Insight & Blog

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,...

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,...

Vernon gave a talk on 2-15-92 in which he stated that Intelligence and Goodness are one in the same. He continued to describe them as the two oars needed when rowing a row boat. Both are needed to direct the boat back to the safe harbor. With only one of these the...

I was consciously returning to my memories to remember when I got myself into a lot of trouble, because I thought I knew what was right for me. Try this with your past experiences, it is very helpful to review your mistakes so you won’t repeat them. I decided to take...

"Perception is Possession"-Vernon Howard. What if right at this moment truthful ideas are working to get through to you and they can't because your cluttered mind and thoughts have no room to accept them? What a delightful subject for discussion. Pause for a moment...

When any person makes the sincere inner decision to change their lives, they start to run into new obstacles that were previously unseen and buried deep inside themselves. They know they have to move but lack the understanding and knowledge (the mind tools) to make...

Years ago, I moved to Oregon and to a house with multiple wood-burning stoves. Being from the city, I had no knowledge on how to start a fire. I failed many times. I had to learn all about kindling and the proper way to get a good fire burning. Before I knew it, I...

Recently, I heard a fantastic Vernon Howard talk about interest. He connected one's happiness with 'right interest.' Heaven can only come down so far to connect with you, so you must rise up to connect with it. In other words, it will meet you halfway. If you don't...

Every day, thousands of thoughts, responses, reactions, feelings, and emotions pass through us. We can't stop them; they happen all by themselves, continuously, but we can do something. We can do something that is extremely powerful; we can see them and let them go....