Spiritual Exercise – Do Not Be Disturbed

 

By Vernon Howard

 

 

Someday people who don’t want truth are going to run out of their candles,
and do you know, every candle holder knows – listen to this, it’s
incredibly deep but listen. Every candle holder knows that little
flickering light will one day go out!

 

That is, they know that their sick life, their unspiritual life, will one
day no longer be their friend. It will go away. However, we have to study
this for years to get it, but here it is in a few words. They hold the
candle. That is, they go fluttering around to their parties, bragging about
how much money they’re making. That’s their little candle, false candle
with their name on it. ‘Me, me, my candle. See, I can light up the whole
world, I’m so bright.’

 

All right, in back of them holding up this little personal egotistical
candle, in their depths, every human being who doesn’t want the truth
you’re hearing here, every single one of them is terrified unconsciously.
They can’t see it. They don’t want to see it. They could see it if they
wanted to, but they don’t want to see it. They’re shaking, they’re
trembling, and that in turn makes them evil, hostile. Makes them maniacs.
They don’t care who they destroy as long as they get a false feeling of
life.

 

Now listen, this is so much! In back of their defying the whole world, ‘I
have a right to rob all the banks I want for what people have done to me,’
in back of all that, they have the fear that one day their desperations and
their crimes will come to an end, because there won’t be a physical body
there to commit the crimes anymore. They know that.

 

Now here it is. We have to go back to something a little lighter. But
their very torment over coming to an end, ‘I know I’m getting older. I’m
fifty, seems like a day ago I was twenty. I’m fifty now and I’m not as spry
as I used to be,’ all this is unconscious. They use that devil-inspired
desperation to increase their love of un-life because it’s pure flaming
burning emotion.

 

Oh, do they love flaming emotions! They get a little bit in their candle
flame, but they want the whole forest fire to explode. They want the whole
world to burn up, all in a last ditch, futile attempt to think of
themselves as a God unto himself and herself. ‘I am me.’

 

No, you’re not ‘me’, and if you don’t wake up, if you don’t wake up,
you’ll never ever have anything but utter stark terror all your days and
nights.

 

So, what do we do here at New Life? We do this: understanding the
incredible problem that people have with themselves and understanding
perfectly why the world is crazy, you’ll understand everything you see on
the news. Understanding that, what is our reaction to that?

 

Well, I’ll tell you what our reaction is. Our reaction is to walk over to
the window of our inner home and look out. And seeing the murder in the
streets, seeing the destruction of homes, of people, the destruction of the
ocean, the destruction of the air, seeing the total destruction, look at it
without one flicker of emotion of any kind. See it with spiritual vision.

 

God looks down and sees the insanity that’s going on everywhere in every
city. God looks down and sees that. Now, what is the nature of God? The one
nature God has, of course – and we can use the usual virtues:
omnipotence, purity, all power. God is all that is good, all that is
marvelous, all that is happy. God is in total command of his own happiness.

 

You want to use the Spirit of Truth? You want to say Cosmic Consciousness?
That’s fine. I’m using the word God now. God looks down, as you should look
out the window, and he sees and knows what’s happening there. He gave every
man or woman in the world, all the billions, he gave everyone free will so
that in their free will they can come to him or not, as they choose.

 

You have been given the good medicine. The remedies are truly healthy,
good, refreshing, marvelous for you. They are godly. This is it.

 

Now that I’ve established that, I want you to know that the devil, the
Lucifer who rules and ruins this earth, never gives up.

 

Your exercise is: You’re to become conscious human beings looking out at
the sick world, looking at the sick temptations that come to you, and
you’re to remember that the Truth itself is never disturbed by anything.

 

Art by Mario Nevado

 

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