Motivation cont'd.

Just so we'll have it down straight that's what I'm talking about that there is a lot of inner talking goes on. Now this inner talking goes on, always says something derogatory about you, or another, or about circumstances. Now let's see if we can recall that through at least the time we're here let's see if I can at least recall that. When we leave, go back to the same old thing. But while were here at least let's remember that all this inner talking, always says something derogatory about me, or another, or about circumstances. And further more I'll add one more attribute of it it's always a lie. So, everything it says is a lie. But it talks all the time, more or less constantly. If it sees you really having a good time, it really gets on the job to see because that inner talking's whole food is human misery. And so it's going to use some method or other to keep you miserable. And they're experts and they're very good at their job. And in case they're slippin' up a little bit they get night classes. While you're sleepin' they get a little study on how to work on you the next morning early. So, biggest part of the people it says, or 95% of the people, go into action, or there behavior is determined by accidental means you might say. By whatever happens to be going on in the environment around you whatever is going in this inner talking, whatever some circumstance may be happening, you know and always there is some circumstance going on. Now of course if we compare any circumstance to an ideal, it's got a hole in it. Is that right off the bat you know, if I've got an ideal circumstance dreamed up, no matter what's going on there's something wrong with it. Is that right, Mark? It's got to have something wrong with it somewhere. Now it says that somewhere like 5% of people determine themselves how they're going to act. Now while this weekend while we're here, let's upset those statistics a little bit and add a few more. There's some 50 to 60 people here, now you take charge. Now the major thing that one takes charge of is your behavior or action. Now I know people who have spent 20 years in what they call deep therapy. They go to all kinds of shrinks trying to find what's going on, they also go to a lot of lesser folks (talk is interrupted)folks, come on in and have a chair. So they spend years and years, and tremendous amounts of money, and what they generally work on is these not-I's. Now they just love for you to do that. They just love for you to go to a therapist and have your  head worked on. Because you're still going to have the same amount of talking not-I's when you get through. So the not-I's continually work to have you feel that something is wrong. And they love for you to have therapy methods, and they have devised over the years many kinds of therapy, which many people have subjected themselves to, all in attempt to have a good feeling. But the minute you start having a good feeling about anything, they tell you that either it's a false good feeling, or that you are escaping into a good feeling. Or that it's extremely temporary, it won't last at all, it just can't last. So we really pay no attention to the endless therapies that goes on. Because the only thing that makes a total difference in how we're doing is the actions we take or the behavior. Now if we start with feeling, now you're likely to have any kind of feeling throughout the day.

Motivation

So we'll start off to talk a little bit for the next couple of days, see if we can bore you to death or something like that. So in as much I never have anything prepared, we'll just start off with whereever the spirit leads the thing to start. So I though tonight I would see what motivates us? What turns me into action? So are we self determined, or are we other determined? You know, we're all determined what we're gonna do in some way or other. So somebody told me not long ago, in fact they've told that for a good many years, that most people by the time they're 65 years old are unable to care for themselves entirely, they have to have someone else to do it, and somebody else look after them. And a very few percent of them, like 5% of them can care for themselves. So I don't know why we should wait until 65 do you Kenna? I think we might as well start now. So if I am other determined, I'm determined this to go into whatever behavior or action, we'll use that as an interchangable word, behavior or action, that I might take. It is determined either by self or another, or something other outside myself. Now what we are all interested in is our inner state of being, or our inner feeling if you want to call it that. Now if you feel real wonderful inside it really doesn't matter to much what is going on, is that right? If you were miserable inside, even though you were sitting in a mansion with 2 Roll Royces out the door, and chauffers to run 'em, maids running all over the place, if you were miserable inside you would still be miserable regardless, is that right?
So, when we are self determined, we are determined by our awareness or our intellect, or whatever word you would care to use, as to determine as to how I want to feel. Now we say intelligence. Now, when we are other determined we are dependent on circumstances, or we are determined on other persons, or accidental feeling. Now, everybody seems to be very interested in there feeling. But very few have discovered that you can take charge of your entire feeling. They let the feeling determine them. so if somebody comes along and treats us very very nicely, and pats us on the back, tells us how wonderful we are, tells us how wonderful we look. We feel pretty good for a few minutes, unless something jumps up on the inside and says; oh, there's just trying to be nice to you, it's really not true. Did you ever have that one happen, you know, somebody come up, gave you a very nice compliment, tells you how wonderful you were, but you heard a little voice on the inside of your head sayin' they're just kiddin' they really don't mean it. Quite often we have a lot of people that walks through the door, and we talk to them and so I try to have something reasonably complimentary to say, because I do see things complimentary about every person I ever run in to. And they say; I wish you wouldn't kid me' you know they wouldn't buy it no matter what you tell them. If you say; well you're standing up' they'd say; barely'
And of course if you live in a part of the country where if you say; it's a lovely day' they say; well it's not to bad' and if you say; That was certainly a good dinner' they say; Well, that was right tolerable' You know, you just really can't stand a compliment all the way that things are really all right. I think there's a superstition about that, if you say it's alright it's going to turn out bad, is that right? So, this little voice we have that goes on in the inside is also another thing. So we will put along here with circumstances and other persons, and accidental feelings,we'll put inner talking. Now, I think we all know about that inner talking,I use the word not-I's              

