The Ultimate Truth

About Love & Happiness

by Lester Levenson

A Handbook to Life
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 FOREWORD
“The only method of receiving love is to give love,
because what we give out must come back.”

Lester Levenson was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on July

19, 1909.

Lester sailed through school and college with astonishing

ease, becoming a physicist, an engineer, a successful
businessman and a self-made millionaire. Yet despite all his
achievements there was an innate turmoil in his heart, an
anxiety and stress that seemed to rule his life.

In 1952, at the age of 42, Lester had his second massive

heart attack. In those days, they did not have bypass surgery
or heart transplants and so when he came out of the
emergency room, the doctors told him, “Lester, we’re sorry to
tell you, but you have two weeks to live, three at the most,
and we can’t do anything for you. So we’re sending you
home.”

So Lester went home.

Being a physicist, he knew he had to go back to the

drawing board, wipe the slate clean, and start from point
zero. So he started to examine his life. He noticed that each
time he was ill he was wanting something and that the
intense wanting feelings were what was actually making him
miserable. He wanted love, he wanted money, he wanted to
change things, and every time he looked at that wanting, he
had an uncomfortable feeling that he traced back to his

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illness. Then he noticed that whenever he was giving and
loving and wasn’t wanting anything, he was not ill. So, he
asked himself, “Well, if I could get rid of all my non-loving
feelings, would I get better?” He thought about this question
and uncovered something that was startling to him at the
time.

He noticed that when he was loving he was happiest. That

happiness equated to being loving rather than being loved.

HE NOTICED THAT WHEN HE WAS LOVING HE

WAS HAPPIEST. THAT HAPPINESS EQUATED TO
BEING LOVING RATHER THAN BEING LOVED.

That was a starting point. He asked himself if he could cure

his illnesses this way. So, he began connecting all of his
thoughts and feelings in that direction—from that of “wanting
to be loved,” to that of “loving.” He examined all his
relationships and he let go of all of his non-loving feelings
from the past. In that process he made another shocking
discovery: He saw that he wanted to change the entire world
and that was the cause of all his ailments, making him a slave
to this world. He decided to reverse that by actually
unloading the subconscious concepts and pressures, and by
taking responsibility for everything happening in his life. At
this point he discovered that limitations were only concepts
in our minds and can easily be dropped. He realized that God
is within us all, that we are infinite beings with no limitations.
With that realization, he became happier: freer, lighter and
with an overall sense of well-being.

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 Later on he would say: “We are all gods acting like
goddamned fools.”

Months went by and Lester still wasn’t dead. He hardly

went to sleep, he ate a little bit, and he continued to work on
himself. He corrected his physical body. All of his miseries
dropped away and he found himself in a place in which he
was happy all the time, without sorrow. He totally cured
himself.

More than that, Lester unlocked the science of the mind:

How the mind works, what to do about it and how to correct
it. How to correct your thinking. How to call up the menu of
your mind, take a look at this menu and eliminate what you
don’t want.

Lester was a giving person—one thousand percent! He

spent the remainder of his life helping others discover this
secret that he had unlocked for himself. He passed on in 1994
at the age of 84—42 years after being told he had two to three
weeks to live!

And before he died, he asked me to continue his work.

My name is Larry Crane. I was born in the Bronx. I grew up

in a poor family. We never missed a meal, but I thought the
rich man lived on the top floor and the poor man lived in the
basement. And we lived in the basement. As a young boy, I
had many, many jobs; I was very aggressive. I worked hard,
put myself through New York University, The Leonard Stern
School of Business, and when I graduated college in 1957, my
father told me if I could make $100 a week, it would be a
terrific accomplishment. I noticed some of my friends who
graduated started to be successful and were making lots of

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money, so I said to myself, “I’m just as smart as they are. I can
do that, too.” So I went about life and business in a very
aggressive way, like “Get outta my way—I’ll take what I
want—I’m gonna have what I want or I’ll knock you down.”
And in time, I climbed my way to the top.

During that period I got married and had twin sons but
never made any time for them. I started in the advertising
business and quickly became the advertising and marketing
director of Remco Toys. After a few very successful years, I
started my own direct mail business, Telehouse, Inc., which
was the first of its kind to sell record packages on television.
The company quickly became very successful. We started to
make millions of dollars. I divorced my first wife and married
a beautiful, beautiful woman. I bought a ten-room duplex
penthouse in Manhattan. I had the limousines, the planes—I
had businesses all over the world making multi-millions. Yet,
I was absolutely miserable!

It was quite confusing to me. One night I came home to my

fabulous ten-room Manhattan penthouse apartment. Time
magazine had written an article about me, and the doorman
greeted me with, “Mr. Crane, what an honor to have you in
my building. For me to take you up to your penthouse is my
pleasure.” This was a Friday night around 9 p.m. and I
remember getting out of the elevator and being so unhappy
and so miserable that I actually walked over to the terrace
and for about two hours I contemplated jumping—ending it
all. I call this the second greatest day of my life! (The first:
Meeting Lester Levenson). But that Friday evening I, too,
examined my life. I asked myself what am I doing on the
planet? What is life about? I observed that I did not know
what I was doing on Earth, but for me life was only about

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making money. I was so focused on money that I did not even
allow myself to spend much, enjoy much or do much with it.
That was confusing. I decided that evening to find an answer.
After all, I had no reason to be miserable: I had millions of
dollars, a beautiful wife, a fabulous business, businesses all
over the world, media attention, and so on and so forth. Still,
I was miserable. I was not interested in drugs or drinking.
These things had no appeal to me and thank God I never
turned in that direction. Since I was not willing to jump and
end it, I needed to find an answer.

At the time, I was not receptive to psychiatric work. I was

not open to transcendental meditation or yoga. I was pretty
closed in those days and yet I wasn’t willing to jump. So I
became determined to find an answer. What that answer was,
I did not know. My wife at the time talked me into some New
Age courses, which I took, but I still found no answer after
taking a number of them and trying to put an end to my
unhappiness. I tried and tried, but I did not have the answer
that I wanted. All I really wanted was to get out of my misery.
I discovered I was angry. I discovered I had fear. I discovered
I was doing things that were destructive and not quite
intelligent behavior, yet I didn’t know what to do about it.
None of the courses showed me what to do about it. I just
became more and more frustrated. I then took some
additional courses, but still to no avail.

Then one day, in 1976, a man came into my office to sell me

a mail order item. I had some interesting spiritual or self-
discipline quotations on my office wall which often opened
up a conversation of what I was into and the answers I was
seeking. This salesman told me about “The Release®
Technique.” It really resonated with me, so I decided to take

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the course that very weekend. That same weekend, I met
Lester Levenson, my mentor, my teacher, who I was fortunate
enough to know for twenty-two years. I spoke to him almost
every day, many times during the day. I took trips with him
around the country and was quite fascinated by his clarity, his
calmness and his givingness.

Now let’s talk about what people are looking for—what

everyone is looking for—and how to get it.

Everyone is looking for “happiness with no sorrow” or

peace of mind, but most people are looking for this outside
themselves. They are looking for it in someone, in some
thing, in making money, being a big shot, having possessions.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to find peace of mind that way.
Take it for checking. Take a look at somebody who is
powerful, who is monetarily successful. How happy are they?
How satisfied are they? Do they really have peace of mind?

Let’s take a look at those individuals who are trying to get

happiness and peace of mind from a relationship. Does that
relationship give peace of mind? Take a check and see if you
have happiness with no sorrow, peace of mind, and where
you are looking of it. Are you seeking it in a person who is
unhappy or relatively unhappy? You must go inside yourself
in order to find peace of mind and happiness. By unloading
your limitations, you will discover that you are already
unlimited and you can do anything you want. Just unload
your limiting thoughts.

Peace of mind means a quiet mind, not a noisy mind. That

is why only a few of us ever find it. We are looking for peace
of mind outside ourselves and peace of mind can only be
acquired by having a quiet mind. The more one quiets his or

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her mind, the more powerful one becomes. That is what we
are going to explore.

Before sending you on to explore this rich territory with

Lester, there are a few suggestions which may help you on
your journey. Each of the talks you are about to read is
designed to bring a key theme into your awareness. Each also
represents not only thoughts for your mind to digest, but
more importantly, energy for your whole being to absorb.
Because of this, Lester recommends that you not hurdle your
way through them. Instead, read them slowly, allowing
enough time for reflection and integration. In short, approach
this material as you would a private talk with a good friend.
Approach it with an open heart and mind and allow it to
deliver its gifts to you. Above all, by working slowly with this
material you will give yourself the opportunity to practice
many of the powerful and practical tools it contains. If you do
this honestly and persistently, you will give yourself the
opportunity to practice many of the powerful and practical
tools it contains. If you do this honestly and persistently, you
will give yourself a gift of inestimable value. You will discover
for yourself a direct link to the source of your own wisdom.
You will, as Lester so often says, “come to know that you
know.” And this, after all, is the ultimate goal of any true
teaching.

Finally, it is important for you to know that these sessions

are designed to give you a great deal more than a different
intellectual perspective on the human condition. For as our
guide says repeatedly in the following pages—“thinking will
not get you there.” Instead, this material, the questions and
answers, the aphorisms, and the suggested exercises are all
intended as an introduction to a remarkable, experiential

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process that is as simple, as clear and as powerful as the
words themselves. This process is called the “Release
Technique,” and it is, quite simply put, a very direct, easy to
use way to eliminate the boundaries of thoughts, feelings,
emotions and wants which stand between you and self-
realization.

So after you have spent time in these sessions, I encourage

you to turn to the material in Appendix A and introduce
yourself to this innovative transformation technique which
Lester discovered on his journey to personal realization.
Through it I believe you will discover a key to achieving the
quality of life and consciousness you seek. And I know that
through a loving and committed practice of it you will
experience that unlimited, joyous and powerful state of being
that is our natural right and our natural state.

I wish you a remarkable and joyful adventure.

Love,

Larry Crane

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 The Ultimate Truth
About Love & Happiness
CONTENTS

PAGE

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The Basic Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Happiness—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Love—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Peace—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Truth—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Self (God)—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

How to Help Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Teacher of Truth—How To Find One . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The Ego—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Mind—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Lester on Demonstration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Sex and Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Desire—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Emotion—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Pleasure/Pain—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Health and Supply—How To Get It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Spiritual Growth—What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Releasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Practical Methods That May Be Used Daily . . . . . . . . 63

Ways of Getting Out of a Blue Mood

into a Happy Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Different Paths—How To Get There . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Self-Growth Yardsticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Law of Compensation or Karma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

A Summary
The Self-God-Absolute Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Lester in His Own Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

A Message from Lester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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 INTRODUCTION

The Ultimate Truth is Truth that is true now, has always

been true, and will forever be true.

Man cannot make this Truth nor can he change this Truth.
He can only discover it. He may choose to live in accord with
it. If he so does, he finds himself supremely happy beyond
anything he could imagine! All limitations drop away and he
discovers that all power, all knowledge, and all joy are his
and that all this is his natural, inherent state.

A unique characteristic of this Truth is that it must be seen

by each one through his own perception. No one and no book
can do it for him. Teachers and books (scriptures) can only
point out the direction, the way, and the individual may
choose to take it.

Necessary is the proof of Truth, and necessary it is that

each one must prove the Truth for himself. Nothing should
ever be accepted on hearsay. One should listen to, reflect
upon, and then prove. The best attitude one may take would
be to not believe nor disbelieve, but to accept Truths for
checking. Then, and only then, after one has proven them
without a doubt should one accept them.

As Truth begins to prove itself, one gains more confidence

in it, and then proofs come more easily and more readily;
until finally, one perceives the Absolute Truth—that we are
unlimited beings, unlimited in our knowledge, power and joy.

