Vernon Howard - Surrender Yourself To God

Introduction

The speaker introduces the concept of leading a life of increasing stupefaction and encourages listeners to take action to improve their lives.

Leading a Life of Increasing Stupefaction

• The speaker suggests that people can lead a life of increasing stupefaction if they don't take action to improve their lives.

• He encourages listeners to impress others with the opening sentence of their talk in order to keep them engaged.

• The speaker acknowledges that some people may not want to lead a life of increased stupefaction and offers an alternative.

Taking Action

• The speaker suggests that listeners can do something about their perilous predicament.

• He notes that many people count on something they don't know, which leads to disappointment when things don't work out.

• The speaker encourages listeners to look for someone who is smarter than they are, but warns against thinking that anyone is truly smarter than you are.

Seeking Help

The speaker discusses the common desire for help and guidance, and challenges the notion that there is someone out there who is smarter than you are.

Looking for Help

• The speaker notes that many people look outside themselves for assistance in making their lives better.

• He challenges the idea that there is someone out there who is smarter than you are, arguing that everyone is dumb in some way.

• The speaker suggests that people often think others are smarter because they want to believe it due to feeling lost or overwhelmed in their own lives.

Facing Reality

The speaker emphasizes the importance of facing reality and accepting your own limitations.

No Shell Command in Your Life

• The speaker argues that there's no shell command in your life - no easy way out when faced with unexpected situations or difficulties.

• He notes that many people object to talks like this because they don't want to face the truth about their lives.

• The speaker suggests that facing reality is the only way to move forward and make positive changes.

Nice Information

• The speaker argues that knowing your life is nothing but a pile of junk is actually nice information, as it allows you to face reality and stop living an imaginary life.

• He notes that many people don't care whether they live in an imaginary dream castle or dungeon, as long as they have a place to come home to at the end of the day.

Childhood Habits

The speaker discusses how childhood habits can hold us back from facing reality and making positive changes.

Growing Up

• The speaker notes that childhood habits can be difficult to break, but are necessary for personal growth.

• He suggests that many people resist being criticized or instructed by others, even when it's for their own good.

• The speaker encourages listeners to let go of childish habits and embrace reality in order to make positive changes in their lives.

Living with Self-Sickness

The speaker discusses how people live in a delusory world of self, which has no real existence and no real need. He encourages listeners to meet every event with the right thought and learn from it instead of dwelling in dream castles or dungeons.

Dreaming All the Way

• People often dream all the way about getting promoted or fear getting fired.

• This helps them feel safe as they have something to think about on their way home.

• However, this is called living with self-sickness and being wrapped up in a delusory world of self that has no real existence.

Learning Your ABCs

• The speaker wishes listeners would learn their ABCs so thoroughly that they could go on to the rest of the alphabet.

• He encourages listeners to meet every event with the right thought and find a lesson in it instead of dwelling in dream castles or dungeons.

Getting Out of Your Wrong Places

• The speaker teaches listeners how to want to get out of their wrong places by knowing that badness is bad.

• Humans are sick, and humanity is insane. Everyone thinks it's a good place to be, but it's not.

• There's only one alternative for your life: lose your life, walk away from it, and walk away from everyone you know who wants to stay in the sick miserable dark time.

Choosing Between Humanity and Heaven

• There's only one alternative for your life: live your life, lose your life, walk away from it, and walk away from everyone you know who wants to stay in the sick miserable dark time.

• You can't have humanity and heaven. Make up your mind which one you want, and you will have whichever one you choose.

Breaking Away from Yourself

In this section, the speaker talks about how we are enclosed within ourselves and how spiritual sunlight cannot get through to us. He explains that breaking away from ourselves is to approach God whose existence and reality will become clear to us as the light breaks through the foliage of our past.

Loyalty to God and Inner Kingdom

• Being loyal to God means being disloyal to what you are now.

• To be loyal to God means being loyal to finding the inner kingdom.

• People who demand their rights are ruining themselves and the world.

Approaching God

• Breaking away from yourself is approaching God.

• The love of God is also the feeling of the light of God.

• It is important to know what hatred is in order to understand what love is.

Releasing Hatred

• You must release yourself from an impulsive compulsive need to express hatred as a means of saying "I live in a castle and you don't."

• If you see your own hatred, you'll see others clearly too.

Understanding Satan's Rule

In this section, the speaker talks about understanding Satan's rule in human beings. He explains that it is important for dedicated students to see what really rules this world which is hatred in human beings.

Hatred in Human Beings

• What really rules this world is hatred in human beings.

• When people start talking about hatred, hypocrisy, and lying, Satan gets nervous and hateful.

• The exhilaration of hatred is just real exciting to hate.