Teaching ideas #255

Do we want to serve God or serve the senses.

Excerpt from Headlines, page 10

Each living being is different from every other living being. Does being different equal being inferior?

Is any person you know, the ideal for someone else?...or is each just different from the other?

Are you inferior or different?

Four principle ideas for humans

1. I have nothing to defend.

2. You are probably right.

3. Give nobody the authority to upset me.

4. I can not afford negative emotions, so I don't have them.

Bits and pieces from school work

Without a purpose of some sort, conscious or conscious, one will do absolutely nothing.

The most valuable asset one can have is a consciously chosen purpose, and the sense of duty to actualize it.

The way of success is "What can I contribute?" NOT "What can I get?"

What do you spend more time on? "How am I being treated by others?" or "How am I treating others?"

Total inner consideration is called psychotic behavior.

Now is the precious present that all too often is not valued.

Everyone wants longer life and more abundant living. However, few make the most of every moment. If one is out of present time 50% of the time, that one's life is cut by 50%.

Now has no beginning or ending, therefore is timeless.

One talent is as valuable to the world as another. A so called great talent not used is worthless. A so called small talent used to it's fullest is of great worth.

Teaching idea #356

Total integration is available right now. The question is, ' Can we lay down all that we have?' Laying down is ceasing to put importance on.

Teaching idea #358

We love our problems because they give us a reason to feel sorry for ourselves.

Teaching idea #340

If our attention is on evolving instead of having our way, we wouldn't want to change anything.

Teaching idea #338

Idolatry: Anything we make important.

Whenever "I" make my happiness depend on anything, 'I' have a false feeling of emergency, or whenever 'I' make anything important, 'I' have a false feeling of emergency.

Teaching ideas 331

The only way I can be angry with you is to believe you knew better, but went ahead and did wrong anyway.

Teaching ideas 324

We get our power back by removing all authorities

teaching ideas 157

When you approve or disapprove of me you are only telling me something about you and your tastes. It has nothing to do with me.

Free too

Before you can be in charge of anything, you must be FREE TOO-----

If I am trying to be free from something, I am trying to alter my nature. I am free to have any experience which is presented to me to have. If I try to be free FROM I am trying to alter myself. If I want to know freedom, I must be free to..

IF I AM FREE TO BE CONDITIONED, THEN I AM NO LONGER CONDITIONED.

Start with freedom and you will end with freedom. "I am free to choose what is to my advantage at the moment". I am perfectly free to have conflict. I am free to NOT WANT at the same time that I WANT.

teaching ideas

Our best teacher is the one who bugs us the most.

Is life to be lived as an opportunity to grow, or is it to be escaped?

Is it possible that making anything important produces anxiety?

From notes of RRG

Life doesn't provide the ideal--it provides reality. Being alive is a tremendous gift, and I am not entitled to anything.

The human mind is the maker of problems. A problem is something we want to change to get along based on conditioning.

Whenever we want to change something, we have judged it.

It is not what happened to us or what has been done to us, but what we decided about those things. And for those decisions, we are responsible.

Teaching ideas

The conditioned self is the victim and the victimizer. Feeling like a victim has nothing to do with anything out side ourselves.