We must start from where we are, so we start with thinking

in the realm of thinkingness. Then we progress to a stage of
thought—feelings where thoughts have feeling to them. This

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continues until there is only feelingness. When this becomes
the basis for our actions, we are intuitive and in tune with the
world. Finally, there is only the realm of beingness, and in
this state we perceive ourselves as being the All, and we see
no-otherness.

Beginning with thought, we direct our minds towards

thoughts that will free us; liberate us from sorrow and
unhappiness. This leads to happiness, which is in the realm of
feelingness. When the feeling of happiness is developed fully,
there is only happiness of being, and we then enter into the
state of exalted bliss, tranquility and serenity.

The time required to accomplish this varies widely. The

quickness of one’s understanding is directly proportional to
the intensity of one’s desire for truth.

All authoritarianism is let go of, as the only authority for

Truth is Truth and not man. In place of authority is given the
dictum—“Prove it yourself.” Only when proven for oneself
does one have it and can one use it. One knows only that
which he can do.

The ultimate Truth is not the usual. If something should

offend, shock, or challenge, it is suggested that you check
into it, as the chances are that a fixed concept might be
needing reevaluation; that by doing so you might find yourself
a bit freer.

Lester Levenson

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 THE BASIC GOAL

The goal is unlimited happiness with no sorrow.

The goal is complete liberation—the attainment of

limitlessness.

All are seeking complete freedom and happiness, and

everyone is seeking this either consciously or unconsciously.

The goal is Self-Realization.

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4
 HAPPINESS—WHAT IS IT?

The only place where we “HAPPINESS IS EQUAL TO

can feel happiness is right ONE’S CAPACITY TO LOVE.”
within ourselves.

Happiness is our inherent, natural state.

Happiness is you being you without any negativity.

The best definition for happiness is peace, tranquility, and

serenity.

Every being is seeking freedom and the complete freedom

or liberation is also the ultimate happiness.

Happiness is the absence of apathy, grief, fear, jealousy,

anger, and hate.

There isn’t anyone who is not seeking it.

Happiness loves.

The only place where we can feel happiness is right within

ourselves.

Happiness is freedom; absence of limitations. The less

limited we are, the freer we are—the happier we are.

Happiness is equal to one’s capacity to love.

Happiness is keeping in mind the things we do want.

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 The happiness with no sorrow “can only be found by going
within.”

Unhappiness is keeping in mind the things we do not want.

If we love completely, we are perfectly happy.

Happiness is being cause rather than effect; master rather

than victim.

Love equals happiness. When we are not happy, we are not

loving.

Happiness involves thoughts of oneness; unhappiness,

thoughts of separation.

Happiness that we are seeking is nothing but our very own

self, our very own beingness.

Happiness thinks of thou, with no ego motivation;

unhappiness, I, with ego motivation.

The only way we can be happy is to let go of all desires,

than we become perfectly content.

Happiness is calmness with no emotion or effort;

unhappiness involves energy, emotion, and effort.

An attitude of giving makes one happy.

Joy is in the spirit of giving.

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 LOVE—WHAT IS IT?

Love is a feeling of givingness LOVE BEGETS LOVE

with no thought of receiving any
return for it.

Love is allowing the other person to have exactly what they

want, even though you cannot give it to them.

Love is giving with no strings attached.

Love is the natural, inherent state of man.

Only by loving does love come to us. The more we love, the
more love comes to us.

Love and giving are two words that are synonymous.

Love is an attitude, a feeling, and requires no action.

Love is a freeing of the other one.

Love is acceptance.

The more we develop love, the more we come in touch

with harmony of the universe, the more delightful our life
becomes, the more beautiful, the more everything. It starts a
cycle going in which you spin upward.

Love is taking people as they are.

Love is loving the other one because the other one is the
way the other one is.

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 Love is only understood when you love.

Love is trust.

When you love fully, you understand the other one fully.

Love is a feelingness of peace.

Love is identification. It is being the other one by

identifying with the other one.

Love is what every being is seeking through his every act.

Love is the answer to all problems.

When there are problems, if we would love more, they

would disappear. When the love is complete, the problem
dissolves immediately.

Love and understanding are the same.

Love is communing; it is communication.

Lending support, wanting for the other one what the other
one wants, that is love.

The greatest help or giving one may give to another is to

help the other to get the understanding of Truth. In this way,
one gives the other the formula for happiness.

Love is a power. It is the cohesive force of the universe.

Love is attracting, integrating, and constructive and so

affects anything that it is applied to.

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 Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals
feeling love can.

Almost all people mistake ego approval for love. Because it

is not love, it is not satisfying. Consequently, one
continuously needs and demands it. And this produces only
frustration.

Love is not sex.

Love is not an emotion.

People need each other and think it is love. There’s no

hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

Human love does not want to share its love with others, but
rather wants its own personal satisfaction. Real love wants to
share its love and the more it is shared, the more joyous it is.

There is no “longing for” in love, because longing is

separation; love being oneness, it does not allow separation.

True love cannot be gotten through marriage. It must be

there before marriage.

Love cannot be applied to one and not another. It’s

impossible to love one and hate another. When we love one
more than another, that one is doing something for us. That is
human love. When one loves people because they are nice to
him, that too, is human love. True love is unconditional. In
true love, one loves even those who oppose him.

We should love everyone equally.

It’s impossible to get love. Only by loving can one feel love.

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 The more one looks for love, the more one doesn’t love.

One should strive to love, never to be loved. To be loved

brings temporary happiness, ego inflation.

When one loves fully, one can have no concept of not being
loved.

To love our enemy is the height of love.

When love is felt for the enemy, it makes the enemy

impotent; powerless to hurt us. If the enemy persists in trying
to hurt us, he will only hurt himself.

One does not increase his love. One merely gets rid of one’s
hate.

In a state of high love one has a feeling of harmlessness,

and grants the other one the other one’s beingness.

When we love fully, we feel we have everything.

Loving fully, one sees only love.

When one really loves, one can never be hurt.

Love has no personal angles.

Anytime one feels good, one is loving. Anytime one feels

bad, one is not loving.

Love and egoism are opposites.

Love is selflessness.

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 Love is purity.

Love eliminates fear.

Love eliminates anxiety.

Love eliminates insecurity.

Love eliminates loneliness.

Love eliminates unhappiness.

Love attracts love.

Love is the means and the end.

Love is its own reward.

Love seeks its own likeness.

Love flourishes in love.

Love is contagious.

Love cannot be intellectualized.

The sweetness of love cannot be described. It must be

experienced.

Full love is constant and can never be not. When attained,

one feels only it, sees only it, hears only it, and thinks only it.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful. It

is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way. It

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is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong, but
rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

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 PEACE—WHAT IS IT?

Peace is tranquility, serenity, and REAL LOVE, DIVINE

is a dwelling in the Self. LOVE, IS A FEELING
OF GIVINGNESS WITH
Complete peace is our highest NO EXPECTATIONS
state and is the natural state. OF RECEIVING
SOMETHING FOR IT
Peace is dwelling in the realm of
IN RETURN.
all knowledge and all beauty in
complete harmony.

Peace is at-onement, no-otherness.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance,

identification with all, everyone, everything.

Peace is a feeling and requires no action.

Peace is in the realm of Beingness.

Complete peace is impossible in the realm of thought.

Thoughts agitate. There must be no thought to have perfect
and total peace.

In oneness, there is no other to think about.

Peace is the best indication of one’s state, and may be used

as a measure to gauge one’s progress.

When one is in the quiet, peace shows itself in the freedom

from unwanted thoughts, and in the ability to concentrate on
a single thought.

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 TRUTH—WHAT IS IT?

Truth is That which never changes. All else is untrue,

illusion, and apparency.

The greatest thing we can give is wisdom, because when

you give one wisdom, you give not just one single thing, but
you give one the method of attaining everything.

The only authority for Truth is Truth.

Truth is, regardless of people, no one can make Truth or

unmake it.

Truth is the only authority for Truth.

Truth cannot be taught. It can only be discovered, realized.

One should never accept anything until he can prove it out

for himself. There are two ways to prove things, externally
and internally. Externally is proving it in the world by doing
it. Internally is by seeing it intuitively through the omniscient
part of oneself.

There is no problem which cannot be dissolved

immediately in the light of Truth.

Truth can be approached on an intellectual level, emotional

level, and intuitive level, and by directing all these three
toward the Truth, Truth revels itself.

Truth is in the realm of feelingness, and cannot be

expressed in words, but only alluded to by words.

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 Reason cannot get one to Truth, but can get one into the
direction of Truth.

Intuition, knowingness, super-consciousness, reveals the

Truth that is.

There’s no Truth in the intellect. It’s in the realm of

feelingness. The intellect is used to guide the intellect to the
feeling, which eventually takes over completely leaving no
more intellect. Then one operates on purely intuitive feelings.

To know the Truth, begin with the Truth, that is, there is
only an Infinite One. Then let your thinking follow from here.

Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong

thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts
of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural,
unlimited, Self.

Relative truth changes. Absolute Truth never changes. The

Absolute Truth is the changeless Oneness, and Oneness in the
only Truth.

Truth is perceived through realization.

When we realize Truth, we have it, are it, and can use it.

Absolute Truth cannot be spoken, because truth is Oneness

and in Oneness there is no other to speak to. One merely
alludes to Truth.

Truth and Reality are one and the same.

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 THE SELF (GOD)—WHAT IS IT?

The Self (God) is Infinite, Whole, MIND DETACHED

Complete, Immutable, One, Perfect, FROM WORLD AND
Indivisible, Timeless, Eternal,
CENTERED ONLY ON
Changeless, the only Reality.
SELF IS LIBERATION.

The Self is our very beingness.

Nothing is more intimate than the Self (God).

The Self has no qualities, no abilities, no actions. It is

unqualified and unlimited beingness.

We are now, we always have been, and we always will be

the eternal, unlimited Self (God). All we need to do is to
realize that by removing the ignorance of it, or by increasing
our knowingness of it.

The easiest way to contact the Self (God) is through the

feelingness in the heart of “I,” or “I Am,” with nothing more
added. This feelingness is the Self, the Real—Inner Self. The
moment we add anything at all, like “I am good or bad;” “I am
poor or rich;” “I am great or small;” or “I and that;” we are
imposing a limitation on the “I Am” and creating the ego.

There is no investigation possible into the Self (God). The

Self, being only one, who is there to investigate it?
Investigation can be only into the ego, the non-Self.

The Source of the ego is the Self. Find the Source and the
ego disappears, leaving only the Self.

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 When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps
toward us.

What is it, by knowing which, everything becomes known?

The Self (God).

What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are
fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth
and that is what we call joy.

When we let the inner self express, there are no problems.

Man, as man, cannot know God; by looking up to God, God

is always separate from him. Only when he looks out from
God can man know God.

One will never find God in the body, but one will find the
body in God.

The higher the state of the body, the thinner the sheath
hiding the Self.

God, generally, is the highest concept one has of oneself.

Stop having, stop doing, and just be your Self. At first this
being your Self is momentary. As you keep trying, it remains
more and more until it becomes permanent.

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 HOW TO HELP OTHERS

One who is not in some way helping others is injuring

them. This “some way” is basically and generally in thought.
Any thought other than one of good will or good wishes
toward anyone, is injuring others and therefore injuring
oneself.

The above is effected through the interconnection of all

minds and by the act that the law of compensation, i.e.,
karma, is effected in the thought, whether the thought is
carried through into action or not. Here are some additional
thoughts on helping others.

Your helping others is more by your attitude of how much

you love them, than by your behavior.

When you love you are very constructive whether you are
in action or not. Just feel love and your thoughts will be those
of love.

Thought is far more powerful than action. Thought is the

basis of action. It is the initiator. It comes before it. It
determines action.

The degree of lack of recognition of woes of others is the

degree of one’s ego. The more one knows his Self, the more
compassion and desire one has to help others.

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 The more you are capable of loving, the more you are
helping the world.

