March 2026

DEVELOP CONSCIOUS ATTENTION
    Notice, moment by moment, not minute by minute, not hour by hour, but split second by split second like right now, what is happening to you. What are you thinking about now? What physical movement did you make with your hands  — you folded them, you unfolded them.
    Notice everything that happens to you, all the actions, all the movements. Then know any that were bad, any that were useless — useless thoughts, for example. How many’s mind races with useless thought? They happen because you allowed the machinery, the talking, blabbing is a better word, to go on and on without your conscious attention. You’re absent from the shop. Come back and watch what’s going on in the business of your life.
    Then, you’ll be wise...because gradually, but very definitely and very clearly, you’ll be able to track everything back to the fact that you’re sound asleep inside; that you’re not what is called an awakened human being, a spiritual human being. You simply have a mind that you have neglected, ignored, when you should have been paying attention to how it operates. And then you can see how it operates, and you can see how it gets you into trouble, how it keeps you nervous, how it makes you worried about “Well, how should I behave when I meet that person? When I do this or that, what words should I use?”
   You’ll see that nervousness itself exists only because you don’t have the spotlight of truth on your mind all the time so you can see what is happening and so that you can drop it, and you can do it. When you see a thought that is harmful to you, when you see a wild dangerous thought, you can know that it is there. And because you no longer want to build an egotistical self, you’re all through with that, you don’t want to construct a false self any more, you gladly let the thought drop away, go away and fade out.
    You see, you used to cling to it before: “Somebody owes me something, the world doesn’t give me what I deserve.” See that, and see that that is destroying you. Nobody sees that; that’s why they’re being destroyed and they’ll continue to be destroyed. You’re going to stop it, you’re going to stop it! You don’t want to be destroyed. In your heart you want to find yourself, not lose yourself.
    So when you see that hostile thought, “They don’t give me what they said they’re going to give me, what I earned; they owe me something, the world owes me something,” when you see that, you’re going to say a prayer to God. And your very work on yourself, by the way, is a prayer. You’re going to just realize with the certainty I talked about earlier, you’re going to realize that the light up there is shining all the time, if you will get the darkness of your own preferences and desires and angers out of the way. The light will shine and the light itself is what takes away that angry hostile thought, “They owe me something.”
    And then you won’t destroy yourself with that one thought, and you go on to the next and you can go to the next uprising feeling of how people never treat you fairly.
    You see, when you know that you’re not really you, you don’t grab after the false destructive so-called benefits that you used to go after all the time.
You’re understanding your false human nature and you will then go on to realize that there’s a part in you that you can agree to join. You’re joining with the original little bit of light that is there, which most people are never going to find.

SECRET OF SPIRITUAL ABANDONMENT
When I hear people complain anywhere, any time, I know one thing. I know that they have not learned the secret of spiritual self-abandonment. I know that they haven’t listened to higher wisdom.