"Now if I were to ask all of you whether you're lonely, you'd have to answer
yes, wouldn't you? You'd have to; of course you are. You've got a family
and friends and you're chasing around yourself and you're still lonely; you
feel isolated.
If I was to ask you if you spend a good deal of your time and your energy
trying to prove that you're right when you're wrong, you'd have to answer
yes to that also, wouldn't you? Ah, let's look at that a little closer. Here
we are wrong people filled with these emotions that are so harsh to us and
to others and instead of investigating them we protect them and we say
well, I must have that feeling, therefore it must be all right because it
belongs to me.
Are you telling me that it's right to be under stress and strain all the
time? Are you telling me that that's a good thing? Is anger a good thing or
a bad thing? It's a bad thing because when you're angry you are separated
from your real nature just for one thing, but we could get simpler than
that.
When you are angry, when you're in a rage, don't you justify it? Now,
you stop that. You stop saying your anger is all right. Why do you have to
insist that it is? And you are. I know you are; you may not know it but I
know it and I know that you justify it.
You justify your rage and your fury, which you've suppressed. You justify
it because you take it as a part of you, as a part of your necessary
appliances for getting through this world. Would you like to find out
something? Would you like to find out that anger, envy, self-pity,
loneliness which you cling to so desperately, wouldn't you like to find out
that that is the enemy? What do we take as the enemy then now?
We take as the enemy truth itself, which tries to get through our thick
heads, which tries to penetrate and to explain it's not trying to attack as
we think. We resist truth because there's something wrong with us and we
think truth is going to take something valuable away. It's going to give
us something truly valuable, but not seeing that we fight and resist. And
listen to this, we fight and resist reality which wants to give us a new
life and the result of that, listen to this tragedy, we remain as we are."
V. H.'s Positive Answers # 2 DVD # 36, talk 4
