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[integration journey]

6 minutes ago, Beans said:

Nice trees and art!

Thank you 

[integration journey]

By Vernon Howard:

LET THE CRISIS SAVE YOU
     Point the finger at yourself and you’ll be pointing it at the person who always does it. We are striving for a nature that is pure. No longer want to be touchy. Rightness needs no defense. See the law! You and you alone are the originator of everything that hurts you. Everything! If you’re concerned you don’t have a lot of money, you can cancel it out. If you’re easily offended, you lead a frozen existence. You are sparing yourself the crisis that could save you. Welcome all the pains the world can give you.

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Vernon Howard:

WHEN YOU MAKE A MISTAKE
     The next time you make a mistake, you are not to glorify it. Don’t give it your attention. Satan puts these words in your mouth: “How dumb can I get!” You can’t feel you; there’s no one there to feel. You’ve only felt the ridiculous imposter. Don’t go into self-hate when you make a mistake, error.
     “I said something ridiculous.” Don’t keep your self-glorification of your mistake going. “I made an embarrassing remark to fifty people in the room.” Don’t fall for the trick. Have the attitude, “Who are you trying to kid?” You weren’t good or bad; you were possessed and didn’t know it. You should have been attentive, intelligent. You wanted to be clever, but you were stupid instead. Goodness is there when you know you had nothing to do with its creation. You no longer fall for evil. You will then walk in the presence of God. That is the final solution.

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Vernon Howard:

YOU ARE A RECEIVER
     Think of yourself as a receiver. Egotism has to be shattered. YOU be the one who got away. There is no answer out there, nor in your own mind. Sit alone and do nothing but think about righteousness. Something has to shatter. This new life is a gift from God. Sit back and let God and his righteousness come to you.

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Vernon Howard:

END THE CAVE OF PAIN
     What bothered you inside you today? Are you willing to do something different and see through the hoax? If so then you have to take spiritual action, which means walking away from what you’ve protected so foolishly — the cave of pain. Any time during your day you are going to break that emotional stabbing that you felt inside. You’re going to interrupt it and say in a spiritual voice, “I don’t want to associate with you anymore, and with the help of Truth itself, I am not going to.”