October 2010

GREAT SOURCE OF LEARNING
     Spiritual suspicion is a necessary factor in order for you to unmask and dismiss the unnecessary. Will you please, therefore, as an exercise over the next week bring into action as often as you can the idea of spiritual suspicion? That is at the café, in a conversation, in writing a letter to someone, being on the phone, anywhere at all. Get suspicious that something wrong is living your life through you. Something awful actually tells you what to say and you say it. It instructs you into the emotional hurtful reaction and you obey the instruction.
     Wherever there is anxiety, tension, guilt, any sour emotion where that churns and burns inside of you, you have carelessly accepted the useless as useful. See who is taking over your life and increasingly forming the hard shell around you because it is a fact and a necessary fact for you to grasp, that when the shell gets too thick, all the hearing from a higher source will be cut off and you will no longer want to hear it. You'll want to hear yourself and your self-glorification. People in this stage are in tremendous danger because they can’t recognize danger.
     Now, just for a moment, set aside the big dangers you've been in and think for a moment of smaller ones because the bigger ones are so emotional you can’t face them, but little dangers, little mistakes can be a great source of learning for you.

STOP BELIEVING IN YOUR TROUBLES
     The next time you're troubled, here’s what to do. Just realize that you have better things to do with that problem than to believe in it. The challenge comes up such as a disappointment at your work, someone doesn’t behave the way you expected him to and you have a difficulty inside of you which you believe and accept. You accept it because it’s your bad habit to do so. You don’t want to realize that you can break the habit any time your heart begins to take its right place in your life. That is the Spirit of Truth. Now say the same thing again in another way. I want you starting right now to no longer believe in the power and the permanency of grief, of troubles.