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Crossing the Bridge

In this section, the speaker describes a metaphorical bridge that represents escaping from criminal land and entering into a spiritual conscious life. The bridge is surrounded by steep cliffs, and there is a switch on one side of the canyon that can be used to collapse the bridge.

Escaping Criminal Land

• The speaker describes a plateau surrounded by steep cliffs, representing criminal land.

• The speaker talks about heading for a bridge to escape from criminal land.

• The speaker discusses viewing the escape route and wondering if God is trustworthy.

• The speaker explains that you will only know if God is reliable once you have proven to yourself that you are unreliable.

• The speaker talks about crossing the bridge and being nervous about it collapsing underneath them.

Cutting Off Evil Permanently

• Once you get to the other side of the bridge, you worry about evil following you over and persecuting you anew.

• The speaker explains that nothing in this world is more malignant than evil and how it clings to you.

• You remember something learned 10 years ago: when you get to the far side, there's something that can be done to prevent evil from following over and persecuting anew.

• There's a little switch on your side of the canyon at the point where the bridge connects with your mainland. If switched off, it collapses from your side into symbolism of cutting off all forms of riders' criminal law permanently.

No Longer Feeling Wrathful Revenge

• One switch cuts off all criminals, whether they're fought criminals or human criminals, cutting off all forms and riders of criminal law.

• The speaker explains that the goal is to no longer feel the wrathful revenge of having exposed the show of knowing the criminal land is criminal.

• Society will forgive you for any crime except one: pointing out that they are liars and hypocrites and agents of Satan.

Surrendering to Spiritual Healing

In this section, the speaker emphasizes that in order to obtain spiritual healing, one must submit themselves to it. They must surrender their secret sins and ask God to show them how to go through the necessary spiritual experiences.

Surrendering Secret Sins

• To obtain spiritual healing, one must submit themselves to it by surrendering their secret sins.

• These secret sins are known by the individual and can cause division and nervousness.

• The speaker encourages individuals to bring these sins into awareness and surrender them in order to make contact with what is pure and true.

Asking for Guidance

• Individuals must ask God for guidance on how to go through the necessary spiritual experiences.

• The speaker emphasizes that everyone's experience will be unique and there is no imitation of anyone else's experience.

• Common sense should be used when deciding who to speak with about these experiences.

Letting Go of Impulsiveness

• Impulsiveness causes mistakes even in common things such as work life.

• In the higher spiritual life, thinking has no place. It should be replaced by spiritual seeing.

• Living from a pure intelligence that guides an individual on what actions to take will replace impulsiveness.

Fighting the System Overtly is Futile

In this section, the speaker warns against fighting the system overtly. He encourages individuals not to be foolish or naive about how wicked the world can be. Instead, he suggests using common sense when deciding who to speak with about personal experiences.

Fighting System Overtly is Futile

• Fighting the system overtly is futile and ridiculous because it's impossible for an individual alone to change the system.

• Sanity and common sense should be used when deciding who to speak with about personal experiences.

• The speaker encourages individuals not to be naive about how wicked the world can be.

Using Common Sense

• Common sense should be used when deciding who to speak with about personal experiences.

• Not everyone needs to know about an individual's spiritual experiences, especially those who may not understand or react negatively.

• The speaker suggests that some people may need to "shut up" in order for an individual to protect themselves and their experiences.

Living from a Pure Intelligence

In this section, the speaker discusses living from a pure intelligence that guides an individual on what actions to take. He emphasizes that fear of revenge and retaliation by an exposed world will be non-existent in individuals who live from this light.

Living from Pure Intelligence

• Living from a pure intelligence replaces impulsiveness and mechanical blindfolded behavior.

• Fear of revenge and retaliation by an exposed world will be non-existent in individuals who live from this light.

• God is not afraid of the devil, so individuals living from this light do not need to fear either.

Letting Go of Past Glory

• Individuals often hold onto past moments of glory, such as winning a football game or scoring a point.

• These moments have no connection to an individual's present life and should be let go of.

• The speaker encourages individuals to live in the present moment and let go of past glories.

Living Without Fear

In this section, the speaker encourages the audience to live without fear and to confront their worries. He explains that secrets can lead to anxiety and that understanding oneself is key to overcoming fear.

Understanding Yourself Inwardly

• The speaker urges the audience to be more nervous and worried about where their studies are taking them so they can confront their worries.

• Secrets can lead to anxiety, and it's important to understand oneself inwardly in order to overcome fear.

• The idea of a secret often comes out in movies and novels, but it's important not to hold onto secrets as they can control one's life.

• There is nothing that exists that one needs to fear or tremble before.

Confronting Past Trauma

• The speaker shares an anecdote about encountering a stray dog who was afraid of him due to past experiences. Similarly, people may react with fear because of past trauma.