All minds are interconnected, interactive and inter-react.

The more an individual increases his love, the more everyone
is helped.

Your thought force either helps or hurts the world’s

spiritual progress and is consequently hurting or helping
yourself.

He who is not helping the world’s upliftment is helping its

degradation.

The greatest good is done by the person who best

understands himself.

Everyone can be helped in every situation that involves

more than one person, and no one has to be hurt when love
determines.

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 When you let someone know you are doing something for
them, they are obligated and return a “thank you.” When they
don’t know and don’t return, then the Infinite returns—
overflowing!

When I give and you give back, you stop me from receiving
a blessing from the Infinite.

It’s helpful to you to help others, provided there’s no ego

motivation behind it and that it’s done without attachment.

A high being sitting in a cave somewhere all by himself is

doing much good for the world by sending out powerful
thoughts of love and peace.

Charity is aiding and abetting the lie that God will take care
of the sparrow but not man.

Charity is saying, “You can’t help yourselves.”

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 Charity is good and necessary for one who is at that level of
givingness and havingness.

The greatest thing we can do for others is to help them to

help themselves.

Blessed is the giver because he is the happier—if he gives

from his heart.

To the degree you straighten out yourself you may help

others. Again I say, you’re not going to help others any more
than you help yourself. But try to help others because that
will help you help yourself.

You don’t need any special training to help others. You do it

naturally, from your own state of beingness.

Everyone is a teacher teaching at his level. He does it

unconsciously in his daily relationship with others.

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 The greatest givingness is not in things. The greatest
givingness is your attitude of love.

Giving out money is like giving out snake protection (the

snake and the rope concept). The greatest giving is giving the
understanding that there is no snake to protect yourself from.

Have an attitude of givingness. It’s not how much you give;

it’s your attitude. Some people give to hospitals etc. to get
their nameplates on them, and that is the extent of their
reward.

Whatever we do we should do with a desire to serve.

Serve with the feeling that it is not you but the God in you
who serves.

The giver should say “Thank You” and the receiver should
say, “You are welcome.” (The giver is the more blessed).

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 The less ego we have the more we know the perfection of
others. And it’s to the degree that you know they’re perfect
that you support them in their being perfect.

A completely giving person always has whatever he wants.

We help mostly by raising our own state of being.

The higher you go the more you lift everyone.

When you’re holding good thoughts, you’re sending out

good thoughts to everyone.

When you’re helping others, where’s your attention?

Selflessness is an excellent yardstick to measure the state

of beingness of an individual.

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 Givingness is also a good yardstick. One’s state of
beingness is proportional to one’s feeling of givingness, one’s
wanting to give.

Does a Master ask things from the devotees, the disciples?

A Master is all-givingness.

Our feeling of givingness should be equal toward everyone.

Giving to someone who likes you is ego motivated. A Master
has equal-mindedness toward all.

Anyone who has spiritual pride is only giving out words,

and the other one picks it up as words with no import or
authority.

To help another one you have to equate him to you, i.e., not
think you are spiritually higher.

When one understands, one sees everyone equally a master.

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 If everyone lived only for others that would right the world.
It would make it a utopia!

When we live only for others, then we’re at the top.

Any and every relationship should be for the purpose of

helping the other one attain Realization, or for your being
helped in attaining Realization.

Service to mankind will get full realization if you do it with

no interest in the fruits thereof.

The Self is total Quietude. Quietness is necessary and one

of the greatest ways to the Self.

The Self being One, the All, when one realizes this, one
becomes, and identifies oneself as, every being, every atom,
of the universe.

When one moves into or abides in the Self, one moves up

and away from thoughts. The thoughts become submerged.
Until one is established in the Self, the thoughts reemerge
and take over. In moving away from thoughts, one can

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become the objective witness of the thoughts and not be
influenced by them. When this objective witnessing is made
permanent, one is in perfect, eternal, peace and joy. A fully
realized individual does not identify with his thoughts and,
therefore, they have no affect on him.

Self (God) is not subject to laws.

A knower of God has to wait only as long as he is not

merged in God!

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 TEACHER OF TRUTH—HOW TO FIND ONE

How do I choose a real Teacher? IF THERE IS

ANYTHING IN THE
How do I know a Teacher is the WORLD WE LIKE OR
right one to be followed? DISLIKE, IT IS MASTER
OVER YOU.
What can a Teacher do for me?
The qualifications of a Teacher of
Truth are:

• He is completely selfless and his every act is for others

only.

• He has attained inner peace.

• He is equal-minded toward all.

• He must have experienced the knowledge he teaches.

• He is fearless.

• He gives freely of his knowledge with love.

• He has equal-mindedness towards all beings.

• He sees us as equal with himself.

• He expects nothing from anyone.

• He has no reactions.

• He is love that is all givingness.

• He loves all equally.

• He expects nothing from anyone.

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 • He is desireless.

• His every moment is oneness with God.

• He wants only God.

• He lives what he teaches.

• He sees no contradiction between human and divine.

Truth is, regardless of the Teacher. No one can make or

unmake Truth. There is nothing new in Truth; it is eternal. A
Teacher can direct one toward Truth, but each one must see
it for himself and prove it. If the Teacher’s or anyone’s word is
accepted, it is only hearsay. Anything the Teacher says should
be accepted for checking. Only after proving it, does it
become your knowledge.

A Teacher may be chosen intuitively. Intuition is tapping

the source of omniscience within. It is a feeling. It is gotten
with absolutely no thinking. Be there any thought with it, it is
not intuition. When it comes, one knows that it is so and
knows that he knows.

A Teacher lifts us high enabling us to perceive higher

knowledge. He gives us the mental support that is helpful in
getting the new realization.

A Teacher can lift one to his own level of understanding

and no further.

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 One of the greatest things a Teacher can do for us is to get
us to see our ego. We have blinded ourselves to our ego
making it most difficult to let go of it.

A Teacher has a quieting effect on our minds.

A Teacher keeps one in the consciousness of the right

direction.

A Teacher makes the way easier.

A Teacher is more helpful than scriptures and books.

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 THE EGO—WHAT IS IT?

Ego is the sense of individuality IF I GIVE YOU

as opposed to the One. SOMETHING
BECAUSE I WANT
The start of the ego is the sense
YOU TO LIKE ME,
of “I am separate.” It then creates
THAT IS NOT LOVE;
thoughts, (called mind) of limitation
like “I am body,” or “I am body THAT IS TRYING TO

limited,” through which thoughts BOLSTER MY EGO.

one loses sight of the fact that one
is Infinite.

Ego comes from the subconscious knowledge of the terrific

Being that we really are, trying to express itself through a
very limited thing called the personality.

The I-thought, the thought that “I am a separate individual,”

is the source of the ego in all its forms—physical, astral, and
causal. Every day one goes through the physical, astral, and
causal realms in waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep,
respectively. Eliminate the ego and all three states are
eliminated.

Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a

façade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance
and approval of the others. We behave in accordance with
what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing
our own real feelings.

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 We thereby develop a distorted pattern of behavior that
becomes habitual, automatic, and subconscious. This pattern
necessitates unhappiness, as we become incapable of
expressing our own true feelings.

The subconscious automatic behavior, by its very nature,

blinds us to ourselves, others, and the world. To be happy, it
is necessary to see things as they really are.

This may be done by (1) reevaluating the situation by

seeing its present time reality; (2) digging into the
subconscious in order to make it conscious so that we may
change it; (3) perceiving our real Self.

The façade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love.

The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one
finds love.

Seek the Source of the ego and it disappears.

The greater the misery, the greater the ego.

Misery can be removed by seeing its cause as being the ego

seeking love. Only by loving can one be happy.

In these days of atom smashing, the only safety is ego

smashing! Ego smashing is one of the fastest ways toward the
Goal and the only safety.

We create an ego and then try to escape from it from that

moment on.

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 When the ego disappears, only God remains.

The God-part of us is there all the time—just covered over

by the ego.

Who is doing the striving? The ego. Let go, and let God.

All the power and grace of God is at every moment trying

to come through to us. All we need to do is allow it by setting
the ego aside, scorching it by ignoring it. An unrecognized
vision soon leaves.

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 THE MIND—WHAT IS IT?

Mind is consciousness that has DISCOVER WHO THE

assumed limitation. We are SUFFERER IS AND ON
naturally unlimited until we assume DISCOVERING THIS
a mind. Then the evolution begins YOU FIND ALL JOY.
of progressively limiting ourselves
until we can no longer bear it.
When life becomes altogether unbearable, we then start the
devolution. We reverse the process by letting go of thoughts
more and more until the complete peace and total freedom
from thought is reestablished.

One makes life easier by recognizing the laws of nature,

which are only the laws of cause and effect. When one
discovers that mind or thinking is the cause, and what
happens in the world is effect, he then consciously controls
his circumstances and environment.

The mind is nothing but the sum-total of all thoughts and all
thoughts are concepts of limitation.

That which we think—we create. That which we hold in

mind—we sustain. That which we let go of in mind—we
dissolve.

When we quiet the mind by letting go of thoughts of

limitation, we see this infinite being that we are.

Stay on the positive side. Do not be “against” (anti)

anything, but be “for” its opposite. “Being against” is holding
in mind that which you do not want and thereby sustaining it.

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 Every thought is causative.

That which your mind is on, you become!

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

Think only what you want that that is all that you will get.

It is impossible to get rid of a problem, because ridding

oneself is holding it in mind and thereby sustaining it!

The more the thought taking, the greater the problem. The
less the thought taking, the more obvious the Perfection.

Mind is an instrument used by the ego to create and then

reflect back the physical universe.

The world is an out-projecting of the mind. When we

realize this, we can change the projected picture.

Mind is intelligent; body is insentient matter.

Body is the materialization of mind.

The body is an exact copy of the mind.

The moment the mind is right, the body is right.

Disease of the body is dis-ease of the mind.

Suffering is in mind. When the body hurts, it is felt in the

mind.

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 Thinking is rationalizing, usually our emotions and desires,
and has its source in the ego. Thinking can be used to make
life easier for the ego by causing the world to ease its pull on
our attention. Then our attention can be better directed to the
Self (God).

Correct thinking is thinking that leads us to good

conditions of health and supply, then to mental traits of love
and peace, and finally to Oneness, where, there being no
other, thought is impossible and all is in harmony.

Taking it from the top, the most correct thinking is “no

thoughts.” Truth is in the realm of knowingness. It is when all
thoughts are stilled that we remove the blanket covering the
omniscience that we all have now.

Pure Mind is mind with no thoughts. It is knowingness.

Pure Mind allows the omnipresent omniscience to flow

through us.

Real knowledge lies just behind thought which is relative

knowledge.

The mind will never know God because the mind is a thing
of limitation.

The finite can never know the Infinite.

The only thing which blinds us from the Self is mind

activity.

Mind (1) gives rise to thoughts of desire (2) that lead to

attachments and aversions (3) causing bondage. Eliminate
any one in this chain and be free!

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 Habit makes us believe that it is difficult to stop thinking. If
the error is discovered by realizing one’s inner state of all-
knowingness, one would not foolishly and unnecessarily
burden oneself with the effort of thinking.

Habits of thought are latent tendencies and are the greatest

enemy to realization. They are most stubborn and adamant.
However, they must be let go of if one wants to realize the
Self.

Intellectual knowing is merely like a tape recording; real

knowing is understanding, and can be tested by the fruits.

Our intellectual knowledge is used by the ego as a

substitute for real knowledge.

The mind is a composite of several functions: sensing,

recording, memory, and ability to discriminate.
Discrimination is the highest function.

Discriminate Truth from untruth, the Real from the

unreal—and be free!

The mind never forgets—it just doesn’t recall at the

moment.

Mind is about 90% subconscious. The 10% must be used to

make it all conscious.

Every mind is a transmitting and a receiving station,

receiving in its own wavelength. Keep it high!

