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Little Advanced Secret by Vernon Howard
     Nobody knows how bad it is. You have to see how bad it is before you can see how good it is. Everyone is insane. Until you know that, you can’t find sanity. You have never had anything but a mad mind, a mad spirit, tricky motives and lies.
     Exercise: Know the next time you think something bad. Know the next person you hurt. If you don’t do that, you won’t be shocked and stunned at how horrible you really are, and then you won’t be able to rise above that to something good.
     If you refuse to go through the shock, the stunning shock of knowing that everybody is insane, you won’t be able to go higher than that to sanity. That is a rule!
     Don’t take the world’s future as your future. Can’t you see where they are going? Never any more will you accept the troubles of any other human being as your troubles. “No, sir, madam, etc. I am not going to have anything at all to do with you. You have tricked me for the last time.”

How to End Suffering — Worry

     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.
WORRY by Jeff Fisher
     Vernon said worry is darkness masquerading as light. There is not a single benefit to worrying about anything. All it does is wrongly use the imagination to fret about some future event that we have no control over. But we get a false thrill out of worry because it gives us something to do with ourselves. It focuses the attention on the worrier, giving us the illusion that a separate self exists.
     Worry also keeps us from experiencing the present moment which is all there truly is. It makes no sense to worry, as it is a false substitute for living right now. Not once has worry ever solved a problem. It can only cause pain and confusion. And there is no end to what you can worry over. It could be losing a job, your health, your money, or being bothered by what other people think of you. The list could go on and on.
     One of the reasons we worry is because we choose to suffer instead of viewing the problem with spiritual eyes. If people could see the destructive ‘thrill’ of worrying they would give it up in a flash. As Vernon said, “No human being ever consciously hurts himself.”
     A couple weeks ago I had an issue at work. There were some refund claims I filed for a client that were not approved, and the client wanted to have a phone call regarding the denials. I immediately started to have anxiety, worrying that it was something I did. It was affecting me negatively and I was losing sleep which was also affecting my other work responsibilities. I was being taken over by these negative thoughts such as, “You had better worry about it, because if you don’t then something really bad will happen.” Once I spoke with the client, I found out it was an issue with the information they had given me. It was nothing I had done wrong. All this time I was causing myself unnecessary pain and fearing a situation over which I had no control and which wasn’t my fault in the first place.
     Worry is also dangerous, because when we are worried about anything we are in a state of insanity. We are asleep, sadly thinking we are doing something constructive. We must wake up to the reality that the whole world is one gigantic lunatic asylum that just loves to keep us in chaos, darkness and confusion. Just watch the evening news and you will see how the media is obsessed with writing stories about issues to keep you in a continual state of fear, anxiety, worry, and even hatred of a particular group or person. We must see with a painful shock that everyone on this earth is in a state of unconscious sleep. If you were to honestly look at the world, you will not see anyone who is truly decent, and if you do, it would be exceedingly rare.
     One of the ways to see through worry is to fully understand it from a higher viewpoint. Any time we are anxious about the future or afraid of situations or circumstances, we must know with both the mind and spirit that we are being hoaxed. See that the primary cause of worry is the belief that we exist as a separate self which must fight to save itself. If we see through this illusion, then all worries and confusions will begin to fall away. When we refuse to take worry as necessary, a whole new world will exist for us. One that will be free of tension, dread, fear and loneliness where we can be truly free. As Vernon stated, “Like an eagle, we were meant to soar.”