"There is only one power.
We do not realize that in our ordinary ways of living because, first of
all, we don't want to realize it. And, secondly, we're so indolent we don't
want to do the work to discover whether it's true or not, and it is true.
We would prefer in our infantile, human ways to make our own choices of
what we deem is powerful and, therefore, protective or valuable for us. We
demand the right to say, 'This is strength, that is protection, this is
powerful,' and so we aim for the stars but fall into the weeds.
We would prefer - because we're very low in the level of life - to choose
the kind of powers and strength and protections that we want to approve of
and select, because they give us what we think we have to have, but which
we don't really have to have - the confirmation of our vanity pictures
about ourselves, for example.
So we make a grab-bag selection of what is good for us, what's going to
protect us, what's going to be our hero; we make our selection based on our
own insecurities, based on our own vanities, based on our false needs. And
it should be no surprise to us really, when we get that friend, he turns
out to be a Judas after all. We get that source of protection and comfort
and it collapses and we collapse with it.
And the cessation of stupid selection can begin with you accepting the
fact and, if you push it away, accept it again, if you push it away, accept
it again; accepting the fact that there is only one power, only one real
power and all the rest are fakes and frauds.
And I just indicated that seeing through the shallow, the insincere, the
fake, is a preliminary step toward accepting the one true power, which is
God, Truth, Reality, which is something from a higher world."
from a talk given 12/6/1986 V. H.'s Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 8, talk 182, track 3
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