"Don't you think it's about time we did something useful for ourselves,
practical? I'll give you an example. How many of you have a religion of
sorts? You do, don't you? It's either a church religion or your own private
little philosophy, things that you figure out that are going to make your
life better, make you not hurt quite so much. This is your religion -
whatever you do is your religion.
That is, you're saying, there must be some way to make things better and to
ease the ache. Well, isn't that what you call religious thought of one kind
or another? Of course it is. Never works. Nothing happens in a different
way. You go the same way today that you did ten years ago, five years ago.
And you very fearfully suspect, don't you, that tomorrow's going to be the
same?
Well, I'll save you a lot of thinking about it - it is going to be the same.
How do you expect your circumstances to be any different when you're
bringing the same human being into it? When you go into tomorrow and next
week and next month, can't you understand that you make them what they are?
What do you think makes your life what it is, other than you?"
A Flight to a Higher Place DVD # 11, talk 3
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