Looking for Good

William Samuel

There is no more Godly activity then looking for good in people.  People, after all, are made in the image and likeness of God.  To see good in others is to see God in them.  To see God in something is the reason we're present in/as this experience.

A great power begins to accumulate around us as we do this.  The person we are seeing good in is helped by that observation as surely as if we had taken them in our arms and washed them clean of trials and anguish.  But in the process we are blessed with a strange and wonderful--I don't know what to call it--power or authority or effluvium or charisma or something very special.  One does not have to work very long at this to find it is so--and most wonderful for the doing.  But it takes the doing.  Not the talking about it and speculating about it--analyzing and judging it.  Just the doing.  We look for the good in everyone and are blessed by the looking.

From the Scientific Point of View

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." 

 

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and all science.  He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.  That means nothing.  People like us, who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and  future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. 

 

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

 

 "A human being is part of a whole called by us,

"universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and

not  everything that can be counted counts."

" (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it."

 

Listening with the Heart

What does it mean to listen with the Heart?  How do you listen with the heart?

It means to clear your mind of judgement, analysis and preconceived ideas, dogma or propaganda and to listen in anticipation and in confidence as an innocent child would trust and listen to his parents. 

 "Unless you become like a child you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven."  (The bible)

The Heart's language is - to borrow Forest Gump's words: "like a box of chocolates!"  There are no spoken words.  It is more like an angelic symphony without sound!  

The truth is not reserved for the elite, the scholars, the sophisticated.  You are not precluded from knowing the Truth because you are not a Rhode scholar, or because of your social or your financial status.  If you are a "newbie" and know nothing about metaphysics you can still listen with your Heart.

When my grandchildren were very young I did an exercise with them at bedtime that gave them the experience of knowing that love comes from within.  I think that is a good place to start to know the truth imprinted in your heart.  The little booklet is entitled: "The Little Love Light" and it was published by Blurb.  It is now available through Pay Pal.

Many moons ago I went for a walk in the forest with four friends.  I approached the forest with an open heart, in anticipation of something good.  Upon entering the forest I immediately felt magic in the air. I do not have the words to describe the scene.  It was like opening the door to a magic kingdom.  It was so electrifying .  How could anyone miss it?  I expected my friends to be equally amazed.  I expected them to fall on their knees in exultation as typical emotional french people do but they kept on gabbing.  It just took my breath away.  I felt a peace so deep ...it was to me a cathedral of love. 

"Peace already reigns over the world but men see it not".  Why?  Because they listen to the words of others.  They are led by doctrine, dogma and the rules of others whose aim is to be in control of others.  You are not likely to find the treasures of your heart if you are blinded by dogma.  Some "so-called teachers may have good intentions of saving you from hell.  They are not acquainted with the real message that is buried in their very own heart. 

Listening to your Heart is the highway to heaven.  It will not "manifest" everything your heart desires.  It will not fill your pockets with gold.  It will take you to the higher ground of love and peace in your heart and the truth in your very own soul.  

To be cut off from the Heart's wisdom is like seeing the world in one dimension.  It is like being the tree's shadow that tries to mimic the tree.  However, it can only rise at midday and die every night while the tree lives on.

A Soldier's Prayer

 I asked God for strength, that I might achieve,

I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey....

I asked for health, that I might do greater things,

I was given infirmity, that I might do better things....

I asked for riches, that I might be happy,

I was given poverty, that I might be wise....

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men,

I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God....

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life,

I was given life, that I might enjoy all things....

I got nothing that I asked for -

but everything that I had hoped for,

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.

I am among all men most richly blessed.

