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Vernon Howard Aphorism’s
     • The only way to truly not care what others think of you is to truly know that you are right.
     • May I remind you that you are not the only person in the world to have problems.
     • Aim to understand the dragon, not defeat him, but to understand the dragon is his defeat.
     • Silence in the face of an accusation leaves the problem where it belongs — with the accuser.
     • Real strength does not reside in ideas, but in a comprehension that is above all ideas.
     • A mature mind sees long distance cause and effect. An immature mind sees only instant ego-gratification
       regardless of the consequences.
     • Anything I wish to believe is false.
     • False spiritual work keeps you comfortable. Real spiritual work makes you uneasy.

How to End Suffering — Unawareness

     The commentary series below is focused on a particular negative emotion, painful feeling, negative trait or  state of human beings that causes us tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps you will recognize that you yourself have had personal experience with this condition. You’ll find the explanation of how it causes suffering and how it produces detrimental effects in your daily life. You will also be shown how Truth can help you to lessen these effects and how you can eventually eliminate them from your life altogether. A new negative characteristic of human nature will be gone into each month. It will be great fun to explore these things in order to help us see through them and to be rid of them.
UNAWARENESS by Karen West
     Waking up from spiritual sleep is what makes life worth living. It is a life long process that is continually fascinating and enjoyable. The richness felt when realizing I don’t know something about life that I thought I did, and seeing that clearly as a fact, is freeing. In a recent Secrets of Life Quote, Vernon Howard said, “It is a heroic business to see a reality as a reality.” And I’m finding out personally that self-honesty provides release from the pressure and discomfort of self-deception.
     Recently, I saw (again) how I was unaware of the real origin of psychosis and all trouble in people. It is a sinister force that is definitely demonic. All issues are caused by the allowance of the entrance of these saboteurs into our psychic system. To not be aware is to allow them in. Almost everyone is spiritually asleep to this fact. It is quite amazing when you see it clearly though. It “gives the show away”, as Vernon has put it. 
     I had someone in life remind me that some people just want to live 10 feet down under and if we try to help them get out, we will be pulled into the chaos. We can’t help them. Vernon Howard emphatically tells us that we should not help other people who have no interest in helping themselves. To receive real help, someone must at least have a small wish to want to know more about living in the light. But most prefer to be ruled by dark forces that fill them with anger and hostility, which they take as a sign of an exciting life. The awareness of this reality is life saving.
     We as individuals can make it out. So, it is our job to see where the saboteurs are operating in us. If we consistently ask for help from Truth, more and more will be revealed to us. To see where we are suffering about something in life is a key. And to be mindful that there is is always more to see and to understand is another key. But if we identify personally in a wrong way with the knowledge we are gaining, we will “think” we “know” and unawareness will remain.
     The freshness of awareness can only enter when invited in a new moment. Vernon Howard reminds us to be aware of where our body is, how our voice sounds when we speak and in other ways to catch how we behave and position ourselves in the world. To always be watching what comes into our minds and hearts. If we are unaware, suffering is there because identification with the false nature has taken us over.
     Every new moment can be filled with an appreciation of the life given to us by the Higher Power. Everything is there for us to see and to use to guide us out of a life of pain. There is a higher purpose for our lives and awareness will reveal that too. Truth shows the way and what we must do is to yield and to follow.