While I'm talking, you will be working and you will be ruthlessly honest
with yourself and you will think of your own examples of the law of cause
and effect as it works against you. The cause of you getting into trouble
is because you were too weak to say no to that group who tempted you to go
along with their plans and schemes. What was it? The joy ride that turned
into an accident? You find out. The cause was you, the effect was that you
got into trouble of some kind.
You've had enough of the negative application and experience of cause and
effect. You don't want the effect anymore, you don't want the punishment,
you don't want the rage that tears you apart. And so you think, 'Why can't
I use this law to get rid of the punishments?' You can.
And so you acquire facts, good principles and they become the cause of you
escaping the negative cause and effect. That is, you get one good thought,
- let's take one - the thought, which is just a thought now, which can be a
cause to produce a good effect - there is a higher way....
Already you will begin to feel the good effects of that good thought,
because it's a fact. You've based your traveling on spiritual ideas - which
will never fail you."
from a talk given 1/18/1987 V H Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 9, talk 207, track 2
