Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on Listening ~

 In order to listen, you must choose not to want things your way…the independent way…which does not consider the way of the whole.

In order to listen, you must also realize that the perspective from which you see is limited, and therefore, the perspective from which you see cannot make a decision based on benefit to the whole.

When you want only that which benefits the whole as an entirety, and you realize that you cannot decide for the whole based on your limited perspective, you are then ready to listen, because you realize that listening is the only satisfactory answer for you.

~From our Holy Spirit

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Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on Peace~

The world is a reflection of the mind, but I do not ask you to give thought to this. I ask you to give acceptance. For when you give thought to the simple ideas I teach, you also add confusion to what was not meant to be understood, but meant only to be.

The world is a reflection of the mind.

Now that you accept this fact, most likely without understanding, you can use this fact to see which voice you listen to in the mind.

Are you upset by what you see? If so, you are listening to the voice for independence, and you are wanting everything to be the way the voice for independence states it must be. This is not being. This is demanding and controlling, and in demanding and controlling there can never be peace.

If you are overjoyed by what you see…if you are grateful with no desire to interfere or change a thing…you are listening to the Voice of Peace, and so you are peace and peace is what you know. This is like music that has no sound, and yet the music never stops playing.

Be only honest with what you see. This is all that is asked as you look at a reflection. And then if it is not peace, turn immediately to Me. And if it is peace, enjoy the beauty of your song.

~From our Holy Spirit

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~Commentary on the Wish to be Independent~

 The wish to be independent is the wish for “me” who is separate from “you” and whose key interests may be different. We may at times find similarities among our varied interests, but this is rare and never long-lasting, for always “my” key interest is to look out for “me.”

And can there be any question that this thought must eventually lead to conflict and to pain?

Yet this is the thought you listen to, and the choice you make, whenever you choose to worship the wish to be independent.

~From our Holy Spirit

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~Commentary on the World~

 The world is filled with distraction. It is filled with things to do, issues to think about, and things to say. The world is filled with distraction, because it is programmed by the idea of independence. The idea fuels the world, and the world fuels the idea.

This, again, explains the reason for obedience. The world is caught in the loop for independence, which is also the loop of conflict, which is pain. When you react to the world with your thinking and your doing and your saying, you continue to feed this loop. Yet that is your habit today.

To break a habit takes obedience. And it is your Heart’s desire to break this habit. Breaking this habit is your contribution to peace.

To break the habit of independence, conflict and pain, one must learn not to listen to himself or his thinking, because it is a part of the world…a part of this loop.

One must instead choose to listen to a Voice that is not part of this world…not part of the loop…and take all direction from it.

The mind will resist the suggestion to take “all direction” from a Voice that is not of this world, but that resistance comes from the desire for independence, which is also the cause of conflict and pain.

~From our Holy Spirit

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~Commentary on Obedience~

 I have asked for obedience, and this frightens you, but obedience is nothing to fear. In fact, if you look at this rationally you will see that you are always being obedient. It is just that you are being obedient to one voice or the other, but the choice not to be obedient  is an illusion. In that, it is a choice in itself. It is a choice to believe illusion.

Obedience, which you cannot avoid, is sharing. It is the sharing of thought. And therefore, it is the creation of experience.

By being obedient to the thought that seems to be independent thought (or thinking), you create the illusion of independence. Yet because this idea is shared, it is an illusion. In the creation of this illusion, you also find the creation of all pain.

By being obedient to the Voice of true authority, you choose to listen to your own Voice of Love, which knows it is sharing and unbroken, and so it communicates the truer aspects of the flow.

I say that to listen is to love, because to listen is to know your own Heart. In knowing your own Heart, you know love, and so you are  love, because your knowing isn’t hidden by illusion.

Obedience is a temporary measure, because the purpose of obedience is to retrain the mind to listen. Once listening becomes your natural joy…your pleasure…there will no longer be a need for the thought of obedience.

However, be wary of the idea that says you are independent and therefore no longer in need of obedience. Any thought that says you are independent is not the love of listening…the joy of connection…and so it isn’t the Voice of your Love.

~From our Holy Spirit

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