There comes a time in everyone's life when enough is enough! There is a critical point that every seeker meets. He or she realizes enough is enough. No more excuses about not getting to work on changing one's life. No more convenient lies to sit with one's laziness....
Listening to a Vernon Howard talk does cost something. He does not shy away from hurting your precious feelings. He can be refreshing blunt, and to the point. Recently, I heard one of his talks in which he spoke about living on the level of opposites and how you can...
What an easy role to identify with, victimhood. Watch the news, your favorite podcast, or investigate organizations to study being a victim. If your aim is innocent, or maybe you just want to take inventory, you will be shocked by the number of victims you see. People...
People believe wrongly they can dabble with spiritual Truths and take their sweet time. What they don't realize is what is behind this idea that they don't need to be serious about their escape. Shockingly, when you spend just one more day on the side of darkness...
"You Don't Have to put Up with it Anymore." Not one day longer. What is it you can give up? Feeling victimized, a noisy mind, unpleasant people, nightmare conditions, and all else bad. Success requires that you turn in the right direction, which is to build a spirit...
Don't be afraid to die to what you imagine you are. You don't know that you imagine you know who you are. You would vow that your imagination is you. All you have ever known is your acquired nature. God says and Christ taught that if you die to your illusory self,...
You will never experience this "Other Higher World" through thinking about it. If you try, which you will, you will see endless thought traps where you are sure you are climbing up the spiritual mountain only to wake up some morning back where you started. A full...
It Is Not The World That Is Driving You Mad... Vernon tells a story of a man who has a vandal who is wrecking his house every few days, and finally, one day catches him only to discover it is he who unconsciously hired the vandal to do his evil deeds. The vandal...
Recently, I heard a talk by Vernon where he said this: "If you are not happy right now, when are you going to be? Cancel your ideas about happiness, and you will have it." Drop your plans about finding happiness, and become aware of yourself and of everything in the...
"In Life, You Always Meet Yourself." Pondering and grasping this beautiful truth can change everything. Have you ever noticed that wherever you take your physical body, you always meet the same old you. There might be a temporary sensation of newness, but it quickly...
This is from Vernon Howard's booklet: Conquer Harmful Anger 100 Ways, #9. "All anger is unconscious. This means that a hostile man does not see his anger while it is raging, though he can feel its fiery pain. Unseen anger is like picking up a hot potato without...
You have tried everything else why not try something different... "We need to make a vow to not try to change ourselves. To stop attempting to add something to ourselves."
One huge hoax that society plays on all its members is being afraid. The fear has a man on the run, and if not looked at, the fear monster gets bigger each day. Fear says, "Don't look, or you could go mad." What could be more maddening than running away from something...
Vernon Howard's exercise. SOOIB: Stay Out Of It, Birdbrain! What a beautiful spiritual exercise this is. Your whole past life consists of you reacting this way or that, and yet, you have never arrived at happiness. Ponder this deeply. Years and years of your solutions...
The Question: "But what if we cannot find this self-satisfying reality?" The Answer: "I laugh when I hear that the fish swimming in the water is thirsty." -Kabir. The question and answer clearly state, it is here, right in this moment. The fact that you can't see it...
"What prevents us from seeing ourselves as we really are is the human game of playing it safe. We will never wake up by playing it safe. We must persistently venture outside our circle of pseudo-safety to where our notions can be battered by reality. You learn how to...
Vernon gave a talk about giving up all concern for results. I decided to work with this miracle exercise. Vernon said, whatever the task before you, do your best to do it correctly, and give up your wish for the outcome to be this or that. He said, if you do this, the...
Have you ever had a mystical experience where your everyday life was temporarily interrupted, and you saw everything differently? Maybe you didn't recognize it at all, because it was so new. It could have happened for a few moments, or minutes, or maybe a whole...
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,...