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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2019 10:05:01 GMT
"The Time of Your Life
Discovering the facts about time is like locating a fabulously rich treasure chest. The first fact is that there are two kinds of time: We have man-made time, as measured by clock and calendar. It is useful for handling affairs on the human level, for we need to catch the train on time and we must bake the pie exactly forty minutes.
On the mystical and psychological level, the only time is Now. There are no minutes, days, years, past, or future, only the Eternal Now. This is a vast subject, so we must concentrate our study on seeing how time connects with human happiness."
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 10, p. 169
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Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2019 10:33:18 GMT
"Choose to understand, stick with that choice, and the whole world of truth takes your side."
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, # 800
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2019 11:10:56 GMT
"THE SPILLING LEVEL
'Picture in your mind,' a teacher told his class, 'a tall vase half filled with water. You can add a bit more water to it, but if you add too much it will spill over the top.'
The teacher continued, 'That illustrates how man can grow spiritually. A learner must be given just the amount of truth he can take with understanding. Give him too much at a time and he reaches his spilling level. A spilling level is the point at which a person is unable to take a truth rightly. In other words, he spills over with negativity, such as with tears or resentment.'
'A skilled teacher,' the lesson continued, 'aims the truth slightly below the student's spilling level. Here it is strong enough to challenge the student's false concepts, but not enough to spill him over the top. Spilling prevents learning. Every time you receive a truth correctly, your spilling level rises higher.'
A pupil remarked, 'Most people have very low spilling levels.'
'True. But I want you to raise yours a bit higher every day. Do you know what will eventually happen? You will no longer have a spilling level. Think what this means to you.'"
The Power of Esoterics, p. 113
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2019 11:23:20 GMT
"If you state that the answers to life exist, you make a perfectly accurate statement."
Inspire Yourself, p. 119
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Post by Admin on Jan 26, 2019 11:10:43 GMT
"Our problem, paramount, is that we are always trying to do something. Search it for yourself. You're trying to make a decision. You're trying to overcome a habit. You're trying to get rid of your sorrow. You're trying to prove that you understand. We’re trying to dominate. We’re trying to win. We’re trying to feel comfortable.
Now you take ordinary logic and you tell me how you can feel comfortable living in this world. Your nature as it is presently constituted is trying to feel comfortable in this social, economic, non-religious human world. You're saying, 'I want to feel comfortable, secure, safe, not oppressed.' You won’t see, you absolutely refuse to see that the world out there is exactly the same kind of a world you're living in and you're saying ‘I’ want to feel comfortable. There’s no way it can happen.
You project outwardly what you are inwardly and say if that changes then I’ll be all right. But look at the clever self-deception in that. You're quite sure that you are different from the the tax oppressors, from the criminals, from the politicians, from that cruel person, from that horrible family. You're quite sure that you are different. You're not different at all. You're one in the same."
Reach the Ocean of Oneness Something Higher Than Ideas - MP3 CD, track 9
eTalk: ETK09
Reach the Ocean of Oneness Our Class Aim is to Heal Not to Hurt - Audio CD, track 2
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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2019 14:30:35 GMT
"Let's take an interesting example of the difference between thought and awareness:
Suppose that you decide to take a vacation, say, at a resort in the heights of the Rocky Mountains. You send away for literature which you read eagerly. And you think about that resort. You wonder what it's really like, you hope it's a fun place and so on. But, of course, you can't do any more than to merely think about it, to repeatedly speculate. And that speculation neither answers your questions nor gives you pleasure. No, you realize that you must actually travel to that higher level, you must explore the place itself.
So you journey to the resort. Now, everything is utterly different. You no longer think about the place; you are clearly aware of it as it actually is. You may even see that many of your previous speculations were not in line with the revealed reality. Yes, for the first time, you really know the truth! Thinking has ended, awareness has begun. And because you are now on a higher level, you can really enjoy yourself. [Mental Pictures 59]"
Psycho-Pictography, p. 189
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Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2019 11:20:26 GMT
"How long must one experience defeat? As long as one prefers the illusion of individual separation to the reality of Universal Unity. To say the same thing in another way, we must return to ourselves. Plotinus gave the illustration of a man so covered with mud that his natural attractiveness could not be seen. The mud, which is foreign to his true nature, must be washed away if he is to see his original self."
Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 75
"You can be either in the hands of Heaven or in the clutches of yourself. Oh, you didn’t know that, did you? You thought, you live as if, you have to be in the clutches of your own past experiences.
You have never put those two opposite positions together and looked at them, first one, then the other. You looked only at the cruel clutches part; you lived, you experienced, you thought about and you suffered from the fact that you are indeed in the clutches of your own present on-going nature.
You will stop this one viewpoint and add the other to it, you will understand that you can indeed, in fact, be in the hands of Heaven, which means in the hands of something that is not a part of your clutching nature; that you can be in the hands of what is gracious, of what is loving, you can be taken care of by something that you do not as yet comprehend, but it exists.
The fact that you don’t know it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. There is compassion, there is peace of spirit and of mind, but you’re too clutch-conscious to know about it.
You haven’t escaped yourself yet. You’ve allowed yourself to be burdened and bluffed and pressed down to the point where you don’t even know that you have cut out the higher way, the alternative. You have sunk so deeply, so completely inside yourself that the very idea of something different hasn’t been able to penetrate into the dark regions of yourself, but you’re going to change that this morning."
from a talk given 12/30/1990 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 30, talk 747, track 17
"Live from the inner to outer, not the outer to inner."