We cannot change ourselves. We can only be aware of what is there without judging it.

Anger and self pity are the effort to control people

Anxiety is fear of living

Suggestion appeals to us because we feel that we need something

We are highly suggestible as long as we have an ideal. To get over being suggestible we see that we're already the recipient of every gift life could bestow us.

If one decides to be miserable, he will be. We can be miserable if we set ideals of how things ought to be. If we have something interesting to do, we will not be miserable.

What is our mind occupied with all day? What we don't like? Finding fault? Worry? Upset? A sense of urgency? Anxious? Complaining? Blaming? What we are occupied with is what will actualize. Complaining will bring about conditions to complain about. We can be in charge of what's in our head. The ideas in our head are what the result of what our purpose of living is.

What we really experience all day long is our inner state of being. Everything else we sense.

We have it all: food,clothing,shelter,transportation,interesting things to do and interesting people to be around.

The four questions---What am I? Where am I? What's going on? What can I do?---provide true true perception and feeling. Energy is generated. The body regenerates. We are renewed. Energy flows properly. We determine the kind of energy flow we are going to have.

From Headlines

No one can think or say anything about 'Me'....they can only express what they feel when I'm the subject of their thoughts or speaking.

I live in what I radiate

wisdom

Anything anyone including myself ever did was felt at the time of doing to be right or proper or justified with what light they had

