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has provided us with everything we need. So we must haye faith in ourselves—not in anything outside.
If you have this kind of confidence, then all you need is a guide, someone who can point out that whatever you need is within you. Sometimes we make mistakes and need someone to help us. Once I came upon my great uncle who was exhausting himself searching the whole house for something. I asked him what he was looking for. He answered, "My glasses." I said, "It is on your forehead!" "Oh," he said, “I forgot." In life also you need someone to point toward the thing for which you are searching, to remind you that what you seek is within.
Without the proper guidance, we might misuse our gifts and channel our energies downward. To focus our energy upward, it is essential to find a positive, enlightened, and sincere guide, someone without the smallest trace of negativity, one who does not believe in'anything destructive. His affirmative thinking, his balanced life and experience help his friends move in positive direction. When we get that kind of guidance, we are very fortunate. It is easy to adopt any teacher but very difficult to find a Master—a guide or guru who is enlightened. When we find one, we are truly a blessed disciple because there is no fear of failing or losing the track. The Master will always lift the student up again, help him to rethink, to come to the right thinking. This is important because the thought process which we use is an instrument for transcending. You see, you behave, you live according
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