Esteja Seguro em um Mundo Perigoso

Esteja Seguro em um Mundo Perigoso Vernon Howard Você já teve o coração partido em um romance? Lembra como foi? Você chorava e suspirava muito. Ficava em casa esperando o telefone tocar. Pensava que sua vida estava para sempre arruinada. Sentia-se em perigo pela solidão. Acreditava que nunca conseguiria superar.

Você conseguirá. Você superará toda dor de coração.

You see, you thought you wanted him or her to come back. That is not what you really wanted. What you really sought was relief from the emotional pain of thinking about your supposed loss. You don’t want him. You want freedom from the sweet and sour drama of self-thinking. If you had this freedom you would not care whether he returned or not. It is your pain that is painful, not the absence of the lost lover. Cure yourself of yourself and you will be delightfully pleased at how his or her absence goes unnoticed by you.

Você começou agora uma jornada fascinante na qual aprenderá como estar seguro em um mundo inseguro. Sua jornada o levará a um novo tipo de sucesso na vida.

Todos se sentem em perigo. Ele se sente ameaçado pela falta de dinheiro, por um futuro nebuloso, pela perda de alguém importante para ele, por eventos misteriosos, por centenas de ameaças ao redor.

What is the actual cause of all these inner dark clouds? Human beings. Nothing else. Danger is caused by the wrong operation of human minds. This includes minds that are immature, egotistical, weak, foolish, mechanical, unenlightened. So we reach the conclusion that people feel endangered by other people. A weak man feels threatened by a tyrannical man, a confused woman finds herself at the mercy of a deceitful woman.

But the next conclusion is bright and encouraging. Anyone who understands the human mind and spirit will free himself from fearing everyone!

Now we come to an extremely important idea to grasp. No one really fears the exterior world. You are not really afraid of domineering people or unexpected events or alarming news. Not at all. You fear your own weakness in handling the daily world. You feel at the mercy of everything, helpless like a butterfly caught in a storm. Always remember this. It can start to change everything. If you were inwardly stronger than the exterior crisis would you tremble before it? Never. Does a tiger fear a rabbit? Inner power is the tiger that roams confidently around the human jungle fearing nothing.

É saudável, não vergonhoso, tomar consciência de sua própria fraqueza. Então simplesmente observe ao longo do seu dia como você às vezes se sente em perigo de seus próprios pensamentos impulsivos e emoções explosivas. É um sinal de força crescente suspeitar que você pode ser seu próprio pior inimigo. E mais uma vez a mensagem é alegre — o insight sobre sua própria natureza dispersa o medo de si.

POR QUE UMA VÍTIMA É UMA VÍTIMA Qualquer um que veja por que foi uma vítima em um mundo perigoso deixará de ser. A vitimização é causada por algo errado e invisível dentro da pessoa que atrai algo errado fora dela. Conheça esses ímãs enganosos e você não atrairá mais perigo. Uma vítima é uma vítima porque:

1. Has a weak spirit and manner 2. Accepts society’s foolish ways 3. Stubbornly clings to false beliefs 4. Is generally gullible toward people 5. Wishes to have idols and heroes 6. Rejects higher truths 7. Provides a thrill to attackers 8. Leans on other people 9. Refuses to see human deceit 10. Finge compreender o comportamento humano Dê outra olhada no ponto sete. Uma história tornará mais claro.

Citizens of a mountain village had to travel thru a dark and dangerous pass to take their vegetables to market. On every journey they were attacked by a band of ruthless outlaws known as the Leapers. Leaping out from boulders and bushes they robbed and ran. The villagers consulted a wise man who told them, “Your very fear of the outlaws provides the thrill they seek when attacking you. I will give you pure water from a mountain stream which will remove your fear and keep you safe.” When the villagers drank the water the outlaws vanished.

Neste mundo, os Saltadores são pessoas hostis e espíritos atacantes. A água pura é a Verdade que cura.

Look again at point ten in the list. A high barrier to knowing what life is really all about is the pretense that one already knows. Outwardly a person may deny this pretense but his daily ways shout out that he thinks he understands life. He is scared and therefore has the false understanding that life is all about being fearful. He is jealous and therefore declares that jealousy is a necessary, way of life. He is inwardly defeated and therefore takes defeat to be what life is all about.

Defeat is not what life is all about. This means that anyone who lives in secret defeat is pretending that he understands life when in reality he does not.

The solution? Don’t passively accept your present way of life as the only way. This will defeat defeat.

