Tips from this:
1. “Turn to Him at once.” At once, when? When anything other than God and doing God’s will encroaches on the consciousness.
2. “Never allow anything to remain which is making the dis-peace”. This boils down to any resentment, fear, self-centred thinking, selfish action, dishonesty towards others, scheming, plotting, planning, and self-deception. The responsibility for scouring the pot and leaving it clean lies with me, not with God.
3. “Take every element of disintegration as something to wrestle against, and not to suffer.” In other words, one must not accept anything less than perfect peace and perfect surrender. Disintegration = dis-integration: the splitting apart into conflicting parts.
4. “Beware of allowing self-consciousness to continue”. This extends to all seven areas of self: what others think of me and what I think of me, how others are behaving towards me, my finances, my so-called needs and wants, and the extension of my self-concept into the world. If I’m aware of anything other than God, the task at hand, and those factors that are relevant to either, then I’m in self-consciousness, whatever the apparent subject matter.
5. “Leave others alone”. This might well be in capitals.
6. “He will poise you”. I need only ask. My job is the surrender; God’s is to act on it.