It Will Come to Them

I wanted to share a short passage from the diary my wife Wendy and I kept in the 1980s and 90s. This conversation took place with Kitty Davy in January of 1987.

We asked Kitty what she says to someone who comes to her with a problem or a question on how to follow Baba, and they just don’t see or understand what Baba wants for them – even though it may be clear to her (Kitty). She said, “Well, they have to be patient, and it will come to them; and that they must decide for themselves they can ask as many people as they like, but it must come from inside of them. Mani is often asked how to love and follow Him now – now that we don’t have Him to tell us what to do. She always says ‘yes, well we have His books. So much is contained in them.’

“People must also learn to listen to others and to Baba. So few people really know how to listen. I can count on one hand the people who really know how to listen. Though Baba says we can find God through silence, that doesn’t mean just because we don’t talk our minds won’t be jumping to 101 things. On the contrary, it means not bothering with anything else, getting everything else out of the way.

“Look how Elizabeth was – always thinking before she spoke, and she never wasted a word. Baba would say, ‘Oh, what about such and such a thing?’ Norina would right away say, ‘Oh yes, Baba. We can do this or that.’ But Elizabeth would say, ‘Well, Baba, I’ll have to think about that for a while, so I can visualize what You mean.’ So that is how Elizabeth was; always listening very carefully and speaking only when she had something to say. But there’s room for both types of personalities, the spontaneous and the impulsive, and the thoughtful and careful.”