• All abandonment is abandonment, and past experiences can control one's life if not confronted.

• It's important not to hang onto past traumas or fears as they become a priceless possession.

Dropping Tremblings

• If one were able to drop all tremblings and inclinations towards crying, what would happen? The answer is often feared but dropping these fears is key in living without fear.

Surrendering to Honesty

In this section, the speaker talks about the importance of being honest with oneself and surrendering to honesty. He gives an example of a boat sailing in the Pacific Ocean that got caught in an underground current and lost control, likening it to unconscious impulses and unseen desires that can take control if not understood.

The Importance of Surrendering

• The speaker emphasizes that surrender comes when one sees their inward suffering person and acknowledges it.

• Surrendering means being honest from now on and no more lies.

• Being honest requires small steps such as not smiling automatically just to keep up appearances.

• Refusing to study the underground current of one's own life is refusing to understand oneself.

Example of Underground Current

• The story of a boat sailing in the Pacific Ocean getting caught in an underground current is used as an example of how unconscious impulses can take control if not understood.

• Understanding the underground current made it no longer a problem for sailors.

Conclusion

In this section, the speaker concludes by asking why anyone would refuse to study the underground current of their own life and lose control. He encourages listeners to be honest with themselves and understand their unconscious impulses.

Final Thoughts

• Understanding one's unconscious impulses is key to avoiding losing control.

• Be honest with yourself and acknowledge your inward suffering person.

Surrendering What You Possess

In this section, the speaker talks about the need to surrender what we possess and acknowledge our identification with it. He explains that refusing to do so is a grandparent of many unseen difficulties.

The Adverse Current

• Refusing to surrender what we possess creates an adverse current that takes us in the wrong direction.

• We must admit when we are going in the wrong direction and acknowledge the real difficulty before we can solve it.

• Stubbornness, vanity, and conceit are layers within every human being that remain unseen until acknowledged.

Losing Everything Valuable

• The talk is about allowing everything valuable to be shattered and destroyed because what we call valuable is often our pet neurosis.

• We fiercely cling to what we call valuable, but losing it is necessary for progress.

• Clinging to something means suffering from it on the inside while smiling on the outside.

Stop Lying

• The speaker emphasizes the need for us to stop lying if we want to be good people who do good things for others.

• Trading our neurotic needs with others is not good; instead, we should listen to what he's saying about stopping lying.

Working Against Yourself

In this section, the speaker talks about how people work against themselves by going against truth. He asks listeners individually what they're living for and explains why they struggle with answering that question.

Going Against Truth

• People work against themselves by doing what they want instead of what truth is trying to tell them.

• The idea of being kindly is utterly foreign to people who work against themselves because they're living against themselves.

• Losing everything that seems necessary is necessary for progress.

What Are You Living For?

• The speaker asks listeners individually what they're living for and explains that people struggle with answering that question because they know a thousand things they're living for, but they're all wrong.

• People are not living for the things they think are valuable; instead, they're living against themselves by thinking their little collection of self is good and permanent.

Surrendering Your Inner Hostility

In this section, the speaker talks about surrendering inner hostility and allowing the Spirit of God to come in and save you.

Surrendering Secret Beliefs

• Surrender your secret beliefs that you live by and swear by.

• Surrender your secret hostility, which is an underground current that changes your boat of life.

• Stop imposing your sickness on others.

The Spirit of Hell vs. The Spirit of Heaven

• Badness suppresses evil concealed sickness shall never inherit the kingdom of heaven.

• The spirit of hell shall never inherit the spirit of heaven.

Set Up High Standards for Yourself

• You are not allowed to make sarcastic remarks or snarling glances at someone if you want to enter the kingdom of heaven.

• Consciously set up a standard because it increases your awareness of the difference between who you are now and what you could be.

Hypocrites Have No Future

• A hypocrite who admits they were a hypocrite has a future.

Acknowledging Hypocrisy

In this section, the speaker talks about acknowledging one's own hypocrisy and how it can help in personal growth.

Admitting Hypocrisy

• The speaker admits to being a hypocrite and encourages others to do the same.

• Acknowledging one's hypocrisy can help in personal growth.

• Facing the truth about oneself is necessary for progress.

Stop Destroying Yourself

• The speaker urges listeners to stop destroying themselves.

• Those who refuse to change will be asked to leave.

• Surrendering secret egotism is necessary for progress.

Choose Your Path

• The speaker offers two paths: destruction or salvation.

• Choosing salvation requires trusting oneself and accepting help from others.

• Fear of oneself and monumental egotism are obstacles that must be overcome.

Surrender Lies to Truth

• The speaker will not tolerate lies from anyone in the class.

• Surrendering lies to truth is necessary for personal growth.

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