Here are the Unhappy Results of Believing Only What You Want to Believe

by Vernon Howard

1. You will be nervous and uncertain and afraid.

 2. You will try to cover up your nervousness by bluff and bluster and one lie after another.

 3. You will be in a state of self-deception, a state which angrily refuses self-honesty.

 4. You will be desperately eager to claim that other people, especially prominent authorities, support your false claims.

 5. You will be unable to see the strain and the unnaturalness of believing that untruth is truth.

 6. You will receive a neurotic thrill from the inward burning of your confusion.

 7. You will have no hesitation in attacking and hurting anyone who threatens to expose your deceit.

 8. You will be unaware that you are believing only what you want to believe, for your preferences for delusion has succeeded superbly.

 9. You will be the self-chosen victim of repeated mental movies in which you see yourself as heroically right and everyone else as wrong.

10. You will refuse to see that the sense of doom you feel is caused by your own refusal of the light.

11. You will be inwardly tortured, while pretending outwardly to other people that you are free and happy.

12. You will continue to fall and get hurt unless you stop believing only what you want to believe, and have the courage and the decency to  receive what is true and good.

You are the creator not the creation.

Why you don’t need to forgive anyone

 We have to come face-to-face with the fact that most of the knowledge we have accumulated over the years is false. I’m not talking about the practical things, but all of the other ‘stuff’ from which we live. We have ideas about what our priorities should be in life, how we should handle relationships, how we should be treated, etc. We have ideas about what it means to be ‘spiritual’. In fact, we are being told what to believe at every turn. One lie that has recently been circulated and is no doubt being absorbed into the belief system of many people is that in the near future, there is going to be a sudden and dramatic increase of collective or global consciousness on earth; that the entire planet is somehow going to ‘wake up’. It’s just a more modern version, in today’s jargon, of the rapture. The reality is that, as time goes on, there is more and more of a collective and global mass hypnosis taking hold. Vernon Howard once said that there is no such thing as instant salvation, that the idea itself is a cruel hoax. There can only be individual awakening, the ‘individual victory’ mentioned above. http://www.anewlife.org/html/points_archive_1.html

 Vernon Howard mentions the Four Golden Keys to New Freedom and Happiness. They are: 1) A sincere desire for inner change, 2) Contact with workable (genuine) principles, 3) Self-honesty, 4) Persistence. http://www.anewlife.org/html/points_archive_3.html