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Your mind can become clear. I don’t care how furiously, how volcanic it has been in the past, how it is always assaulting and robbing you of peace of mind and happiness.
I am telling you, there is another mind. Call it the spiritual mind. It wants to come to you. But you don’t have to be afraid of how it seems to you just now with the attacking thoughts. All you have to remember is that the truth does exist, that the mind can be emptied of the tyrannical and cruel thoughts.
Your thoughts are cruel, aren’t they? Connect that, as very good to remember, cruel thoughts. Would you choose cruel thoughts for yourself, to blast yourself, to attack yourself? You wouldn’t voluntarily choose that, would you? Ah, but something else that’s wrong in you does choose it and you’re discovering what it is by watching your thoughts.
Don’t be afraid of what happens in any spiritual exercise, just know that you are following instructions.
May Monthly Lessons
Consider Yourself to Be Apart
I don’t care what’s going on, wars, crimes, starvation, whatever, you must never look out at the crazy world and go into self-reference. If you do, you have drawn the zombie-like world inside yourself and you will get a false love for that, and you will want to continue as a zombie. You'll want to continue to be what you are because you feel a certain false satisfaction in having someone to refer to.
Don’t you ever again refer to yourself in any way at all. It’s not going to do a thing for you. You don’t have to feel bad about anything. You don’t have to feel persecuted by anyone. You don’t have to be left out.
As a quick exercise try to think of hundreds of occasions where you did feel as if everyone was against you. Everyone knocks you down and drags you around. All the time you didn’t understand that you were doing something very seriously damaging to yourself, which was to build up the misconception that you have a you, and then you think that you have to keep the you going by remembering all the insults you've ever had.
I’m going to give you a spiritual exercise and I want you all to do it. I want you to consider yourself living in this world doing exactly what you're doing now, working where you're working, your family life, and consider yourself as being something that is apart from the sickness wherever you see it, inside or out. Consider yourself to be apart from your own inner surges of jealousy toward someone else. Consider yourself to be apart from all secret sorrows, you name it. Consider yourself to be apart from it. Now in spiritual reality that is true, but you're not able to escape the anguish of what you see happening in the world or inside of you. You're not able to escape it because you want to be your own anguish. You want to feel yourself.
Let Your Mind Become Clear
Revelations About Human Nature
Members of a class in Detroit revealed what they had learned about human nature.
James: “Regardless of what they say to the contrary people always do what they really want to do.”
Beatrice: “Whatever makes a man angry has found him out.”
Warren: We rarely see people as they are, but see them according to our own thoughts about them, which must be corrected.”
Cecil: “The less a person is able to govern himself the more he is sure he can guide and help others.”
Grace: “A man who does not hurt himself cannot be hurt by others.”
Neil: “Desire the truth more than you desire friends, for then the friends in your life will be unable to give you trouble.”
Insight into human nature as it actually operates is an essential part of your psychic adventure.
From Inspire Yourself, Chapter 4
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some frequently asked questions that we have heard over the years. The responses should help to give you a better understanding of these life-healing teachings. Take them in with a receptive spirit and many mysteries will be dissolved in the light of higher understanding. FAQs
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How to End Suffering on Crabbiness
The commentary series below is focused on a particular negative emotion, painful feeling, negative trait or state of human beings that causes us tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps you will recognize that you yourself have had personal experience with this condition. You’ll find the explanation of how it causes suffering and how it produces detrimental effects in your daily life. You will also be shown how Truth can help you to lessen these effects and how you can eventually eliminate them from your life altogether. A new negative characteristic of human nature will be gone into each month. It will be great fun to explore these things in order to help us see through them and to be rid of them.
CRABINESS by Moe Janosec
When it was suggested to me that I might write an “End Suffering” article on ‘crabbiness’, I immediately saw something in me that wanted to … feel crabby about it! Meaning that it was a good topic for me to look into.
We often pick crabbiness up everywhere we go during our day – interactions with other people, attention to media events, annoyances around where we live, the list is endless. We’ve been highly trained and conditioned to react to all sorts of things in a peevish manner. Unless I’m alert and aware to this, I’m going to pay a high price in lost energy and in unpleasant interactions with other people.
If we alertly watch, we’ll see that right before the negative emotion of crabbiness, there is resistance of some sort to what we’ve encountered. Instead of letting something rise up and pass through me, I’m resisting or fighting it. And opening the door to crabbiness.
One interesting thing that occurred to me is that Vernon Howard told us we all wear a lot of “costumes”, personas that we “put on” for different situations that we encounter. If the costume doesn’t get us our desire of the moment we often react with crabbiness. “I tried my best and if they don’t like and appreciate me, I’ll just go the other way and be crabby and petulant about it!” I have to begin to notice that sourness feels bad; it feels bad to me, if I’ll just see and acknowledge it. When we’re crabby we’ve fallen prey to the false self, which will always play both sides to get the feeling of agitation off which it lives.
I was also reminded of when Vernon said that God is waiting for us to turn to him one-millionth of a second after we do something wrong. One-millionth of a second, think of that! So to abolish crabbiness I must be very vigilant. Instantly vigilant to catch the negativity when it comes up, to see it and to allow it to disappear in the light. The seeing and the light are the same thing.
We’ve been given the tools. If I don’t want to be crabby any longer, I don’t have to be. A stronger and stronger preference to see things as they really are, without resistance, will dissolve the negativity of crabbiness.
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Spiritual Exercise
Learn how to apply these life-healing principles. Here are specific exercises that
can be used in your daily life to help you defeat what now defeats and hurts you.
Latest one: Do Not Be Disturbed (Updated March 1, 2025)
Points to Ponder
Powerful insights written by New Life Foundation Director,
Richard Wooldridge. Richard has been with New Life since 1975.
Points to Ponder (Newest one March 1, 2025)