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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2019 11:35:23 GMT
"An authentic teaching makes sense only when it is recognized by the authentic _you_. Discover the nature of this authentic _you_ and the secret of the ages is yours. The _you_ is what remains when all self-descriptions and all of society's labels about you have been removed. To really know what is inside a package you must ignore its advertising and examine its contents personally. Self-examination reveals the authentic _you_ which instantly recog- nizes an authentic message - the only message making sense here on earth. "
700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 21
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2019 12:22:24 GMT
"Abandoned caves along the Jordan River tell an interesting story about life in ancient days. The caves exist at various heights on the riverbank, the lower ones almost touching the river, while others are near the top of the bank. At certain seasons, the river rose higher, forcing the occupants of the lower caves to climb to higher caves. When the river overflowed its banks completely, people were forced to abandon their caves altogether, to seek higher ground. That is exactly what suffering tries to do - to urge us to higher spiritual ground."
Esoteric Mind Power, p. 88
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2019 13:43:36 GMT
"Once upon a time there was a good and brave and strong king. And I want to tell you how he ruled that kingdom of his because this is the way you must learn to rule your personal life. He ruled it absolutely. Absolute power, which means by the way when he had absolute true power that he also had to have goodness, kindness, wisdom.
You see, where there is authentic authority, authentic authority which is simply spiritual power, where there’s that there always has to be decency, honesty. The king knew how to live outside his human person- ality, which made him a very very rare unique king in the universe, which is what you must be, king of your own life."
from a talk given 3/21/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 2, talk 46, track 18
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Post by Admin on Mar 20, 2019 10:44:09 GMT
"When events do not obey your desires, know that real peace does not depend upon them doing so."
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, # 329
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2019 11:55:26 GMT
"The false idea of time is created by comparing things, for example, by comparing youth with old age, comparing ancient history with modern times, comparing an old house with a new house. There can be no time without comparison, without setting two items next to each other at the same time and seeing their differences.
If we used time only for practical purposes in daily life there would be no problem. We do need the mind's power of comparison in order to have dinner at 6 instead of 8, or to plan to be in Florida on Friday instead of Saturday. So the ability to apparently create time is a perfectly legitimate function of the mind which operates in dualism, in opposites. It serves a definite need while we still occupy physical bodies.
But now we come to man's mistake which creates man's numerous difficul- ties. Because the mind of most people is undeveloped, immature, it does not understand itself, just as a small child has no idea of how and why he thinks this way and that. In his immaturity, man's mind creates two artificial items which he takes as being real. These two items are _time_, and _his belief that he possesses a personal and separate self_. You should remember these two connections for they will reveal great secrets to you, and we will start with some of them right now."
The Answer, Letter 4, p. 24
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2019 10:16:51 GMT
"Suppose a man without musical training were to sit before a piano day after day and try to produce enjoyable music. No matter what he did, regardless of how hard he tried, nothing but discord came out. If he occasionally struck a harmonious chord it was purely accidental and was soon lost in the next noise.
Suppose he grew tired of discord and made up his mind to understand its cause. He consults a teacher of piano:
'I don't understand why I can't play the piano.'
'Very simple. You must change yourself.'
'In what way?'
'You have to understand the principles of music.'
'But I already do.'
'No. This is your whole problem. You insist that you already know. But you don't. If you really understood, you would play harmoniously. It is as simple as that.'
'So what do I do?'
'Stop trying to _do_ things with that piano. It will get you nowhere, as you have already proved. Instead, _be_ someone. Be someone who understands the principles of music. Then, you have no problem in _doing_. It will be easy, accurate, enjoyable, rewarding.'"
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 12, p. 210
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2019 9:18:06 GMT
"Why We Want to Hurt Others
We hurt others, either openly or cunningly, as a reaction to our own inner hurt. Pain produces pressure. Henri Frederic Amiel writes : 'We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrongdoing makes us irritable, and our heart in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamour within.'"
Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 152
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2019 9:57:26 GMT
"People who don't have violence in them find it extremely easy to talk about violence. People with a lot of violence in them don't find it easy to talk about violence because that spark of even talking about it could set them off.
If you’re afraid of violence you have it in you. I’m not talking about the physical level; you’re allowed to be cautious of a violent person for fear of your physical safety, of course.
Would you like to make invisible violence disappear and be invisible for you? You can do so. Just have these credentials we talked about and you won’t have any violence in you at all and you will know you haven’t. You know that when a situation comes up that you’re not getting angry, not really. You know that you’re not grabbing the other person physically or mentally, and shaking him; you know you’re not. You don’t care to, there’s no profit in it for you, there’s nothing to get out of it.
A person comes up to you, comes up, or an event comes up, you say hello. No violence in that is there, hello! They decide to turn around and go away and you say good-bye! (laughter) Where’s the violence?
There’s violence only if you look at the other person or the event, the sale for example, and you say, 'I must have.'"