Mental efficiency is in the art of concentration.

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 The mind is like an electric light bulb radiating in all
directions. When it is focused, it becomes like a powerful
beam. A mind focused on itself will crack its secrets and
reveal Truth.

A concentrated mind is one that can keep its attention on

one thing at a time without other thoughts coming in.

A concentrated mind is the secret of success in the

realization of Truth.

A concentrated mind is also the secret of success in the

world. All successful people in the world have the ability to
concentrate their minds.

Real solitude can be had only in the mind; not in location.

Solitude is obtained through practice of non-attachment. A
man in the city might be free of thought and alone in peace,
while a hermit in the country might be plagued with the
company of many miserable thoughts.

Thoughts of happiness give relative happiness. The highest

and absolute happiness is beyond thoughts.

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 LESTER ON DEMONSTRATION
Whether we are aware of it or not, everyone is controlling
matter all the time. Whether one wants to be a demonstrator
or not, he is. It is impossible to not be a creator all the time.
Everyone is creating every day. We’re not aware of it because
we just don’t look at it. Every thought, every single thought
materializes in the physical world. It’s impossible to have a
thought that will not materialize, except that we reverse it. If
we say the opposite right after we have a thought of equal
strength, we just neutralize it. But any thought not reversed
or neutralized will materialize in the future, if not
immediately. So this thing of demonstration that we’re all
trying so hard to do we’re doing all the time, unaware of the
fact that we are doing it. All we need to do is to consciously
direct it, and that we call demonstration.

Everything that everyone has in life is a demonstration. It

could not come into your experience had you not had a
thought of it sometime prior. If you want to know what your
sum total thinkingness is, it’s exactly determined by what’s
around you, what you have. That is your demonstration. If
you like it you may hold it—if you don’t, start changing your
thinking, concentrate it in the direction that you really want,
until those thoughts become predominant, and whatever
those thoughts are will materialize in the world. And when
you begin to demonstrate consciously—small things—you
may then realize that the only reason why they’re small is
because you don’t dare to think big. But the exact same rule
of principle applies to demonstrating a penny that applies to
demonstrating a billion dollars. The mind sets the size.
Anyone who can demonstrate a dollar can demonstrate a
million dollars. Become aware of the way you’re
demonstrating the one dollar bill and just put six zeroes after
it next time. Take on the consciousness of the million, rather
than the one dollar bill.

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 This relates to what I have been saying that there’s no
difference between the spiritual and the material when you
see it, the material being just an out-projecting of our minds
into what we call the universe and the world, and many
bodies. And when we see that it is just an out-projecting of
our mind, it’s just a picture out there that we have created, we
can very easily change it. Instantly. So to repeat: Everyone is
demonstrating, creating, every moment that he or she is
thinking. You have no choice. You are a creator, so long as
you have a mind and think. To get beyond creation, we must
go beyond the mind, and just behind the mind is the realm of
all Knowingness, where there’s no need for creation. There’s
a higher state than creation: It’s a state of is-ness, of being-
ness, sometimes called Awareness, Beingness,
Consciousness. That’s just behind the mind. That’s beyond
creation. The mind finds it very difficult to imagine what it’s
like beyond creation, because the mind is involved primarily
in creation, in creating. It’s the creating instrument of the
universe and everything that happens in the world, in the
universe. So if you take this thing called mind, which is only a
creator, and try to imagine what it is like beyond creation, it’s
impossible. The mind will never know peace (quiet) because
you have to go just above the mind to know peace (quiet) to
know the Infinite Being that we are, to know what it’s like
beyond creation. The final state is beyond creation. The
ultimate State is the changeless state. In creation, everything
is constantly changing, therefore in creation the Ultimate
Truth is not there. So to demonstrate what one wants, one
needs to become aware of the fact that all we need to do is
think only of the things we want, and that is all that we would
get, if we would do just that. Only think of the things you
want, and that’s what you’ll be getting all the time, because
the mind is only creative. Nice and easy, isn’t it? Also, take

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credit for all the things you create that you don’t like—just
say, “Oh, look what I did”—because when you become aware
that you’ve created things you don’t like, you’re still in a
position of creator, and if you don’t like it, all you have to do
is turn it upside down and you’ll like it.

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 THE WORLD

All behavior, every act in THE HIGHEST ENJOYMENT

this world, is based on the IN THE WORLD IS A MERE
desire for love. This desire PITTANCE COMPARED TO
causes us to seek for approval, YOUR NATURAL INHERENT
acceptance, attention, power,
STATE OF YOU.
fame, and fortune.
Unfortunately, however, love
cannot be gotten this way, and we become frustrated and
unhappy. Only by loving can we find love and be happy.

The world has moments of pleasure with far more pain in

between.

Man was never intended to be a victim of circumstances.

He is the controller of them, but has lost awareness of this
fact. When he regains his awareness of it, he again becomes
the master of circumstances, and consciously controls his
environment.

The world beats you until you know your self.

Matter, energy, space, and time are in mind. When man

realizes this, he has mental control over them and controls
them at his will.

Use the world to transcend the world. Look at your

attachments and aversions to it and drop them.

There is not intelligence in matter. The world is nothing but

matter. The intelligence that is in man, and it determines this
world. However, man is unconsciously determining the
world. When he wakes up to this, he gains conscious control.

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 There is no world without the one who sees it.

Perceiving the Reality one gains dominion.

Only a realized non-attached being can enjoy things in the

world without creating boundaries and miseries.

Creation is a mental projection. The Reality is just behind

it!

The world does not disappear on seeing the Reality; the

wrong concept of it does!

The world is a school in which there is only limitation. The

lessons on limitations teach us how to surmount them until
we are limitless.

Life in the world necessitates misery, as it is in the realm of

limitation. Be in the world, but not of it!

When one cannot bear being alone with his thoughts, he

seeks entertainment. Entertainment is escaping, running
away from one’s thoughts. Happiness needs no
entertainment. Be happy by loving. The more one loves, the
less one needs entertainment.

Socializing is looking for love in the wrong place. It’s

looking for love and acceptance from people. And what we
really want is the love of God. Love of God is found only by
going within quietness. It is loving, and not looking for love.

Pleasures gained in the world are momentary. Any joy

gained through understanding the Truth or the Reality is
eternally ours.

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 You want to help the world? Help yourself. Only then may
you do so. You cannot show others unless you know yourself.

That which we give out to the world we receive in return—

is the law of compensation (karma). Many know this but few
realize that karma is created in the thought rather than the
act.

If we want good and happy lives it is necessary to think

good and happy thoughts only.

If one gossips about others, one does not hurt the other
one, but hurts himself in accord with the law of
compensation. Gossip is a form of hatred because it tears
down the other.

When one judges, the ego is playing God.

Anything we deem right or wrong is judging.

Any thinking that is “anti” (against) is judgment.

Harmlessness and mutuality always direct one into correct

behavior.

There’s no right or wrong, good or bad. There’s only

experiencing for the purpose of learning the Reality.

There’s nothing wrong with the world when you see it

alright.

The only way out of the world is through the world by

seeing every atom of it as your Self.

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 Socializing and entertainment are wasting time because
what we are really looking for (constant and unlimited joy) is
not there.

Time used in releasing meditation and selfless service is the

most useful time. It leads to joy infinite.

If each moment wasted in pursuit of the non-Self utilized in

pursuit of the Self, realization will soon follow.

Work or action need not be an obstruction to Self-

Realization. The search for your Self can always go on. One
should work or act with non-attachment, and take the
attitude that he is not the doer. Just be the witness. Then
releasing meditation can go on, and through practice, it
becomes constant.

A night dream best explains this world. All suffering in a

nightmare is real to us while we are dreaming. The entire
creation of the world, its characters, and our part in it—all of
these, while we are dreaming, seem real. It is only when we
awaken that we become aware that it never was, and that is
all subjective. Likewise, when we awaken from this world,
we say that it never was, and that it is subjective. Then we
see the Reality, the singular substance of the world which is
just behind it.

In the most limited state called wakefulness, one must see

that he is limitless. Awakening from this wakeful state
awakens one to his unlimited Self.

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 SEX AND MARRIAGE

Realization is not determined THE FIRST PLACE TO

by one’s being single or married, PRACTICE LOVE IS IN THE
but by the realization of who he HOME WITH FAMILY. WE
is. A married man may realize the SHOULD TRY TO LOVE
Self by learning to concentrate his OUR FAMILY MORE AND
MORE BY ALLOWING
mind. A concentrated mind will
THEM THEIR RIGHT TO BE
do it.
THE WAY THEY ARE.

Real love should be the basis of

marriage. Real love has no element of needing the other one,
or possessing the other one. Real love wants only to make the
other one happy.

Marriage should be used to aid one’s growth by developing

love more and more—until it is complete.

If you are a parent, the greatest help you can give your
child is to help yourself to a higher state of loving. Then you
automatically do what is best for the child. Following rules
from books will not be very effective.

See your spouse and children as children of God. Never

say, “They are mine,” as they are God’s.

Increase your selfless love for them until it is Divine Love.

The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from

helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.

Don’t marry because you feel you need, or you must

possess, the other one. This is not love and will have its
consequent unhappiness.

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 The happiest marriage is one in which each partner lives
only for the other’s happiness. This is a love marriage and
helps one toward the goal.

Marriage is too frequently only a sexual union. One marries

a member of the opposite sex and sex is freely pursued.
Marriage should be a love union.

Man is confused on sex. Sex is a physical union of male and

female, the purpose of which is procreation. The greatest
attachments man has are to sex. Man ties in two other things
with sex, one mental and one spiritual. The mental aspect is
the desire for ego approval. The spiritual aspect is love.

Man has gone so far astray from the normal that he can no
longer get any standards as to what is correct, normal sex. He
might realign himself by looking at the animals to learn the
purpose and function of sex. If he does, he will see it—a
physical act of procreation.

But man is higher than the animal and is gifted with a mind
much further developed than the animal. Animals think only
deductively while man thinks not only deductively but also
inductively. The latter gives him the ingenuity to do all that he
does that is greater than the animal. This inductive thinking
allows man to be self-conscious. Man knows he is man.
Animals know only the ways and means of procuring and
satisfying the needs for preservation. Only man looks into
himself and seeks, thereby advancing himself.

The mental aspect of sex is the seeking for ego approval.

Man looks for a partner that can give it to him, and when he
finds one that can give him ego approval constantly, he says
he is madly in love, and wants this one as a constant mate. So
long as he is getting this approval, direct or implied, he says

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he is in love and happy. However, and this is a big however,
this happiness, although it may be the greatest he has yet
experienced, is of necessity at the same time mixed with a
certain amount of painful anxiety lest this happiness be not
had in the time ahead. The pleasure obtained through one’s
mate creates a hunger for more of it, and at the same time a
fear that it could be lost, both of which are painful. This
mixture of pain and pleasure necessarily prevents full
enjoyment.

What is constant and totally satisfying is the love aspect.

Only when man really loves his partner in the full meaning of
love as defined in the preceding chapter on love, will he be
joyous and happy every moment of his life.

It is the love aspect of sex that man is really and

unconsciously seeking. Unfortunately, he has lost sight of this
and when he sees it, and regains it, he will be continuously
happy.

Sex in moderation is better than indulgence. Indulgence

keeps one bogged down and blinded.

Sex, of body passion, hinders growth by imprisoning one

into the body cage. Sex, when it rises to the passion of the
spirit, is channeled into expansion of love and liberation.

Sex is a trap. Sex leads to birth. If there is birth, there must

be death. Thus man goes from death to death. (Seek your
immortality.)

The desire for sex is basically the desire for love and when
it is satisfied in sex, the drive to attain the real Love is
weakened.

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 The power of the sex drive may be directed into channels
of love that will give a thousand times more joy than the
greatest joy that sex can give.

