Page 464 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

AUGUST 1954

and awake, you are intelligent, you are not exploited by others, nor do you
want to exploit others, you cannot be exploited except you belong to the
same club.

Reality expresses itself through the mind that is free. The great Truth
is the greatest in the smallest and the smallest in the greatest, the drop and the
ocean is one and the same. To feel superior you call yourself a name because
you feel the sense of inferiority. So you want to become superior. Superiority

is the ideal you want to become, so the more you want to become, the
greater the conflict, which is thoughtless, is it not?
When we do not understand, we feel inferior to something, do we not?

We want to ‘become’ because the whole of society is based on becoming
something. As long as you are ‘becoming’ you must be inferior, for there is
always the you and the other. If you know the self to be a nobody you will

understand that ‘becoming’ is an illusion. When you accept that you are
nothing it is really wonderful. Then you will know what it means to love.
You are Love, you are Life, you are Creative.

The reward for this understanding is beyond price and cannot be
classified with any effort to ‘become.’ The awareness and mental poise
resulting from our understanding is permanently established in us, for
nothing in heaven and on earth can deprive us of our birthright. I and the

Father are one, through which all is possible to the one who understands
the false and dissolves it, then the Real takes its place.
Jesus did not want to become something. He said, “I of my own self am

nothing, it is the Father who ever remains within me He is performing His
own deeds.” Paul never expressed a greater truth when he said, “let the mind
be in us that was in Jesus Christ.” But before we can have such a mind we
must become humble in knowing that the self is nothing.

The fact is that you are nobody. Then why not start from there and face
facts directly without trying to become somebody? To face your nothingness
means to be humble, and to Love. It means that you have no resistance to

anyone, no barrier between you and the other, then there is freedom. In
Freedom the Real is.
A person who is arrogant can never find humility however hard he may

try to become humble. A person who does not recognise his nothingness,
but pursues ideas is like a man who, without even knowing how to sow,
ploughs and ploughs and never sows. Behind all his knowledge, behind

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