"You heard the romantic song, "I'll get by as long as I have you." How many
have sung it, how many have experienced it, yeah, and what happened? How
come you're not singing, I'll get by as long as I have you, any more?
I'll tell you why. Because something happened down lover's lane, right?
What happened is that you saw you had to sing another song entitled, "I'll
get by as long as I DON'T have you."
Now here is the difficulty, not with your vocal excellence or the ability
to tell E sharp major from G minor, but the problem is you don't learn from
experience....
What is your new love, that is, what is dominating, crowding into your mind
as a source of safety, salvation, pleasure? You could make a list and I
highly recommend that you do so, you could make a list of what you're
singing about when you say I'll get by as long as I have you:
Your fascination with doubling your dollars, your various dream castles and
your defensive attitudes by which you're going to hang on to yourself. No
matter how persistently loving truth knocks on the door of your mind,
you're going to love and sing out, "I'll get by as long as I have you." Now
what's the you? Make it easy, the "you" is your generalized neurosis, the
"you" is everything by which you ridiculously swear by and are loyal to.
I said you never remember the lesson in an experience and I want you to
correct that this morning."
from a talk given 1/21/1990 V H's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 29, talk 706, tr
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