Some of you may leave now. There is no reason for you to read the rest of this, as you are still mentally idealizing some “people.” You may even consider yourself to be awake. You may leave, too.

There is only the Universal Self and no man can fully know it. It is everything and nothing. It is both within and without. It is totally protected from ego.

Many people have profited by their claims of being awake, but only those that know otherwise can help you. And they help you by telling the truth.

The internet teachers, and there are hundreds upon hundreds of them, all rely on the gullibility of people that are suffering. Suffering people will believe anything if it promises them relief.

I studied with Vernon Howard, who never claimed to be awake. He claimed to have seen through the game and I believe that he had.

I have studied the words of Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta and similar people that spoke the truth.

They were not coming from ego.

So why did I write this? It is a rainy Sunday afternoon and I have nothing better to do.

Some of us are compelled to share our essence in some strange way. This is just mine.

What I say may hit home to the few, but it actually doesn’t matter except to me. And I am quite sure that the more I talk, the less truth I will communicate. Silence is where it’s at.

Energetic silence can heal the multitudes. Too bad the multitudes don’t want it.

Vicki Woodyard