Step into the Liberating Light of the Divine with 4 Simple Words

What we call our thinking isn't really us doing the thinking at all. Rather, it is a mechanical mind talking to itself about what each moment means.

The nature that reacts mechanically has already concluded what the moment means even before the condition that stirs it to the surface. As we are, we are that reactive nature.

Any time life runs counter to expectations, there is instantaneous judgment and resistance.

We do not suffer from life itself. What we suffer from is our own unseen arrogance, which is an expression of resistance. If you have an enemy, you are full of arrogance.

"Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?" Book of Isaiah, Old Testament

"He whose mind is deluded by the ego thinks he is the doer." -- Bhagavad Gita

"I can of mine own self do nothing." "Not my will but thy will be done." -- New Testament

We do not take a self-defeating action unless we are at the same time aligned with a self-defeating will.

The first reaction in response to people who have set themselves up against you is to set yourself up against them.

For us presently, the solution to a disturbance is to be for what we are sure will restore what seems to have been lost.

If you are imagining how to be free of a problem, you are a captive of the problem and the nature that is resisting it.

We are always looking at what the nature that is disturbed is pointing to as the cause of the disturbance, but we never look at what is doing the pointing.

We are not seized by a condition. We are seized by a negative reaction to the condition, and the reaction was already in place before the condition stirred it.

The nature that is always pointing at the condition is attempting to hide and protect itself from revelation.

Thinking about the unconscious nature is not the same as seeing it. Thinking is part of the nature that can't see itself.

The moment that you have a strong reaction is also the moment of the possibility of revelation of that reaction.

If you are not distracted, then you have to be with yourself. The temptation of a distraction is to look away from the revelation of a nature that cannot be satisfied.

When you identify with a new power that is going to save you, the one thing that you never see is that it is powerless to save you.

At the same time that you are being shown what you don't want, you are also being given the revelation of the nature that can't do anything other than want and not-want.

How do we receive the revelation? The four words are: "Thank God for that." Thank God, not for the condition by itself, but for the revelation of the part of you that could not have come about in any other way. Be thankful for being able to see.