"Imagine a sparrow caught in a tornado and you have a perfect picture of
the human mind when it's confronted with something outside of itself
called truth.
The human mind as it presently operates is unable to receive, understand,
and act upon higher principles, and one of the most rejected and
bewildering principles of truth is the following, and let's see how your
mind takes it. In this world, to win is right, to gain is right. In this
world with the human mind to gain is the only thing. To acquire, to
accumulate, to build up your personal life, your material possessions -
winning is what counts.
In the authentically spiritual life, the only kind of worthwhile life that
there is, that any human being can find - then losing is winning. Losing
everything that you now value that is keeping you in the tornado.
Now look, already, the utter reversal of the process - see how difficult it
is for you to grasp because you all your life, and everyone you've
associated with has pressed down upon your mind the idea that accumulation
is the way of life. This is the way you're happy, this is the way
you're secure. And to lose, according to the world, is the enemy.
Something higher than the human mind says to lose everything that you now
call right and valuable is the one way to be a free and truly decent happy
human being."
Take a Vacation from Yourself DVD # 11, talk 1
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