Notice Your Yearning to Be Quietly Alone.
“Notice your yearning to be quietly alone, to remain unbothered. Develop this urge until you become a special kind of invisible person. You can be in the middle of a huge crowd and still be all alone within yourself. No one will see this secret self. One part of you easily converses with others while your secret self remains apart from the usual demands of society. Find this invisible self that human chaos cannot reach.” -Vernon Howard
This is a beautiful invitation to the higher life and resonates with that very small but important part that can look around and see all the madness and want no part of it. This is a solid part that can be built upon to discover a life many talk about but do not possess.
If that’s not worth working for, I don’t know what is.
This yearning is always present, the problem is all the noise of life ( & the mind ) drowns out the urge to come home to ourselves. But from even a higher view, there is no problem at all, only a mind that creates problems to keep those problems alive, and its continued domination over ones life. With hard work of watching oneself, this becomes crystal clear. Real freedom exists, but will never be found in thought, thinking (everyone’s major mistake).
Spiritual intuition and insight functions “quietly”, It does not work through the noise of self centered thinking. It is a silent wisdom that spontaneously guides and does not take time in the usual sense to beneficially affect an individual. When invited through genuine curiosity and interest, the kind of interest that has abandoned detrimental worldly interest, this wisdom will present itself, but will not be “visible” or comprehensible to those who have not yet invited it. The “invisible,” “secret self” is not really a self at all in the sense that it does not identify as an entity, but is pure seeing, awareness or spiritual wisdom. This “secret” or “invisible” source of wisdom or knowing is invulnerable to the influences of the detrimental dense world because it is of a much more refined nature and is above and superior to and untouchable by the nature of the denser deceptive and distracting lower world. You are of that higher refined nature not as a self , but as an emanation of higher consciousness and spirit.