I do not have to discuss anything with anyone under the name of “getting it all out”, or “talking with a sympathetic ear”, or “getting solace”, or whatever other idea I might once have used. I do not have to discuss how I will be with anyone.
Show. This will speak much more powerfully than words. When you show your meaning, all will feel it, interpret it, and be affected by it. Would you like your teaching to be taken to heart by everyone? In that case, live your teaching. Show, don’t tell.
But when you use words, you force your hearers to hear with their physical ears, which feed the import to their rational minds, where the message is tied up until 95% diluted.
There is no need to talk and discuss.
Neither do I need anyone else to change in any way. I am not dependent on the actions of other people to feel good, feel bad, never at ease, wondering, worrying what they will do. I do not need them to do anything for me to remember Who I am. And I have remembered that; now let me take it to heart, be changed, commune with the Self always. This is why and how other people become irrelevant.
You will always be guided as to what to say and do. There is no way for your conscious mind to best strategize this. Leave it out. Take direction from within. In silence all is made clear. In silence is there great healing.
Silence is your friend
It is not my intention nor my purpose to negotiate conditions under which anything may happen. If there is a question, it is for the Other to explain.
When you have basic premises, they are clear to others even when you don’t enunciate them. In fact, they become all the more apparent exactly when you don’t enunciate them. This takes a little time for humans to assimilate; they would generally rather try to convince others of their positions by sheer force of words.
This makes as much sense as trying to draw someone to your side by turning a volley of arrows upon her.
If there is a lack of basic premise in you, this will be interpreted as confusion. Because it is confusion. Lack of clarity regarding your basic premise will beget confusion in all your doings and dealings, and can hardly effect what you would be done.
So you can see how important it is, at the start of each interaction, at the birth of each undertaking, that you take some moments to clarify your basic premise concerning it. Lack of a basic premise will prompt questionings and distract you into attempts to define yourself. The clear acknowledgement within yourself of a basic premise will silence questions.
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Who would not want this?
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A basic premise is not the same as a goal or objective, which represent outcomes in what you call the real world. A basic premise is a decision you make within. “I am here to be truly helpful”, “I am here in the best interests of the child”, “May I have no other desire than to do good”, are some examples of basic premises.
A decision you make within
In any undertaking or encounter, establish your basic premise within as many times as you wish. Remember also it is not your purpose to argue as before a court. To do so only admits the possibility of guilt, that someone is going to be wrong. All arguing is only the effort to pass the boulder of blame to the other.
Therefore waste no time in arguing, but first establish your basic premise. You can have a general basic premise, that you remind yourself of as you catch yourself in your morning waking moment. “Let me have no other desire than to do good.” And you can consciously reach for a basic premise for each situation you choose. “I am here to be truly helpful”. In this way, you are entrusted with the gifts of God.
When you have a clear basic premise, and it is aligned with God, you are the judge who just handed yourself a sentence unimaginably favorable to you. Everything is going to fall your way; it cannot help but do this. When you consciously align with His will, you bring Him into the situation. Your clear intention is asking it.
Clarify your basic premise, and all else becomes clear.
May I have no other desire than to do good
