Don’t Interfere
Transcribed by Regina Netherton from a class lecture
     Everyone does (interfere). Why? Because you take feeling as life. You are responsible for whatever you feel. Where there’s a pain, there’s something that you won’t give up. It is the habitual fondness for feeling emotional fire, plus a disinterest in trying to find out what it’s all about.
     You have one chance which is to be willing to take what comes to you a hundred times a day without you interfering with it … the financial disappointment, and you interfere with it. Stop interfering with your own life. There’s no one usual there, regardless of what happens in your social or financial world. There’s no one there to feel defeated. You thought there was. When you see your faults, just see them as a fact and as nothing else. You want fire, heat, in order to say “that feeling is me, I exist.” And you also say, “I don’t need God” because you are now worshipping yourself. If you give it up, instead of that, you’ll have life.
     Here’s what you must do: Simply see that negative reaction, for example, jealousy, as an existing condition inside of you. You have to see it is there! But suppose you just calmly stand aside and look at the wave of envy, fear, or worry go through you and you just simply, quietly, as a detached observer, say to it, “Let’s see now, that is called having a feeling of jealousy.” Quietly identify the feeling and don’t go any farther than that. DON’T INTERFERE with what you see. You stay out of it.
     See? Your false treasure was one series of reactions and explosions after another; that was your life — quarreling, anger, worry over the headline. That was your unconscious way of going through your day. And because you had this laziness, it didn’t occur to you to question your life, so you just suffered from yourself. From now on put the question mark in your mind “Could there be something else?” Stop there. If you enjoy the feeling you keep it going.
     Now you begin to practice the exercise of observing what is happening to you and stopping right there! No commentary, no enjoying the feeling which will keep it going. Don’t ask “What will replace me?” Then you won’t change.
     Astonishing beautiful fact: No matter how muddled and confused you may be at this moment, God knows what to do for you. You don’t. Why do you try? Simply know, for example, that jealousy is there and don’t do anything about it at all, because if you do something you will increase its power to come back again.
     Never forget this: Whatever you do for yourself, you do against yourself; and what you allow God to do for you is perfect.