"It's a cheerful thought that you can learn at first without 

straining and without understanding what you are learning.

That means a lot to you if you can see it. It means that you 

come to a class or read a book or enter into a learning experi-

ence without any desperation at all, without any self-labels, 

such as calling yourself a slow-learner, but you enter into the 

learning experience with just one thing, with a relaxed mind 

that isn’t trying to prove that it can have instant insight.

The lessons, spiritual lessons included, have to come to you.

Now coming to you doesn’t mean coming to the you that you’ve 

always been because if they get the lessons, they’re going to 

twist them into their own favorite shapes.

I’m trying to tell you that now, right now as you’re listening 

to me, you can’t be there to do anything at all with these high 

powerful truths that you’re hearing and are going to hear more of.

What you can do is know that you are trying to interfere with the 

lessons and then just step out of your own way. When you do that 

you will have a new and true learning experience and it will be 

like a bulldozer that pushes the trash on the lot out of the way 

to leave the ground clear and clean, ready for the planting of 

the spiritual seeds where something fruitful can grow."

   from a talk given 3/7/1987 

Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 10, talk 234, track 3