Let’s be crystal clear up front here, fact, the brutal world is within you and me. Yes, agreed, it appears to be out there, and if we can only change the outer world, then everything would be fine. We have been taught this since our birth, but this is not true. Yes, the outer world is absolutely brutal; people will kill you for simply not agreeing with their view. The inner life, the true life, states, “You are your world.” This means wonderfully, I have only one human being to change, myself, instead of 8.29 billion (Earth’s present population).
You don’t need to fight your way through life!
The true life says you can retire your boxing gloves and step out of the rink at anytime you wish. You don’t need to fight your way through life. The way out, is loaded with inward challenges, for it is easy to lull yourself to sleep with any number of wrong positions. Believing you have made it to the mountain top when you only took one step up. The true life encourages you to keep walking. Every step away from your old thinking is a step towards the light.
Here is the beauty of changing your inner self!
You will have to give up many things that you now believe are good for you. You will be so glad you gave them up. Here is the beauty of changing your inner self: you become more content, at ease, and at peace. Let’s say it differently, You will have less stress, less anxiety, and less worries. The only way to prove this is to start the walk, so you discover from personal experience what is true and what is not. Here is a grand truth from Vernon Howard that will help you on your walk out:
“Everyone must concede that there is in existence something that is
wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge
which few even investigate. We’re going to do that now. Let’s see
what we’re talking about. All troubled people, which is all people,
must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make
the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is
higher than their own present nature.”
from a talk given 6/29/1988
Vernon Howard’s Higher World – MP3 CD Volume 21, talk 511, track 5
(originally sent 09/12/2007)
A few people can not live being a human sheep, so they start the process of inner change, be one of the few.
Until we understand and learn how to meet a new emptiness within, we will continue on the same wrong path. We will get up day after day and never realize we are listening to a thought, telling us how to get out of thought. We will make no real progress, and since thoughts are endless we will continue our march in a circle and go nowhere. We will then decide it’s Vernon’s ideas that are faulty (Thought decides this), and since we never broke free of thought we will believe we have been sincere, and end our days never having found this something else. When you break away from thought, even if it is only a glimpse, thought being vicious will try to steal that pure glimpse and bring it back down to its low level. You will witness this happening, and understand the whole world is under the spell of thought.
Conceding there is something else wiser than my present experience and my so called understanding opens the cell door from living a confined, restricted, caged, life. Society may have put a heavy yoke around my neck, but it is my responsibilty to free myself from it. Super encouraging to hear new facts about life.