Peace Is A Costly Privilege-to

All Methods And Techniques - And Of Course All Human Beings Who Propound Them - Are Merely Instruments To Help The Student Obtain A Methodless, Technique-free, Teacherless State.

If Outer Events Bring Him To A Position Where He Can Bear Them No Longer And Force Him To Cry Out To The Higher Power In Helplessness For Relief, Or If Inner Feelings Bring Humiliation And Recognition Of His Dependence On That Power, This Crushing Of The Ego May Open The Door To Grace.

The Ego Will Always Be Able To Find Ways To Keep The Aspirant Busy In Self-improvement, Thus Binding Him Or Her To The Fact That The Self Is Still There Behind All The Improvements. For Why Should The Ego Kill Itself?

While The Mind Remains So Fixed In Its Own Personal Affairs, Be They Little Or Large, It Has No Chance To Open Up Its Higher Levels. When Attention And Emotion Are Kept So Confined, The Chance They Offer Of This Higher Use Is Missed. The Peace, Truth, And Goodness Which Could Be Had Are Untouched.

Although The Pure Truth Has Never Been Stated, Nevertheless It Has Never Been Lost. Its Existence Does Not Depend Upon Human Statement But Upon Human Sensitivity. In This It Is Unlike All Other Knowledge.