October 2022

PURE INNOCENCE
     Listen to this following thought, it’s very profound. If a person can keep his own mind confused, keep confusion going out in that world, then he won’t have to be clear, will he? Now follow. If there is confusion, then there can’t be clearness. Because if there is clearness, what will be revealed in that clearness? You know what will be revealed? The fact that human beings are criminals inwardly, to one degree or another.
     Do you know right in the human heart is a desperate need to cause confusion, because as long as that is there, they don’t have to face their own guilt. The guilt of saying that they know more than the Light!
     Are you following that thought? How profound, how immense it is! Therefore, we have found that we deliberately cause chaos. This means the whole situation, the world situation, is obscure and we, if we’re still sick, we can blame someone else and hope that in the confusion we can get away with it.
     A confused mind is already suffering from its own confusion. Only a mind that says, “I’m going to start to be clear. I’m going to see my guilt in being egotistical, my guilt in pretending I know” — that’s the beginning of clearness, isn’t it? We’re trying to be clear and see what the situation is actually like. Face it so that the Light will banish the darkness in it.
     From now on, you have a new exercise for yourself, don’t you? You have an exercise in which you can see how petty lies for example, petty evasions for example, are a part of your attempt to create fog out into the world so you can hide yourself in it. And hope that your defects and your dishonesties are also hidden in the fog.
     The reason it can’t work is because if you create the fog, you have to walk in it. And you’re going to get bumped in it. And you’re going to bump into other people, which explains wars, which explains heartaches in the home, which explains internal struggles, internal conflict.
     What a brave mind it is that starts to say, “I understand my own tendency to want to confuse things so I don’t have to face myself.” Start tonight. No matter how painful it is. This is a new element, the shock of seeing your pain. You are already in pain by being lost, separated from your real nature. Add to that the shock of seeing the pain and it will begin to disappear!
     It’s a terrible thing for any of us to wander through this world feeling guilty. Wouldn’t it be nice to be innocent because we’re not claiming anything for ourselves, not taking any kind of a credit, not taking even any kind of a blame. That’s why you’re innocent, because you don’t even have a label of calling yourself a troublemaker.
     That comes later. The first step is to see that you’re in trouble with yourself, therefore a troublemaker wherever you go. And you’ll finally take the next step of going beyond the label. Because you’re willing to give up completely, as we talked about earlier. And all your old identity vanishes. And you stand there innocent.
     Not innocent in your old nature. That can never be innocent. It is always guilty because it’s separate from God. But it’s an innocence that is not intellectual. An innocence that doesn’t have to prove itself. An innocence that doesn’t even think about its innocence. That’s how innocent it is. And it is nothing more but the pure innocence of Truth itself that you are now living in.

YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO YOU REALLY ARE
     You need not idolize or yearn for anyone. But you must see very deeply into this in order to discover your basic error. You really do not admire that man or love that woman. Unknowingly you admire and love your own thoughts and feelings about them. Having imitation strength and beauty inside yourself you project them outwardly and then deceive yourself into thinking that they reside inside that man or woman. You will get an endless series of pains and disappointment as long as you unconsciously approve of this kind of self-trickery. You feel the need for something which in itself is right, but then wreck the solution by trying to get an answer from the same unintelligent mind that asked the original question.
     You cannot and must not answer your own questions. You fail to see that you are doing this when you look outside yourself for wisdom or strength or guidance. You are like the king of a castle who falls off his horse while riding in the woods. In his dazed state he wanders into a cave, thinking it is his home, even while suffering from the cave's discomfort. As his head gradually clears, he remembers where he truly belongs. Then his action-in-understanding guides him back to the castle with its true security and comfort.
     You have forgotten who you really are. Truth itself will help you to remember.