April 2014

DON’T BE A QUITTER
     The light of Truth is always separate from what it reveals and the most important part is that you are the light; you are not what it shows.
     The only important thing you have to do with your life is to find yourself. Unknown to you, you are avoiding the hell that you must go through in order to reach heaven. You’re avoiding mental health.
     How many of you would like a rough, tough work exercise for the next week? How many of you will do it? How many of you will request heaven to give you strength to do it?
     All right, for the next week, seven days, the only evil you’re ever going to think about is your own. Oh, you’ve got a lot to think about, huh? Of course. Now, you know why that is going to be healthy, because you know how you always have to point the finger at someone else. Someone else is always wrong and I am always right! That’s why you stay sick and obnoxious and you don’t know you are.
      It’s about time you started to wake up and face the facts! It’s why we don’t mince words here, because you either take it or you leave it. If you take it, oh sure, it’s going to be a rough voyage for a while and you’ll sometimes wish you never left port and wish you were back there. But let me ask you, you started on the spiritual voyage and you got ten miles out to sea and it gets rough. That is, you’re fighting Truth and so it hurts a lot inside. Once you succeed on the whole voyage, the hurt goes away, but the point is this. Suppose you get out on the spiritual voyage and you say, “I’m going to go back, I don’t want to go anymore. That man is insulting me; he’s hurting my feelings.” That man is telling you the Truth that can save your soul and you say he’s insulting you. If you do turn your boat around and go back to the surf-side town and go back to live there, what’s it going to be like? You know very well that town is populated by vicious pirates. Every time you refer to yourself you refer to a pirate — someone who betrays you.
     So you see there’s no point in any human being ever quitting and going back. In other words, don’t be a bitter quitter. You stay on the voyage and oh, the experiences you’ll go through, the storms and the waves and the fear of destruction. But you listen to me now, instead of your warped mind, and when I say ‘you’ I mean everyone in the whole world.
     If you will stay where the instructions are, if you will take the complete course in navigation, after a while the storms will decrease just a little bit. That means your fears will fade just a little bit and in their place will come a feeling that you are controlling the boat instead of outside forces controlling you.
     Now, anybody out there who wants to make you feel bad or mad can do it. But, if you stay on the boat, that is, if you come back to these instructions and you read the books, little by little you will understand that — listen, I’m speaking very sacredly now — that God himself was with you throughout that entire storm. You didn’t know it then because you wanted to do it yourself. You wanted to call yourself the captain of that boat. You wanted to use your life for self-glorification and don’t you deny it. You know how much vanity you have in you and if you don’t know it here’s a very easy test: every time you get your feelings hurt it’s because your vanity was knocked down. You wanted to use your life for vanity-serving purposes — for what you thought you needed.
     If you knew you didn’t like this talk, if you knew consciously you didn’t like it and then find out why, you’d be on the way upward. But if you prefer to stay asleep, stay unconscious and hate, then you will have the reward you demanded, which is lifelessness. God said that before I did, do you understand? Or, if you will listen to something that is not a part of your present nature, then instead of doom you can have authentic eternal life. You think you have it now but every time you think about it, it puts you into tormenting doubt. You will have eternal life and you won’t have to think about it at all. You will know it because God is behind the knowing.

REMEMBER
     I know you come to so many of these meetings and you go out of here and you’re given these very practical basic techniques and you forget all about them or you don’t practice them, which is why you need the jolt and reminding.