Attain to the joy that is so much greater than that which

sex gives, so that in order to have sex, we have to give up a
greater joy for a lesser pleasure.

We should try to attain to the understanding of Truth to the

point where we have no desire for sex or human affection,
but instead have a constant joy greater than that which sex or
human affection can give.

Joy is not in things or people. The joy attributed to them

comes only from the Self shining forth when thoughts are
stilled. The thoughts are stilled by the satisfying of the desire.

Sex deludes us in that it brings us closest to the Self (God).

By satisfying the greatest desire, the greatest number of
thoughts, conscious and subconscious, are stilled. When the
thoughts are stilled, your Self shines forth and that is the
wonderful feeling of peace and satisfaction that you feel. This
wonderful feeling should be gotten directly and made
constant.

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 DESIRE—WHAT IS IT?

Thought and desire are the same. DESIRE IS THE MOTHER

OF ALL MOTION,
We should strive to attain to the THE DISTURBER
desirelessness state. As long as we
OF ALL PEACE.
have desire, we lack, and are
trapped in the world of limitation.
Desire is the great enemy of constant joy.

A desire is a disturbance of one’s natural, inherent peace

and joy.

Any desire, other than desiring knowledge of the Self

(God), pushes one in the opposite direction of happiness, into
limitation and misery. The more desire one has for things, the
more unhappiness one has.

Any time you have any problem there’s desire behind it.

Desire and chain are the same. Every time one gratifies
one’s desire, one creates a bondage as he wants it again and
again.

Desire is the enemy of happiness and the source of misery.

Enjoying with attachment is enjoying with pain and

longing, a hunger. Enjoying without attachment is enjoying
freely and creating no bondage.

Every time one tries to satisfy a desire, he creates a [don’t

understand the word] intensity of that desire.

Letting go of attachments is an excellent method of growth.

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 Desire is seeking the joy of being our Self through objects
and people.

Everything we own, owns us.

The only possibility of satiety is to remain in your Self.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of

desire—no attachments, no aversions.

The more we turn desire off, the weaker it becomes.

When your Self is known, you are fully satisfied and have
everything.

It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far

better to be the positive.

One should have only one desire—the desire for complete

liberation.

Desire is an admission of lack.

Try to attain the state of dispassion—no attachments, no

aversions.

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 EMOTION—WHAT IS IT?

Emotions are strong feelings. They EMOTION SICKNESS

result from thwarted will. They are IS CATCHING.
really the feelings of the absence of
love, with a desire to eliminate this absence.

Examine human emotion and you will always find elements

of thwarted will or desire. Human love desires to possess the
one loved. Whatever one desires to possess, one must feel
one does not have. This is the element that makes human
love incapable of constant happiness.

Emotions excite and perturb. The opposite is calmness,

quietness, peace. Real love, being calm and peaceful, is not
an emotion.

Emotion is the opposite of peace.

Emotion is a thing of the ego.

Emotion is ego in motion.

Emotion blinds us and hinders perception and efficiency of

thought.

To act with complete freedom, there must be no emotion.

We are blinded to what is really going on to the degree of our
emotion.

A suppressed emotion is one that we have pushed down

into the subconscious part of the mind and have become
aware of it.

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 Any suppressed emotion will forever try to spend itself
until it is spent.

Suppressed emotions and thoughts develop compulsions

and inhibitions, setting habits of wrong behavior.

Most behavior is distorted and rooted in suppressed

emotions and thoughts.

Never suppress feelings. You don’t have to satisfy them, but

don’t suppress them. Just know that they are there, and let go
of them.

A desire in the past is a subconscious desire in the present.

A desire today becomes a subconscious desire in the

future.

A reaction is an automatic response determined by a past

behavior.

A reaction is a behavior based on a past incident in which

one felt pain, mental or physical. When something happens in
the present that unconsciously reminds one of the past
incident, one automatically acts as though the past incident
were present now with its prospective pain, and
unconsciously tries to avoid that pain. This caused the
behavior in the present to be determined by conditions in the
past, and it is not in accord with the present situation. This
results in very inefficient behavior that cannot bring
satisfaction. It makes one unhappy for two reasons, one
being the unconscious reminder of pain, and the other, the
frustration of not being able to achieve the desired result of
the present act.

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 Reactive behavior is not free behavior.

Free behavior is that which is determined by a

consideration of the circumstances at the moment and not
conditioned by the circumstances of some previous or past
incident.

To the degree that we react, we blind ourselves to what is

out there. We then see the world through our own colored
glasses.

Reactive behavior should be approached as an opportunity

for growth. Each time we reevaluate a reactive behavior
pattern and let go of it, we become freer.

By tracing all reactions to their source, we eliminate

reactions.

Eliminate all reactive behavior and be free!

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 PLEASURE/PAIN—WHAT IS IT?

Pleasure is the feeling we have THE ONLY WAY OUT

when that which is happening is OF ALL DIFFICULTIES
liked. IS TO KNOW
THAT YOU ARE NOT
Pain, similarly, is the feeling we
THE BODY.
have when that which is happening
is not liked.

Pleasure results from the stilling of thoughts by satisfying

them, thus allowing our real Self to shine forth a bit more.

Pain results from more thoughts being created. Thoughts

obscure the Self.

It is the mind which tells us that something is pleasurable

or painful. Does the body tell us it is hurting?

To some, pleasure is the avoidance of pain. This is a

negative approach and allows little of the infinite joy that is
available.

Pain acknowledges limitation.

Pain becomes a habit.

Pain is a prod to push us in the right direction.

The right direction is to know that we are masters over

body and mind.

The more we look in the right direction, the more we find

that which is right and true, and the less the pain.

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 There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain
than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike
you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

Pain in the body is the sense of heightened awareness at a

point. When a part of the body is being damaged, a mental
alarm is turned on, called pain. If the mind answers the alarm
fully, the pain turns off immediately, and the body mechanics
go to work at that point and rapidly repair it. Because of past
unpleasant experiences, we have developed a fear of pain,
and mentally try to flee from it, to escape it. This is not fully
answering the alarm; it causes the pain to linger, and the body
repair mechanics to slow down. If one knows this, he can
eliminate pain and effect a rapid healing of the body. It not
being easy to understand what “feeling the pain” means, try
increasing the pain. This mentally places one in the pain and
makes one feel it. On really feeling the pain it will
immediately disappear and the body will rapidly heal.

Mental pain likewise can be eliminated by recognizing it

and facing it. A mental problem, when faced fully and
squarely, will resolve. Because of its unpleasantness, one
tries to flee from it and escape it. This holds it in mind rather
than resolves it, and thereby holds onto the pain.

Looking for pleasure is part of the unconscious drive

toward the infinite joy that is inherently yours.

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 HEALTH AND SUPPLY—HOW TO GET IT

It is the same principle that heals a DISCOVER WHO THE

sick body or a sick pocketbook. SUFFERER IS AND
ON DISCOVERING
Sickness and poverty are both lack,
THIS YOU FIND ALL.
and lack is the acceptance of
concepts that are limited.

The concept of lack is only in our consciousness. One must

let go of it and in its place have concepts of abundance,
affluence, and well being.

When one learns, by actually experiencing it that mind is

only creative, he then holds in mind only the things he wants
and never takes thought for the things he does not want.

Our concepts are the sum total of our thinking and most of
them are now subconscious. We must, with effort, hold the
right concepts until they become more powerful than the
subconscious wrong concepts. Then they become the habit
and take the place of the wrong concepts. When the
subconscious mind is so conditioned life becomes beautiful
and happy.

Man’s behavior today is about 90% determined by his

subconscious thinking. He is acting automatically and is
determined by his past, and now subconscious, ideas and
concepts. That is why he finds it so difficult to make correct
thinking effective. It is necessary to persevere with correct
thinking until it becomes the habit by overriding the
subconscious habit.

It is possible to eliminate years of accumulated wrong

thinking in one single thought if that one thought be powerful
enough, that is, effected with tremendous will.

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 Our supply and health are determined by our
consciousness of supply and health.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the

complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now,
will bring it quickly. See it in its ‘isness.’

Never think of things as coming in the future, as the mind

will keep it in the future. See it, feel it, taste it, possess it as
yours now. Do not see it in its ‘will-be-ness.’

Picture things in the fullness of detail.

Think of what you want, never the money to obtain it.

Conditioning it with money is putting a limitation in the way.

Work in secrecy. Telling one what you want weakens the

drive. After obtaining it, you may tell.

Repetition is not desirable in that it means we did not

accept it fully the time before. However, if necessary, repeat
the visualization.

A full conviction that we have everything that we need as

we need it will do just that.

Supply is infinite. Never compete.

No matter how sick the body, it may be made perfect.

If we desire something, it is an admission of lack. When we

realize the God-Being that we are, we feel that everything is
ours. When this realization is obtained, the thought of
something brings it to us.

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 When we know that we have everything and therefore need
nothing, then everything comes to us for the mere effortless
thought of it.

Never connect your supply with your vocation. Let God be

your supplier. Then it matters not what you do as your supply
is guaranteed.

Effectiveness power depends on what you know of the

principle.

To effect anything, complete passivity is the quickest way.

Let go and let God. It’s a doingness on the mental plane, a
knowingness on the spiritual plane that everything is ours.

The key to prosperity is in the spirit of giving. When we

know that freely it is given, then freely we give, and the more
do we receive.

If one can heal oneself spiritually one should do it because

it is instantaneous. If one cannot do it spiritually, then one
should do it mentally as mental healing is from rapid to
instantaneous. If one cannot do it mentally, then one should
do it physically seeing a doctor.

Spiritual healing is knowing that the body is perfect. Mental

healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as
perfect.

Rather than receive a healing of body or pocket book it is

better to receive the understanding of healing. Then one may
be always free from all lack.

The fastest and surest way to health and prosperity is by

understanding Truth.

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 SPIRITUAL GROWTH—WHAT IS IT?

When one takes the path and THIS ENTIRE PATH IS A

begins to grow, all latent DO-IT-YOURSELF PATH.
tendencies, strong and weak, are
intensified and brought forth for
mastering. Rather than lose the self-initiated trial between
your will to grow and the karmic enemies that would
dethrone you, it is necessary that you should be willing to
lose everything in order to gain the goal. This must be so.

All life experiences are wasted, and one only postpones his
reinstating of infinite joy , if he does not use the experiences
of life to learn from. Every single unpleasantness has a lesson
of joy in it.

When one chooses to grow, his life becomes a paradox to

those of the world. Any attempt to justify it makes it appear
the more hopelessly contradictory. In calmness and quietness
is your strength. Silently let your growth so shine that the
quietness loudly proclaims to them the greatness of your way.

Growth is evolution in reverse, that is, the undoing of the

limitations we have learned over the centuries, and takes
time and continual doing.

Growth is becoming free. As we grow, we must become

freer and freer from behavior conditioned by compulsions
and inhibitions learned in early training. Likewise, we must
free ourselves from behavior based on traditions.

Freedom is to do, or not to do, as we choose.

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 To be happy, one must be good by choice. Being good
because one feels he must be, should be, or is compelled to
be good, does not bring happiness as this is not a free choice.

A greater obstacle is overcome by a greater truth.

Opposition is a very healthy thing. It provokes and firms

growth.

The more the growth, the simpler everything is.

Use every down as an up.

Growth is the eliminating of the ego and the realizing of

your Self.

When the ego is zero, God is all.

One must raise oneself up to the level of spiritual

knowledge to perceive it. It does not come down to the level
where it is not.

Rate of growth is directly proportional to the intensity of

the desire for it.

Only by realizing Truth does one know Truth.

A realization is recognition of some Truth within.

It is through realizations that we grow.

When we realize, we know, and we know that we know.

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 A realization is like a bright light turning on in the mind
revealing something apparently new. The fact is that it has
always been there and we are re-remembering it.

Realization is revelation.

