"Taking full responsibility is an excellent means of growing, because you will get to see your mastership. You will get to see that whatever is happening to you, you created."

"Q. I cannot go within sufficiently deeply.


M.  It is wrong to say that.  Where are you now if not in the Self?  Where can you go? All that is necessary is the stern belief that you are the Self.  It is better to say that the other activities throw a veil over you."

"M. Once you say, 'I want to find Truth,' all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.


Q. Once I have made up my mind to find The Reality, what do I do next? 
M. It depends on your temperament. If you are earnest, whatever way you choose will take you to your goal.  It is the earnestness that is the decisive factor. 


Q. What is the source of earnestness?
M. It is the homing instinct, which makes the bird return to its nest and the fish to the mountain stream where it was born. The seed returns to earth, when the fruit is ripe. Ripeness is all.


Q. And what will ripen me? Do I need experience?
M. You already have all the experience you need, otherwise you would not have come here. You need not gather any more. Rather you must go beyond experience. Whatever effort you make, whatever method you follow, will merely generate more experience, but will not make you go beyond. Nor will reading books help you. They will enrich your mind, but the person you are will remain intact. If you expect any benefits from your search, material, mental, spiritual, you have missed the point. Truth gives no advantage. It gives you no higher status, no power over others; all you get is Truth and Freedom from the false.


Q. Surely truth gives you the power to help others.
M. This is mere imagination, however noble! In truth you do not help others, because there are no others. You divide people into noble and ignoble and you ask the noble to help the ignoble. You separate. You evaluate. You judge and condemn---in the name of Truth you destroy it. Your very desire to formulate Truth denies it, because it cannot be contained in words. Truth can be expressed only by the denial of false---in action.  For this you must see the false as false and reject it. Renunciation of the false is liberating and energizing.  It lays open the road to perfection. 


Q. When do I know I have discovered Truth?
M. When the idea 'this is true, that is true' does not arise. Truth does not assert itself, it is in the seeing of the false as false and rejecting it. It is useless to search for Truth when the mind is blind to the false.  It must be purged of the false completely before Truth can dawn on it.

"What is asked of human beings except to come to their senses

and live from their natural intelligence. Now that’s not asking

too much, is it?

What is asked of you is to abandon your present ways of thinking

and deciding, abandon them to see what will take their place.

You know, the world who is not here today, likes short term gains

and long term losses. Short term gains and long term losses. That

little fact is to be considered by you until you see it in greater

revelation than you see it now."

 from a talk given 6/28/1992

Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 35, talk 857, track 3

"Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it."

"True responsibility is to allow yourself to see higher inner

worlds that you now resist seeing. The limit of your view of the

universe is not the limit of the universe. Self-newness is reve-

lation, not creation. So make inner progress. Real progress is

when you learn something you thought you already knew."

                Your Power of Natural Knowing, p. 60

"As long as there are causes, there must also be results. As long as people are bent on dividing and separating, as long as they are selfish and aggressive, such things will happen. If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed. It must come from within. Those that abhor war must get war out of their system. Without peaceful people, how can you have peace in the world? As long as people are as they are, the world must be as it is. I am doing my part in trying to help people to know themselves as the only cause of their own misery."

"If you wrongly think you possess a self which is apart from the whole

of nature, and which must therefore compete and fight with other

people and events, you have destructive self-interest. And it is an

exhausting fight which you cannot win, for there is no such self

which exists apart from the whole. It is like fighting an imaginary

ghost."

                    Secrets for Higher Success, p. 177

"Anything but the Self is wholly imagination. The ego is only an apparent actor in the imaginary story script you wrote.  Thou art That, here and now. Do not delude yourself. Drop your illusory limitation."