February 2016

BE TRUE TO TRUTH
     See that you don’t know what to do about anything. Bear the discomfort, a new kind of pain, of not knowing and refuse to ask anyone else or even talk to them about it. Just go about your day and be interested in doing what you are doing while you are doing it. Keep coming back home. Watch! This is the answer. Stick with it. Dare to trust God to work it out for you.
     Your suffering must have no one and nothing to turn to. It is a good thing for you to be thrown back on yourself, not having anyone, not having anything that you've ever depended upon before. Come on now, it's failed you. Everything has failed you. You've tried, you know that.
     I will guarantee you absolutely that any past method that you have tried to set yourself free of yourself, if they’ve failed in the past, they will fail in the future. To be thrown back on yourself and to stay with it, to not rush out and try to find an answer outside of yourself, to stay with it and go thru the experience to suffer in a new way because you are no longer comforting yourself with asking others questions. You’re sticking with yourself, knowing you don’t know the answers and that is true. All your past references to yourself have failed you.
     Self-awakening, a true authentic spiritual life, begins the moment you stick to yourself, refusing to go back to your old ways inner or outer; but staying with it to see what new experience will come to you. I'll guarantee you that it will — after you've gone thru a lot of shaking, a lot of walking in the fog for a long time. If you will absolutely refuse to go back to your old sources, something new will happen to you, and it will be the beginning of a very, very rare experience for human beings. And you can be one of them.
     I want you to know that if you go along with this to the very end of your studies, of your self-investigation, that this invisible world where true help comes from will be more real to you than that automobile out there. The rules are just as definite as cooking, as a football game. If you follow the rules you will get the results.
     If you were happy you wouldn’t look forward to anything. You ladies and gentlemen are going to have to reach the point where instead of having confidence, instead of trusting anything or anyone, you will have lost it completely, which is exactly what Truth wants you to do so that it can begin to operate in your life.
     Work all alone. Don’t get involved with people; they’ll turn on you. Love the very idea of developing your present nature into a true individual. Abandonment of all attempts to please others will finally bring you into touch with the one thing you need — REALITY itself.
     Be true to Truth — the true self within. What’s the use of a million dollars, of fame, of losing myself in other people? Here's how you try to fill up the emptiness, the loneliness: sobbing, hating someone, having someone in your life who is just like you — empty. Why do you believe in your emptiness? Peacefulness is superior. Contentment is better than frustration. Happiness is better than misery. All is a fear of giving up your own noisy life.

THE TIMELESS STATE
     The invented personality, the false self, must have a future to survive. Since the artificial self lives in time, in thought, ordinary thinking, that is time itself. So it must always revolve around time, past and future. If you begin to rob the artificial self of time experiences, it will scream its objections, but in spite of all its objections, it must fade away.
     As it begins to fade away you begin to see yourself, know yourself, as a different kind of an entity than you knew yourself before. Because when you cease to recreate your invented personality through thinking, as you cease to recreate it, it begins to dissolve. The dissolution of time and the dissolution of the invented personality are the same thing. So gradually, more and more and more, you, your real nature, begins to rest in the here and now. No matter what you are doing, whether you're sweeping the floor, or conducting business, or driving your car or whatever, you begin to get a sensing that there really is — really is — nothing but right now and that is because that is where your are.
     But for a long time the pull, the tug of time-thoughts, will try to pull you away from here and now — the timeless state — and will succeed, won't it? You've had this experience where maybe you understand that this is all that counts. There is no past to feel ashamed of, there's no future to go to, and there is nothing at all that time-thought can create. This sensing becomes stronger and stronger as all the pieces are put together.