The greatest realization is that we have always been fully

realized beings; that all we need do is remove the ignorance
of this fact.

Releasing is the way to realization.

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 RELEASING

Releasing is directing your thoughts LET GO OF YOUR

inwardly with the desire to find and EGO—AND BE
know your Self (God).
YOUR SELF!

Correct meditation is holding the

thought on Self (God) to the exclusion of all other thoughts.

Releasing stills the thoughts of the world and its tumult and
allows one to see his Self.

Concentration, holding one thought to the exclusion of

other thoughts, is the key to successful meditation.

Releasing is not becoming passive. Don’t try to go blank as

anything can come in.

The best question to think on is, “Who am I?”

Any question fed into the mind will bring an answer if we

await it. However, we frequently reject the answer the
moment it comes.

Releasing ultimately leads to complete quietude of mind

with its blissful peace.

Releasing is daily separation of man from the world, only to

unite him more closely and more intimately with it, by
becoming one with it.

Releasing is a supplication to the Self to enter and abide; to

show us the glory of the Self, so that we will want only it,
rather than the ego.

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 PRACTICAL METHODS
THAT MAY BE USED DAILY

Correct Behavior PERSEVERANCE IS

There are only two laws that need NECESSARY.
be known to cover all correct
behavior.
1. One should have a feeling of harmlessness toward all
beings.
2. That which is mutual is correct.

By following only these two rules one will be guided

correctly in all situations, and will be aided in one’s growth.

Square all with love.

Accept full responsibility for whatever happens to you. By

taking full responsibility and seeking the cause in your
thinking, you will find the initiating cause and eliminate it.

Discriminate between the Real, that which is changeless,

and the unreal, that which changes.

Attain to the desirelessness state.

Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb

you.

Be a witness, unaffected; assuming the place where you

should be.

Get to the point where you see the perfection where the
seeming imperfection seems to be.

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 See your Self in everyone and everything.

Develop a constant feeling of gratitude toward God and

everyone. This makes one always joyous.

Grant the other one the other one’s beingness.

Get quiet.

Concentrate your mind.

Develop a constant consciousness of your path and goal.

Keep Holy company. Seek those who are seeking Truth.

Read only that which is directing and aiding your growth.

Daily, let go of the ego.

Take no thought for the ego—take thought only for your

Self.

Let the ego go its way and know that it is not the real you,
your Self. Just keep knowing that you are not it. Eventually, it
not being recognized, it will vanish!

Review your behavior of the day, at the end of each day, as

a means of rapid growth. Square all with love, reviewing the
behavior in the light of love, and take full responsibility for
whatever happened.

Examination of behavior, in the light of love, with those

whom one feels closest to, is very revealing and helpful to
one’s growth.

Practice loving those who oppose you. Be sure you are not
suppressing your opposition. If there is opposition or hate,
recognize it with the attitude that this, too, shall pass.

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 Introspection brings up the subconscious and makes it
conscious, allowing us to change it.

Reactions can be used as opportunities for growth by

seeking their source and thereby eliminating them.

Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and don’t

have anything to do with Mr.-in-between.

It is better to act wrongly than to not act. No action is

paralyzing. By wrong action one will learn right action.

Submit either to God within, your Inner Self, or God

without, the Teacher, and unload your burdens.

We are here and now fully a Realized Being telling

ourselves that we are not, by saying, “I need this,” “I need
that,” “I am limited by this,” “I am limited by that.” All we
need to do is to stop feeling that we are limited and start
being the unlimited being that we really are.

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 WAYS OF GETTING OUT OF A BLUE MOOD
INTO A HAPPY MOOD

FILL YOURSELF TO THE FULL WITH SELFLESS LOVE.

Square all with love.

Be cause and not effect.

Ex-press and be not im-pressed.

Think what you want and stop thinking of what you do not
want.

Face it.

Pick an agreement with the other one.

Resist nothing.

Accept everything. (Including yourself and your thoughts.)

Know that the help is always there, because God never

forsakes.

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 DIFFERENT PATHS—HOW TO GET THERE

YOU HAVE TO UNWANT THE WORLD AND

WANT YOUR SELF.

There are five major paths to Self Realization to suit the

various natures and inclinations of man. They are:

• Using the release technique by using Self-Inquiry and

looking within and asking the question, “Who am I?”

• Right Understanding through use of one’s intellect and

wisdom.

• Mind Control through breath control.

• Devotion through love of, and surrender to, God.

• Action through selfless service to humanity.

• The paths all end up answering the question “Who am I?”

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 THOUGHTS

That which you are seeking is USE THE WORLD TO

seeking you more so. TRANSCEND THE
WORLD. LOOK AT
This is the study of the causes and
YOUR ATTACHMENTS
purposes of life and takes as its
AND AVERSIONS TO
premise that man is potentially an
unlimited being—that whatever he is IT AND DROP THEM.
capable of thinking, he is capable of
doing. The evolutionary purpose in life is to find more and
more this limitless being that man is. The practicality of the
study is that as man lets go of his limitations, he becomes a
freer, healthier, and happier being.

We have infinite power within us, and no thing or no one

can hurt us until we give them the power to.

No one can be helped by a higher being unless desirous of

it and ready for it. Higher teachers present their teaching and
one may pick it up or not, as one chooses. The relationship of
Teacher and pupil is one of a mutuality.

Earth is a classroom to which we come to learn the eternal

Truths.

A Consciousness of Truth meets no resistance.

All experiences contain a lesson. If the lesson is difficult,

the same difficulty keeps repeating itself until resolved in the
light of Truth.

Heaven and hell are right where we are and are created by
our thinking. When we know this, we make it only heaven.

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 Liberation is acquired through understanding alone! Right
action does not free, but is an aid to freedom.

Confirmation from one who has dipped into the Self is very
helpful. It assures you that you are right even though all the
others may think you are wrong.

As we grow we acquire new ways of thought and new

friends in place of the old. Eventually we see all as our
friends.

The higher the joy, the higher you may go! Joy is unlimited!

One must stand out and be separate, and never let go of

Principle. If one does, he steps down.

One with God is a majority.

“One with God” is an absolute safety.

The worldly limited concepts do not let go easily. They are

deeply ingrained over many millenniums, and fight (via the
ego) for survival.

How long does it take for Omniscience and Omnipotence to

know that It is?!

Man, in trying to regain his limitlessness, tried to conquer

matter, energy, space, and time through science and external
machines. When he recognizes his ability to do this directly
there results clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy,
telekinetic, teleportation, etc.

We do not have to react to disagreeable words. Words are

sounds with but tiny bits of energy impinging on our
eardrums. Let this infinitesimal energy affect you not.

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 No one’s word can affect us unless we accept that it can.

If you want someone to do something and he doesn’t, it’s

up to you to feel hurt. The other person doesn’t hurt you—
you do!

Whose feelings are you feeling when you feel hurt? If they
are yours you are doing it. If you are doing it, you can not do
it.

Good intentions are no substitute for the doing of the thing.

Blame is a substitute for correcting one’s behavior. Blame

is a shame.

What you do is not nearly as important as the attitude with

which you do it.

It’s impossible to be happy when one is dependent on

others.

We’re happy when we are ex-pressing, but we’re miserable

when we’re being im-pressed.

Your answer should be “yes” or “no,” but never “maybe.”

It’s better to take wrong action than to take no action. By
wrong action one learns right action. Maybe becomes
paralyzing to a human being.

We should be cause and not effect.

He that excuses, accuses himself.

To be free is to have a choice to do or not to do a thing.

Complete freedom would allow us to walk down a main
street nude. However, to do this would be foolish, as it would

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result in arrest and other trouble. What is required for
freedom is the ability to do it, but not the doing of it.

Living the way others live is non-freedom.

Do not try to correct a problem. Behold the real Perfection

and this frees you of an assumed imperfection.

God is All and God is Perfect, and when one sees that, one
can see only the Perfection where the seeming imperfections
seem to be.

There can be only perfection for one if that is his only

thinking.

There’s nothing out there but your consciousness.

When we see imperfection without, we should look within.

Only that which is within can be seen without.

You don’t like the world out there? Change yourself.

Thinking is cause, what happens is effect.

See no evil, hear no evil, think no evil, and there will be no

evil for you.

There is never any other time but the present moment, the
past is always in the past, and the future is always in the
future.

Let go of past life and future life. Know the truth of the
present and you will know everything.

Time is a series of present moments.

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 Time is a mental concept.

All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not

understand each other.

Anytime one is thinking in misery, one is moving downward

and in the wrong direction. Likewise, when one is thinking in
joy, one is happy and is moving upward and in the right
direction. When the movement upward is greater than the
movement downward, the resultant progress is upward.

Don’t probe darkness to understand light.

Don’t dwell on sickness to be healthy.

Don’t indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

Don’t dwell in misery to understand happiness.

Everything we own has a mouth and must be fed.

Everything we own owns us.

God, like the sun, shines equally on all. It is not the fault of
the sun if the plant is weak.

God never forsakes,- man does!

Grace is always constant and full. We receive it according

to the degree of our receptivity.

Transfer your allegiance from the creation to the Creator.

Surrender is a radical reliance.

Devotion is willing the ego into subsidence.

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 Humility of the ego is wonderful. When the ego gets small,
the God-part gets bigger. But don’t think that you are
presumptuous when you say “I Am That I Am,” because that
is your inherent nature.

The less the ego, the quieter the mind.

The quieter the mind, the more obvious the Self.

When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it

discovers that it is a limited thing and that just behind the
mind is all-knowingness.

As long as you are a part of, you are apart from the One.

Am is being. There is only one Beingness. I Am That I Am.

The word “I” is that number 1. All “I’s” are one!

The first name for God is “I,” your very Self.

Aloneness is Al-Oneness.

Lonesomeness is to the degree that you are separated from

your Self.

Lose the sense of separateness and gain the sense of “I am

All—every person, animal, and thing.”

Every day is an opportunity to prove your mastership.

The realer Real is more in feelingness than it is in the

hearing and seeing.

The five senses are in limitation. God, Truth, is in

“feelingness in the heart.” When the feelingness becomes

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matured, you will still see the world. But, instead of seeing it
as separate and apart you will see it as your Self, You; that
you are it and it is you! Then it becomes subjective rather
than objective. You see it alright instead of all wrong.

This life of limitation is a reflection of the Real.

The only human thing about you is your belief that you are
human. (You are Divine.) This belief is the medium for lack,
sickness, limitation, and misery.

Love is a shove to the above.

Hate is a grate holding you down.

Help those who are not asking for it and get hurt.

Helping those who are not asking for it is imposing your

will.

Helping one who is not asking for it is helping your ego.

We go in the wrong direction to learn what the right is.

Never get into a situation where you are helping someone

spiritually and being hurt yourself. In the application of Truth,
everyone gains.

Education teaches us things that are in the realm of

limitation!

Get out of your cage. Be a sage.

We should get to the place where we feel that all mothers

are our mothers, all fathers are our fathers, and all children
are our children.

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 Language is an instrument of duality and admit separation.
It implies the speaker, the one spoken to, and the matter
spoken.

In Oneness language is useless as all is known.

Belief is accepting on hearsay.

Faith is stronger than belief.

Conviction is stronger than faith.

Knowing is absolute—there is no doubt.

Highest beauty is just beingness. Beauty is by attitude.

Seek without and you’re in a bout.

Dive within and you’ll thrive alive.

What comes out of a man’s mouth is far more important

than what goes into it.

If you want to know your consciousness, just look at who

and what is around you.

Man is always down on what he is not up on.

A radical reliance on your Self (God) is the secret to the

operation of the natural or divine law.

Acts performed with pure love build no future karma.

Karma is a gift of the gods of an opportunity to grow.

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 Fortunate is the one whom life does test, that he may grow.
The greater the test, the greater one may grow.

Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.

