October 2025

TRUE PERMANENCE
When you really understand that truth lives forever, so do you. When you understand the permanence of what is above this world, you are joined to it and therefore have the qualities and the endurance that it has.
Now, there’s a lot of work ahead to understand the permanence of Truth, of Reality. Most human beings grab something in the outer world, and then smile and congratulate themselves and say, “At last I have found it. At last I know what permanent happiness and security is.”
    Learn right now that familiarity is not security. Notice your own misadventures in your attempts to try to find something that will endure, that will go on, that you can cling to, go to, refer to all the time in an attempt to shake off your shakiness. The acknowledgment, the admission of failure is so essential; knowing that you don’t have what your heart wants is so vital for you to see. Because if you can go that far in seeing that you don’t have security, you don’t have permanence, if you could see that, then you can do the marvelous work of casting aside forever, casting aside for all time, these vain searchings and the yearnings that you have to find something that will satisfy your present self.
    There is no permanence for your present self.
  You want to cling to impermanency and call it foreverness. It just won’t work. When you think of the word permanence, you think of yourself incorrectly. You want to believe something. You want to think that you can think yourself into living forever. You want to believe in your own resources, in your own acquired religious, philosophical paragraphs in the book. You want to think your way into eternity, which can never be done.
    So the question comes up, doesn’t it, if thought, if belief, if desire, if seeking isn’t going to give me permanence, isn’t going to give me life forever, what will? What will is an understanding of the whole authentic process of what you are doing here on earth and what you should be seeking.

ABANDON “THIS IS ME” THOUGHTS
I want you to think of your day, average day, including this morning — pouring across your mind like a wild flood were hundreds of "this is me" thoughts. This is me, the person who has decided to do something different with his life, so I'm going to read a book about it, and reading the book proves that I’m getting somewhere.
     You find your own examples of where you are giving yourself an identity, and abandon it, sacrifice it, give it up, drop it. Don’t be afraid to disappear. Don’t be afraid to let all your self-callings evaporate, let them go away.
     That’s the purpose of your life. The purpose of your life is to become a real eternal spirit.