Love is living,
and love is
all there is.
Open your eyes.
This is the one unifying field.
It is life living now.
~From our Holy Spirit
A universal assembly for true discernment
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 180
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 180
Love is living,
and love is
all there is.
Open your eyes.
This is the one unifying field.
It is life living now.
~ From our Holy Spirit
On Day 178, we were reminded that the world comes from the wish, “What if nothing was as it is?,” and so the world is necessarily not truth.
Consider this quote by Ramana Maharshi:
Happiness is your nature.
If happiness is our true nature, but we asked to experience something different from truth, doesn’t that mean that we asked for experiences that are different from happiness?
We can each list a number of experiences that we have in the world that are different from happiness. For example: stress, worry, jealousy, unworthiness, guilt, anger, frustration, confusion, embarrassment, regret, grievance, insulted, stereotyped, imposed upon, and the list continues.
The Ramana Maharshi quote says:
Happiness is your nature.
It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
It isn’t a question of whether we want happiness or not. Since happiness is our true nature, it is our nature to want happiness. The question is merely this:
Do we think we will find happiness through “right” circumstances in the world, which is created to give us an experience different from happiness, or do we realize that happiness is found by knowing and being our Self?
If our thoughts are focused on the world, the underlying motive is an experience that is different from truth, which is different from our true nature—different from happiness.
In the loop of experience, motive is “what I think.” And “what I think, I see; what I see, I experience.” So if our motive is “different from truth,” we experience “different from truth.” In other words, when our attention is focused on thoughts about the world, we currently desire “different from truth,” and we will experience it.
Or, as today’s reading says:
Your thoughts form your experience. This is a literal statement, and it is to be taken literally.
Through intention, our thoughts can be used to let go of illusion and remember truth. For a list of ways our thoughts can be helpful, review yesterday’s tip.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
What are you
if you are not bad?
What is life
if it isn’t fearful?
You are perfect freedom,
unbounded,
limitless,
and beyond imagination,
although imagination is included
within the boundlessness
of your freedom.
Life is a word
for what you are.
Life
is living
and free
and without end.
~From our Holy Spirit
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 179
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 179
What are you
if you are not bad?
What is life
if it isn’t fearful?
You are perfect freedom,
unbounded,
limitless,
and beyond imagination,
although imagination is included
within the boundlessness
of your freedom.
Life is a word
for what you are.
Life
is living
and free
and without end.
~ From our Holy Spirit
On Day 170, we saw that although people think they have many desires, awake consciousness sees only two possible desires: truth or illusion. Today’s reading asks us to consider carefully which of these two we want. It also points out how we express the desire for illusion and how we express the desire for truth. The reading says:
Are you thinking of the illusion of the world as if it is real? If so, you are expressing your desire to accept the veil of darkness. Is this your true desire? If not, why do you permit yourself to express it through the activity of your thoughts?
Watch your thoughts. Ask them to express your true desire.
How can our thoughts express true desire?
Here are some suggestions:
Today’s reading says:
Your thoughts must do as you ask, because you are the thinker of your thoughts.
A thinker is one who has an intention regarding thought, so when NTI says “you are the thinker” it means that you get to choose the intention in the mind. You can decide if attention will wander with any thought that arises, or if it has an intention to focus on truth and let other thoughts go.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
Fear says, “I am not love.
I am something bad.”
And so fear
runs and hides
and attacks and defends
and runs and hides some more.
But fear is only an idea in the mind.
It is a story.
It is not truth at all.
To see and realize truth
as it is right now
one must not listen
to the stories of fear.
To not listen
is not to believe.
To not listen
is to remember
that what fear says
isn’t true.
~From our Holy Spirit
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 178
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 178
Fear says, “I am not love.
I am something bad.”
And so fear runs and hides
and attacks and defends
and runs and hides some more.
But fear is only an idea in the mind.
It is a story.
It is not truth at all.
To see and realize truth
as it is right now
one must not listen
to the stories of fear.
To not listen
is not to believe.
To not listen
is to remember
that what fear says
isn’t true.
~ From our Holy Spirit
Yesterday’s reading said:
Choose … to be independent of your experience.
Independent means free and unaffected.
Awakeness is free from the world and unaffected by it. That is why Jesus, as awakeness, said:
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)
In NTI Romans, we learned about the curiosity that created the creative principle, and via the creative principle, create the world and the ego. That curiosity is:
What if nothing was as it is?
The ego and the world, which are created through and for this curiosity, are necessarily not truth. They are appearances created through the creative principle, and their appearance appears as anything but truth. That’s why they are called “illusion.”
To look at something that is created specifically for the purpose of appearing different from truth and to hope to find evidence of truth in it is foolishness. Yet, that is a mistake that spiritual seekers make all of the time.
For example, one democratic-minded spiritual seeker was thrilled when Barrack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008. She saw his election as evidence that the world was awakening. Of course, since then Donald Trump has been elected president and has undone many of the policies Barrack Obama put in place. Does that mean the world has fallen asleep again?
What about when a war ends, such as World War II? Is that a victory for awakening? What about the wars and crimes against humanity that have occurred since then?
What about when a personal problem is resolved? Don’t new problems arise to replace it?
The world is an appearance that is made to appear different from truth. One of those differences is change. If you watch the world carefully, you will notice that change is the world’s greatest constant. (Admittedly, it is change within a limited buffet of reoccurring problems.) Sometimes the world changes so that specific situations are temporarily “good” by the mind’s standards, but “good” will always eventually be replaced by “bad.”
Look carefully at the world, regardless of whether your mind judges it as “good” or “bad,” and realize that it’s not truth. It’s not truth, and truth can’t be found in the world.
Let the world be as it is. Don’t seek truth by seeking permanent good in the world. You will eventually be disappointed.
Seek truth by looking within. Find that which is absolutely changeless. See that is what you are, and abide as that. You are the only truth that can be found in the world—and actually, the world is an appearance in you.
Know your Self, and be your Self. Truth is known by being it.
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