The DAILY GURU...Daily Spiritual Guidance Saturday 2nd Of April 2005

"Your hike toward a higher life passes thru three main areas:

1. Exploration of yourself.
2. Exploration of human society.
3. Exploration of Higher Truth.

1. Self-exploration must come first. Out of this self-knowledge grows favor- able change, both within yourself and in exterior events. Feeling as if they live dangerously close to the edge of a cliff, people want to rebel against fearful conditions, but they don't know who or what to rebel against. This unpleasant feeling fades as they become students of the secret life. They move away from scary inner places to high and safe ground. With self-wisdom this can also be your new residence.

2. Your exploration of human society reveals many surprises. You may have heard that people are not what they seem-now you shockingly see its full horror for yourself. Gone are all the dangerous delusions that people are basically nice and will express love if just given a chance. If given a chance they will grab your gifts and attack you for not giving more. But you need not be the victim of a society in which man hunts man. One of your finest discoveries is that a cruel man can't be in two places at one time. Wherever he is, you can be elsewhere.

3. Higher Truth awaits the explorer who has happily lost confidence in human solutions. Your real purpose in life is to discover how spiritual medicine cures personal ills. This is also your delight. The cure begins as you see how society has given you certain roles to play which at first look like fun but which finally turn into nightmares. Haunted humans are frustrated hourly by trying to live up to society's demands to be financially or socially successful. Don't listen to defeated society. Your pleasant duty is to unlearn all such nonsensical roles and live your own free life in your own sunny way.

Like an interesting life? These discoveries offer the only truly interesting life there is. Take all you want."

....VERNON HOWARD