Roswell '75

(starts out here)Explain a bit things that we could practice that would eliminate all the distresses and etc that people do. So we will continue in that area this afternoon, and in a little while we'll stop making talks and we'll all sit down and have discussions. Most everybody has a question they would like to have particularly, and I'll get off the high chair and sit down on the same level as everybody else and we'll talk about it. Another words, if you've got something to talk about you might as well talk about it here as anywheres else, you're among the best of friends you'll ever have, so you can't do much better than that.
One of the things that always keeps not-I's active is wanting to know what to do. When you try and use the brain as a fortune teller you're only contacting "A" and "B". Now, quite often somebody says,"Well I want "X" to tell me what to do". X never tells anybody what to do but it'll do anything you say is true and of first value, but it'll never tell you anything to do, period. And if you say,'what should I do?' "A" and "B" will both answer you, right quick. And it will give you 2 opposing ideas, and then you'll have to go ask somebody else what you should do. And of course, "A" and "B" and them give you 2 more, by that time you get very confused and then you can ask another one or two and by that time you're in utterly confusion. So "X" is never gonna give us any advice, it's never going to tell us what to do, but it so loves us that it will do anything that you say is true and is first value. But people never got that in their head because for years back they have heard that they could ask and receive, but they forgot to see that they've got to ask right, by practicing something and then you would have it. But you will not get advice from "X", it is to much of a gentleman or a lady or whatever it may be, an 'it' to give advice. You see, anybody that has your best interests at heart will never give advice, they just won't do that. But of course the people who roll by "A" and "B" will constantly tell you what to do, what you should, what you ought to do and etc. But "A" and "B" they give advice all the time. A is trying to convert B into being A, and B is trying to get A into being B, that's the biggest noise you're going to hear, but they're always giving advice to you.
So we're going to talk a bit about the kind of questions we can ask. Now, frequently a person says 'Why did this happen?' Now A and B will answer you, they will give you 2 separate reasons and get you all confused over that. We often ask, 'What should I do?' and A and B will answer that one. They'll give you 2 fancy words and we can worry over that for ages. Now we're gonna take some questions that possibly are shall we say are valid questions.
What am I?
Where am I?
What's going on here?
Now, that's keepin' it in the present, not off in the future. What's going on here.
What can I do? Here, now.
And we might continue some others similar to those. Now, let's see if we can practice livin' by these questions a little bit. We'll put the questions, an we'll practice livin' them a little bit. So I will try to answer the questions as I have practiced it for a number of years and I find it works very delightfully. I'll answer them. I don't say that's all there is or it's correct but it sure does work well. Now, you can experiment with it and practice it if you like. Or you can ignore it.
What am I? I'm a privileged invited guest. Now if you look around you really didn't make to big an effort to get here that you recall of, you were here. And when you got here you found the world well equipped. You had Highways, Automobiles, all kinds of Orchards and Farms, Buildings and cities and all kinds of manufacturing establishments. So you could have everything that you could require was here. Is that right Darryl? It all was here. So where am I? I'm at a beautiful party called the planet Earth. The big estate called the Earth. And I'm a privileged invited guest at a beautiful estate called the Earth. It is pretty isn't it? I think it's so. I go around and look at it and it's a very beautiful estate.
And what's going here? There having a lot of games, like all parties, they're havin' a lot of games going on. You can call them business games, you can call them professional games, you can call them interpersonal games, you can call them marriage games, you can call it healing art game, you can call it whatever you like. But there is all kinds of games going on. And, um, there's all kinds of guests got invited to this big party, and it seems that life is the host, and that life must find all these other guests interesting or they wouldn't keep them around. Did you ever think of that? Now, the host didn't ask me to check out his guest list, so I have no fault to find with the other guests. I'm just thankful he invited me. And I don't feel I've earned it in any way, but I must have been interesting in some way or other, to see what kind of commotions I was going through, so he invited me to the party, hmm? And so I'm a privileged invited guest of a beautiful estate called Earth, and there are a lot of games going on and a lot of other guests here. And it so it looks to me, what can I do.
 I can be my idea of a good guest. I can be kind and considerate of the other guests, I can do my best to not mess up the place where the party is being held. And I can enter into any games I want to, and stay out of the ones I don't want to play. I don't want to play the some of the games I see being played so I don't play those games. And if I do play a game, I am going to play it to the best of my ability. If it's one where there's competition in it, I'm gonna be a worthy opponent. I wouldn't want to play chess or checkers with someone who was deliberately lettin' me win. I want them to be givin' it all they got so I know if I can do any good or not. So when we choose to practice being a good guest, you're choosing to see this earth as a big estate, that life is the host, and that I'm a privileged invited guest, and that everybody else is a privileged invited guest, I can begin to observe what a good guest does at a big party. There's some of the guests that I particularly like to sit down and visit with, and there's some that I just as soon not visit with, so I don't bother with it very much, but I don't find any fault with those, it's just a matter of taste that I don't particularly am interested in some of the games that the others are playing, and I can keep on looking at being a good guest. I can understand that the other guests are there. I don't try and accumulate and put everything in my pocket. Now, we are the guests of Miss Virgina today, and if some of went back here and started gathering up her pretty new candle holders and start puttin' in our pocket, I imagine that she might, before you went out the door say, 'you can leave the candle holders on the table'. And I've noticed that there are some of the guests at the party who try and accumulate everything they can get. Now, I didn't bring anything to the party. Not one thing. I didn't even have clothes when I arrived. I didn't speak any language or anything. I found a world well equipped and it's all here so I can use everyday. But I don't see any use of trying to accumulate. Because I've noticed everyone of them leaves left everything they've accumulated at the party. Did you ever notice that? They don't take nothin' with 'em. Now, it's here to use, I can enjoy the sunset just as much if I had a title to it. I can look out here at the mountains. I can enjoy those just as much. I stayed in a room last night, and I enjoyed it just as much as if I owned it. I didn't have to buy the joint or anything else I just used. Now, so far the host has provided me for everyday I've been here. It's been quite a while I've been at the party now. He's provided me with food, clothing, shelter and transportation everyday since I've been at the party. Same to you? Everyday. Now I don't need to accumulate it because it's all here to use today and any extra I don't see any use trying to carry around. But I can always do that. Now I've also observed that a guest at a party might make some contribution to the well being of the party. so everyday I practice making a little contribution to the enjoyment of the party. Wherever the corner of the party I might be in today I try and make some little contribution to the enjoyment of the party today. Today I am trying to make some little contribution to the enjoyment of the party a little more, and maybe even recognizing that they are at a party, a very nice party. Now if I don't understand what's going on, I am liable to find fault with all of the other guests, while they're even here, maybe I even might want to wipe out a few of 'em, and maybe I want to have the other guests all do what I think they ought to do. Maybe I'm trying to take everything they're playing with away from them and call it mine. I want all the checker pieces mine now, or the chess pieces or what ever. I might feel that the party was some type of a competition, and I was owed a livin' and I had to get in there and dig for it or somebody's going to take it away from me. So I can make a contribution to the party. And it's possible, that if I am intelligent enough, and see it clear enough, as to what's going on, and make my little contribution to the party, maybe I can be a companion to the host. He must of found me interesting to invite me, and it's possible I can be a companion to the host. (to be cont'd)

