March 2015
THE PERFECT ANSWER
What is more pleasant than the great escape? So don’t hide out, break out. Here’s the perfect answer for any kind of frustration, worry that comes up all day long: “That has nothing to do with my search for the light.” When something happens to you, use this method to clear the difficulty away entirely.
Work on this for yourself. After a jolt say, “That has nothing to do with my search for the light.’’ Absorb it, let it sink in. Say that regardless of the brick wall you run into. You’re telling the truth. That’s the power of it. “That has nothing to do with my search for the light.” All right, at first you’re just going to be saying it. The comprehension of it comes later.
Don’t you want a pleasantry that will do something for you when you can’t do it for yourself? “No, no, no! That banging against the brick wall is not going to thwart me. It’s not going to make me cry.” And by the way, you cry only because you’ve forgotten your way back home. Right in the middle of your temptation to fall apart, you’re going to claim a spiritual truth that you’ve heard and stored up in your mind but which you have not yet allowed to activate itself at the precise moment that you need it. You should be overwhelmed at the power of that simple true statement.
Whatever happens to you? You lose something. Something didn’t turn out the way you want. “That has nothing to do with my search for the light.” That’s how you make yourself unstoppable in your search for the light. By believing in the truth and the power in back of what you said, by living with it, you just jump over the brick wall; you come to the next brick wall, you jump over that.
This is spontaneous spirituality. You are attracting the force that will enable you each day to more and more see how true it is and a billion troubles a day have not power to stop you because the Universal Father is behind that declaration. “It has nothing to do with what my heart wants to find.”
Now you have to remember that. You must not forget it. Don’t forget the words now. Write them down. Underline them. Practice at saying it. An annoyance comes along and you’re going to remember that you made a vow to go all the way into eternity. But you forgot it and you allowed hideous forces to swamp you with their sickness and their cruelty.
So get this elementary step down in your mind of remembering the principle “That has nothing to do with my search for heaven.” That is mechanical so far. You’re not living it yet but you’ve taken the step so that you can go on from the mechanical to the conscious; so that the time will come when your brief reminder to yourself that “that has nothing to do with me wanting to walk on” — here’s the beauty of it — this is your intention to not believe in darkness, to not believe in the power of pain. Don’t you dare believe in the power of pain.
Something makes you anxious. Never again will you allow it to take you over and make you think it’s a necessary part of your life. You are to refuse it. You are to reject it. When something comes along that distresses you say, “That has nothing to do with my search for the light.” You have made a resounding battle cry for freedom. You are not living it yet. Take this elementary step of refusing to believe in your pain.
Why would anyone choose to believe in pain? Because of evil forces that invade human beings, they come to believe that pain, suffering, anguish, annoyance, fighting, are a necessity for their self-existence. You’re not going to believe in your acquired false nature anymore. You’re going to pull yourself out of it.
One of the slyest tricks of evil is to pull the following blanket over your eyes. It makes you think that pain, anguish, is your survival. You have to see that you think this.
NO, I WILL NOT WORSHIP PAIN
Watch yourself very carefully. Watch small and large concerns; worries come up and ask to take permanent residence in you. When you accept them – worry, jealousy, etc. – you are accepting them as god of the moment. Key thought: “NO, I will not worship pain!”