A SEGURANÇA EM UMA NOVA NATUREZA É essencial compreender duas naturezas:

1. Natureza Antiga 2. Nova Natureza 1. The moment a human being is born into this world he begins to develop an Old Nature. It consists of frightening experiences and interesting plans and doubtful involvements. He collects right and wrong methods for acting and reacting. He laughs, cries, freezes, explodes. He takes this total collection of memorized experiences as his identity. He thinks he is this memorized bundle. This is the greatest mistake of his life.

Felizmente, a correção é possível. Ele não é apenas essas ideias sobre si mesmo, mas porque ele acredita, acha que é a única vida possível para ele. Isso explica toda mentira e engano e todo mal e vício cometido pelo homem. Erroneamente se tomando como suas memórias coletivas do passado, ele cometerá qualquer ato cruel ou estúpido para proteger essa mera imagem de si mesmo. E quando a Verdade chegar e tentar lhe dizer isso, ele realmente acredita que a Verdade está tentando tirar sua existência. O fato é que a Verdade quer tirar sua falsa vida para lhe dar uma vida verdadeira e eterna.

2. No one is born with a New Nature but he does have the capacity to develop it. The New Nature cannot be described with words any more than you can describe the taste of a peach. But insight into it can start with the realization that it is totally unlike the Old Nature. This means that the Old Nature cannot possibly understand the New Nature any more than a shark can understand a star.

Este é um mundo perigoso porque milhões de seres humanos vivem de Naturezas Antigas enquanto acreditam ter Novas Naturezas. Tagarelam sobre amor e compreensão enquanto se enganam pensando que possuem essas virtudes. Praticam mecanicamente a religião com medo, tédio e ressentimento e depois afirmam ser pessoas decentes dignas de um futuro paraíso.

A New Nature can be developed by anyone with the honesty to face himself as he actually is, no matter how painful or embarrassing it may be. Beyond these jolting experiences he will find true love and decency and goodness.

There is mere religious movement and there is a true spiritual life. Only the spiritual life is safe in a dangerous world.

Resumo: a Natureza Antiga sempre se sente em perigo. A Nova Natureza nunca se sente em perigo.

COMO ACABAR COM A GUERRA INTERIOR Why is a soldier on a battlefield always nervous and sometimes wounded? Because there is a second soldier on the opposite side of the battlefield with whom he exchanges hostile shots. This is exactly what happens on the inner battlefield. There are two soldiers constantly attacking each other. One soldier is your self-pleasing claim about yourself. The enemy of this claim is your actual condition within yourself. So the battle rages between claim and condition. This means that a person describes himself in a self-flattering way while living inwardly in the exact opposite state. Study these examples:

Quanto maior a lacuna entre a afirmação e a condição, mais ampla a divisão na personalidade. Qualquer um preso nessa contradição está sempre frustrado em sua tentativa de fazer o impossível. É como um homem que imagina um cavalo e depois tenta cavalgá-lo.

Men and women describe their back-and-forth battle as being an awkward way to walk thru life. But they are unable to change it into a smooth and pleasant walk. You can. First you must read the facts, which you are now doing. Then you must see them as a personal experience. It is the seeing stage that causes some discomfort at first, like hiking thru a dense jungle in order to reach a new view from a mountaintop. Truth guarantees that there is no real danger along the way. You will come out just fine.

O que tudo isso tem a ver com estar seguro em um mundo perigoso? Tudo! Acabe com a guerra interior e nunca mais terá um inimigo no mundo.

Se você não entender esses guias na primeira volta, não se preocupe. Use esse método simples e funcional. Ao encontrar uma ideia desconcertante, simplesmente suspenda seus pensamentos em relação a ela. Não caia em desânimo ou julgamento. Deixe-a flutuar casualmente pela sua mente do jeito que desejar. Seu significado finalmente virá até você, como um avião saindo do céu nebuloso para pousar em terreno sólido.

DEIXE SUA MENTE PROTEGÊ-LO Um perigo é perigo apenas porque não é visto. Os seres humanos podem prejudicar apenas a pessoa que não consegue ver motivos humanos ocultos. Você está agora estudando um tipo especial de conhecimento que torna características humanas invisíveis e perigosas visíveis e inofensivas. Você se tornará como um navio que não pode ser ameaçado por icebergs porque possui equipamento de segurança moderno. Os fatos a seguir são dispositivos de segurança.

Each person has his problem-level, high or low. The more difficulties the higher the level. You know people who are constantly falling into new troubles all the time. Every time you meet them they have just been ambushed by another enemy and are eager to tell you all about it. Learn to recognize these problem-lovers, then avoid them. They are unconscious human beings who can only try to drag you down to their painful level. You owe them nothing, not your time or attention or money or anything else. You have better things to do with your life than to let them use you as a trash barrel.

