HOW TO LEARN TO KNOW

By K. A. C.

SINCE “feeling” seems to make up so much more of our lives than “thinking,” it becomes increasingly important to know how to change our feelings.

If we have an unhappy and dissatisfied “feeling,” it doesn’t seem a bit of good to think thoughts about it. What we have to discover is, why we feel that way.

It is not generally realized that contemplation has such a large place in our lives, because our thoughts flicker back and forth, and hide the act of contemplation. And yet, every single moment that we are inactive or alone, we are more apt to contemplate than to think.

In other words, we inwardly look upon some kind of picture that seems to bear no relation to what we think, because the more hopefully and brightly we try to think, the more downcast we inwardly feel. What really makes us miserable is that we are contemplating our own lacks. We long to do something different, but we don’t “know” what to do. Or, we know what to do, but we feel unable to get it to come to pass.

Now the only way we can release ourselves is to dissociate ourselves from our brainminds. We must get the “feeling” that our mind is our instrument, and that it must be controlled. If we tell our mind over and over, “I don’t know what to do,” how can it become a “knowing” helpful instrument? On the other hand, if you steadfastly tell your mind day after day that you know what to do, you will find that it will commence to be obedient to you, and take orders from you.

“There IS a realm in your Being that knows. When you say, ‘I know,’ you are associating yourself with that realm, and all parts of your being will gradually come under subjection to that realm. When you say, ‘I don’t know,’ you feel helpless and miserable and unsettled, and you really do nothing but drift along and wait. Wait for what?—Until you “know” what to do. And as long as you wait, you will continue to wait.

How To Learn Know

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