 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 23, talk 571, track 17
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2018 10:40:46 GMT
"Learn the difference between thinking and awareness. Thinking connects with the past, with memory, and works by opposites, such as good and bad, you and I. It is rightly used in everyday matters, such as cooking. It is wrongly used when one tries to gain a self-identity, like labeling oneself a success or a failure. Awareness is an impartial observation of the whole of life. It does not proceed from a sense of individuality; it is the whole tree, not just branches which are opposed to roots. Awareness is sanity, peace."
Esoteric Mind Power, p. 64
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Post by Admin on Jan 2, 2019 14:45:49 GMT
"'Is there really a map that will guide me out of the human jungle?'
'Of course there is. But it is like a road map ripped into pieces and scattered by the wind. Your task is to collect and assemble the pieces.'"
Women - 50 Ways to See Thru Men (for Men too), p. 6
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Post by Admin on Jan 7, 2019 10:55:47 GMT
"Practice the virtue of spiritual self-reliance. Do that and don’t go around asking someone else who in turn himself is asking someone else.
You can learn here in this room how to go directly to the source of all reliance and security. You must not try to borrow strength, wisdom, or comfort or anything else from anyone else.
Don’t be like a farmer who has to go out and walk ten miles every day to get water from his neighbor’s well. We’re here to learn how to dig our own well, so that the water is as close to you as you are, that water being representative of whatever virtues you need at the moment. And consider your activities, where you go and who you meet and what you’re doing and consider your need when you walk into that room, when that person approaches you, when that paper is put in front of you. Always consider at the moment what you need, so that you can see that you don’t have it. Now that is a very positive handling of the negative.
The purpose in knowing that you do not have spiritual self-reliance is to make you fall away from what you have called your resources, fall away from what you’ve been choosing from within your own present nature, and to make you want to discover at all costs what it means - to be taken care of."
from a talk given 11/25/1988 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 24, talk 596, track 17
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Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2019 19:21:33 GMT
"STRENGTHENING PRINCIPLES
The right reaction to the unknown is to experience it, not fear it."
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 197
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2019 10:50:13 GMT
"Here's what I want you to do. I want you to observe yourself throughout today, tomorrow, the rest of the week. I want you to select out of your mind the five most prominent hauntings that you have. I guarantee you that they are there. I hope you have enough interest to know that the reason I'm giving this talk, and explaining this particular part of it, is to help you break free of chains you don't even know you have! "Why should I listen to that?" people protest. "I'll go home and watch television, and that will make me happy." It won't. Remember, human nature does not want to investigate human nature for fear of what it will find. But whatever you bravely find will finally lead to liberty."
Your Power of Natural Knowing, p. 65
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Post by Admin on Jan 11, 2019 15:45:42 GMT
"Because of what you're going to hear tonight, this could be one of the most valuable nights of your entire life. And here is what you're going to hear: you have no need for troubles but troubles have a need for you.
Now let that hit with a solid impact. Try to feel it as well as think it, 'I have no need for troubles.'
'Well, I must have thought that it was a necessary condition to always fall down, to be assaulted by evil thoughts. I must have lived all my days thinking that I have an affinity for, a natural relationship with things that hurt, commonly called troubles. Well now wait a minute, maybe that assumption that I have cherished so closely isn’t correct at all.'
'But if I'm not going to have troubles, if I have no need to be sad and scared then,' and here’s a false question, 'and if I have no need for grief, then what will I do, how will I feel, where will I go, what will I think about, what’s going to happen to my internal condition if I suddenly as has been suggested, if I suddenly stop having a need for turmoil and for inner wrestling?'
That is wrong to ask. The mind asking that question is afraid of its own extinction and it is your duty in life to make sure that it does go away and leave you."
from a talk given 1/18/1989 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 25, talk 621, track 17
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2019 10:27:07 GMT
"Remain cheerful, for there is a new world!"
Treasury of Positive Answers, p. 18
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