How Love Creates New Energy..from Vernon Howard

*note* great wisdom from a Master..
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A Banquet of Concise Wisdom
from Vernon Howard The most trivial act becomes dynamic when you attempt it with self-awareness. Whether you are washing dishes, or painting a table, or simply walking from one room to another, try to be aware of yourself doing just that. Don't just paint or walk, but be conscious of yourself painting or walking. This detaches you from the dream state in which most people live; it puts you in touch with your energetic center self. Any action performed with self-awareness becomes inspired.



The Natural Life is True

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. -- Vernon Howard

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like. It does not force us to think about it; it does not demand our attention and energy; it does not lean on us for gifts; it asks nothing of us. It simply gives what it is, and lets it go at that. And that is why we enjoy its magnificence.

The usual phrase is, "Be yourself." We are not following this counsel if we are strained and unsure. These are the sour fruits of the carelessly adopted synthetic self.

How to Be One With Life

When a stream approaches a series of rocks, it has no preconceived plans for passing them. It does not see the rocks as opponents or as threats to its own existence. The very fluid nature of water tells it how to rightly meet everything in its path. Let this natural wisdom also be in you. Meet everything with a free and flexible mind which is not tied to past experiences. You will then meet all events without alarm, with quiet progress.

Be True to Yourself

Never suppress yourself in an effort to influence, hold, or win someone. When we are unreal, so are our rewards. -- Vernon Howard

Behave the way you really are, even if it ends a relationship! Never suppress yourself in an effort to influence, hold, or win someone. When we are unreal, so are our rewards. To say this in another way, never behave the way you think the other person wants you to behave, but in the manner you must. Nothing you really need to do or have ever requires a yielding to person or custom.

The Secret to True Happiness

Do not deny yourself the normally nice pleasantries of the world in the belief that they are anti-spiritual. People who do this merely repress themselves, which results in secret bitterness and neurosis. Participate freely in your business and social activities, but do not form attachments to them in an effort to find security.

Also, never try to be more spiritually advanced than you are. That is a painful trap. When you do this, change occurs. However, YOU don't change anything, it just changes.

Buddha found this secret to true happiness. In the early years of his search he practiced severe self-denial, including fasting. On one occasion he so weakened himself that his friends could hardly pull him out of a raging river. Seeing the folly of exterior exercise, he turned in the right direction - inner insight. The Power of Your Supermind

Fascinating Facts About the Richer Life

One of the most persistent of errors is the belief that the spiritual life is separate from our daily life in the home or office. The truly spiritual mind sees no difference in the two. Differences in geography seem to make them different in psychology, but the wise mind sees them as one world. A businessman is doing spiritual work when he refuses to waste his energy in feeling disappointed. At the same time that Ralph Waldo Emerson was writing his victorious philosophies, he was also raising the best commercial apples in his home town of Concord, Massachusetts.

Don't Be Afraid to Play Through Life

Don't be afraid to play through life. Retire from heavy thoughts. Take everything with lighthearted wisdom. We are heavy because we think we must make an impression, gain something, be somebody. In spite of what society tells you, you need not be anybody at all in the eyes of men. The only genuine need you have is to be a real human being. Try to see this, try to feel it with all your heart. Then you will know what it means to make the world your plaything.

How Love Creates New Energy

We make ourselves ready by refusing to take pleasure in negative emotions... -- Vernon Howard

Remember that all energy is a single, unified force. The energy which lifts your left hand is the same energy which makes a carrot grow. The power which whirls worlds through space is the same power by which you observe the mood you are in today. This vast energy is ready to renew whoever makes himself ready for it. We make ourselves ready by refusing to take pleasure in negative emotions, by wanting to know more about life than what we see on the surface.

Love is the full, free and uninterrupted flow of life-energy through your psychic system. It is a river of energy with no dams or whirlpools or broken banks or dividing islands. Love is oneness, wholeness, mental health. This free flow starts by first becoming aware of self-division, and then by dissolving it through spiritual insight.

What it's like to live in overflowing energy.

1. Spiritual Light will begin to take you over. These
higher feelings will increase and grow in intensity. Yes, right
in the middle of your day, down at the office or at home with
the children, higher feelings will start to inspire you.

2. You know that whatever comes up around the next
corner, it is no problem, because through Reality's wisdom
and energy, you can handle anything.

3. Gradually, you will begin to cool down, spiritually
speaking, until you reach the perfect spiritual temperature
of 72 degrees. At a certain point, you will enter Reality.

4. Truth and happiness are present and nothing is needed
on your part to keep it in place. So you relax, you smile, you
laugh and you enjoy your day to the fullest. For now you
are a receiver of something coming from a Higher World.

5. Picture yourself in a spaceship, moving away from
this world to the cosmic world. You look toward the front of
the ship. There is a big window and through it you see
incredible sights, great stars, and you look in awe at what
is happening to you and where you're now going. What you
see is Reality as it lights itself up! This is the intensity of
the spiritual journey that begins to unfold after a certain
point.

6. Here is the good news! As one eagle appears, a
thousand vultures disappear. And, what a welcome the eagles
extend to you! What a feeling comes over you when you
arrive in the higher world.

7. You will feel so good that you never want to leave
your own company. You're always pleasant, always! Your
inner pleasantness reflects itself outwardly, at all times,
wherever you go, whatever you meet.

8. Your life will be one spiritual revelation after
another. Just as a scientist gets rightly excited when he is
about to make a discovery, so will you be rightly excited
as you move from one spiritual insight to the next.

9. As you work with these principles you will experience
a falling away. Wrong reactions to other people will
fall away. All your secret fears and angers will fall away.
You will understand that inwardly, loss is gain.

10. Increasingly spiritual feelings reach you– something
new, something clean, something higher. And you find that
the best two words to describe this feeling are RELEASE
and RELIEF.

11. This new feeling begins to spiritualize words for
you, so that you really begin to live their meaning. Take the
word "love" for example. In previous years the word was
all you had. But this new and increasingly powerful feeling
begins to reveal to you the state behind the word.

12. The day will come when you crack through the
ceiling and the Light from the Spiritual World floods in. As
this happens, it will feel so good that you will want to triple
your efforts to clear away the ceiling so that more Light can
break through.