Excerpt from audio tape: 
 

"Sufficiency and Identity"

(Talk by Wm. Samuel)

...All right, about supply.  Every problem that humanity faces is a supply problem.  The term supply is a word that is used over and over by metaphysicians and by philosophers.  It would be a much more understood word if we simply said the need that appears necessary, the needs of humanity.   But, in any event, using that term ‘supply’ every problem is a matter of supply, not enough money, not enough job, not enough health, not enough companionship or too much money, too much loneliness, too many pounds, too many demands, too many obligations, too many worries.  Every problem mankind faces or has ever faced comes down to the question of needs, of supply: not enough or too much. Well, humanity understands that term ‘need’, he’s always speaking of needs and necessities, necessities being needs that he can’t do without.

 

Jesus pointed out one of the secrets of supply in his admonition to take no thought what you shall eat, to take no thought.  He also said: “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give to you the kingdom.”  He said: “whatsoever things you need, your Father knoweth of them even before you ask.”  He said: “take no thought”, then he asked the question: “who, by taking thought can add one inch to his stature?”  The question arises, how does one go about taking no thought.  How does one go about taking no thought?  How is it possible to remain free of thought concerning pressing obligations, especially when it would seem that a lack of thought might be all it takes to overlook something or to fail to do something that is necessary, maybe to run a business or to make the proper investment here, with inflation rampant. 

 

Well, how does one go about taking no thought?  I have a here a letter, it says: “Isn’t it difficult to remain free of thought at a time like this…” and the time like this in the letter was described as an awful mess with the prime interest rates so very high and the ability to buy a home and to find the money for it and so forth.  The ability to take no thought lies …and listen please, listen gently…the ability to take no thought lies in one place only, in the acknowledgment of one’s identity.  Well, how so…how so?  Well, listen again.  Just as quickly as one acknowledges the fact of identity, that identity is awareness itself, awareness, life itself, and awareness only, then and not until then he finds it possible to stop the thinking, the planning, and the calculating done by the one who professes to own awareness.  Awareness itself, awareness, life itself, is the identity of you and me.

  

Now, one of the other things we know about supply, about casting bread upon the waters…