
What’s New
Welcome to our beautiful new website.
We are in good shape now as far as design and content for desktops and phones. Some things have been rearranged so browse with a renewed interest.
If you discover any problems or errors please don’t hesitate to send us an e-mail with a clear reference as to where the mistake is located.
We will be adding more content as time goes on. Watch for many new additions to the website.
The website builder we are using has a built-in search feature. This search functionality is accessible by adding /search after our URL and hit the return or enter button on your keyboard. Then type in whatever you are looking for into the search box that comes up.
This website last updated 8/30/25
September Monthly Lessons
Watch Yourself
How many talk to yourself?
You do it all the time. Let’s look at that a little bit. How many get dumb answers from yourself? You talk to yourself because you want to keep the phonograph record playing. You want to hear yourself over and over again.
I told you there is no security in familiarity.
Stop Talking to Yourself
If you've emptied the cup of yourself, only then can something else be put in it. You understand that principle, don’t you? The two can’t occupy the same space, the same cup, the same mind, the same life, but you are terribly afraid to do what reality wants you to do....
Please will you watch yourself the next time you get angry or doubtful or sarcastic toward truthful correction on any level at all, even the smallest thing. Someone tries to correct you in some little habit you have. Notice you've got to see the arising of mechanical resistance. You've got to see the enemy invader who talks for you, who fights for you, who argues for you, and then you've got to get spiritually suspicious that something is going on in you, the you never, ever recognized before, and then not only that but you don’t want to recognize. You don’t want to see that the enemy is within.
You don’t want to see that you get angry so fast, you've got the fast lightning-like thought, an emotional uprising and retort to someone who’s trying to teach you something higher above yourself. And you've got to recognize it and say to yourself, “Hey, wait a minute, all these years something foreign has been living my life for me and I never even suspected it. The enemy, to repeat, is within, and I didn’t see it....”
Oh, that’s the beginning of dawning, isn’t it?
On the Sidewalk
Two friends met on the sidewalk to hold this conversation:
“How do you feel?”
“Very happy.”
“Is everything all right?”
“Just fine.”
“Are you really contented?”
“Quite contented.”
“Then you had better notify your face.”
We can deceive ourselves, but not our actual condition.
From Inspire Yourself, Chapter 3
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some frequently asked questions that we have heard over the years. The responses should help to give you a better understanding of these life-healing teachings. Take them in with a receptive spirit and many mysteries will be dissolved in the light of higher understanding. FAQs
Ten new FAQs added on 8/25/25.
Upcoming New Life Banquets
Join us for a heartening Classic banquet in Strawberry, Arizona on Saturday, September 13 at 9 AM. There are additional classes on Wednesday, September 10 at 7 PM and Sunday, September 14 at 9 AM. The menu will consist of Pot Roast, potatoes, vegetables, fresh salads and luscious desserts. For more details
How to End Suffering on Identification
The commentary series below is focused on a particular negative emotion, painful feeling, negative trait or state of human beings that causes us tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps you will recognize that you yourself have had personal experience with this condition. You’ll find the explanation of how it causes suffering and how it produces detrimental effects in your daily life. You will also be shown how Truth can help you to lessen these effects and how you can eventually eliminate them from your life altogether. A new negative characteristic of human nature will be gone into each month. It will be great fun to explore these things in order to help us see through them and to be rid of them.
IDENTIFICATION by Paul Wolfe
In his book, Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, Vernon Howard says, “To identify means to believe that something gives you an identity of some kind. You can identify with anything — money, sex, public prominence, your own thoughts. A man exclaims, ‘See! I achieved my goal, therefore, I have an identity as a successful man.’ In a gigantic blunder, he mistakes a mere idea about himself as being himself. And that blunder causes dozens of other errors, including fear of failure.”
When I began to study this work, one of the first things I heard (on a talk from Vernon) was, “you are not that thought.” For most of my life, I believed that my thoughts were real, that they told me who and what I was. What a relief to find out that we’re not our thoughts, we’re not our emotions, we’re not anything we can think about. How much suffering there is in believing our crazy thoughts, for example, being convinced that someone else’s opinion could elevate (or harm) who a person really is.
If we take a look from a clear point of view, we can see the absurdity of it. Suppose a person gets a new car and identifies with it — he’s worried about it getting scratched, and it does — he goes into suffering over it, thinks that, somehow, he’s been harmed. Likely he has actually attracted what he feared. This is what people do with their lives – someone says that they don’t you like you and you get offended. If you would simply look at the situation with understanding, this is only the opinion of one person. Vernon has often stressed that we are not at the mercy of other people’s opinions or thoughts about us. And the likelihood that the person said that in the first place is because he was in a bad state to begin with — perhaps his car had been scratched — you get the idea.
Our minds are there for practical use — how to fix the dripping sink, how to prepare a good dinner, etc. The mind is not there so we can be abused and condemned by our own thoughts. If we don’t go into it being “my sink” or “my dinner,” we see it as something that just needs to be fixed or needs to be prepared and we are free of the pain. A man can identify with anything, or he can be free from identification, which is freedom from most of what causes our suffering.
One of our class exercises is called “drop it” — catch yourself identifying, suffering in any way, and just drop the thought, the state, the emotion. The effort needed to break the sleep pattern requires much honest inner work but what is more worthwhile than fulfilling our purpose here on earth to actually experience the higher life we were created to live?
FREE OFFERS
FREE BROCHURE
Our FREE updated catalog is available now. It contains all the latest updates and new editions and will be included in orders whenever possible. Postal regulations prohibit putting them in Media Mail packages. Just contact us if you want one.
FREE POSTER
For a free printed copy of 40 Inspiring Guides to a
New Life on nice textured design paper, just Contact Us.
It is 8½" x 11". (This is NOT the same size as the 18”x24” poster offered at $8)
… Free Mailing Offers good only in the United States …
Spiritual Exercise
Learn how to apply these life-healing principles. Here are specific exercises that
can be used in your daily life to help you defeat what now defeats and hurts you.
Latest one: Stop Creating Enemies
(Updated August 28, 2025)
Points to Ponder
Powerful insights written by New Life Foundation Director, Richard Wooldridge. Richard has been with New Life since 1975.
Points to Ponder
(Newest one August 28, 2025)