It Was My Fault
    Happiness can only be ours when there is obedience to spiritual laws.
    The law of self-responsibility is a law of life. You have to get suspicious that you are a very irresponsible human being. Then let that suspicion lead you to absolute final conviction that you never have been responsible; you’ve never been responsible for your soul’s salvation.
    You and every other human being were born into this world under a certain unbreakable law of personal responsibility. You alone are responsible for what you say and you will get the results of what you say and do.
    Here’s how to begin to get your own life back. Think of the following phrase as your password from now on: “It was my fault – it was my fault.”  Now, don’t you ever say anything but that – never say “It’s your fault” or “They told me what to do.” No more of that childishness, that cowardess, that abandonment of God’s principles of self-reliance, of self- correction.
    When you say “It’s my fault” and mean it, that gives you a clue to further thinking. If it’s my fault then there’s something wrong with me and that’s where I have to put my attention instead of screaming out, “Look what you did to me!”
    A man and woman live together for many, many years and they break up and each says it’s the other one’s fault. Each is lying.
    Can you take it that everything has been your fault in that marriage, in that friendship, in anything? Can you take it that it’s been nothing but your fault? From day one you didn’t say “It’s my fault,” you said, “It’s your fault” and you continued and got hurt by that bad relationship all because you disobeyed the law of personal responsibility which always means “I will see that it’s my fault and allow the correction to come in.” You’re going to have to do much better with that simple marvelous moralistic statement that self-responsibility is a law of life.
    The masses have decided to group together and go more insane day by day. Nobody wants to understand it but you will from now on. I instruct you, from now on, to love ordinary goodness, which is the same as loving God and it’s the same as loving individual personal responsibility which will grow into natural strength.
    Remember: Password – It was my fault; I will see that it was my fault and allow the correction to come in.

Self-Honesty
    Say, “I don’t know how to straighten myself out. I don’t know how to be happy. I’m just lost altogether; I don’t know how to uplift my nature.” See that another part of you doesn’t mean it at all. It is essential not to try to be sincere, but to see that you have no sincerity at all in saying that. Use this exercise over the years so you can see there is a lying part underneath because in the next five minutes you go out and do something to make yourself happy. Then you will see you have been lying to yourself all your life about wanting to change. One day you will say it with the center inside and you’ll realize that there is no way you know how to rescue yourself. Then God will enter and teach you. Give up. When your will is no longer your will, then God’s will becomes yours.