Topic: “Surrender, Obedience and Listening”
Rev. Jacquelyn talks about the struggles of releasing the mind’s authority over thought and giving allegiance (or becoming obedient) to the inner voice – Holy Spirit.
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Topic: “Surrender, Obedience and Listening”
Rev. Jacquelyn talks about the struggles of releasing the mind’s authority over thought and giving allegiance (or becoming obedient) to the inner voice – Holy Spirit.
Peace comes from desire.
Lack of peace also comes from desire,
through your desire
to choose fear and noise.
Rest in this realization.
Rest in the acceptance of your truth.
Rest in the realization
that your exact experience
is chosen by you now.
And so, since this is true,
you may now choose
a different experience.
~From our Holy Spirit
By Karen Worth
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 215
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 215
Peace comes from desire.
Lack of peace also comes from desire,
through your desire
to choose fear and noise.
Rest in this realization.
Rest in the acceptance of your truth.
Rest in the realization
that your exact experience
is chosen by you now.
And so, since this is true,
you may now choose
a different experience.
~ From our Holy Spirit
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 Happiness ~
A means is a roadway. It is the way you travel to get to a final destination.
When seen this way, what, then, is truly desired? Is it the roadway that is desired or is it the destination?
A roadway can be said to be desired, but only as a means to the end. The true desire is the end, or the destination.
If the true desire is the destination of happiness, which roadway do you wish to follow? Is it the roadway that seems to promise the end, but then only leads to another, possibly longer, roadway? Or is it the roadway that forgets all other roadways and leads determinedly to the end result?
There is a direct roadway to true happiness, and that roadway is simply this:
Do not forget what you truly seek. Know that what you want is love, and love loves all things, so love does not seek special circumstances in order to know and love itself.
~From our Holy Spirit
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Set your small desires aside,
those personal desires
that tell you what you want to see,
how you want to be,
and what you want to have.
These desires,
although they may seem honorable
or highly coveted by the self,
are blocks
to the truth of the Heart.
If you can see
that small desires
keep true and permanent happiness
away from you,
you will relinquish small desires.
It isn’t the desires
that you desire the most.
It is the happiness that you desire,
and to you
small desires are the means to happiness.
~From our Holy Spirit
By Karen Worth
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 214
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 214
Set your small desires aside,
those personal desires
that tell you what you want to see,
how you want to be,
and what you want to have.
These desires,
although they may seem honorable
or highly coveted by the self,
are blocks
to the truth of the Heart.
If you can see
that small desires
keep true and permanent happiness
away from you,
you will relinquish small desires.
It isn’t the desires
that you desire the most.
It is the happiness that you desire,
and to you
small desires are the means to happiness.
~ From our Holy Spirit
NTI Colossians combines the teaching of NTI Ephesians and NTI Philippians, while bringing more clarity to both. You will recognize teachings from both NTI Ephesians and NTI Philippians in today’s reading. This review is really important, because the mind attempts to distract you from the realization that your way of being is creative spirit. It attempts to pull attention back toward thought, emotion and world, so that thought, emotion and world continue to be enlivened through you.
The evolutionary motion within consciousness now is a motion toward truth realization. In NTI, this motion is described as the desire to:
Know thy Self
One who accepts this motive as his/her motive is consciously and actively shifting attention so that it isn’t used to enliven illusion, but to recognize Life. Shifting attention in this way is called changing your mind. Today’s reading is full of guidance that helps us change our mind so that we support the motive of truth realization instead of mindlessly resisting it with old conditioning.
Today’s reading says:
Praise your mistakes, that they may be corrected. For it is only in praise and acceptance that truth may be known.
According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, to praise is to “express a favorable judgment of.”
Why are we asked to judge our mistakes favorably?
It’s our habit to judge our mistakes negatively. Sometimes, in order to change a habit, one needs to be extreme in the other direction. However, even more important than that:
A key awakening practice is the Loving All Method.
Aren’t mistakes a part of “all” in Loving All?
Therefore, aren’t they to be loved just like everything else?
You may wonder how you can praise a mistake, especially if it created a problem or hurt someone?
Here’s what works for me:
As we learned in NTI Galatians:
You will be tempted to think with the world. In times of unknowing, you will think and act with the world. But your willingness is in action, and so you will see what you have done. Each moment of noticing is an opportunity for immediate repentance. Repentance is nothing more than remembering what you truly want and returning joyfully to the focus of your willingness. This is the dance of love. And the dance of love is the spreading of Light within a welcome mind. …
Do not worry about your errors. They are nothing but opportunity for learning. Return to your willingness in joy. In your truth, you are Spirit.
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Sit in gratitude.
Sit in stillness.
Do not search your mind
to find that which you are grateful for.
Instead, sit in gratitude.
Sit in stillness.
Let gratitude and stillness,
which come from the Heart,
enlighten the mind
with the message of gratitude.
The Heart knows
what you are truly grateful for.
Listen and accept that.
~From our Holy Spirit
By Karen Worth
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 213
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 213
Sit in gratitude.
Sit in stillness.
Do not search your mind
to find that which you are grateful for.
Instead, sit in gratitude.
Sit in stillness.
Let gratitude and stillness,
which come from the Heart,
enlighten the mind
with the message of gratitude.
The Heart knows
what you are truly grateful for.
Listen and accept that.
~ From our Holy Spirit
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 Gratitude ~
What you are is formless. When you look about yourself as you experience yourself now, you see form and you say. “That is not me.” When you look at yourself as you experience yourself now, you see form and you say, “That is me.” But in both cases, you are in error, because what you are is formless, so you cannot be identified by what you see in form.
Gratitude, like you, is formless. It cannot be touched, but it can extend. Gratitude takes that which already is and moves it into new existence and new means of expression and experience. In this way too, gratitude is like you.
To understand what you are, you must drop understanding. But to get a glimpse, look at gratitude. Gratitude is a formless force that is much like you, and gratitude works through love because gratitude works through you.
~From our Holy Spirit
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