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Search Website Search VERNON HOWARD TALK 9/24/76 Painful-Pain Or Pleasurable-Pain – No Thought-Constructed Self - Love Eternity I was going to ask Leland to wait and let you let go of yourselves first. So why don't we do that now? Why don't you just let go of what you were doing out in the other room there, or what you were thinking about, or what had captivated you, or what scared you this week that is still coursing through you unbeknownst to you because you never notice such things. How many of you have been scared this week? Let's see the hands of the scared people. Will you agree with me that to be scared, to live in fear of people and of life in general is a pretty terrible way to live. Will you agree with that? Would you agree? Would you agree that a life lived in fear makes no sense at all. If you're afraid, then if you have a career in front of you that looks promising, or if y...

Search Website Search VERNON HOWARD TALK. 1/19/86. "You Know Where You Are - I Am Here - The Perceived Blur - Will This Never End?" Self-advice is very valuable providing the source of that advice is not the self. That means that there must be a transmitter like radio waves, television waves transmit a message from a far off source to the individual in his home. I'm talking to you about allowing your self to be the transmitter of the message and not to be the originator of it; where you can receive something from a very high place, take it down and tell yourself about it. And then the information will be accurate and valuable to you in your daily life. One such message, one such advice is the one to just—and were going to all do it together now. As I tell you what it is I want you to experience the words, the advice. One such advice which is very valuable you can always give to yourself is...

Search Website Search VERNON HOWARD TALK, Transcript. 10/15/86 How Do I Pass On My Hurt To Others? Therefore, he remains a stranger to himself. He is never able to look and see the same person there all the time. Rather, he looks and like ships passing in the night, he sees something different each time which bewilders him because he can’t decide which of these many people he really is. Is it this one? Is it the angry man? Is it the person who dreams of great things or is it the one who sees his dream collapse, never to rise again? So he has no fixed solid reference-point to himself. And his mistake is in thinking that he does have to have one. That’s your mistake. Now that’s a revelation to you and you get it clear. You think that you should be able to see yourself, see the same person—and always, of course, a noble type of person. Strong, commanding, able to help others. And you wonder why you can’t ...

Search Website Search THE ORIGINAL WORLD by Vernon Howard, transcript of a live classroom talk from 1983 Explanations bring relief. Relief is a highly sought but seldom found state in man. Relief from strain, relief from self-doubt are foreign to most human beings. The explanation that you're going to hear now should be heard by everyone on earth. And if it were to be heard and understood and practiced by everyone, the world would be a different place than it is now. It would be a place where you could just live happily every day without trying to find happiness, without seeking it, without straining trying to create it by your own effort and failing each time. The explanation you're going to hear now starts by telling you that there is an original creation, an original world, and an invisible world actually exists at this moment, which we are here discussing. It exists right no...