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“If you have no spiritual initiative of your own you will unknowingly try to steal initiative from those who have it, but you will go nowhere and you will feel your emptiness.”
“You can trust Truth because it is the only thing that is not in trouble with itself. Spirit is heavenly, mind is earthly. There is heaven on earth when the spirit guides the mind.”
“Your anxiety belongs to you. It does not and cannot belong to me. I need not: feel responsible for it; try to ease your pain from it; feel guilty over it; converse with you about it; give my attention to it; feel sympathetic toward you over it; be anxious toward it; react with confusion toward it; be burdened by it; get involved in any way with it. Your anxiety belongs to you. It does not and cannot belong to me.”
“You are saved when you invite spiritual perception, which will give you spiritual renewal, the discovery being that truth, God, resides above the way your mind operates in opposites. You rise above the opposites, and truth is there. You rise above them and your new nature is there. Your true nature is above your mind. Eventually you won’t think about spirituality. You will know it, you will have it, and you will live it.”
“I will explain to you why you’re not happy, why you’re not carefree. It’s because you’re trying to collect things. You’re a collector, and you think that every time you get one of those objects that you desire so fervently it adds something to you, to your security. Well, I would guess that if you take paper and pencil and write down all the things you’ve acquired — friends, romances, exciting occasions, physical objects — it would number in the thousands, wouldn’t it, tens of thousands of things you have possessed for a few seconds or maybe several years. Maybe you’ve had that house for 50 years, for example. How come you’re still worried?”
“It is right instruction to slow down and very beneficial to make small aims to do this. You will see how you forget to follow the simplest of instructions. This observation of failure is success. Make an aim to slow down your reaction for three seconds when someone speaks to you.”
“Know that distress and disappointment are states of stupidity and nothing else. Do not trust them. They have no intelligence whatever in them; they can only lead you astray. You are foolish in being lured after their frantic shrieks. They shout that they are right, but they are always wrong and wrong for you personally. Do not follow the deceitful lures of distress and disappointment.”
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