SECRETS OF LIFE2-22-24
"There is nothing more important for your spiritual growth for you to know
than that you are not your feelings. Oh, here's the problem - and now we run
into the big road block - you want those moods, those swings up and down,
the roller coaster ride feelings. You want them to be you because you have
no other sense of existence. And I said sense of existence, which is
nonsense, because they are not existence.
But your mind and your moods have entered into an evil conspiracy to try
to get you to believe in them. Your mind says you're going to be unhappy
today unless you do something to make you happy, so you can think of
anything and feel anything that will make you feel better. And so you go on
a long ride and waste all that gasoline and waste all your time, waste your
life, which you could have used in self-awakening. You waste yourself
because you believe the false instructions from the enemy headquarters.
Now here's the very heart of the problem. You're worried, anxious, because
you don't realize that you're not your emotions. If you realize it, you
will then allow the higher headquarters inside yourself, inspired by the
higher headquarters in Heaven, you will allow your higher headquarters to
allow you to be indifferent with the way you feel because it makes no
difference. You should be indifferent."
from a talk given 4/18/1987 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 11, talk 258, track 1
