Divine Utterances:
Right Life / Discipline

If we are truly serious about the matter of religion and spiritual practice, we must also be consistently self-critical. Religion and spirituality without self-criticism are merely forms of self-protecting enthusiasm, founded on uninspected fear.

"Ego Death and the Chaos of Experience"
Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
Will Soon Be Announced By The White House!

Without true celebration, discipline is obnoxious.

The Eating Gorilla Comes In Peace

Real spiritual understanding requires a practice and discipline and is a hard school, well as being a life of Grace, a life in which there is Great Help. This Help transcends the limits that you would bring to practice ordinarily. It is also a hard school or a difficult affair. It requires great responsibility, great attention for this exercise. . . .

Do not think you can "take Heaven by storm".

What Is The Conscious Process?

You people are all weakening yourselves, consenting to be identified with your early-life complication, your early-life adaptations, your old adaptations, as if complication is your right. That is nonsense. What about your understanding? Change it, then! Do something else! Suffer the heat of it, and grow. Without heat there is no growth, there is no cooking, there is no alchemy, there is no change; things are not thrown into the pot; nothing happens.

"Sadhana Hurts"
Hear Me Heart-Deep

Do not blame anybody ever again. Embrace the discipline of blamelessness. Never blame anything or anyone ever again. You have no right to blame anybody. It is all your personal business.

The Incarnation of Love

There is not anything that anyone does or has done that gives you a "right" — based on any principle whatsoever — to dissociate from that person or to deny yourself the quality of sympathy and compassion relative to that person. Never wish anyone eternal suffering — anyone!

"The Repenting of egoity"
Part 9, The Aletheon

You must become responsible as love in all relations, under all conditions, and as early in your life as possible.

The Incarnation of Love

Do not just live a moral life. Live a life of love.

The Incarnation of Love

What is simply not used is intrinsically obsolete — whereas what is opposed is constantly kept in front of you. The creative principle of true and positive change is a combination of always relaxed inspection (and discriminating awareness) of existing tendencies and, on that basis, an active, persistent, full feeling-orientation to right, new, and regenerative functional patterns. If this creative principle of true and positive change is practiced consistently and in ecstatic (or intrinsically ego-transcending) resort to Me, the Divine Avataric Master, free growth — demonstrated as habit-transcending true and positive change — is assured.

"Right Principle and Right Self-Management: The Secrets of How To Change"
Part 9, The Aletheon

You cannot bypass the fire. There is no way into the Light except through surrender of "self", ecstasy, love in all your acts, in every moment of life.

"The Fire Must Have Its Way" (July 17, 1978)

[Drawn from a traditional tale:] A man went to his Master and said, "Master, I feel like there are two dogs fighting inside me, a good dog and a bad dog. Which one is going to win?" The Master said, "The one that you feed the most."

This is Wisdom: Always relax into the pains and circumstances of experience, and so remain in Communion with Life, rather than in confrontation with the modifications of Life. Relax into Life rather than react to experience. Do this consistently, under all circumstances, and thus remain always free, happy, Full of Life, and disposed toward loving self-release in all relationships. This is the Human Foundation of Morality.

The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

Understand your un-Happiness. Then you will be capable of locating Happiness, and, having located Happiness, you will be capable of practicing the Way of Adidam, which is nothing but the devotion of life to Happiness.

"The Bodily Location of Happiness" (November 28, 1981)
The Bodily Location of Happiness

We live the Law backwards. Instead of living from the point of view of Happiness, love of God, submission to the Transcendental Reality, we live in submission to others, objects, relations.

"The Ultimate Location"
Chapter 14, The Dreaded Gom-Boo

You can’t teach anyone anything without love, and without being happy with them.

Discipline is an Act of Love

Change your act, and your subjectivity will follow.

Adidam is a hard School, but a happy Way of life.