April 2019

RISE ABOVE YOURSELF
     You must abandon your love for good and bad experiences and instead have experiences that make you feel alive. There really does exist a way of life with a true feeling of life. There's one revelation after another in which you know you can rise above yourself.
     For example, fearing people. Why should you ever be afraid of any human being? There’s no need. He screams like a maniac. He's weak and he's a coward, and you attribute strength to him. Any human being who likes to hurt other people is a lost soul.
     Isn’t it about time you see through the enemy called suffering? Here’s the basis of suffering. You look out at the world and try to get something from it you think you need. There is only junk out there. You look out at a world from pain-filled eyes.
     A state of loneliness without knowing what to do about it is the state of all human beings who have not found God. The only thing you've got is you. You’re supposed to have God in your life.
     Everything you do is an attempt to escape your pain — the awful haunting. You are running away from the fear of isolation.
     You can learn how to see the entire world through the eyes of understanding, not through the eyes of frantic desire. See that there is no way you can succeed because there’s nothing to get. Think of what you’ve counted on to save yourself from your loneliness. Run out of hope. Come to the realization that the world is empty — no value to you. And realize that you are empty. No value. No hope. Know that there’s nothing good that you presently see. You'll become spiritually sane! The mind will collapse of its own delusions.
     You have to realize that you have to run out of yourself. “If I give myself up, that’s it. There’s nothing more to do.” That’s what it means to be saved. That’s what it means to rise above this world. That’s what it means to see this world as it is — crying.
     Your biggest amazement will be how you clung to yourself. You must put your attention on your inner nature. Stand at the window. Your spirit will brighten. You’ve transcended!

STICK WITH IT
     The first man was “the man who knows what he wants.” He had everything he wanted. Millions of people followed what they read in his story, I KNOW WHAT I WANT.
     The second man, who knew him from high school, never knew what he wanted. He tried things but he couldn’t persist in them. He stayed scared (that is great). He couldn’t convince himself he wanted that business career. “There’s something wrong.” He stayed with that many years.
     Stick with the wavering, the self-doubt. What happens is the delusions begin to fade; the house starts to crumble altogether. Stick with it over the years. Delusion is persistent. It is getting carried away in the flood.
     Let God open your eyes and you will know who you are and you will know who you will be forevermore.