A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read and contemplate quotes #164, 170, 172 & 175 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
You are deluded because you do not recollect repeatedly and frequently the truth concerning the infinite consciousness, but you partake of the poison of self-limitation and the consequent psychological conditioning.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Review 46. God is the Love in which I forgive. I am ready for advanced forgiveness now. Advanced forgiveness is letting go of all ego thought, even that which appears benign and necessary, like thinking through a problem that needs to be solved. Letting go of ego can feel like letting go of ‘me.’ However, the spaciousness in which this happens and the spaciousness that remains when it is done, is what I am. Let me prepare myself for this completion by resting deeply in myself frequently, so that I become familiar and the ego feels strange and out-of-place.
Review 47. God is the strength in which I trust. In order to forgive, I cannot rely on the judgment I have trusted in the past. That judgment is thinking. The mind itself is ego; it calls thinking, ‘me.’ It feels safe with itself. But my error is confusing it with the light that I am. Let me know the light as myself by resting deeply in the light frequently. In the light, I am detached from the mind. In the light, I know myself.
Review 48. There is nothing to fear. All fear comes from the belief that I am the body-mind. The body is vulnerable. The mind can suffer. But I am neither. I am the light that imparts reality, because I am reality itself. Reality is invulnerable to anything that comes and goes with time. Let me know myself by placing attention with myself frequently. As I see what I am as myself, I know there is nothing to fear.
Review 49. God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day. All I need to do is listen. Listening is a simple shift of attention. I shift attention from habitual thinking to that which is in the heart now, from past and future to presently guiding. It is not difficult. All it takes is the desire to leave the ego for truth. Desire paired with trust.
Review 50. I am sustained by the Love of God. Fear of God comes from the belief that I am different than God. In seeing myself as the same, there is nothing to fear. There is mystery, but mystery can be trusted. I rest knowing mystery can be trusted, and I am the light.
Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.
Facilitated by Dawn Fernandez
Homework for next week:
Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 60-65. Spend 2 days with lesson 65.
Homework Assignment B: Read Jacquelyn & Connie’s Tips for Lessons 60-65. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. The tips can be found at awakening-together.org, Gentle Healing, Gentle Healing Tips, Jacquelyn & Connie’s Tips – Year 1. Here is a direct link: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/gentle-healing-group/jacquelynandconnie-tips-year-1/
Homework Assignment C: Listen to Regina’s teachings of The Code, Part 1, Part 2 & Bonus: The Code Taught Again in 2014. Read and contemplate The Code written message on your own. The Code is Classic Audio, #9. It can be found at awakening-together.org, Audios & Videos, Regina Dawn Akers, Oldies & Classics. Here is a direct link: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/regina-dawn-akers/oldies-classics/
Homework Assignment D: Practice Awareness watching Awareness (Being Aware of Awareness) for 5 minutes a day.
Anne Blanchard guides a group of committed students through year 2 of Gentle Healing who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love. This group meets weekly and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.
Everyone who has completed year 1 Gentle Healing and is willing to make a commitment to deepening even further into healing/awakening is invited to join this group.
Please read and contemplate quotes #158, 159 & 162 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
Abandoning all limited concepts, abandoning even the division between the worshipper and the worshipped, worship the Self by the Self. Be at peace, pure, free from cravings.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Review 41. God goes with me wherever I go. The ego does too. This is because both are in my mind. One is my true Self. The other is an imposter, a habit. Am I ready to break this entrenched habit? What do I want for myself?
Review 42. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. The ego’s resistance feels strong, but it is not my strength. If I give into the pull of habit, I am weakened. The ego confuses weakness for strength. However, I know the strength of God, so I am not confused. Let me choose the quiet strength of God over the noisy weakness of ego.
Review 43. God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. I am at home in my heart. I am myself as God’s quiet strength. Let me rest deeply within myself frequently, so that I become familiar and the ego feels strange and out-of-place.
Review 44. God is the light in which I see. The ego confuses thinking with seeing, but thinking is not seeing. Thinking is attention on the box. The box is blindness. Seeing comes through openness, through open awareness. Only openness can see. Decided is blind, and all thinking is full of ‘decided’.
Review 45. God is the Mind with which I think. My real thoughts are a way of being. My real thoughts are all-is-well (peace), open-embracing-acceptance (love), freedom—a sense of soaring from within (joy), intimacy with everything (oneness), and compassion for anyone who suffers from ignorance. I am the heart of God. Thinking is being my Self.
Please read and contemplate quotes #151, 153 & 155 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
Since the ignorant are bound fast to their own false notions, neither the transiency of the world nor the hard blow they suffer in their life is able to awaken them.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Review 36. My holiness envelops everything I see. When I sing songs of devotion, the heart’s eyes look out on the world. The heart’s eyes are God’s eyes. They are one and the same. I can see the universe with God’s eyes because God is my truth. When I look with God’s eyes, I see God.
Review 37. My holiness blesses the world. Remembrance blesses the world. The only cause of pain is forgetfulness, so remembrance blesses the world. When I make the little bit of effort that it takes to stay in the heart, my mind is filled with remembrance. Remembrance communicates remembrance. The pain of the world is weakened as I abide in remembrance.
Review 38. There is nothing my holiness cannot do. I need not direct my holiness; it knows the way better than I do. I abide in the heart, remain there, dwell there, and the energy of holiness is released through the power of my willing attention. Holiness set free heals the world. Holiness set free reveals truth.
Review 39. My holiness is my salvation. One who has forgotten the truth is lost. One who abides in the heart is remembering. Remembrance is freedom. Be willing to remember. Sing the songs of the heart.
Review 40. I am blessed as a Son of God. There is unlimited power in the heart of God. That power is life-intelligence-love. That power is my gift, and it is with me now. By keeping my attention with the heart, I keep my attention with this gift. Attention is the energy that unwraps the gift. I live the gift by abiding with it. I give it attention, and I know it is what I am.
Aham and Aham-vrtti, Part 3
