August 2025

SEE NEXT THOUGHT
Find the answer, which means you no longer believe in yourself as you are now un-constituted. You no longer accept yourself as a source of guidance, of attention, of deliverance. You can’t believe, it’s marvelous to not believe in your acquired habits, so-called powers; it’s marvelous to not know what you’re doing or where you’re going.
    See, you have one destination: financial, you’re going to make a bunch of dough, social, you’re going to get people to like you better. You’ve got your plans, oh, how sad, how sad, God has His own plans all ready for you, any time you’re willing to give up yours.
    Why don’t you start, and I’ll change that, please do start finding some little small thing that you can give up tonight. Think about it a little bit, think about some little stubbornness, think about some little habit you have that you sense is unworthy and contributing to your heavy spirit, and just say, "I’m going to give it up."
    For example, your love of a racing intellect, your love of a noisy mind. Come on, admit it, that all day long, twenty-four hours, there’s the collisions of thoughts and desires and opinions. You’re always jumping around, the acrobats up there are leaping and tumbling around.
    Now I said, give something up, be watchful of your mind. It’s as simple as you going through your whole day watching your thought processes, and just say to yourself, make it simple and short, say, "see next thought," just three words. You can’t make it much shorter than that, SEE NEXT THOUGHT. Now, you have your aim is to see next thought.
   ... Do this at bedtime before falling asleep. Your sleep can be helpful to you too as you grow in replacing mental with spiritual. See next thought. You see it, anything at all, idiotic, foolish, wasteful, repetitious. Now, whatever it is, just let it go, let it fall away. Oh, I tell you, how many of you have your favorite series of repetitions in your mind? What event, what incident, takes you over, dominates you?
     I order you, this isn’t a request now, this is an order, you will give it up. Oh, it’s not going to obey right away, it’s not going to fall away; it’s going to come back again and again. But you are doing something wise, you’re getting acquainted with how it operates, you’re learning how your mind works.... Late in the afternoon, I forgot all about it. That is educational, you know that you can’t do something, which of course is always the beginning of being able to do it. So you try it again another night and you fall asleep, or there’s a special assault on your mind and it gets hot, the impudent imps are especially busy and you get discouraged.
    Listen to me, listen to what I’m going to say next. That discouraged thought is a thought. You don’t have to pay any attention to it. You don’t have to get discouraged. Your dismay and your feeling weak and inferior, all those are thoughts, and you let them go!
    ... And please remember, among everything else, no thought can change anything. What do you want? You want to stop eating cream puffs? How many want to stop eating cream puffs? How many have no intention to stop eating cream puffs? [laughter] Ah, I’m going to get you on this next one, how many of you eat cream puffs, pretending that you’re not? Aha, I knew I’d get you on that one. You talk to yourself while eating the third cream puff, or you watch television so that you can get the pleasure of the taste, but not be conscious of it ....
     Now what are you going to put into your mind, besides practical thoughts, which we have to have of course, so we know how to drive our car. What are you going to put in your mind in place of all the junk and the terror and the ghosts and the heat that we’ve been so used to? What you’re going to allow in there is what we’re aiming for in this room, something else that exists.

UNDERSTAND YOUR PRESENT NATURE
Write this down somewhere and never stray away from it.
     Understanding of your present condition, of your present nature, the understanding of that is the answer. Because if you see that you can’t do it, which you can’t and never have, if you see that you can’t enter the Kingdom, once you see the impossibility of that, that is understanding. And the understanding itself is the foreverness that you want.
No, no, no, not foreverness for you, because part of your comprehension is that there is no individuality, no great man or woman who can endure.
    All you can do and what you must do is see there is nothing permanent in your way of thinking, and knowing that, you could sit back in the chair and you can reflect wisely to yourself, “Well, well, here I am; how old am I? Forty, sixty, seventy, here I am all these years trying to convince myself that I'm right, that I've got it. At the same time, another voice was talking to me and telling me, “No, you don’t have it, but for the first time I heard that voice, and I welcomed it.”