You have no business trying to help any adult who doesn’t care about his own life. In fact it is immoral and dangerous to help someone who refuses to help himself. By temporarily relieving his self-caused pain you give him an excuse to evade life-growth thru self-responsibility. What is called help from society is nothing but a group of egotists exploiting another group of people who scorn and reject spiritual laws governing inner-development. Both groups breed misery.

Even the simple question “What does he want from me?” is enough to start your mind working protectively. When people put pressure on you to change your ways, look for what they want out of it. By your attitude and manner tell the world, “I cannot and I will not change for your sake. You want me to be different only to serve your own personal pleasure and profit, which you neither see nor admit. I will change only for my own true interests, for my own inner-development toward a higher life.” Most human beings live with and suffer from a memorized self. Memory can remind you how to bake a cake or write a letter but it can’t make you whole. Living from memory alone is like a man who carries a certain book around with him all the time. The book reminds him of how he behaved in the past, so when consulting it he merely does what he has always done. But since the book is based in ego-promotion and vanity-protection he can never do anything outside of himself. This is both his prison and his agony. He acts toward life as if he exists as a separate identity apart from the whole of life, which he is not. So all his daily moves are wrong and anxious.

There is the story of some people who lived in a stormy land. Day and night they were assaulted by fierce winds and rains and thunder and lightning. Their lives were hard and dreary. One day a message came to them from a mysterious source. The message simply asked, “Why don’t you move to another land?” Everyone wondered, “Why didn’t we think of that?” So they moved to a peaceful land.

Talvez nunca tenha ocorrido a você se mudar para outra terra interior. Tão simples assim. Pense nisso. O caminho para se mover é conhecido, o caminho para se mover é possível, o caminho para se mover é maravilhoso.

AQUI ESTÁ O CAMINHO PARA SAIR A person dominated by his Old Nature never knows what he wants. He changes directions as quickly and as helplessly as a berry in a tumbling brook. This is because he tries to satisfy the whims of the Old Nature which can never be satisfied. Only the New Nature knows the meaning of satisfaction for it is satisfied with itself.

Everyone could write a book entitled My Sad Experiences in Seeking Safety Where It Could Not Be Found. What would your book include? People seek safety in an incredible variety of useless places. They include marriage, career, pleasure-seeking, fame, travel, money-making, mechanical religion, retiring inside oneself, exciting daydreams, seeking public power.

Only a higher answer can solve the individual’s problems, but he desperately wants another answer. He demands a self-pleasing answer that will seem to make his wrongness rightness. But since there is no second answer he has doomed himself to increasing despair and frustration in seeking it. The absence of another answer is first faced fearfully, but later with interest and a higher kind of pleasure. He was once sure that angry accusation of others would protect him but his new awareness of his own punishment by his own anger makes him doubt his usual certainty. He once believed he had to live up to the expectations of others but now sees he can only be and need only be whatever he is at any particular moment.

There was once a town named Argueville. All day long everyone angrily argued with everyone else. No one liked living in Argueville. In the center of town was a booth occupied by a man called the Director. He was not a resident of the town but came to the booth daily. His purpose was to give directions to people who wanted to leave Argueville but did not know how. However, when he supplied directions to a man or a woman they argued that he was wrong and accused him of deceiving them.

The Director’s only reply to the arguers was, “You may use my directions or you may use your own.” Arguing that they knew what was right, the arguers left, but wearily returned a few hours later, unable to find the way out of town.

But every once in awhile a man or woman who had previously argued with the Director came back to him with different attitudes. Each told him, “I have run out of arguments. Please give me the right directions, which I will follow.” These people with the right attitudes soon found their way out of awful Argueville.

We can argue or we can learn. We can’t do both. Arguing is an insecure person’s substitute for knowing. Truth, the Great Director, is patient. When we run out of arguments we will find the way out.

VENCER ESSAS AMEAÇAS Passar o dia sentindo-se ameaçado é uma experiência infeliz familiar para a maioria das pessoas. Ajuda tirar essas dores vagas para fora, expressá-las claramente em palavras. Então examine esta lista de assombros prejudiciais. As pessoas temem:

1. Getting drained by people and conditions 2. An inability to find help that helps 3. Ending up cheated and left out 4. Vicious thoughts from other people 5. Being pushed around by strange forces 6. Guilty reminders of past follies 7. The collapse of an exciting plan 8. Getting exposed as a phony 9. Falling under self-damaging influences 10. Amanhãs que serão vazios e sem sentido O ponto quatro da lista é um terror invisível para homens e mulheres, mas é nada passando como algo. Não há necessidade de se sentir ameaçado por pensamentos malignos. Com auto-despertar você pode aprender a ler mentes humanas de uma maneira muito especial e protetora. A mera presença de um ser humano despertado envia uma mensagem aos atacantes mentais que os faz querer correr e se esconder. A retidão frustra o erro simplesmente por ser certa.

