Secret of Life 
2-2-24
What do you have to do in order to start talking about, thinking about,
working about the right things? A man or a woman never likes anyone to tell
them, no matter how gently you tell them, "Sir, you're talking about the
wrong things, because that's all you can do, because you don't know.
Therefore, you must talk from ignorance."
There's one - one type of person and one only - that the truth will hound,
that the truth will haunt. The truth will keep after a human being who
says, who prays, "Save me from myself." That prayer is heard up in
Heaven. And Truth will keep after you in spite of yourself. And when you
push it away, it'll come back again. And you'll run away. It'll come back
again no matter what you do because it heard your prayer. And it knew it
was real originally - it'll keep after you.
The others? No! See it just so happens that Truth knows the human heart,
whether it's you, whether it's me. It knows it one hundred percent
accurately. And it looks down and if it sees that you're tired of lying,
then it knows that that's your prayer. If it sees that you're tired of
punishing yourself, then that's the prayer. And it will answer that.
Nicely, there is such a thing as beginning to open yourself to it, not
taking blows from Truth, because Truth never strikes anyone.
You say, "This is hard to understand. This is hard on the ego. That has
nothing to do with Truth. Truth is gentle and Truth is loving." The blow
comes from your own resistance to what Truth is trying to get through to
you. Why don't you just give up the whole business of fighting?
And you can start doing that even if you only have a faint notion of what
it means. You're only required to do what you can do at the present
moment. And even if there's a faint glimmer in you that says, "You know,
what I've heard tonight is the pure truth. And in spite of every obstacle
inside or outside me, I'm going to go along with that, because I have
never solved my own problems. I am always talking about the wrong things,
the wrong things being to complain against life. The wrong thing is to say
that I can't make it."
Look around at your friends and you know that they have closed their minds,
and they've closed their hearts to something that is different. They want
to be only themselves. That is up to them. They're not being very wise.
You can be wiser. You can see, you can look out in the world and you can
see the whole world is always talking about the wrong things. You can learn
to talk about right things right here.
You start with thinking we're pretty mixed up. I told you that was the
first step, to see how wrong we are inwardly, and not identify with it. Not
feel bad over the fact that you're so bad. But simply observe it
scientifically and see and say how self-defeating you are.
You will find yourself quite magically talking about right things. You will
feel the rightness of your new statements. You will see the vanity fall
away. You can't push it away. Vanity cannot push vanity away. But the
admission of vanity, that's the start for the Light pushing it away.
For those of you who want something different, who are willing to admit
that you've been wrong, as difficult as it is to admit that it's wrong,
if you do it, that's a beautiful thing. And you can begin to change. You
can begin to grow. You can begin to understand. And you can begin to lose
all the pain you used to have when you rejected Truth.
The burden that was on you all your life will begin to be lifted. It'll
become lighter, and lighter and lighter. It'll be a very real thing to
you.
And so ladies and gentlemen, I leave you with your decision. Truth says,
"Come and I will heal." Liste to that voice!