Recognizing a True and Valid Messenger/Teacher

       RECOGNIZING A TRUE AND VALID                 MESSENGER/TEACHER   

             (excerpt from an audio tape

                  by William Samuel)

 …We are talking about the honest message, the honest truth message. The honest truth message, as we said, lies in one that turns one to discover himself within, one that turns one within where the real discoveries are made, to turn within to the secret place, to the holy of holies, to the Shekinah and there find the true message.  The beauty of such a message, it seems to me, lies in its fulfilling the function of way showing, but doing it void of theory, voice of speculation or commentary and it’s a message that doesn’t bind the seeker.  It doesn’t induce guilt nor encourage the veneration of the messenger or the messenger’s words.  The childlikeness of such a message encourages one to find the beauty and power and the wonder of his own words and to express the discovered life within.  Such is the work the Child does. 

The place is within.  The place is within, within Consciousness, the place is within this very Awareness that listens to these words.  It is not in any scientific metaphysical system and it isn’t in the semantic games we play with the words of others.  If, as is the case with nearly all organized theology, the message speaks primarily of healing and demonstrations and of altered states of consciousness and all of those peripheral events, such a message can be as stultifying and misleading as it is helpful.  Therefore it isn’t worthy of identity.

Ultimately, we have done with following the messages of others to become the finder or our own Messiahship – we find our own message.  Salvation lies in this action and in no other.  The first freedom and the last freedom lie in self-discovery.  That discovery is immaculate, untouched by anyone else.  It is a virgin discovery and recognition of deity within and without.  Any message that has one following a personal leader or teacher for anything longer than is absolutely necessary to find the authority that one himself is, is a distorting, thwarting teacher.

 I am not saying that we don't follow the instructions of others, that we don't read or listen to others.  That's what we're doing right now, for goodness sakes.  But the ones to listen to are the ones who tell us that the messenger lies within  and that we go there to find it.  Those who speak of levels of awareness, of states and stages of consciousness, of spiritual heiarchies as though they were outside one's very own awareness right here and now, are liars from the beginning.  Their teachings confuse the world with false hope and rob the innocent with false pretence.  We are done with that to find the word that is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart.

I've been told by those who first heard these words.  "I can't believe there's much wisdom in me, I can't believe that my message is the message," and yet everything that one does is predicated on his own words.  The words that one believes most fervently are his own words.  But, since when does Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence need messengers with messages that point to themselves rather than God and that's what we're turning to when we don't turn to the self within Why, those little birdlings are born and shortly they're singing. and where is the teacher that teaches the seed how to grow, or the azalea here how to bloom and give its fragrance to the earth?  Who teaches the animals to prepare for winter that they have no knowledge of,...no intellectual knowledge of?  Where is the angelic leader and minister who exhorts the bud to open and give its fragrance to the earth. Why must man...of all creatures...insist on ignorance until he has studied system after system after system after system?  Why must man finally...finally, only to surrender from the anguish of it and when he surrenders from the anguish of all of it he is quick to awaken to the wisdom that is already himself.

Oh boy, there are many messengers abroad on the land.  The one to heed is the one who says to look for one's own messenger within.  And then this, that's all important...and then makes it plain on the tables precisely how this is done for one's self.  And listen, listen, those qualified to do this use their own words.  They don't give you references from 100 other sources to try to prove their words to you.  They use their own words and they tell you their own story which they have lived..  And their own story is the proof of their word.

Now see here, we are not messengers.  I certainly don't claim to be a messenger.  We are the message itself Identity Is.  We can all say "I am Life Itself" and that is what the honest message has been about from the first.  We are Life, not the possessors of life.  We are wisdom itself, not a personality who may become wise if...if...if....he studies this and that and something else.  Beyond the pale of humanhood and its many instructors lies a perfection already spread over the earth,already the whole and healthy body of God functioning perfectly in absolute harmony.  I have found the nature of that joy and I sing its song.  Right now, I'm singing its song.  To whom?  To the selfhood I am alone.  And who listens?  The selfhood I am alone.  Where's another?  I am her because the self is itself and there is no other.  The meek of myself needs spiritual exercises maybe only for the shortest time.  The journal is a spiritual exercise but it's needed only for the shortest time.  The meek and the childlike of myself do not have to struggle to understand the intricacies and paradoxes of being.  The battle has already been fought and won.  As I sit down with pencil and paper I have good tidings to tell the children of myself, that a simple harmony and a happy perfection are here now living as this life we are, binding up the "Old Think's broken-hearted followers, awakening enthusiasm within the husks,elevating thought from struggle and apprehension and morbidity and death into the conscious awareness of eternal life.  The message says: "turn within", this message proclaims liberty to all and it delivers...it delivers...by George, it delivers!  This message has one turn within and discover the Godhead, primal from which identity and all tangibility flow.

