August 2013

ONLY SUPER EFFORT COUNTS
     For example, you can get gold if you will work hard when you are in “I’s” that don’t want to work. These are loafer “I’s” but they can be changed into worker “I’s” if we work then. Maybe you’re not feeling real good, or you had a disappointment, or you’re discouraged and there is nothing in you that wants to work. Identify these times and make efforts to stay awake. That is, to just drop thought and know where you are. If we will continue to do this we can get gold. You have to put far more energy into dropping thought and just knowing where you are.

THEY ARE NOT YOU
     Have you ever had a hellish experience with another human being? The emphasis tonight is this: instead of identifying with evil thoughts, malicious thoughts, malignant thoughts, whether I see them in you or in me, instead of calling them my thoughts, instead of thinking that they are native to me, I am now as an exercise seeing them as coming from the outside, invading me because of my doziness, in my love for evil. And my love for evil is simply another form of evil and another form of sleep. Therefore, I let them take me over and live a life of torment myself because I am the very thing that I permit to come in. I permit it, I experience it. I call it me, that is the only life I have; this is the only life I have.