Sublime

realized I was in the presence of life. It was right there. He was alive. By comparison, I was dead.

Observe the marvelous change that comes over you the moment you stop seeing people as good and bad, as saints and sinners and begin to see them as unaware and ignorant. You must drop your false belief that people can sin in awareness. No one can sin in the light of awareness. Sin occurs, not, as we mistakenly think, in malice, but in ignorance.

‘Who am I?’ or ‘Where does this I come from?’ –

Since each of these stories is a revelation of Truth, and since Truth, when spelled with a capital t, means the truth about you, make sure that each time you read a story you single-mindedly search for a deeper understanding of yourself. Read it the way one would read a medical book—wondering if one has any of the symptoms; and not a psychology

Syd Banks (the initial inspiration behind this form of psychology) began to speak. The audience listened with a deep respect, and the

“A saint is one until he or she knows it.”

Don’t worry, be happy. As modern people we have chosen Montaigne over Augustine. We traded pious self-cultivation for undemanding self-esteem. But is love of self really enough to be happy? You know the answer to that, dear reader. And so did Augustine.

The human mind is such an extraordinary thing. It has invented the computer. It has split the atom. It has sent ships into space. It has not, however, solved the problem of human suffering, of anguish, loneliness, emptiness, despair.