Hearing higher ideas does nothing to change your life. Something else is required. I must take action. "The only source of knowledge is experience." -Albert Einstein "People don't fail in the cosmic quest because they lack intelligence. The reason for failure can be...
The first thing anyone can do to improve the quality of their life is to watch and observe their present psychology. Understand you have been living your life all wrong. Are you already lacing up your boxing gloves because you feel under attack? Here is a better way...
Recently I was in a conversation with some other students who are seeking to further understand themselves. We chatted about wanting to have a nice relaxed experience by dining together with others whom we believed would bring this about. Later when getting together,...
It's a rainy day and you step outside surprised to discover an awesome rainbow arching across the sky. Amazed, you pause to enjoy it's beauty. Delightful, yes, but have you ever had the time and opportunity and interest to find the end of one of those rainbows? Irish...
Murray Oxmans' handbook; "How to Beat the Stress & Get More Out of Life" says this: "We are all conditioned to think that painful thoughts and feelings we have are not only needful, but that they are us. But they are not. We are not the worries, regrets and...
We as students of higher ideas and truths love to catch glimpses of this other world. It comes all by itself whenever it wants to reveal itself to us. We can not make any 'successful' demands on it. It may come when something in you catches your mechanical behavior,...
Digging deeper and understanding, 'Resist Not Evil' which is the recipe for happiness. Recalling, the beautiful well known quote, "Resist Not Evil," which I have heard repeated many times over the years. I never put attention on it and pondered it, or even try to see...
Great Aunt Bea Visits. When I was about 10 years old my Great Aunt Bea, my grandmother's sister, came to visit from the east coast. I began to sense, Aunt Bea was different, a spirited adult, unlike any other adult I knew. She emanated strength. She appeared to live...
"There is Only Two ways to Travel, Psychologically! Up or Down." -Vernon Howard. We have been taught since birth by our parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, and everyone we have encountered that there is a third choice. What is it? We can remain just as we are and live a...
Why have opinions, why not seek facts? Vernon Howard discovered through his own self-watching that having opinions lead nowhere. Therefore, working to seek facts is much more profitable. After helping a customer with some tasks around her property, she questioned,...