It has struck me very forcibly this morning that every idea about the path has to change. Ideas do not enlighten us; only self-reflection can accomplish any healing in our spirit.

Mankind is asleep; therefore mankind suffers. We are meant to rise above our ideas of good or bad humanhood and yet it is hard to sit silently and do nothing when the fires of hell rage around us.

I haven’t written a new essay in a week or so. The infected tooth will get a root canal next week, so I am saving my energy. That gives me lots of time to sit and reflect.

Everything points to truth if you are examining your thoughts and feelings. They always reflect the unrest within, the doubting thoughts, the fearful ones and the selfish ones.

That is the situation, as Vernon Howard used to say.

The problem lies within and so does the remedy.

No, it is not selfish to think only of ourselves. That is the true way back home. It is selfish to think of how others think of us, though.

Ego cannot accomplish awakening and we walk in darkness while we think this is true.

The world today is crumbling underneath us, while above the light of truth still shines.

The world today is based on lies and yet the truth is alive and well, but only to the individual.

Be still and know that the “I am” is God.

Vicki Woodyard