Pull up the mind, fix it on the Self.

There is no other way except to pull up the mind

each time it wants to go astray and fix it on the Self.

Mind will cease to exist

"...see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist."

God, Guru and the Self are the same.

"The God is within yourself.  Dive within and realize." 

Disconnect beliefs in yourself

"Everything in your past can be magically changed into freedom and

innocence. It is done by disconnecting your beliefs in yourself from

your memories about the past. And this is done by abandoning your

delusion that you own a separate personality."

                   A Treasury of Trueness, # 274

Be Kindness

"Be kind. Be the loving expression of kindness. Kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings."

Observe the ways of your mind.

A sorrowful tea merchant approached a wise man to ask, 'Why do I

have so many irritations and so much nervousness?'

Replied the wise man, 'Observe the ways of your mind for the next

two weeks, then return with your question.'

Two weeks later the merchant returned. The wise man invited, 'I

will now hear your question.'

The merchant asked, 'Why does one day after another contain nothing

but old troubles in new forms?'

The wise man told him, 'Observe the ways of your mind for the next

four weeks, then come to me again.'

When the merchant returned four weeks later, the wise man nodded

and said, 'You may now repeat your question.'

'There is no need for it,' said the merchant. 'I know.'"

                      The Power of Esoterics, p. 57

Drop them and radiance comes

"Remember my earlier statement that the experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs,  because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and radiance comes."

Turn within

Turn within and you will come to trust your Self...confidence comes with experience.

Wish for inner change and true development

"The overall human problem can be simply explained. Men and women

think, twenty-four hours a day, with a thinking that lacks a wish

for true inner development. It’s absent. The wish to change from

the kind of mental operation they now have, that wish is not there,

so they stay where they are and wonder why.

You want to do different, you want to include the wish for trans-

formation, self-transformation, for a new mind, to be a person who

is not harmful to yourself. And there is a way to do that and you

have to start with a wish for inner change.

The wish for inner change must be accompanied by you realizing

that you must not judge what you must do, where you must go or

the nature of the change. This is very important."

   from a talk given 6/14/1986 AM

 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 4, talk 89, track 10

No such thing as knowing too much

"A story was once written, which was later made into a movie at

least twice, with the brief and interesting title of "Rain."

And the story took place out on a South Pacific coral island with

coconut growers, traders and sailors. And there was the usual bar,

loud all the time with human voices, shouting sometimes angrily,

sometimes in impulsive delight or surprise. Just plain active, but

sad and worried human beings, drinking and talking business, being

angry with each other and trying to deceive each other. All this

was, of course, the story of human beings anywhere, any time, any

place.

All the time that this low-level behavior was going on, the rains

were coming down, all the time endlessly during the whole story.

And the rain itself was superb symbolism - an awesome force,

lightning and thunder going with it, and you don’t understand it,

it’s overpowering, you can’t stop it, you can’t control it, it

controls the way you feel and think, threatening to burst through

the thin roofs - and it's confining.

Now, we have the picture of people being confined within their own

natures, that’s what human beings are, knowing that the experiences

and the pains and the heartache and people hurting each other, and

knowing, just as you know, that the future will be a repetition of

the present unless the present is changed.

I am hammering home a point and you must get this point because it

is the only thing that is going to give you the urgent wish to walk

toward the door no matter how frightening the storm is, and it will

make you want to go somewhere else.

There’s no such thing as you knowing too much about your own

confined life with the rain coming down on you, no such thing as

knowing too much."

   from a talk given 8/3/1986

 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 5, talk 112, track 8