Dê outra olhada no ponto oito da lista. Esse sentimento de perigo merece atenção especial, pois o insight nele oferece uma recompensa rica. Um homem tremendo de medo de que outras pessoas vejam através dele, possam expor sua falsa condição interior. Ninguém pode estar à vontade enquanto leva essa vida dupla. A única maneira de abolir a revelação medonha da falsidade é abolir a falsidade.

People suffer from false ways simply because they misunderstand their true nature. No evil or wrongness is really you, but only something that presently masquerades as you. Falseness is not a permanent part of a person’s nature any more than winter leaves are a permanent part of a tree. You can be new and fresh by realizing that your real nature lives forever in springtime.

There was a student of agriculture who was fascinated by an idea he had met. It was the possibility of doubling both the size and quality of popular fruits and vegetables. He placed himself under the instructions of an expert in this subject, who worked the student hard in both classroom and orchard. Though discouraged at times by the strictness of his teacher, he persisted with his studies and experiments. Years later he succeeded in creating larger and tastier varieties of fruits and vegetables. One day he wrote a letter of thanks to his former teacher, which concluded, “Thanks for not letting me get away with my own weaknesses.” That must be our attitude.

As antigas maneiras de estar seguro não funcionaram. Um novo método é necessário. Você o tem em suas mãos agora.

COMO COMANDAR SEU DIA The only reason anyone lives the kind of life he now lives is because he thinks he can’t do any better. But he can think in a higher way. These facts will supply new life everywhere just as the rising sun brightens the entire earth. For example, a man can truly understand a woman. He can see that the single greatest thing a woman wants is for him to be strong, decisive, in charge of himself and therefore able to help her feel secure.

You cannot think or talk yourself into a state of inner security. Self-convincing never convinces. Recall how often you have tried and failed to do this. Maybe you were worried over losing someone or something important to you. You nervously tried to think of all the good reasons why you would not suffer the loss, but fear persisted. There is a higher way that works every time. It is to be instead of to do. It is like a desert-dweller who once worried about losing his supply of water that trickled down from the mountain. His insecurity vanished when he moved to the mountain lake where he had abundant and pure water from the very source. So be where you should be. If you live in the right place inwardly you are in a safe place permanently.

Command of your day comes by correcting self-defeating actions. So take paper and pencil. At the top of the left side print The Harmful Error. At the top of the right side print The Curing Correction. During your day notice when you do or say or feel something wrong and self-harming and list it in the left column. Next, use the guides in this publication to write down the correction and list it in the right column. Your inner-development chart could look something like this:

UMA AÇÃO BOA E ÚTIL A small island was located several miles off the coast of the mainland. Because of rough seas and stormy weather its citizens were often cut off from contact with the mainland. This made it difficult for them to receive supplies to run their farms and gardens. One day the citizens glanced up at the sky in delight to see dozens of toy balloons drifting downward. Everyone rushed around with happy shouts to collect the pretty balloons colored red and blue and yellow. The islanders reasoned that the balloons had been sent by friends on the mainland as a cheery greeting.

Nos próximos dias, centenas de balões pousaram na ilha, proporcionando prazer a todos. Mas uma manhã, um dos homens notou algo dentro dos balões. Sementes! O exame logo revelou que todos os balões bonitos haviam sido preenchidos com as sementes exatas de que precisavam para suas fazendas e jardins. Eles haviam ficado tão entusiasmados com os balões bonitos que no início negligenciaram seu propósito prático.

Living in inner isolation, men and women chase the drifting rewards offered by society. They rarely discover anything practical. Is it practical to chase approval from other people? Of course not. The practical course is to dissolve the anxiety that always accompanies approval-seeking. Is it practical to try to win vanity-victories over friends and neighbors? Certainly not. But it is both practical and sensible to free ourselves from the fears and insecurities that compulsively drive us toward vanity-victories.

Um indivíduo chato insiste em encontrar a solução para a vida entre as muitas escolhas possíveis já em sua mente. Uma pessoa brilhante corretamente suspeita que a resposta para a vida reside em espaço bem acima de sua mente usual.

