SECRETS OF LIFE
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"TURN YOURSELF OFF You must turn yourself off. This means to simply stop
the mechanical movement by which you constantly try to find answers. It
means you're not going to keep going to the usual sources. Now, don't
underestimate this exercise. In the middle of any day, just sit down and
watch your mind and see that you can't do anything at all about it. Don't
go into reaction over that or leap to a distraction.
Know one thing only: "My mind is madly churning, but I am watching it." If
you see the impossibility of saving yourself, you will have learned
something; for when you do something for yourself, you become hardened.
This exercise will begin to do something for all the questions that hound
you. It will show you that there is no point in you continuing to let
anyone on the human level answer your questions, including you."
THE WAY BACK HOME
A Treasury of Trueness, p. 228
New Version, p. 197
