"So isn't that great news, just at the very start, that there is sacred
ground that you can find within yourself. And please...don't think I'm
just using the phrase sacred ground because it's a nice thing to repeat in
a talk. I am telling each one of you personally, directly, that I know that
you can find it and then you won't be afraid anymore as you now are. It is
the only safe place there is.
What good does it do you to go half way around the world to find one of the
so-called miracle cures...stand in awe of that immense cathedral built five
hundred years ago with all the so-called saints connected with it - what
good does that do you with your concealed heartache? That's what we're
after here, to get rid of that. And not go into any kind of an exterior
experience or exterior worship of a physical man-made object or natural
object such as a mountain or a grove.
We're not here to worship anything at all, but to discover why we have been
in false worship all our lives and suffered from it.
So how would you like to start tonight, and I cordially invite you to do so,
how would you like to start on the trip that will end up where you are
stronger than absolutely everything that is now stronger than your worry -
your compulsive need to argue…. And you've already argued and I've only
been talking three minutes. And the worst part of it is that you were
unconscious that you were doing that.
Please, will you listen to me so that you don't waste the rest of the talk.
You're not being attacked; where did you pick up the notion that these
strong and beautiful truths are an attack on you?
See, you don't understand, this is a very defensive and offensive part in
you that is always...afraid that something valuable is going to be stolen
from you. And you know very well that you have nothing of value at all."
from a talk given 4/22/1987 V H's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 11, talk 259, track 2
Comments