 to learn. What sense do you learn? You always have the choice of our stated mind. It's just that when I start to talk about consistent peace, not this kind of roller coaster ride, sometimes peace, sometimes sad, sometimes peace, sometimes angry, you know, that's the vacillation between two thought systems, ego and spirit. And what I'm talking about is enlightenment or self-realization. Knowed by self. And that self is not so much coming at the end of life, at the end of the journey, but it's prior to time. Like there was a German philosopher named Emmanuel Kant. And I love these philosophers when they start to ask really good deep questions. And here's this German philosopher who basically never left his town over in Germany. He lived pretty much the same town as his whole life. And he had the audacity to ask the question, this is a great philosopher question, how do we know what we know? Isn't that an interesting question? How do we know what we know? Do we know it through our five senses? Do we know it through learning? You know, that's what we would have, teachers would have us believe, we know what we know based on what we learn. Somehow like we're some blank little slate of nothingness and then we learn and learn and accumulate all this stuff and words and numbers and memories and everything and then we finally know something. Of course we see lots of examples throughout history of people who have had lots of education. Hitler had a lot of education. Mussolini had a lot of education. Education has described and has been described for decades as the answer to the world's problems. It hasn't worked in case anybody hasn't noticed. We've had a lot of decades of improved education and universities, higher learning. Did it eradicate anything? Or take a look at your TV television set. If you think education has actually served anything, it takes an awakened mind to kind of have a perspective on this. Jesus Christ is a pretty good wise counselor and Jesus says, again, you have learned this world. You have over-learned it. You have over-learned an impossible lesson. You have over-learned the lesson of separation and you keep at it. For most people, if somebody says, I'm going to go to that wall and I'm going to bang my head in my skull. I'm going to poke a hole in that wall over there with my skull. Somebody would say, don't think that's very wise. If somebody went over there and started bashing, bashing, bashing, chances are the skull is going to crack and break before that wall is going to break. This is kind of what Jesus is saying. You have over-learned an impossible lesson. You have taught yourself that you're separate from God and you keep up. It's like a perpetual attempt at nothing. If you were a schoolteacher, if you were a schoolteacher and you had a student, a child with a student and as a teacher, you gave your child an impossible learning goal. An impossible learning goal. What would you call that? I would call that cruel to give a child an impossible learning goal. A goal that could never be accomplished ever. That would be a cruel, sick joke. And not really a funny joke at all. It would be cruel to give a child an impossible learning goal. Because why? It would ensure learning failure. If the child kept trying to learn that goal and never succeeding, well the ego is an impossible learning goal. It is a goal of separation. And this world is a reflection of that belief in separation. And when you continue to try to learn an impossible goal in your mind, you will experience fatigue, sadness, depression, never peace of mind. You could never have peace of mind with an impossible learning goal. So you see, we have to take it much deeper than the Spanish or the English than all the cultural things. You were talking about learning Spanish. I was just with Suzanne today. We were sitting on the ferry, getting ready, the waiting area over there to come across the ferry over to Vancouver Island. And something like a huge group of Japanese tourists, a whole Japanese tourist group. And they were speaking fluent Japanese to each other. And Suzanne was the one. And I don't get any of it. I felt like I could understand. It was just like ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. There was no comprehension. And then Suzanne said, why did we do this? Commenting on the basically the whole earth. Like, why do we have separate languages? It's bizarre to have separate languages. That's absolutely bizarre to have separate languages. Where did this start? Do you think God was like, hey, you're going to make it difficult for the community here? Let's come up with Japanese over here, Chinese and Spanish. You know, it's a bizarre world. And you have to start to recognize that first as such, you know, if the whole world is based on a reflection of separation, then you have to start to finally say, with some humbleness, whoops. There's definitely a whoops moment somewhere. I mean, you know, if it's a mistaken learning goal, and we're not achieving constant happiness and peace, then we actually have to reach the point where we stop. We just say, that's it. I'm going in the other direction. I may not even know how I'm going to make it in that other direction, but I'm going for heaven. I'm going for love. I'm going for true, lasting peace. I'm going for real love. Romantic love, okay. You've got your ups and you've got your downs, but I'm going to go for real love. I want to go for that real experience. And what I'm just saying is, again, I start off by saying, I just had not had a bad day for years and years. I can't even remember the last time I had a bad day. It's gone from memory. Jesus says in the Course of America of the Holy Spirit, he's happy learners. And when you become a happy learner, we'll say, when you learn to correct him with forgiveness, it just becomes who you are. It is who you are. You don't go to make it back to heaven and tell the worst words. Oh my God, I told you 875 times that you got 912. It's not like a 12-step group where you compare and contrast your horror stories. Heaven is not like that. It's just a state of pure joy that has no opposite. So that's why we're here today. That's the kind of questions we raise. Actually, what people have asked me about when I'm in Spain or South America, or Colombia, or Venezuela, or Argentina or whatever, I'm eating with people. I'm having fun with them and I'm laughing with them and everything. And then sometimes somebody will actually raise the question, when are you going to learn Spanish? Or do you need to learn Spanish or something like that? And I say, oh heavens, I'm learning English. I'm going for the silence, the peace, the passive, the understanding of the world. Boys, girls, just use the English words for a little flip of the time. Before I learn them, too, I'm going in the other direction. I'm not interested in new languages. You'll talk to me about new words. I'm really not interested in new words. I've had enough vocabulary. In the years of university, it's like, no, it's a good version. So I'm going for a little bit of spiritual Alzheimer's. I'm talking about people talking about Alzheimer's. Wonder! My grandmother, Lillian, was diagnosed with dementia. And I used to go and visit her in the nursing home. And I'd walk into the nursing home. I remember one time I walked into the nursing home and I looked and it was like, it's like a dream or whatever. I was looking around and I couldn't see any people. They were all, I'd like to look around, but where are y'all people? So I'd go through the halls and quarters with a visitor and I can't find any, what is this, in the back, the invasion of the body snatchers or something. No, where are all the people? They were all in the cafeteria singing. And my grandmother, Lillian, was leading the charge in her nineties singing all these old hymns that she loved that were in her heart. She was diagnosed with dementia. She couldn't even remember who she had lunch with. But she could, I'd start her off, you know, the Lord is my shepherd and boom, the whole 25th Psalm would come out. She couldn't remember who she had lunch with. But she could zoom through the 25th Psalm. She could zoom through all these great, glorious hymns to God, just praising God and thanking God. And she could remember what she did in the morning. And she would say, oh, Dave, my memory is leaving me. I'd say, eh, it's like a pretty good thing. She said, I can't remember certain things. I said, you seem to remember what you need to remember and you seem to be very happy. In fact, the doctors, the nurses, the assistants, the tenants, one time when she'd only been in the nursing home for a while, and I had heard in some nursing homes they'd try to tell these people what to mention. You're so and so, they give them their birth name. You're living in such and such a city. I went to the staff after like several weeks and I said, can you give me a favor? And they said, what is it? And I said, don't orient Lillian, my grandmother, back into time and space. And they said, oh, we wouldn't dream of doing that. She is our teacher. This world is backwards and upside down. This world has meant about denying the present moment and denying eternity. And all of time and memory used by the ego is used for that denial. And she was like, she lived to be 99 years old and she just became more and more drifting into this state of happiness where the Spirit could sink through her and last through her.