Change Failure into Success

 Here is a very important exercise. It will change everything. It will change failure into success if you do it constantly and remember that the object is to put yourself aside so that the new self can take over; so that the path is always lighted and you don’t fall down anymore. It is good and necessary to make your requests known to heaven, the request for you to be a new person, to have a new mind and a new spirit, but you can’t make the request known to heaven with a low nature, with a crabby mind. You can’t do that. It’s not going to reach heaven. Dark minds can’t reach the light of heaven. So I am going to give you a two-part exercise. Oh, what a change it will make in your day and your whole life!

     1. Come awake. Do it now. Come awake. Set thought aside. Just know that you are here in this room. Don’t be thinking of anything in particular. Just be looking up here [where Vernon was]. Before you make your request known to heaven, come awake — not in a state of sleep, of anger, of worry, but wide awake! Your mind is as free as you can make it. This is a good exercise. You come awake and then you make your request to heaven. It has to be a right request.

     2. Your request to God is “Let your way be my way.” That includes everything. Remember now, it’s a two-part request. Oh, how many mechanical prayers go up all over the world; billions of them every day — useless, pointless, self-deceptive. Nothing happens. Aren’t you kind of glad you didn’t get some of the things you once prayed for?


Let Go..!
      It is astonishingly possible for anyone to simply relax himself into becoming a new kind of human being. Let yourself dissolve, let go of the person you imagine you are. By letting go of the person he imagines he is, a man knows who he is at last. Let go of yourself when you do not feel like letting go. Be daring, courageous. Nothing harmful can happen by letting go of the artificial self, for as the daring know, only good can happen. When we walk away from ourselves even a little, by letting go and relaxing, new and pleasant feelings begin to take their place. Let go!