December 2015

STAY IN THE PRESENT MOMENT
     From now on I will say to the mind: “I do not wish to be pulled away from the present moment anymore. From now on I am in charge wherever I am, at my desk or walking or driving. From now on, you are not going to be lazy; you are going to stay in the present moment and remember something higher — not 10% attention, not 50% but 100% attention in the present moment. You will know where you are and what you are doing. And when you start to give me those old ways of thinking, I will remember where they lead and say, ‘NO, that is not what I ordered!’ Sure, you will give me a fight, but the Truth is stronger than you are and from now on this is going to be a lot of fun. I will say to your sad stories, ‘This is not the Spirit of Truth.’”

TRUE COMPANION
     Spiritual growth always, always, includes the kind of excitement where you feel, “Oh, there’s so much to do,” and you enjoy growing so much. A little insight — you read that book ten times and on the eleventh time you finally saw something great that you never believed was in that book, and you no longer want to go around wasting your time or anyone else’s in idleness. You’ve got too much good work to do, happy things to do. You can’t be bothered with people anymore. Before you couldn’t live without them. Now you’re delighted not to be in their company.
     You are really getting your life back now. And guess what you’re getting as the only real companion you need — the companion of Truth itself. You know it’s right. You’re reading that, you’re reflecting, you’re thinking about something. You want your mind and your time to yourself. So you have to see it both ways. You have to see how you are wasting other people’s time, maybe mine for example, or someone else's. You connect this with someone; whose time are you wasting? Shame on you, don’t you have any conscience at all that you force yourself and impose yourself on other people and waste their time? What’s the matter with you? Can’t you be a good human being? All right, it works two ways. You see how you’re wasting their time and having seen that you always turn the arrow of attention back on yourself and you see what a ghastly mistake you’ve made in wasting your own life too. Wasting your own time by wasting their time. You see, isn’t it nice to know as you become nicer to others, you become nicer to yourself? As you become nicer to yourself you become nicer to others because it’s one niceness; it’s the niceness of Truth itself.
     Go over everything that was said here and every time you feel impelled to go toward another human being, I want you to remember everything I said and I want you to remember that you are quite capable of being happy all by yourself because in the spiritual kingdom you are never all by yourself. You’re with Truth itself and you feel it and you live it and oh, how glad you are that you finally exchanged the human for the spiritual!