When The Mind Is Exhausted In Trying

When One Plan That You Have, To Get This Or To Get That, To Advance In The World, Or Whatever It Might Be, When That Seems In Danger Of Veering Off The Path You Have Set For It, You Have Your Emergency Plan Ready. And In Simple Language What That Emergency Plan Is, What You Put Into Operation, Is Called Worry. If You Can Worry You Are Occupied, And What An Incredible Human Situation It Is!

A Cheery Relaxation Is Man's Natural State, Just As Nature Itself Is Relaxed. A Waterfall Is Concerned Only With Being Itself, Not With Doing Something It Considers Waterfall-like.

A Chief Cause Of Unhappiness Is What I Call Mental Movies. Mental Movies Are A Misuse Of The Imagination. You Know How It Goes. You Have A Painful Experience With Someone, Then Run It Over And Over In Your Mind. You Visualize What You Said, What He Did, How You Both Felt. As Awful As It Is, You Feel Compelled To Repeat The Film Day And Night. It Is As If You Were Locked Inside A Theatre Playing A Horrible Movie.

Many Of Us Knock On The Door But Remain Outside, Because Knocking And Entering Are Entirely Different Actions. Knocking Is Necessary, Consisting Of Reading Books, Attending Meetings, Asking Questions. But Entrance Requires Much Bolder Action. It Requires One To Enter Into Himself, To Uncover Hidden Motives, To See Contradictions, And To Realize His Actual Power For Self-change.

A Perfect Method For Awakening Is To Examine The Results Of Our Daily Actions. If They Are Harmful, We Know We Need More Consciousness.