The closer one comes to the Self, the more beautiful

everything becomes.

Inspirational delights are more delighting than other

entertainment.

Inspiration is dipping into the realm of omniscience.

When your heart is in the right direction, your thinking is in

the right direction.

Direct your attention toward the other one’s beingness.

(Take it off your little self, your ego.)

It is happier to love than to be loved.

It is happier to give than to be given.

Happiness is in the spirit of giving; not in the gift.

Anger in a hangar.

When there is a real spiritual vision, one is never left the

same. He or she is left with a higher understanding and
feeling of love.

One’s outlook is determined by one’s sight. To the physical

eye, all is gross. To the mental eye, all is subtle. To the
spiritual eye, there is only the Infinite Self, and everything
becomes one infinitude.

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 In the waking state, the physical body perceives the
manifold physical world. In dreaming sleep the mental body
perceives the mental creations in their manifold forms and
names. In deep dreamless sleep, no thing is perceived and the
Self is.

The time required to accomplish the goal varies widely with

individuals. Few accomplish it rapidly as few really accept
the way. However everyone reaches it eventually.

Man can man the universe.

Die to death and you will be born into immortality.

See the world as a 3-ring circus, with yourself on the

outside, observing and unaffected.

When reason and feeling agree, there is no more conflict

within the individual.

You can help the world only to the degree you can help
yourself.

Doingness is higher than havingness. Beingness is higher

than doingness.

When the ego is strong enough, you can’t see a locomotive

coming at you.

Thoughts can actually dim the sun to one whose thoughts

are dim.

For best decisions, decide only when your mind is quietest

and when you feel happiest.

Keep Whole-ly company with Whole-ly thoughts.

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 We are at this moment the result of the sum of all our past
thinking.

Advice is thievery. It deprives the other one of an

opportunity to learn by his own doing.

When you offer a suggestion, take the attitude that the

other one may accept it or not, as the other one wishes.

Pain turns off if you recognize it and feel it. Ninety percent
of all pain is just memory of pain rather than pain, but it feels
the same.

Grief is a thief.

Impatience is wanting things to be the way we want them

to be—now!

Sympathy is feeling the misery of the other one and

stepping down to where the other one is.

Compassion is understanding what a person is going

through without feeling it and lending a hand to lift him up.

Body fatigue is a toxic condition caused by no love

emotions.

If we have absolutely no conflicts, we never get tired.

The body has no intelligence to do—we do it.

Be untainted like the sainted.

We have free will to identify with the limited body or to

identify with the unlimited self.

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 The joy that is ours is infinite. Joy is our inherent nature.
Most people look for joys in the world, in people, and are
disappointed.

Will without emotion for happiest results.

Will, in early childhood, is used to satisfy physical needs. In

youth we have not yet learned to rightly direct it and it is
blind will. In maturity we should direct it with wisdom into
channels that fulfill the purpose of life.

It is the blind will of youth that causes juvenile delinquency.

When the will moves contrary to natural principle, there is

immediately established an opposition to the wrong
movement. When will moves in accord with natural principle
it meets no resistance.

Will is a great accomplisher.

When you are happy, you don’t have to invoke will, you just
let things be.

Blame is accusative rather than corrective.

Misery is thinking of the things you do not want.

We die only to those around us, never to ourselves.

The greater the messenger shines, the less the message

shines.

Understanding is that which stands under.

Tolerance implies ego.

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 Don’t be little by belittling.

Seek the seeker. Find out who he is and you’ll find God.

To be or not to be, that is the answer.

Miracles are not God. The source of miracles is God.

A miracle is done with knowingness. All it takes is a

knowingness in your mind and it is done.

Consciousness is the sole composition of any thing.

Never accept responsibility for another one’s behavior,

even if that one be closely related. Allow him to grow through
his own learning.

Intellectual discussion is a mental activity wherein

thoughts, mostly of others, are kicked around. It avails no
growth and is “spinning in circles.” The only really useful
mental activity is that which directs the mind toward the Self.

Opinion has nothing to do with Truth. Opinionating is

wanting one’s opinion accepted and therefore is wanting ego
approval.

Opinionating is foisting one’s thinking upon another. It is

totally useless in finding Truth.

The mere recognizing of the problem is more than 50% of

the solution, for no solution is possible if the problem is not
recognized!

By running away from a problem, we only run into it in the

future.

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 If you let life strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your
imagination.

Scale of emotions from bottom to top—apathy, grief, fear,

covert hostility, anger, indifference, acceptance, freedom, and
joy.

Fear and it will appear. Quell the dwell on fear and it will
disappear.

Any thinking or act that is “anti” (against) is non-

acceptance and resistance. It is, therefore, not loving.

We are responsible for our own thinking.

Oneness is no-otherness.

I can have, I can be, I can do whatever I will or desire,

because I am the infinite I Am expressing. (So long as I do not
impose my will on others.)

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 SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS

We know only that which we can THE WHOLE WORLD

do. What can I do?
IS JUST A MERE
THOUGHT—
Am I completely at peace?
THINK OF THAT!
How loving am I? Do I love all
beings?

Do I accept full responsibility for whatever happens to me?

Am I desireless? Do I have no attachments and no

aversions?

Am I free to do or not to do the things I want or don’t want

to do?

Do I grant others their beingness?

Am I accepting of the world and the people around me?

Am I accepting of myself?

Am I completely free from reacting to people’s wishes and

thoughts?

Am I disturbed?

Am I able to express myself clearly, freely and truthfully?

Am I able to be alone and be at peace?

Is my life simple? (The further we are from the One, the

more complex everything is.)

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 LAW OF COMPENSATION OR KARMA

Karma is the law of compensation. KARMA IS CAUSED

Whatever a man soweth, that shall he BY DESIRES THAT
reap; that which a man thinks or does, REMAIN IN THE
returns to him in kind. Everything that SUBCONSCIOUS
one does now, causes the same thing
MIND.
to happen to one in the future.
Likewise everything happening now,
has its cause in something done in the past.

Karma is destiny as it determines exactly what happens in

life. We can do nothing in regard to all actions happening.
Whatever has been destined to be done by us will be done by
us.

If all our action is karmic and predestined, then our will

that directs that action must necessarily be predestined.

However, we can conquer karma and destiny. There is free

will—to identify with our body, or to identify with our real
Self.

Do not identify with the body and be free from the

pleasures and pains of the body and from the pleasant and
unpleasant consequences of action. Identify with your real
Self and remain eternally in the exalted state of supreme
happiness.

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 A SUMMARY
THE SELF-GOD-ABSOLUTE TRUTH

Self (God) is Infinite, Limitless; One, Indivisible; Perfect;

Changeless, Immutable; Timeless, Without Beginning or End;
Whole, The All; Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent.

If God is All, that certainly must include us. If God is

likened to the ocean and we to the drops in the ocean, then
each drop has all the attributes and qualities of the whole
ocean, that is, like the ocean, each drop is wet, fluid, salty,
H2O, etc. If God is timeless and eternal, and if God is all, we
are now, we always have been, and always will be that God
which we are seeking. We are God ignorant of this fact, acting
like not-God. All we need to do is improve our knowing of the
fact that “I AM THAT I AM” until our knowledge is only that.
Then we see and know that we are that which we have been
seeking.

So the goal is to know that “I AM THAT I AM.” This

knowing, however, is not the intellectual knowing, which is
but like a tape recording. This knowledge is an experienced
knowledge gotten through Self realization, through stilling
the five outer senses and concentrating the mind inwardly
until the Self, Itself, gives us the answer by showing Itself.

No one can be taught Truth or God, each must realize Truth

by himself or herself. A Teacher can give the direction, the
way, and the pupil may take it.

All Truth is provable. Accept nothing on hearsay. Each

must prove out everything for himself or herself.

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 There is only one Absolute Truth, and that is the Truth that
is changeless. Before we attain to the one Absolute Truth we
use the apparency of relative truth.

Reason and thinking, dealing with the limited senses, and

being a lower level operation mind, cannot get us to the
Absolute Truth, but must be used to get us in the direction of
the Absolute Truth. Intuition, knowingness, super-
consciousness reveal the Absolute Truth.

There are five major ways and paths suited to the various
natures of man. The easiest way for most people today is
through love and devotion to God. A second way is through
serving mankind without interest in the fruits thereof. A third
way is through use of intellect and wisdom. A fourth way is
through mind control through breath control. The fifth way,
Self Inquiry, is to pose the question, “Who am I?” until the
answer presents itself.

Our rate of growth is directly proportional to the intensity

of the desire for it.

Man thinks of himself as body, mind, and soul. Soul is the

real Self—Infinite, All-Knowing, All-Powerful, Everywhere
Present. Mind is a tool of Soul, used as an instrument to
create and reflect the physical universe. Body is the creation
of mind.

Therefore, we must first get to know that we are not the

limited body, then that we are not the limited mind, and what
is left is that we are the Pure Infinite Glorious Self,
Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent! This is the real
evolution. Life, as we know it today, is in the limited realm of
cause and effect. Natural or divine law works in accordance
with cause and effect. To be masters and controllers of life,

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we need only to know that thinking is the cause and what
ever happens in the physical world is the effect of that
thinking! If, from this moment on, we would keep in mind
only that which we want, that is only what we would get!

Remember, mind is only creative, and will create

constructive and destructive things, determined by what we
keep in mind!

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“If you could stop thinking for one moment,

you would discover what you are.”

Lester Levenson

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 LESTER IN HIS OWN WORDS

Thank you, Greetings and Love to each and every one of

you. I think the biggest surprise tonight was to me. I didn’t
know I was going to talk until about 10 minutes before eight
this evening, when I was told I was going to be the surprise.

So I began thinking, “What am I going to talk about? Talk

about you, talk about me?” Then I realized, “What’s the
difference? We are all in the very same boat called life.” We’re
all doing, in my eyes, the exact same thing that I did. We are
all looking for the summum bonum. The highest good in the
ultimate place. It is happiness, and we are without it all the
time. Struggling for it, looking for it, wondering where it is?

Back in 1952, I claimed I found the place. It is right where I

am. It is right where you are, and all this looking for it
everywhere, every day year in and year out, is such a waste of
time—when it is right where you are. We’re all here in this
classroom called earth, trying to discover something, the
ultimate. And we are all looking for it externally where it
isn’t. If we would only turn our direction back upon
ourselves, we would discover it right here, right where I am,
right where you are, right in your very own being.

I say are you, you say yes. I say that’s it. Do nothing else but
that, and you will be in the ultimate state of happiness. So
why don’t you do it? You are so habituated in looking for it
over there, over there in him, in her, in this job—and it is
never there. So we are all going through the same trip of
trying to discover what is this all about, where is my
happiness, and when we stop chasing after it out there and
we turn inward, we discover that all these hard negative,
terrible feelings are only a feeling. And that it is possible to
get rid of these feelings by releasing them. All these feelings

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are subconscious programs—every bit of them put in as
prosurvival—it’s not only fear, but survival. All our feelings
have been programmed in to automatically keep us surviving.
They keep looking out there, trying to survive, keeping our
minds active subconsciously 24 hours a day, so never do we
stop to think and discover what we are. If you could stop
your thinking for one moment, you would go through the
most tremendous experience that there is. That you are the
totality of this universe in your beingness, that when your
mind goes quiet, you will automatically see that—I am the
most terrific being in this universe. I am whole, complete, and
perfect. I always was, I am now and I always be.

So what is it that is keeping us from being in the most

delectable state that there is? Simply the accumulated
programs called feelings. All these negative feelings have us
constantly struggling to survive, having us constantly
struggling to survive, having us constantly looking away from
this tremendous thing that we are, and all we need to do is
quiet that mind and become self-obvious to ourselves of this
tremendous being that we are.

How do we do it? I say it’s simple. The Release® Technique.