Secrets for Higher Success, p. 173
"DECEPTIVE WORDS There is no end of ways to deceive and hurt people by using tricky words. See thru people who use these methods: a. They promise future rewards they never intend to deliver. b. Self-interest is all they have, but they smoothly pretend interest in you. c. They build excitement in you, hoping it will distract you from their schemes. d. Discovering what you want to hear, they let you hear it. e. They count on their pleasant words to cover their unpleasant motives."
50 Ways to See Thru People, # 9
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Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2019 12:10:52 GMT
"The very root of fear is a false sense of identity. All other negative states, like worry and restlessness, grow from this, just as sour apples spring from an unhealthy tree. Man wrongly assumes that he is his name, or body, or possessions. Because of this, he fearfully fights through life trying to prove that he is these things. This is utterly futile — as men sadly discover every day. Because they don't see the alternative, they continue the vain struggle. And so you see millions of people act- ing gaily but their eyes tell quite another story."
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 9, p. 142
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2019 10:27:25 GMT
"We will talk tonight about Spiritual help. A subject which the world knows very little about and has little interest in exploring.
Now I use the phrase spiritual help. You have the two words and already people think that by using the words that the meaning is understood. You see you use the word spiritual and it gives you certain associative ideas of God, of Heaven, of something that’s not human here on this earth.
And you start talking about spiritual principles, spiritual elevation, and the mind, which is so tricky, assumes that it understands something that is above itself. That is, the ordinary mind which deals in finances and in family problems, working for a living and in spiritual ideas, the ordinary mind takes the word spiritual and thinks that it is something different from itself, it projects and says this is something higher than me. But when the mind says the word spiritual, it must interpret it according to its own level, its own very low level of misunderstanding.
The mind itself, the ordinary mind cannot possibly understand spiritual help. It can talk about it, it can write books about it, it can come to classes about it, but the ordinary mind which thinks with words, which thinks with mental pictures, can’t see anything above itself, although, it has the delusory, false power to pretend that it can understand something higher than itself, which it can’t."
Four Steps to Spiritual Help DVD # 28, talk 1 Blu-ray # 8, talk 9
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2019 10:28:04 GMT
"Have you ever wondered how on earth you can change yourself and your life - _really_ change them? I will show you how. Stop trying to think your way to a change. It never works, as you well know. Instead, take a leap, yes, much as you might leap across a stream. Leave the familiar shore to find yourself in mid-air. _It is the mid-air experience that changes you_. Forget both the old shore and the new shore; just take the leap."
700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 350
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Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2019 11:44:04 GMT
"You possess an inner life. Stop right there and say to yourself, ‘I possess an inner life.’ Now you possess an inner life but you don’t think about it. You don’t reflect on what it means.
You’re very well aware, in a superficial way, of your outer life, your exterior activities. The way you earn a living, your home and family, what you like to do in your spare time. And that so absorbs your attention that you’re not able to break away from it and remind yourself, ’I possess an inner life.’ That is a fact.
Now make yourself, force yourself - that’s all right - force yourself to shatter outward thinking, because it captivates the mind of almost everyone. And realize this marvelous thought: That there exists within you potentially the answer to every question, the solution to every problem."
from a talk given 3/1/1992 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 33, talk 821, track 17
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Post by Admin on Feb 28, 2019 10:58:54 GMT
"Like other cosmic virtues, love has its human counterfeit. No artificiality is more heartbreaking than pseudo-love, whether given or received.
True love is the natural state of man and the universe. An un- natural man is therefore incapable of it. Only a conscious person is capable of love, for it blossoms only with the absence of uncon- scious hostility. To find true love we must voluntarily give up what we like to _call_ love.
Love is not the trading of mutual benefits, it is not sentimental emotions, it is not unconscious imitation of those who seem loving. Sufism instructs, 'Love is not to be learned from men.' It is much higher than men.
Love is not the assuming of an attitude one thinks he _must_ or _should_ have. That is only an attitude and nothing more. Love never _must_ do anything for anyone. If there is a sense of duty, it is not love, but self-centered compulsion."
The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 7, p. 91
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Post by snowstorm on Feb 28, 2019 11:29:47 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 4, 2019 10:33:47 GMT
"Sadly, seldom do people count the costs of living apart from Truth. They cannot see the price tag on their ignorance of spiritual matters, so the crushing debt piles up. Satan promises delight but delivers doom. A man with an illusory life vanishes when his illu¬sion vanishes. Study faces on the streets. Behind the confident mask is the ghastly grimace of someone in spiritual bankruptcy. Evil always collects from its fool- ish debtors. Use this information to count the cost of unspiritual ways and refuse to pay it any more."
Your Power of Natural Knowing, p. 9
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2019 10:36:39 GMT
"The first step in venturing beyond mechanical thinking is to become aware that we are doing just that. We must not mistake an echo for an answer. This supplies our first clue to an alternative; we sense that there is something superior to mechanical thought.
It is known that the famous Cullinan diamond is only one half of the original stone. By studying the inner structure of this fabulous gem, scientists know that it has another half, undiscovered as yet. A man's mind is like that. We need the mechanical part all right, for it re- leases us from consciously thinking about routine matters, like walking or dressing. But the other half, the creative part, is also necessary if we are to live more than a merely mechanical life. We must find and put to use the other half of our mental diamond. [Mental Picture 25]"
Psycho-Pictography, p. 88
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