May 2020

THE ONLY SOLUTION
     All the mental can do is get out of the way so the spiritual can be revealed. Silence! Pause! Wonder what it’s all about.
     How to substitute the spiritual for the mental: You are not to want anything from what you encounter out in the world. No desires, wants. The anxiety persists. The pain is still there — a basket with no bottom. You’re a want machine; the wrong thing to do. There is no fulfillment.
     Say, “I don’t want anything from anyone in this world.” Stick with that. You’re not going to crave, demand anything. Then you will worry over what’s going to become of you. Detect the insidious forces acting through you, using you. “I am not going to want anything from anyone. I don’t need it. My false nature needs it. No more wanting approval or pleasing people.”
     To get outside of your own life use that exercise. No compromise. You’re in charge of the whole world by having nothing to do with it. That’s a condition of absolute authority; all power by no personal power. If you don’t want anything from anyone, God, Truth, Reality will give you everything you need.
     I want you to pay attention to one major thought, which is that both evil and good must be released. You have to become aware, knowledgeable, of the deep secrets and shames, embarrassments, regrets that you have so carefully hidden from yourself that you would deny them if someone said you were harboring them inside.
     You also have a possibility for an inward splendor. But the removal of the wreckage has to come first so that the goodness can follow.
    

TRUTH WILL BE STRONG FOR YOU
     Watch where you get sickly sentimental or you want to be comforted. You want someone to hold you. The world is so menacing and so scary, you want someone to be stronger than you are. Your very wish to have any human being be your protector and stronger than you is what prevents you from being strong — so you’ll never need any other human being to be strong for you because then you’ll have spiritual strength. The only strength is spiritual strength. The only wisdom is spiritual wisdom. The only real need you have is to grow up into that higher world where Truth thinks for you, where Truth acts for you, feels for you, lives for you.
     Do you think that the darkness of those deep regions is ever going to have a chance when you’re up there?