VERNON HOWARD LESSON From: Treasury of Positive Answers

Question: Can human quarrels come to an end?

Answer: Imagine some primitive men arguing and fighting over the best way to row their crude boats. Then one day they discover the principle of sailing with the power of the wind. All arguments cease. Men will cease quarreling over religion, social matters, and everything else once they discover the superior power of Cosmic Mind.

The rest of today's entries are from Tom Russell, editor of this eZine and host of http://www.SuperWisdom.com .

CHALLENGE:

   Suffering is addictive and familiar. Suffering prefers itself. Suffering needs you there with it, grinding away and trying to "be spiritual."

SELF-RELIANCE:

   The fertile ground for these seeds is found in the self- reliant who handle their responsibilities in daily life with skill and discipline. They don't tend to place much trust in organizations and they have a nose for phonies. They want to know, not quote.

INSPIRATION:

   The business you run or the department you supervise can be a powerful place to demonstrate spiritual principles. DEMONSTRATE, not preach or proselytize. Your home with your children is one of the most important teaching environments of all. When you refuse to engage in the gossip, at work or at the club or in the kitchen, it sends a signal that can have a surprisingly constructive impact. We pass along what we learn by LIVING the principles in daily life. Our actions are congruent with our unfolding Soul.

   This congruency can be a far greater inspirtion to someone than the best book ever written. It is so rare that someone lives the Truth; it's so easy to quote. One of the most quoted writers in history dared to say, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know!" (Ralph W. Emerson)

   LIVING the principles is what it's all about.

KNOWLEDGE:

   When the intellect tries to bring back new inner experiences, then feels frustration at being unable to do so, we're actually seeing its clever trick of discontent "masterfully" employed to maintain it's influence.

   How often is gratitude really a part of our attitude? It's one thing to be grateful for things on the everyday level, but there's a far higher dimension of gratitude. It is gratitude for:

     * The higher help that found us.
    * The book or lecture that really inspired us.
     * For flashes of insight.
    * For a taste of what's real.
     * For a difficult situation that came our way through which we learned much.

   Gratitude opens more inner doors. But it can't be the syrupy "feel good" kind. It's gratitude for growth and for whatever happened that facilitated it. It is the difficult that most rapidly awakens.