June 2018

LET TRUTH HANDLE IT
     Remember the word self-responsibility and know that spiritually it means much more than you can possibly conceive right now. Your first responsibility is to see that you can't do anything for yourself. This will be a great crisis for you because having abandoned yourself and not yet knowing God, you feel as if you're plunging down into a pit of darkness, which you are. But this is the necessary stage that we talk about where you've abandoned your own false strength and as yet don't know the higher strength of God, of Truth. It's such a dreadful position to be in that few will enter it and I keep urging you over and over at these meetings to enter it yourself.
     Now, you're to watch your own mind and you're to see every day, from now on, how something scary and something dark enters into your own mind so that you tremble. That is all you're supposed to do for now. Out of every 100 thoughts, 99 of these thoughts go unobserved, which means all you can do is to be pained by them — to be tortured by them. You have chosen mental torment by your refusal to grow. Wouldn't you like to be so free that events don't turn into a problem? To be so wide-awake the event remains that, and not something to vibrate to.
     God, Truth, is the power to be able to see yourself in moment by moment operation and not say, "That is me." The minute the word "I" comes into it, you've wrecked it. You've gone right back to your mind and then you'll resort to intellectual devices to help yourself, which is no help at all, which is the way of the entire world.
     In conclusion, practice the following exercise, which leads to understanding. Exercise: Watch your thoughts all day long but don't join them. Know you are worried. Know you are afraid, etc. See it. Stand apart. Don't fall asleep and go into the second thought.
     Sacrifice everything to the invitation of Truth to understand your own mind, and God, who is higher than your mind, will do the rest.

THE ONLY ENEMY IN THE UNIVERSE
     When there's a pain, there is something you won't give up. The only enemy in the universe is your own unseen resistance. One of the weapons of dark forces is confusion. I have to get tough with the bums inside of me.