An old man by the name of Shirpee Han (phonetic) was a venerated Taoism sage with whom I happened to live in China for nearly three years.  Oh, what a grand fortune that was.  He told me once, "the song one sings to himself is carried around the world" and when I asked him how he told me "perhaps by the whispering trees and the nightingale".  So, if our words are carried around the world, hadn't we best start to examine them, to look at them  How better than by keeping a journal with thoughts and ideas.

Well, there you go, I've said it as best I could again. I might mention two or three little thoughts that come in passing.  I just had a letter from a lady with whom I've studied much over the years and she said, "spiritual exercises never appealed to me but now I see, now I'm forced to admit that my life has been the Open Sesame, the avenue to self-discovery."  I might add that that lady has published her fourth or fifth book.  Another gentleman I'm thinking of has published at least two books and has others soon to be published or awaiting publication and he said that his most joyful time is the time he sits to be still and write in his journal.

I know another lovely lady who was told these things 15 years ago and today she is editor of a publication of truth and I know many others who are now published writers.  All began with a journal with their own thoughts and ideas rather than the words of others.  So, if fruitage is the proof, we've a whole tree of delicious apples.  Maybe I should say peaches instead of apples.  And since that can be misconstrued too, how about oranges instead of peaches?

One more thought seems very important to me about your journal keeping. It isn't necessary to write religious things in it--it isn't necessary to fill it with all metaphysical stuff..  We write what is worthy of God which includes beauty, tenderness, joy.  So, we can write of the twinkle in somebody's eye, that we've seen two elderly people hands hands in the park - what a joyful site that is -- children tumbling in the park- redwoods blooming in the spring.  What is more worthy of the ineffable Godhead than to speak of beauty and joy and uprightness and love?  So the journal becomes a joy when we don't have to put the clinical antiseptic terms of metaphysics but not ignoring our metaphysics either.  Writing what science allows us to write.  Well, almost 40 years of journal keeping has allowed me to learn lots of little secrets that I can tell you but I save that for our face-to-face discussions.  Tangible how-to-do-its are explained here on this tape but there are many others that I'd be happy to talk about when we meet face to face.

  Joel Goldsmith/William Samuel

Two very good friends that I met when I was associated with the Joel Goldsmith Infinite Way groups years ago put this question to me:

“How do you compare Joel Goldsmith’s “Infinite Way” teachings to those of William Samuel?

As I see it,

 Joel Goldsmith sells you the fish

There was a teacher, healer/practitioner/student relationship and classes in different venues, producing audio tapes ad infinitum.  When I left "The Infinite Way" I had boxes and boxes and more boxes of books and audiotapes -  cassette tapes.  I had ventured to many classes, including annual trips to L.A. and three to five day seminars and classes at various other locations. 

Healing  of the cares and woes of daily life was the work of “practitioners”.  One of the above mentioned friends had become deserving of being called a “healer”.

I was with the group for quite a few years until one of these two friends passed me a book by William Samuel entitled “The Awareness of Self Discovery”.  This book made my heart sing.  I tried to trace William Samuel who by this time had made his transition.  Eventually I was led to Sandy Jones who is the executor of William Samuel's work. We soon became friends and she was my mentor.

