Be Pleasant To Yourself

"What you really want is to be pleasant to yourself. What your heart wants is to have something inside of you that likes you.(Laughter) Now, oh, you don’t have that; I see you reacting. Now think from now on of pleasantness as a power, which it is.

What is pleasantness? It’s not, of course, the exterior smile; it’s not being friendly to someone outwardly. Pleasantness, authentic pleasantness is exterior manifestation of interior harmony. All is well with you, why are you afraid of anything on the outside? All you have to do is express outwardly the nice, good, feeling of harmony that you have inside of you.

Pleasantness is a solitary rose that knows it has no relationship to the surrounding weeds outside itself."
~ Vernon Howard [from a talk given 4/5/1992]

Positiveness, executiveness, and determination, you have by nature. Say continually:
"I know no fear. God is my Friend." ECH

The smaller the self, the bigger the sense of offense it takes whenever anyone steps up to challenge one of its precious self-images.

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  In the moment of awakening you will realize a sudden hush as you leave the hustle and bustle of the ‘world’ which suddenly drops behind you. It is as if a door shuts to that world of noisy confusion, where the stock market sounds its bell and the floor vies for the highest bidder, where competition is the order of the day, and the dog-eat-dog system steps on the back of its neighbor calling it a ladder of success. The door closes, the top to the coffin drops, on the ‘worlds’ of the systems of men: religious, economic, political, medical, etc. And there is a sudden rush of pure Silence!

GOD IN A BOX

BY: JANE WOODWARD – NOVEMBER 5, 2003

“A door is open to you, but you must be willing to walk through it. Heaven and earth as you have thought of it will pass away. Your eyes will be opened and you will begin seeing everything as it truly is. There are many names which stand out to you from the ages, names such as Moses, Abraham, Isaiah, Solomon, David, the Apostle Paul, John the Revelator, of course, among the many Biblical writers, but there are more. There is St. Francis of Assisi, Walt Whitman, John Bunyan, Jacob Boehme, Teresa of Avila, C.S. Lewis, Meister Eckhart, Albert Einstein, Brother Lawrence, Lao-Tze, Gautama, the Buddha, Plato, Shakespeare, Lord Tennyson, to name only a few. Some of the names we know, others - many others - we do not, but names are of little importance; composers, artists, writers and others who made a distinct mark as they passed through the consciousness of this world. These names represent a passionate desire which stretched forth into the infinite. They speak of enlightenment, beyond the common, ordinary, reasonable plane of thought.

What I am talking with you about is not religion, unless we use the word in its purest form. This is the realization of life without beginning or end. It is eternal. You did not begin with a birth and you will not end with a death. The life which is endless has brought you here, to this moment. You will continue to be, without conclusion, no matter the apparent evidence to the contrary. Do you want to know if this is so? How willing are you to remain in a world of confusion, where all appears imperfect, hopeless and painfully difficult? Would you not rather know the kingdom which is ‘at hand’? Yes, I believe you would or I would not be here telling you these things.

What is the open door I speak of? It is the door Jesus was speaking of when he said, ‘I am the door.’ You too are the doors! Is your door closed or open? You are the door, the point, fixed between time and eternity. You seem to be walking in one world, while in reality you are seated in the other, watching your little self struggle though a maze of thoughts. Yet there are not two places. There only appears to be. The world you think you are walking through is in your thinking only. It is a dream. Awake! Wake up, and smell the Truth. Take in the aroma of Life; that which Jesus referred to as “the kingdom.” It is percolating here all about us. You are in it even when you think you are in the world of circumstances! The dream world is in you! You only appear to be in it. But when it dawns on you that Reality is your true consciousness, the Consciousness of Life – beyond what ‘seems to be’, you will realize that you are not only in It, but you are ONE with It. It is here, ‘at hand’, awaiting our willingness to open the door!
THE VOYAGE OF A LIFETIME

BY: JANE WOODWARD