Thought Watching (an excerpt from a Vernon Howard talk) "You concentrate at the start by taking a specific worry, a specific haunting. That person you know that you had a difficulty with in some way, I want you to notice how a picture of that person comes up into your...
A Note on Self-Justifying (Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Vol 3) One of the many definite things we are told by this Work to observe in ourselves, and specifically to work against, is...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA [1836-1886] Sri Ramakrishna, who was born in 1836 and passed away in 1886, represents the very core of the spiritual realizations of the seers and sages of India. His whole life was literally an uninterrupted contemplation of God. He...
Pursuing Every Thought to the Root (by Jiddu Krishnamurti) "To end thought I have first to go into the mechanism of thinking. I have to understand thought completely, deep down in me. I have to examine every thought, without...
Be a Passenger on the Boat by Vernon Howard As long as you picture yourself as a pilot instead of as a passenger, you must by the nature of things, run into storms. The solution is astonishingly simple: all you have to do is be willing to give up your place at the...
The Mystic Path is for Heroes (from The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard) Noticing our negativities is a curious process. It is like seeing a shadow and taking it as a frightening phantom. If you look closely, you see it as a mere shadow. But refusal to...
We are so involved in our own drama that we miss out on reality. Vernon Howard's short talk and exercise helps you break out of your own nonsense. Practice this: AWARENESS If you only knew how much others are secretly suffering, you would be very...
Simplicity by Jiddu Krishnamurti Our problems - social, environmental, political, religious - are so complex that we can solve them only by being simple, not by becoming extraordinarily erudite and clever. A simple person sees much more directly, has a more direct...
The Miraculous Message of Mysticism by Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power No conflict exists between mysticism and the established religions any more than there is disagreement among several lecturers who describe the same sunrise. Only their...
At first, venturing into unknown territories of the mind can be a little scary. The good news is that the more you see, the freer you become. We are slaves to the unconscious workings of our minds. The following short essay by Edward Carpenter explains this...