SECRETS OF LIFE2-25-24
"Watch very honestly your processes as you hear a truth talk and watch for
the point in which you honestly say, 'I don’t understand that, I don’t
follow that, this is as high as I can go.' Now this is honestly; it means
you recognize your present level, whatever it might be and it’s this
recognition of your present limitation that eventually enables you to rise
above it.
So you have your choice of being honest in saying I really don’t grasp
that or deceiving yourself into saying I do understand that. And the
world always takes this dishonest course when they hear a truth, because it
is not acceptable to their inner nature, to their dishonesty. They take it
and distort it and say I understand it and they don’t understand it at
all.
They have actually rejected it and put their own imagination, vanity,
egotism in its place and called it higher truth, which means that they are
the very same person they were before they heard the truth. They have not
changed, they haven’t permitted the truth to change them. Now I’ll
illustrate this.
Imagine yourself at an airport with an airplane moving along the ground
about to take off, and I'm there explaining this airplane to you - the
airplane being a composite truth.
And I say to you, notice that this airplane has two motors, all right? You
look at the airplane and you know for yourself from your own observation
that what I told you about the airplane is true...
Now the airplane has taken off and I continue to ask you to look at it. And
let’s say it takes off and starts to circle upward so that you can still
see it, but it goes higher and higher.
I next say to you, I want you to notice that the numbers underneath the
airplane are two-sixty-seven. You look up and you can see it, but not quite
too clearly because the airplane has gone up a little bit.
Next I say, I want you to notice the total shape of the airplane as it
appears to you now...but you can’t get a picture of its shape because
it's gone too high.
Now at this point you can say to yourself, I can’t follow what you said.
I can’t clearly make out the whole shape of the airplane. Now this is the
honest point, isn’t it, where you say to yourself, I can’t follow you
because the airplane - the truth - has gone too high for me to see for
myself.
Now, truth or a teacher of truth knows a thousand things about that
airplane that you can’t see; it’s too high for you, he knows them. So
it’s up to you to raise your perception in order to see what the teacher
sees… You must simply say - the principle of self-honesty - that I just
don’t know any higher than I can see, which is honesty, isn’t it?"
What to Do with Yourself Each Moment
Something Higher Than Ideas - MP3 CD, track 8