April 2013

BE SILENT
     All talking about yourself as either flattering or critical is a mistake which will continue to keep you a victim of your own false personality because you see — look how simple it can be stated — falseness never knows what to do; your mixed-up self, your confused nature, never knows how to behave in any circumstance. Which means that you can’t behave spiritually and intelligently when you need to, when going into that business affair, when meeting a new person.
     Only the Spirit telling the mind and emotions how to behave is worthwhile. So when the Spirit wants to talk to you, allow it to talk to you but it can’t do that if you’re talking to yourself. Now you understand a little better the value of the words and what are behind them — the words “going silent,” “going quiet within” — not allowing the chatterbox, whether it’s talking to other people or to yourself, to be in control of your life and of your reactions. But to, better write this down please, dare to remain quiet. Don’t say anything. Don’t think anything. Don’t feel anything, and especially, don’t try to protect yourself because what you’re protecting is something you should not protect. Silence at the moment of the crisis will allow that quietness to be there, and Truth, Heaven, can only speak to you, instruct you, when there is silence.

WHAT TO DO ABOUT PAIN
     If you and your pain are the same thing, what can you do about it? You can do this. You can consciously refuse to do anything at all to relieve it. Don't phone your girlfriend to talk about it or be bitter because that man left you for another woman. What you can also do is understand that the slightest move towards removing the pain will keep it going. If you consciously refuse to do anything about the pain, that will increase the intensity. This intense watching is what increases the separation so that there is born in you something new that is not a part of emotional heartache. This is the beginning of God, Truth, operating on the darkness inside of you. The light shining on the pain does the one thing that puts it away, which is to show you its actual nature. What it consists of is unseen movements passing through you that you in your nonevolvement say “I” to.