“a victim of crooked thinking” (Chapter 10, Big Book)
In hospitals, the phrase ‘nil by mouth’ means that the patient is not to be given anything to consume.
I need to apply the principle of nil by mind.
This means I refuse to engage with any thoughts that arise from the lower self.
When I engage with them, I always lose.
Wrestle a pig and you’ll get covered in mud.
I am to accept only thoughts from God.
How?
Ask.
Then read spiritual literature.
That will tell me what to think.