"To find the answers you have to go and listen to something that is higher
than you. Are you allowing that there is anything higher than you or do you
know everything? Do you know more than God Himself?
Now don't give a quick fast answer or you'll deceive yourself, because I'm
telling you that there is a higher answer to all your problems and if you
haven't found it, it is because you think that you already have them.
Therefore you think you are more intelligent than anyone or anything in the
universe. Which is not very intelligent.
And I'll tell you again, it is not at all the sign of a wise mind to endure,
over the months and over the years, suffering. As a matter of fact, it is
very foolish to be in pain, to be in agony, to be in confusion. That's not
intelligence at all. Wouldn't you say that intelligence and a clear mind
are the same thing? Wouldn't you say that? Wouldn't you therefore also say
that stupidity and a confused, baffled mind are the same thing? Of course
they are.
Here's my question to you then, up to this point: are you willing to walk
away from yourself in order to find a source of wisdom that is higher than
you? Now there is the question; what is your answer to that? What do you
even do with a question like that? I know there's a lot of bewilderments in
the question itself.
Are you willing to depart from your present nature, your contradictory
nature, willing to walk away from that, not seeking anything, but simply
walking away from the old nature? Because if you're seeking something,
you're seeking it with the old nature and you'll find the old nature in a
new disguise and you'll get a new religion or a new human relationship or a
new activity and you haven't changed at all. You have a new excitement, you
have the tomorrow you're looking for and you haven't changed yourself. And
the next day, the next day the dreary battle starts all over again."
Cross the Bridge to a New Land DVD # 14, talk 2
