SECRETS OF LIFE
11-4-23
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"Try visiting yourself, that is take a look at the way you handled yourself
today or mishandled yourself today. Take a look and see how you got
tongue-tied all of a sudden; you didn't know whether you should say this,
or you should say that. Take a look to see how you looked around for
someone to solve your problems, or you made a phone call, didn't you? Did
you make a phone call today? Someone to help you solve your problems. You
write a letter, you search desperately for help.
Wouldn't it be a marvelous, beautiful, peaceful, human experience to be
self-contained? Do you know what it means, self hyphen contained? That
means everything you need is within you - not in you the way you now are.
That's nothing but a wreck, isn't it? If you're going to refer to
yourself and get right answers all you can do is have the mad answers from
a mad psychic system, which you know is true.
Haven't you ever observed your mind a little bit, how it churns and runs
around in a dozen different directions, and you are going to get guidance
and authority and wisdom and power from that? Hardly. So you're not going
to find it in your present psychic make-up, mental make-up, emotional
make-up, spiritual make-up. If you're not going to find it there, where
and how? The _how_ can be very important, and I'll give you an
illustration of it.
Imagine a wealthy land owner with tens of thousands of acres surrounding
his home. In one direction is timber and water, lakes and streams, he owns
that. For both commercial and recreational purposes. Go in another
direction and you see cattle and sheep and other livestock. Go in another
direction and you see vast prairies that can yet be developed. Just bring in
the proper equipment and that could be developed into profitable and good
things for that. Here he has all this property, but he has to do something
with it, doesn't he? He has to visit it.
If he just stays home, all the people he appointed over all these different
areas of his wealth are going to get lazy; they're going to get
careless, they may get deceitful, they may steal things from him. So as the
owner, he has to do something - I'm hoping you get the parallel to this -
he has to visit them regularly and make sure that everything is going the
way he as the boss, he as the land owner, wants it to go.
When is the last time you visited your thoughts? When is the last time you
examined your motives and saw the real motive behind the phony motive that
you told that other person? When's the last time you visited even your
physical self and saw how you were unnecessarily tense? When's the last
time you saw that you were nervous, that you chattered nervously to people.
That's what I'm talking about. Now look, it is very definitely possible
for any of you who are sincere enough to start from the center of your
home and visit every part of the system that you have, your thoughts, your
reactions, your words."
Practical Self Guides
DVD # 4, talk 2 Blu-ray # 2, talk 3 [Select talk 4]
