November Monthly Lessons

From Vernon Howard Classes

     Here is a wonderful opportunity to take these powerful truths and put them to use in your daily life. The goal is self-enrichment and the result is new life-command. Remember, the knowledge in these lessons already exists in your higher nature. You need only ascend to the location within yourself. Other people have understood them and so can you.

Just Don’t Run Away

     See, do you understand what it means to be lost? To be lost means that you lie when you say that you know what life is all about. To be lost means to have a parade through your mind of dull ideas, of lashing feelings, of wandering through your day while having something planned intellectually, like working, or taking care of your children; or while having something planned to do as far as the intellect is concerned, not noticing the heavy ache.
     How many of you here would just chuck it all if you could? What you want to do is get out of your present confining state. You’re ripped apart inwardly, aren’t you? You can’t go forward and you can’t go backward. Human beings have the dreadfully persistent habit of doing a certain thing that if they were to cure it, they would cure all of their life.
     And that habit (and you look inside of yourself as I’m talking and see if you have it), that habit is running away every time you get scared. The reason that you continue to get scared is because your old habit system of being scared comes into play, instead of your intelligence and your knowledge, your higher knowledge, that you’re perfectly safe where you are and always were. You have abandoned the safety of being where you are in Reality, in spirit way up here.
     Don’t you let anyone, any authority, any human being, tell you what your life is all about, or what you should be doing with it because they’re lying to you. They don’t know themselves, and they have a compulsion to tell you how to live. And if you listen to them, you’re going to lose your balance.
     Everybody is running away from what they fear. And the alternative to running away is to not run away. Did you ever think of that? Just don’t run away. Instead of running away scared, you stay right where you are and be scared. You tremble right where you are, right out in the middle of the storm.
     All the knowledge, all the insight, all the right daring, everything you need to make the journey, is available to you. It’s available to you because only the pure truth is told in this class. The question, do you want that truth or not?
     Now it’s your decision, isn’t it? If you make the decision in favor of truth, in favor of learning, in favor of investigation, truth is faithful to give you right results for a change. Aren’t you tired of wrong results?
     Of all these hopes you have of things being different and they’re not different, this is how to make them different. Ponder what you’ve read. Give yourself a good start. Truth will do the rest for you.