Walk With the Good
From a talk on the Gold Coast, Australia, during a week of talks, 5-11 August 2001.
Instead of walking around thinking of your problems and difficulties, could you just be grateful for what you have? And not just be walking but acknowledging the good inside you and in your life?
What’s good? My life is good. And so is yours. And the more you acknowledge that - by being grateful for it, by giving silent inner thanks for it - the good comes to you. The good is intelligence. And intelligence enables you to see through the not-so-good, which is all self-made.
Everything that’s bothering you in your life now, you have made yourself. It’s the consequence of your previous actions. And it could be said that the good in your life is the consequence of your previous action too. But you can’t name the good that you’ve done. All you can say is: ‘It’s good. There is so much good in my life and I am grateful for it. I am so grateful for this good in my life.’
That’s what being intelligent is. It’s not being a computer whizz or an Einstein or being all the things that the world thinks are intelligent. It’s having the intelligence to say, ‘My life is good’. And not just to say it when you’re winning, but to have a constant knowledge of your acknowledgement of the good.
Are you hearing me, please? What I acknowledge, I get. Acknowledge the good in your life. This is a conscious action. Whereas thinking about your problems is an unconscious action. Everybody is unintelligent when they think about their problems instead of acknowledging the good.
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