El Paso retreat excerpt

Question from the audience:
The power of the human mind to make a choice. Do you feel that this is innate in every man?
Dr. Bob:
What the ability to make a choice? No. Most people can't choose nothin'. They 'A' and 'B' it to death*They're total state of indecision, and decide they want to do this, BUT. Now that's conditioning. And so we start in on the other side and then we want to do that but. And then they go the other way.
 So no, that is pure conditioning, and that is one of the things we're gonna look at tomorrow.(Audience:good.hear laughs) And we'll kick conditioning out the door and say look, this is the way it is there's no ideals you see, but we will consider that quite in depth tomorrow as to the way to be able to choose what ever's out there what you want to choose..
I'll give you one pointer to think about for tonight:
If you're not lookin' for the ideal it's no problem.But if you're lookin' for the ideal it's almost impossible to come to a decision or a choice of any kind, because we are always, a little thought jumps up what if this turns out this way so we're afraid to that. So as long as you're lookin' for the ideal it becomes next to impossible.
* the 'A' and "B' means:
 A side to complain, blame, and stick up for rights. The 'B' side is to please, do and believe as my authorities say, and self improve. See illustration of picture of man on Marsha summers site for reference. Here's the address;
 http://www.marshasummers.com/innerman/pictureofman.htm

scottsdale 1969

What kind of state of being would you be in if you had nothing to defend?

excerpt from conciousness health wealth and love

It's the beginning of what I call agape, love. That I see that whatever anybody is doing there doing what they feel is right or proper or justifiable with what level of consciousness they have,what light they have, which is consciousness. If there down here, then that's all they could be doing, so I can't fuss about what they're doing and why don't they straighten up and do like me, bitch all the time. You know, the person that bitches all the time because someone else bitches has always amused me. You know I have people come in just bitching up a storm because their husband bitched at them. Or a man comes in because his wife bitched at him. I really don't see much difference in it. Do you? Except I'm justified in mine and she wasn't. That's all.
So, when we can see that we have to ask our self what can I do, being a good guest is considerate, harmless to the best of our ability, and that doesn't mean I'm going to cow tow and try to please everybody, I'm not going to hurt anybody. And the third one is that I would make some contribution. Now how can I make a contribution unless I feel I already had everything. No way, I'm only grudgingly paying a bill. Now this is not because one is paying for anything, or because one should do it, or ought to do it, but when you recognize you have everything, you want to say thank you for having been invited to this beautiful thing called life.

lifes word excerpt

In the season that you feel the ever present I am and I love in the heart then you shall know that you are mine that the mouth speaks my words the heart beats with divine impulse and that I live in you
I and I alone exist
There is no other soul or spirit but me
Life is what is and it's a mystery beyond all comprehension you can be aware of that you are life from there on you have no problems only challenges

Think act feel

Audience: When I am a joyous being and over hear are not a joyous being
Dr.Bob: Uh huh, that's right the woods is full of them..
Audience: How do you not let them affect you?
Dr.Bob: Well, that's whether you want to be a victim or not. Are you a victim of everybody around you? Or, are you going on being pleasant regardless of other folks. They don't know what they're doing, they're not trying to pull you down. It's mechanical, they've been at for years and don't know it. I don't see any use of lettin' them get me down, do you? I'm the one it hurts when I get down, not them, they're already hurtin'
Audience: I used to say I got my bubble burst.
Dr. Bob: Well that's cause you were a victim. Now, let's don't play the victim role, keep our bubbles up and bright, and don't give them to anybody else. In other words, I'm not gonna turn my inner state if being, which is the most valuable thing I have, I'm not gonna turn it over to some jerk that's down in the dumpies. That's his (or her) business. Huh? You got that? I'm not gonna turn it over to someone goin' "suh suh suh" (grumpy voice) I'm not gonna do that, 'cause I'm the one that gets to feelin' miserable, and he's already miserable, so I'm not hating him, not doing anything for him (or her) so let's don't play the victim role okay? You didn't get your bubble burst, you poked it, okay?