December 2013

DEVELOPING A SOUL
     Abandoning yourself is never easy. It’s very scary, very difficult, but self-abandonment is necessary if you want to find and have a soul. Now you don’t have a soul. You’re working towards one. It means you have to put far more energy going through your entire day, breaking mechanical thought and knowing where you are!
     Stop that thinking about that game on television and look aside from the TV set and just know that you’re seated in the chair watching the TV set. If you’re thinking about your favorite food, you will drop that thought about food. All the time you will be worried, thinking that you’ll lose control of your life. What control do you have now?
     On and on you go, daring to drop all self-centered thoughts. And oh, what a shock you’ll have to see that’s all you’ve ever had all your life. Always trying to protect yourself, and that was your misery, your fear, your tension, your irritability, thinking that you had to live your own life. Sacrifice something today, some false thought, some useless thought, some fiery emotion. Just know you can live without it, then Truth will show you what you can and will live with within and that will go on forever.

TRULY BEING SAVED
     I will tell you this morning whether or not you have a chance to be saved. You have a chance to be saved only if you don’t know what it means to be saved. If you have anything at all in your mind and way of life that tells you that you know what it means to be saved, that means you are lost. We’re talking about a direction chosen by the wreck inside in which the individual, actually being lost – which means to be apart from Truth, from who you really are – in which the lost person refuses to go through the humiliation of seeing his false life and instead makes a declaration of self-slavery. In other words, he ‘knows’ what it means to be saved.
     The few people on earth who have known that they were in this condition of false salvation, false security, the few people who have dared to see that their castle was a haunted one, had the awful marvelous experience that they were lost, calling themselves saved.
     How are we ever going to find out what real deliverance is? How are we going to go beyond being religious into being spiritual? Is it possible to become this one in a million? You must know you don’t have any answers, and never did have any answers. You’re a phony and a fake. You try to make people think you can understand. Only when you know you’re lost can you be saved.
     Do you want to be that one man or woman who finds himself in this life by getting rid of all your assumptions that you’re already saved and have found yourself? Will you ask Truth to give you the wish and the willingness to be that one very special person? With the grace and help of heaven and with the new understanding you can acquire through New Life teachings, you can be. Stick close.