February 2026

STOP WORSHIPING SUFFERING
   That thought comes up and can you believe this, please do believe so you can stop believing, you worship the thought, the belief — that I’m all alone and nothing can be done about it. You actually are in love with your own sorrowful thought and feeling.
    You’ve got something to do with yourself. Please, you are going to be spiritually scientific from now on.
   The next time you feel bad — how many times would you say a day, ten thousand — the next time you feel bad you’re going to remember what I’m going to say next. You will not worship, idolize, love that feeling. I don’t care what it’s all about: you can’t break that habit, you’re afraid of losing someone who’s been valuable to you, or maybe it is just a general vague terror that you can’t name, a nameless monster.
    When you see it, you’re to know that it has nothing whatever to do with you. No, there really is not, listen to this, there is not a lonely you at all. There’s not a cheated you at all, there is not a desolate sad suffering you at all. You stop, you stop worshiping suffering — and then comes the reaction, “Who will I be if I don’t refer to myself all the time?”
    The answer to that is, find out by going to the other side. When you know who you are not, you know who you are. But you have to work toward the aim of seeing all the imposters, all the fleeting scoundrels that presently are smarter than you are.
    They know how to keep you enslaved; they’ve been doing it successfully for a long, long time, haven’t they? They know exactly what you’re going to fall for, and what you’re going to fall for is anything by which you can keep the world revolving around what you call you.

STOP SPREADING INSANITY
     You’re going to make a spiritual vow right at the start of this talk. You’re going to vow that you’re not going to let the insane world drag you down to its level.
     That’s its motive. Insanity is lonely, it wants all the company it can get. The average human being wants to walk out of his home in the day and empty his trash onto the world, and everybody is doing that.
     I'm explaining to you in the simplest words possible why this world is what it is, and you as students here at New Life are going to stop going along with it. You’re not going to spread disaster and lies, and neurotic traits onto the world anymore. You’re going to stop right where you are, tonight. Right now, stop.
     Make up your mind you’re not going to put up with yourself anymore. See, do you see the reversal? Everyone you talked to today out there in the world is always trying to find the trouble in someone else. “Everyone else is a troublemaker, I'm not.” The very fact you say that proves it, you’re an enormous problem to yourself.