“he knew that, if one’s mental states are right, everything else might be right, too” (Around the Year With Emmet Fox)
What is the right mental state?
I am almost entirely abysmally ignorant.
I cannot see without God.
When I think I can see without God, I’m really ‘seeing’ with the ego, which is not seeing at all.
I let it be all foggy out there.
I ask God, who says, “left … left … right … straight ahead …” etc., and gradually I’m led along the path on which I belong.
Total reliance on God and total disregard for the world’s ways. Stopped clocks are right twice a day, and, on those rare occasions the world’s way happens to coincide with God’s will, listening for and trusting God’s will, as I normally would, provides me with the required guidance anyway. I need not, therefore, split my attention and keep one eye on the world.