Secret Power of Words

of life, you will always resent the cruel words of others and become degraded; you will find yourself reacting to them as if they were the real thing. But I'm saying words are not the real thing. Stand back from the experience and you will see that those words are unreal.
     You are too conditioned to language, and language continues to reinforce what language originally did. Adam reacted and believed Eve; he believed into her. When you believe something, you buy it. You believe into. You go into it, and it comes into you; and it acts through you. You are acted through by the spirit of your violation. What those words say is what you become. Your faith is locked into the word:-giver. No longer do you have faith in the God self, the wordless Word within. In order for you to be saved and have faith again, you have to become separate. You must become objective to your own self, to the speaker's self, and to the spirit of the speaker.
     I am a mouthpiece of language, but mine is the language of spirit. "Faith cometh by the Word." I'm saying, doubt education as a means of becoming happy. Your problem is that you have fallen into education, into the hands of the pseudo­intellectuals who emphasize knowledge before under­standing, just as the serpent did when he tricked us out of Paradise. Such knowledge induces pride, and pride swells the soul up into conflict with the parent self, the supreme ego of the universe.
     I am only just beginning to understand the power of the wordless Word, and just learning to overcome the power of the worldly word. The main thing here is to realize that you must be more objective and less resentful.

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