HOW TO REVERSE YOUR LIFE - The Mystic Path To Cosmic Power by Vernon Linwood Howard

HOW TO REVERSE YOUR LIFE

HOW TO REVERSE YOUR LIFE

 People miss the point of daily existence entirely. They assume that life is complicated,
when it is really themselves who needlessly make it so. They are like a starving man who
won’t eat dinner until he first knows the cook’s name, whether the bread was baked in a
brick or steel oven, and how many times the soup was stirred.
 Don’t ask, Does God really exist? Ask, How come I have so many stupid
headaches? Don’t wonder, Does the future hold security or dread for me? Wonder,
Does it make any sense to be miserable this day? Don’t inquire, Why can’t I find the
satisfaction I need? Inquire, Why don’t I just live without bothering with so many
questions?
 Living from the True Self is the great answer.
 Man is like a tree wanting to push itself to the sky. As it grows upward, the various
branches take over to insist that they can reach the top quicker and easier than the trunk.
But all they do is drain energy and retard growth. The man who grows surely toward the
sky is the one who refuses to go along with such false branches as sensation-seeking and
egotistical desires.
 The True Self carries us upward. Here is where genuine self-knowledge enters the
picture.
 Lack of self-knowledge leads to self-defeat. A man decides to better his life in some
way. Fine. But since he does not know what his true interests are, he does the wrong or
impulsive thing. He ends up even worse than before, because he has now added another
burdensome false branch. In turn, that creates an anxiety which impels him to once more
shoot off in a wrong direction. He is caught in the frightening vicious circle which grows
smaller around him every year.
 Genuine self-knowledge reverses the whole process. He sees what is genuinely good
for him. He lives more and more from his True Self in which there is self-victory. The
man is skyward bound.
 There is a simple but sure test as to whether or not we are living from truth: To the
degree that we are, we are free from conscious and unconscious suffering caused by
living from illusion. Millions of people do not use this test to advantage, even though
Christ could not have made it plainer. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set
you free.
 It is just as simple as that. If I know the truth, I am free of my pains. If I realize that no
one can really hurt me, no one hurts me. If I actually see that in spite of a terrified
imagination, all is well with my basic self, my imagination loses power to terrify me.
 To see that we suffer because of blurred vision toward life is no reason for despair. It is
cause for a joyful mental leap. Now knowing what is false, we have made room for what
is true.
 We can have the comfort of knowing the truth, when we are willing to go first through
its discomfort. Endured self-exposure is the cure. If we are willing to see that we are not
living from our true nature, but from an invented self, our very awareness abolishes the
painful invented self. We then live in comfort from our true nature.
 Would you like a grand summary of what you must do?
 Be true to your own nature.