William Samuel teaches you how to fish

Quote: " Well, listener, listen to this, see if there is any truth in this statement. The value in any message of truth is in direct proportion to that message's insistence that we turn within and discover for one's self the message, the divine identity that has ever been all one is. The honesty of any truth message, be it Buddah  or Goldsmith or Jesus, or Sambo's or the board of director's or the pope's or the president's, lies in the statement that the truth is in one's self and IS one's Self.

...We were talking bout the honest message, the honest truth message. The honest truth message, as we said, lies in one that turns one to discover himself within, one that turns one within where the real discoveries are made, to turn within to the secret place, to the holy of holies, to the Shekinah and there find the true message.

 The beauty of such a message, it seems to me, lies in its fulfilling the function of way showing, but doing it void of theory, void of speculation or commentary and it's a message that doesn't bind the seeker, it doesn't induce guilt nor encourage the veneration of the messenger or the messenger's words. The childlikeness of such a message encourages one to find the beauty and power and the wonder of his own words and to express the discovered life within. Such is the work the Child does. 

The place is within. The place is within, within Consciousness, the place is within this very Awareness that listens to these words. It is not in any scientific metaphysical system and it isn't in the semantic games we play with the words of others. If, as is the case with nearly all organized theology, the message speaks primarily of healing and demonstrations and of altered states of consciousness, and all of those peripheral events, such a message can be as stultifying and misleading as it is helpful. Therefore, it isn't worthy of identity. 

Ultimately, we have done with following the messages of others to become the finder or our own Messiahship, we find our own message. Salvation lies in this action and in no other. The first freedom and the last freedom lie in self-discovery. That discovery is immaculate, untouched by anyone else. It is a virgin discovery and recognition of deity within and without. Any message that has one following a personal leader or teacher for anything longer than is absolutely necessary to find the authority that one himself is, is a distorting, thwarting teacher.

I'm not saying that we don't follow the instructions of others, that we don't read or listen to others, that's what we're doing right now, for goodness sakes, but the ones to listen to are the ones who tell us that the messenger lies within and that we go there to find it. Those who speak of levels of awareness, of states and stages of consciousness, of spiritual hierarchies, as though they were outside one's very own awareness right here and now, are liars from the beginning. Their teachings confuse the world with false hope and robe the innocent with false pretence. We are done with that to find the word that is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart.

Oh boy, there are many messengers abroad on the land. The one to heed is the one who says to look for one's own messenger within, and then this, that's all-important...and then makes it plain on the tables precisely how this is done for one's self. And listen, listen, those qualified to do this use their own words, they don't give you backing-up references from 100 other sources to try to prove their words to you. They use their own words and they tell you their own story, which they have lived, and their own story is the proof of their word."


“I will put My Law in their mind and write it in their hearts.  And I will be their God and they shall be my people.”  (The Bible)

William Samuel shares the wisdom of his Child Heart and admonishes all to do likewise.

How to Fish:  (William Samuel)

 

   CHILD EQUALS HEART EQUALS SOUL,

     THE OVERLOOKED SIMPLICITY

I have never talked heart to heart with a single person who hasn’t admitted that the child was still there within him--struggling perhaps, or a distant dream from the past, but still there.  All of us continue to dream dreams and wonder about soft things.  The heart of us still goes leaping through the high places of imagination occasionally and soars with the high flying swallows to see the far side of the moon.  That is the Child at work.  Yes, the Child still lives.

Moreover, this inner one, the old new Child of us, is healthy and well, absolutely all right in every way.  None of the enthusiasm has been dulled by the years.  Its eyesight is as sharp as an eagle’s.  Its hearing keen as a puppy’s, and all the feelings of youth are pounding with excitement exactly as they did when we were children-children, unencumbered by the world.

