April 2015

YOUR PURPOSE MUST BE
     The enemy is both inside you and outside you. You must first defeat the enemy inside you in order to defeat it outside you. Remember that!
     The purpose of this mad world we live in is to drag you into the whirlpool of its madness. Your purpose must be to not go! You must have some realization of the lures and temptations that are put out toward you and dragging you in, so you can feel yourself and see yourself being pulled in. And then you must make up your mind – even if you have no strength at all – that you’re not going to go. You’re supposed to be a human being, not a sheep. There are already enough meek, mild, self-destructive sheep out there. Don’t add to it.
     Each of you was given an individual gift of life – a certain individuality all yours. You must protect it as if it were a diamond. This world has nothing for you. If you knew it has nothing for you, you’d want to have classes [study] seven nights a week. You’d spend your entire day going through your necessary responsibilities trying to shake yourself awake – instead of trying to keep yourself asleep, because you’re still in love with your dreams. It’s so much easier, even while cooking dinner just to run the same scene through your mind over and over. You’re not supposed to do the easy thing. You’re supposed to make it rough and tough on yourself. You’re supposed to do what you don’t want to do inwardly.
     The world doesn’t want this. It wants all the noise it can get; it wants someone to be with, to talk to. They don’t want to develop their individuality. They want to be with other people so they can take away their energy so they can take it for themselves. That’s why they want to be with you. They want your energy so they can build their false life with it. And the more they get the more they destroy themselves. And the more you give to them the more you allow yourself to be destroyed to where you get weaker and weaker. And what a tragedy that is. Strength comes when you are in a constant state of prayer. This means you know you have no strength of your own. You can’t call on yourself.
     Remember, something is trying to help you right now.

MAKE YOUR VANITY PROTEST
     You’re leaping into the dark when you slow down your motions, you’re slowing down your mechanical unconscious motion of putting the package on the shelf unconsciously. If we can leap into the dark ten times a day with such a little exercise as that, doing something we don’t want to do, doing something that is going to make our vanity scream in protest; you try to do something in the next twenty-four hours that will make your vanity scream and protest.