It happens to be the fastest, the most effective way there is to
achieve this high state of being. When we are in total control
of our universe, where every moment is a wonderful,
wonderful moment, it is impossible to be unhappy. And I say
that is our natural state when these negative feelings are
released.

Some day you are going to do it. You are in the same boat
where you are struggling, and you’re doing everything to
achieve that happiness, and some day you are going to get it
because you will never stop until you get there. But if you
want to do it faster, do it our way. I promise you will be very

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pleasantly surprised. Everything you are looking for is right
where you are. All you need to do is to take off the blinders.
Your vision is very blurred. You’re looking through these
subconscious programs—when you release them, your vision
becomes clear and you discover you are the greatest. You’re
whole, you’re complete, you’re eternal. All your fear of dying
disappears. And life is so comfortable after that, and there is
no struggle, no struggle whatsoever, when you get these
negative feelings up and out.

So I urge you to learn this technique. It’s a tool, and in one

week’s time, there will be a big change in you for the better,
and from there on, you will continue to get better and better,
lighter and lighter, happier and happier.

This thing called love is your basic nature. All the love in
the universe is in your basic nature. You will discover that
happiness—your happiness—equates to your capacity to
love, and conversely all your miseries equate to your need to
be loved. Just love, love, love and you will be so happy and
healthy and prosperous. But again, you need to lift out the
non-love feelings. So again I urge you to try our way. I
promise that you will be very satisfied. Try it, you will like it.
Thank you so much for coming.

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Lester Levenson

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 A MESSAGE FROM LESTER

So we have had a chance to talk heart to heart. I hope this

has helped you. And I want you to know there is much more
help available. I have talked to you in a manner that is
designed to provoke thinking that leads you to a new
realization. I have talked to you in a way that attempts to
reach the part of you that inherently and intuitively
understands more than your intellect. All this leads you to
wisdom. Wisdom that is higher than intellectual knowledge.

If you have found these words of value, I suggest you go on

and explore the do-it-yourself method I have developed that
will show you how to increase your understanding every day.
It is called the Release® Technique. It will give you keys to
self-growth and allow you to keep it going from here on. The
Release Technique is based on the premise that each one of
us has no limits except those that we hold onto
subconsciously, and when we let go of our subconscious
limitations, we discover that our potential is unlimited.
Unlimited in the direction of health, happiness, affluence and
materiality. The Release Technique will help you achieve the
kind of life you want and even more importantly, it will assist
you in achieving self-realization.

The Release Technique is kind of a post-graduate course to

this book. Practice it and achieve the ultimate state.

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• Rid yourself of worry.

• Access answers from your higher self.

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 “This course helped me bring back the value of more consistent releasing. It has given
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“I never thought I could feel this good about myself. I now have a tool I can use each
day of my life.”
Yvonne Medina, Los Angeles, CA
Client Service Genetics Institute

UNLOCK WHAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK FROM HAVING TOTAL

ABUNDANCE AND JOY IN YOUR LIFE—ONCE AND FOR ALL
LEARN TO TRUST YOURSELF
“By the end of Day 2, I achieved a sense of deep calm. While driving home, I found I
wasn’t so irritated by other drivers and I remained unperturbed. My boyfriend commented
on the youthful, lighter look on my face over dinner.”
Kim LaChance, Lawndale, CA
Therapist
“I have been going through books and seminars for so long. This course allowed me to
see that life can be without problems. The future is wonderful now.”
Pirayeh Shaban, Pasadena, CA
Coordinator

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IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS

“I am able to release my anger at my girlfriend whenever she gets angry/jealous about

our relationship. Our relationship has greatly improved in a short time.”
Jay Torres, Culver City, CA
Salesman

“My relationship with my children has greatly improved. I am able to handle

disgruntled clients without being uptight. I lost my craving for smoking and stopped
smoking in the first day of the course.”
Thomas Mitchel, Los Angeles, CA
Investment Advisor

“Everything is working for me with ease—my relationships are getting better, my

business is exploding with ease, abundance just is and it’s easy!”
Shawna Leach-Lugo, Phoenix, AZ
Artist

“I can allow myself to love people for who they are, no matter what.”
John Cullen, Lake-in-the-Hills, IL
Contractor

MORE REPORTS FROM ABUNDANCE COURSE GRADUATES WHO

HAVE DROPPED UNWANTED HABITS

“A few weeks after learning The Release Technique, I completely stopped my chain
smoking habit and the craving hasn’t come back in 15 years since stopping.”
Don Janklow, Westlake Village, CA
President, Janklow & Associates

“I have learned to relax by releasing, and an unexpected gain has been that I no longer
have a desire for alcohol—it feels good.”
Jack Dimalante, New York

“I lost five pounds during the first week of the course without thinking about it!”
Lloyd Scott, Dallas, TX

“I used this method when I was feeling hunger, and I no longer feel the desire to eat.”
Rita Recken, Glandorf, OH

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ELIMINATE STRESS

“Sleeping better than I have in years. I quit taking drugs for my arthritis and feel better
without them.”
Raymond Hanson, Los Angeles, CA

“I connected with the ease of releasing. I simply didn’t know how much resistance I
had. By Sunday, I had so much energy it was great and after only four hours of sleep. I
feel lighter and happier.”
Ariana Attie, Los Angeles, CA
Legal Secretary

“The first weekend I discovered my feeling of fatigue could be alleviated, and I drove
200 miles without the sleepiness and feeling of heaviness that so often plagued me.”
Ruth A. Riegel, Chicago, IL

“I had several physical ailments including migraine headaches, diverticulitis, gout and
severe hypoglycemia, and the week after taking the course was scheduled for surgery. But
within a few days after beginning to release, the surgical condition disappeared and never
re-appeared. My other physical problems cleared up. I believe these good effects are due
to the stress reduction brought about by using the Method.”
Dr. David Hawkins, Manhasset, NY
Medical Director, The North Nassau Mental Health Center

“I think it is becoming evident, in my observation, that the techniques learned in the

program were beneficial to people who work under the stress and strain that we do in the
Investment Banking Industry. I have personally benefited, especially when I ran the New
York City Marathon shortly after an illness.”
Thomas J. Kitrick
Vice President Training and Development
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

40-year Search is Over

“Over the last 40 years, I have spent thousands of dollars and invested hundreds of
hours in an uncountable number of seminars, courses and techniques. I purchased The
Abundance Course hoping, as always, that I had finally found something that would
work. I did! Now my reactions to events during the day are much more positive than ever
before. Wow!”
Bill Cook, Norman, OK

Multimillionaire Heals Heart

“I am a multimillionaire who has learned how to attract money easily into my life via
the route to real estate development. What I had not known was that it is okay to enjoy
my work and it is okay to enjoy spending the fruits of my labor. I am now able to tithe
and gift and spend my money joyfully and peacefully. What a difference The Abundance
Course made in this miraculous turnaround of attitude for me. Further, my heart used to
hurt and the doctors would consistently tell me it is fine. My heart no longer hurts
me–I’ve released, it’s free.”
Robert White, Boston, MA
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Triples Income
“Thank you for your wonderful “Abundance” tapes. After listening to your tapes a
thought popped into my mind that increased my income 3 times. I evaluate children (I’m
a consulting school psychologist) at a rate of $350/evaluation–write up reports and type
them on a computer–formerly one evaluation a day. I now do three evaluations (takes
11/2 hrs. per evaluation), tape my reports and have the school secretary type them up. My
income is now over $1,000/day and I work only 2 days a week. I have more leisure time
to do other things that give me joy. Again, thanks to you and the works of Lester
Levenson–a truly great man. “
Dr. Samuel L. Beitchman, Ph.D., Mount Laurel, NJ

Joy Spilling Out

“The Abundance Course is truly the marvel of life. I am a skeptical person (or I was!)
and I didn’t think the course would do much for me, but now I am a believer—actually I
know that this course is the key to happiness with no sorrow. Right now, I feel absolutely
joyous—it’s spilling out of me—and it’s for the best reason, which is no reason at all.
I’d like to thank you for your everlasting patience, love and givingness that Lester
shared with us.”
Foster Brown, Massachusetts

Happy all the Time and Makes $100,000 in One Week

“The Abundance Course just got me much clearer about my life. It showed me how to
have a positive attitude all the time. I’m now happy all the time and the joy is just
bubbling up. Because I’m even so much more positive now, I was able to make $100,000
last week in the stock market.”
Sarit Majhor, Sante Fe, NM

Happiest Time in His Entire Life

“After ordering and receiving the home study version of The Abundance Course, I
allowed it to sit on the shelf for several months. Then one day I simply decided to follow
the instructions and do it on a daily basis. That was about 3 months ago, and what a
journey it has been. Traditionally my medical practice slows down the first quarter of the
year for various reasons and picks up in the spring. Amazingly, I have had the most
productive January I’ve had in many years, and continues into February. In fact, January
was the second most productive month I have had in twelve months. Not only that,
something in a profound way has happened to my attitude toward my patients and life in
general. I feel so much love toward my patients and about everyone else. It’s really weird.
I have come to the conclusion that I just may be the happiest I have ever been in my
entire life. That’s not bad for a person who previously thought he was just an old, worn-
out Doc.”
Dr. Clyde Shreve, Ogden, UT

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Oneness and Bliss
“I cannot express the extent of my gratitude for the wisdom you imparted to me this
past weekend. The Abundance Course was beyond anything I could have imagined–
indeed it finally gave me an experience that I had been searching for 19 years. I picked up
a book on Zen Buddhism at the time I have been searching for the experience described
in that book and the many, many others I have read since that time. I have tried various
techniques since that time including intensive medication, Tony Robbins, etc. but it
wasn’t until I was driving home from The Abundance Course (driving down a Los
Angeles freeway no less) that I had an experience of Oneness and Bliss. I finally have
found the way out of the feeling of separateness and pain that comes with living a normal
human life. This is priceless knowledge and timeless wisdom.”
Sonny Ritscher, Los Angeles, CA

Overcomes Sadness Easily

“In September 1994, my youngest son, Matt, age 21, was killed in an auto accident and
for these seven years I lived in grief. Though the pain eased over the years I could hardly
speak his name without breaking down. I completed The Abundance Course at the end of
October and last week released on Matt’s death. I felt like someone had lifted a boulder
off my back. The empty, squeezing, tightness in my chest was gone. I felt wonderful, so
to see how much I’d release I watched a home video. Seeing Matt I felt only love and
happiness. (No more tears, no more pain.) Yesterday I even talked to a friend about the
accident and did not get upset in the least. This is a tremendous gain for me and I
recommend this course to everyone.
Thank you so much!”
Jeri Von Wolff, West Des Moines, IA

M.D.’s Health Improves

“My allergies have improved significantly since using The Abundance Course. I used to
have really bad neck and back tension and that has improved significantly as well. I am
more at peace with regard to my relationships with my parents. My ability to treat
patients has improved and I feel better able to tune-in with what’s going on with others. I
recommend the course to anyone who wants to improve their life in every way.”
Clara Hsu, M.D., Los Angeles, CA

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 No Attachments,
No Aversions
The Autobiography of a Master

Lester tells his own story in his very

own words. In the margin are Lester’s
own notes in his own handwriting.
Each time you read it you will discover
something profound that will help
you in your own personal quest
towards freedom.

“For the first time, a living American Master tells the story of his
life and details step by step in simple, everyday English how he
achieved the extraordinary powers of omniscience, omnipresence,
and omnipotence.
This twentieth century Master came into his immortality not by
the shores of the Ganges, nor on the heights of the Himalayas, but
in the bustling heart of New York City.
Lester Levenson—born in New Jersey, a former physicist and
businessman—points the way to freedom that Westerners can readily
understand and follow.”

Lawrence Crane
Author and teacher of Lester’s “Release Technique”

The cost in $25 plus $5 shipping and handling. Total: $30.

(California residents please add $2.50 [8.25% sales tax] for a total of $32.50.)