Questions and Answers 25 DVD # 35, talk 3 Blu-ray # 10, talk 7
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2019 9:35:47 GMT
"On rare occasions in human history a unique individual comes along. He is truly a heaven-sent teacher with a message for all who want to listen. He says something like this:
'Listen! I have good news for you. You have every reason to be cheerful and confident. You can solve the mystery of life. But first you must admit that your days are painful puzzles to you. So face the wreckage that surrounds you while knowing fully that you don't have the answers. Don't fear that fact and don't be ashamed of it. Your shame indicates your vanity's belief that _it_ must create the solution, which is all wrong. You need only have the courage to remain without _your_ answer, for that humility is what attracts the real answer to you. See the storm of your life. Enter it without asking what will happen to you. Pass thru the storm, for on the other side is everything for which your heart deeply yearns. Come, I will personally guide you thru the storm until you reach the safety of the other side.'"
50 Ways To Get Help From God, p. 5
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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2019 9:43:10 GMT
"Only one human being in a hundred thousand ever realizes during the course of his life that he has sold his soul to malicious forces. You can be and must be that one person in a hundred thousand.
Now already you were thinking that what I just said doesn't apply to you. I'm telling you it applies to you, and if you have one ounce of sense in your head, you will realize that. You'll accept it and you will want to be that one person in a hundred thousand who realizes that you are nothing but an inward nervous wreck trying to fake it on the outside to make other people think that you're in command of yourself.
And you know that you're not. Therefore that’s hypocritical for you to pretend that you are poised, that you're intelligent, that you know what you're doing. You never have known what you're doing and unless you listen to what I'm telling you, which is the truth, you never will know. Now you have a chance."
from a talk given 2/15/1987 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 9, talk 223, track 18
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2019 10:19:10 GMT
"FIVE VITAL FACTS
Five students asked their teacher to give them the single most vital fact each needed to know. The teacher addressed each learner in turn:
"Know that you never suffer from anyone but yourself."
"Realize the existence of higher points of view."
"Understand that sentimentality is not love."
"See that you are not the person you assume you are."
"Perceive that the truth's only aim is to cure."
Discover something which is vital for you to know, then concentrate your attention toward understanding it."
Inspire Yourself, p. 169
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Post by Admin on Apr 25, 2019 9:08:42 GMT
"You have definitions and expectations about the word 'success' and you toss that word around as if you understand it and you don’t. And because you don’t understand what you’re talking about when you say, 'I must succeed,' you’re also afraid of failure.
A human being is capable, you are capable, of living above, free of, such foolish words as success and failure. But you’ve been told to use them: your parents told you, your teachers told you, your competitors told you that you must, for example, and get this generalization, you must become a success in life. Now come on, what does that mean? You don’t know what it means, you say it but it has no real meaning to you. Look in back of the word and you’ll see nothing and that’s good.
When you can look in back of the word success and see nothing, you can look in back of the word failure and see nothing there too and you’re no longer afraid."
from a talk given 4/3/1987 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 10, talk 249, track 18
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2019 11:10:45 GMT
"As the man of our story walked along he lived the kind of life that he wanted; that is, he thought the thoughts he wanted to think and he performed the acts that he wanted to perform, he felt the feelings he wanted to feel. And so he wandered and walked for a long, long time. And after a while going down this long broad highway of life, he looked up and he saw a little checkpoint up in front of him. When he got up there, lo and behold, the checkpoint was run by an angel, very obviously an angel.
He didn’t quite know how to talk with angels, so he was a little bit apprehensive as he walked up. But he understood that he was supposed to stop there, which he did. And the angel greeted him friendly and nice and the angel said, 'Sir, I have been placed here by Heavenly Power to warn travelers along this highway that you and others who travel this highway are not traveling along the highway to Eternal Life. In other words, you are traveling down the wrong road. And this checkpoint has been set up to tell everyone coming down this road exactly what they are doing wrong so they can correct it.'
Our man didn’t quite know what to make of that warning because he thought he was quite happy, must be on the right road. He was feeling good as he walked along the highway doing what he wanted, thinking what he wanted, having fun wherever he wanted, so he couldn’t quite understand the warning. But nevertheless, he had a certain amount of respect for an angel, so he listened as the angel went into some detail."
Travel the True Highway of Life DVD # 24, talk 2
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Post by Admin on May 2, 2019 9:53:45 GMT
"We’re talking about spiritual freedom, which is the only freedom there is and the only freedom you’re ever going to find. And I’m telling you, it is a possibility for you if you will abandon the stupidity of your present life, your present ways. We’re trying to prevent you from going any further in the wrong direction."
The Sheep and The Wolves Powerful Guides for Spiritual Freedom, p. 31
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Post by snowstorm on May 2, 2019 10:11:12 GMT
"We’re talking about spiritual freedom, which is the only freedom there is and the only freedom you’re ever going to find. And I’m telling you, it is a possibility for you if you will abandon the stupidity of your present life, your present ways. We’re trying to prevent you from going any further in the wrong direction." The Sheep and The Wolves Powerful Guides for Spiritual Freedom, p. 31 Two Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door yesterday and were very pleasant but read a rather miserable line or two from the Bible. Just made me think how religions promise a great afterlife to believers, but that is no consolation for a difficult life here and now, action now matters.
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