Much has been said about the “heart” of us.  Great theological positions have been established around “the immortal soul.”  Reader, listen with that heart of yourself for a minute.  The little child of us, the heart of us and the souls of us are the Same One. Whatever we have come to perceive with the heart has been a recognition of that eternal Child within.  And now, as I write of that One, I address the heart, the soul with which we are all concerned.  Oh, yes, the heart and soul of us--the Child--is still right here quite capable of confirming Itself, evidencing Itself and revitalizing our view of everything.

As the years pass and the world encroaches relentlessly, we lose sight of this Original Nature or Identity except as an old photograph or a memory etched somewhere in an inaccessible past.  It comes as a surprise to hear that the Original Child and all Its feelings are still around;  then it comes as a wonderment to learn first hand that they are not inaccessible at all, but still right here, closer than breathing, closer than fingers and toes.

THERE IS AN AGELESS MYSTERY IN OUR ABILITY TO FIND IDENTITY

As one read these words about the Child, the heart knows this is the truth, a truth hidden all these years in simplicity and childlikeness that we have left behind.  When we are alone, we still play the child’s game.  While we are walking or driving or puttering with the pots, there is some little something we do in the mind’s eye exactly as we did as a child.  There are ships and ports and storms at sea when we wash the dishes or take a bath.  Don’t tell me you don’t know what I’m talking about.  Deep inside, you do.  You see, I am the child, too--the same Child--and I have become It again.  I know, by God, by the grace of God, what I’m writing about here.  And I know that the first step in feeling the joys of the Real (as we did as children) is to acknowledge that the Original Nature of us hasn’t left us.



  

THE HISTORIC CHRIST AND THE CHILD

Bill, are you saying that the early church substituted the historic Jesus for the Child?”

No.  Churchdom has limited  the Christ to the historic Jesus, and all of that has been done for a divine purpose the church seems to know little or nothing about.  Everything that has happened is by God’s grace.  The historic Christ-in-linear-time came, as all luminaries, to confirm our own subjective Self-discovery.  The historic Chris is the first begotten of the Father in world time, and the original believers had that straight.  The discovery of the Child within is confirmed by the Bible and its accounts of the historic Christ and his role on earth.  The Child I Am and you are “comes” to us as the second coming, as Messiah re-discovered within, for whom the Bible and Jesus are the first or external confirmation.

“Are you saying that the Child is the Christ also?

Yes! Yes!  Exactly that.  “Closer than breathing.  Exactly as the historic Christ said.  He would never leave us nor forsake us.  He has been here as the Child of us from the beginning.  Our very Child-Selfhood--which seems to go away from us and returns to us, rediscovered.

“William, tell me if this is what I’ve heard you saying these past few days:  the Child within is the same historic Christ?”

Yes, History, like all other things is subjective.  To rediscover the Child is to find what Jesus found, lived and confirmed before he began his ministry.  When the historic Christ said he would be back again, he meant that each one who understood what he was saying would find the Child within and recognize THAT SELF HIMSELF as the Messiah written in the heart, the “second coming” in actual fact.

“Are you also saying that when I was a child on earth, I was that Christ-Child?”

Yes, spiritually.  And I’m saying that everyone can prove the truth of this for himself by finding that all the acute feelings of the Original Nature which were present in us as children are capable of returning to us again.

“You know theology isn’t going to agreee with that, William?”

                          
Perhaps neither theology nor the subjective groups, but all who feel the Child within themselves will agree, because they will KNOW it is the Truth, having proven it for themselves.  And when the theologians begin to perceive that this is indeed what is meant by the New Covenant “written in the heart,” they will slowly, grudgingly give way, even those powerful conservatives so intent on going back to Biblical literalism.  Not without argument.  Not without doubt.  Not without questioning those who have found the Child of themselves, and not without persecuting them mightily.  Not everyone will be taken up in this Light.  Jesus foresaw it accurately: “ Two are in the bed and one is taken; two are in the field...five are in the household, two against three and three against two; father against son. Those without consciousness of the Child will not know which of the senses to believe, not who in the world is telling the truth.  Those who have found the Child within won’t care what the theologians or philosophers think.  We leap through Spirit’s door and leave the flaming house behind.