Sentir-se ameaçado é simplesmente um hábito endurecido. Este hábito opera no pior quando negligentemente teme a verdade que poderia resgatar a pessoa assustada. O pássaro caído teme o naturalista gentil que poderia ajudá-lo a voar novamente! Faça seu melhor para entender isso por enquanto, pois felizmente você sempre pode aprender a fazer melhor do que seu melhor.

O auto-desfrute natural vem convidando o verdadeiramente bom para sua vida.

Want to do something good for yourself right now? Just pause for a moment in your reading. Say, “There is something wrong with my life, but I don’t know what it is and I don’t know how to correct it.” You need not say or think anything else. That statement contains higher power because it is honest and simple. After awhile this statement will turn into a good and permanent attitude. And that attitude is the magnet that attracts every answer you need.

SEU INSIGHT É SUA PROTEÇÃO Many people publicly claim that they have uplifted themselves, which is simply more deceit from the Old Nature. Imagination has replaced reality. There is a hazard in anyone imagining he has changed his inner nature when he has merely moved from one part of the inner jungle to another part. This is a favorite trick of people who are religious but not spiritual. When no one is looking these people are just as irritable and unpleasant and terrified as before their so-called conversion. Do you know religious hypocrites like this?

It is not negative to see how negative people really are. It is a high form of intelligent self-protection to see thru the human masquerade. Is it negative to see the ferocity of a wolf? No, but it is foolishly negative to assume that a vicious wolf is a friendly collie. Think of all the times you may have been loved and left. They happened because you merely dreamed about the other person’s niceness instead of seeing his actual unnice condition. When meeting anyone, stop your romantic dreams and you won’t fall for his unromantic schemes.

The more you plunge into the mysteries of human behavior the more surprised you will be at your discoveries. For example, you will see how often people don’t answer the questions you ask them. Instead of a direct and honest reply they lie or evade or change the subject. To gain their own desires they don’t want you to know the truth. Here are four steps to take that are both revealing and self-protecting. 1. Ask your question. 2. Remember your question. 3. Notice that your question was not really answered. 4. Ask your question again.

Veja como o insight no comportamento humano o protege do comportamento humano?

When seeing a desired item for sale in a store your first question is, “How much?” Wise question. Do the same when shopping in the market of human affairs. When meeting a man or woman or an offer of any kind your first question should be, “How much?” Try to see the price tag, which may be hidden from view. Remember how much you overpaid in past human relationships which looked good until you had to start paying the price. So repeatedly ask, “How much?” The accurate answer will finally come from within your own enlightened mind. And this increases your speed in walking away from worthless offers.

É bem possível viver neste mundo perigoso e não estar em perigo dele. Mas lembre-se, qualquer um que se tenha libertado do perigo no mundo primeiro viu que ele próprio estava contribuindo para o perigo. Tal pessoa se tornou segura de si mesma.

Picture in your mind a sparkling stream flowing thru a pretty meadow of green grass and yellow flowers. The stream flows quietly, steadily, easily. It flows so beautifully because nothing interferes with its natural course thru the countryside. Would you like your life to flow with equal ease? It is yours with the removal of whatever interferes with your natural course thru life, such as a belief in blockage. Lose your belief in a limited life and you will also lose the limitation. You were not placed in this world to tremble under the tyranny of interferences, including the interferences in your own mind. You were placed here to learn how to flow freely. This kind of learning makes every day a pleasant experience.

Leve este folheto com você. Revise seus fatos regularmente. Eles são como moedas raras que constantemente aumentam seu valor. Resulta sua maior riqueza interior.

REVISÃO DOS FATOS INSPIRADORES 1. Realize that self-cure is the total cure. Problems vanish forever, including troubles with sex, romance, marriage.

2. Everything needed to know about self-safety can be known by you. This wisdom comes from a rich and generous source far above the human mind.

3. Insight into human nature, your own and others, is essential in building a safe and secure inner home. No person or event will be able to shake it.

4. Your Old Nature caused every failure and frustration you ever had. Your New Nature will be the cause of every higher happiness and success that you win.

5. Inner conflict causes outer difficulties, so seek the inner cure. A sick man does not get well by putting on new clothes.

6. Danger is a danger only because it is unseen, not noticed by the mind. So sight is your safety and consciousness is your confidence.

7. Be cheered by realizing that you are now seeking answers where they can be found. Finding mental gems is a treasure of pleasure.

8. Command of your day will arrive just as swiftly as you allow the arrival of spiritual correction. Truth is an experienced guide who knows how to safely direct you thru the human jungle.

9. Millions of human beings have never really learned how to do good things for themselves. These studies will remove you from this unhappy condition.

10. Ask yourself if you are tired of paying a high price for worthless human involvements. If so, you need only decide to start replacing the useless with the valuable.

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