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Cocktail Hour

   Be sure all ingredients are fresh and pure.
Tip:  Shop from your own Child Heart Centre for...

2 ozs  of trust in Life
2 ozs of joy and appreciation for the small and ordinary things
6 ounces of humility tempered with generosity
a drop of kindness
2 drops of laisser-faire

Add:  ice cubes of judgment,
of worry over yesterday's woes or fear for tomorrow.
Shake it all up with courage and gusto until ice is melted.
Add a slice of laughter and a cherry of Immutable Love

Pour out to others in good measure as you would have them pour unto you.

Guaranteed to keep you intoxicated
not one but 24 happy hours a day !

     

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The Peace Within
by Rose Burrows

There ‘s a secret sacred place deep in my Heart
Where peace abides
Where serenity, tranquillity and contentment reign
And wisdom, courage and strength abound
I need not deserve this peace
Nor must I earn it
It is my divine inheritance
imprinted in this  heart of mine
I need not take a special pose
or breathe a certain way
I simply close my eyes, relax and be aware
In quietness I let go all people, places and things
I let go the hurdles and commotion in my head
I sit as a beholder and focus on my Heart
The cares and woes soon drift away
I am calm, uplifted, supported and fearless
Unfettered, fulfilled, refreshed and whole
This is my safe haven, my sanctuary my inspiration
The choice is mine
To battle the storm
Or turn within
From whence all blessings flow


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A William Samuel Gem

The value in any message of truth is in direct proportion to that message’s insistence that we turn within and discover for one’s self the message, the divine identity that has ever been all one is.  The honesty of any truth message, be it Eddy or Goldsmith or Jesus, or Sambo’s or the board of director’s or the pope’s or the president, lies in the statement that the truth is in one’s self and IS one’s Self.


We were talking bout the honest message, the honest truth message.  The honest truth message, as we said, lies in one that turns one to discover himself within, one that turns one within where the real discoveries are made, to turn within to the secret place, to the holy of holies, to the Shekina and there find the true message.  The beauty of such a message, it seems to me, lies in its fulfilling the function of way showing but doing it void of theory, void of speculation or commentary and it’s a message that doesn’t bind the seeker, it doesn’t induce guilt nor encourage the veneration of the messenger or the messenger’s words.  The childlikeness of such a message encourages one to find the beauty and power and the wonder of his own words and to express the discovered life within.  Such is the work the Child does.  The place is within.  The place is within, within Consciousness, the place is within this very Awareness that listens to these words.  It is not in any scientific metaphysical system and it isn’t in the semantic games we play with the words of others.  If, as is the case with nearly all organized theology, the message speaks primarily of healing and demonstrations and of altered states of consciousness, and all of those peripheral events, such a message can be as stultifying and misleading as it is helpful.  Therefore, it isn’t worthy of identity.  Ultimately, we have done with following the messages of others to become the finder or our own Messiahship…we find our own message.  Salvation lies in this action and in no other.  The first freedom and the last freedom lie in self-discovery.  That discovery is immaculate, untouched by anyone else.  It is a virgin discovery and recognition of deity within and without.  Any message that has one following a personal leader or teacher for anything longer than is absolutely necessary to find the authority that one himself is, is a distorting, thwarting teacher.

 I’m not saying that we don’t follow the instructions of others, that we don’t read or listen to others, that’s what we’re doing right now, for goodness sakes, but the ones to listen to are the ones who tell us that the messenger lies within and that we go there to find it.  Those who speak of levels of awareness, of states and stages of consciousness, of spiritual hierarchies, as though they were outside one’s very own awareness right here and now, are liars from the beginning.  Their teachings confuse the world with false hope and robe the innocent with false pretence.  We are done with that to find the word that is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart.