Yesterday’s reading said that Jesus is a symbol of our truth. Today’s reading says the same thing. However, it points out that Jesus isn’t the only symbol of our truth. It says:

To call you back to your truth, through the forest of your conscious awareness, the Holy Spirit sends symbols of Light. These symbols come in many forms and many manners, of which Jesus is one. But they are all symbols leading you back to your truth, which is beyond your belief and conscious awareness.

A few of the symbols of light are Krishna, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, The Tao Te Ching, A Course in Miracles, NTI  and etcetera. There are many, many symbols of light in the world.

Today’s reading also says:

Remain alert to the symbols that are sent into your conscious awareness to follow. Lock onto them, and be led Home. Let everything else pass as you see it.

That is a very important instruction. Please take time to let that instruction sink into your heart and conscious mind today.

Interestingly, today’s reading says that the Holy Spirit is not  a symbol. To be clear, the words, “Holy Spirit,” are a symbol. Those specific words are a cultural symbol based on Jewish and Christian scripture. However, the spiritual intuition that those words point to  is not a symbol in the way that Jesus, Ramana Maharshi and NTI are symbols. Spiritual intuition is wisdom that resides within consciousness and rises into conscious awareness when you are willing for it. The reading says it is:

 “the pure reflection of truth within the memory of your mind.”

In this case, “memory” has nothing to do with the past. It is like the memory in a computer. Just as data is retrieved from the hard drive and stored in a computer’s memory so you can read it and work with it, spiritual wisdom rises into conscious awareness so you can be aware of it and follow it. That means that although Jesus, Ramana Maharshi, NTI and etcetera are symbols, the clarity you receive while contemplating them is not a symbol. It is truth realization.

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On Day 125, we learned that “you” refers to everyone and everything in the Fourth Principle of God, not as many things, but as one thing—consciousness.

Consciousness is what you are now. Today’s reading speaks to you, consciousness, as you are. It is not speaking to the body-mind, because that’s not what you are.

Since you are consciousness, and you are not limited to the body-mind, you can feel the truth in today’s reading even if you cannot intellectually understand it. The feeling that knows today’s reading is true is an intuitive feeling, not an emotional one.

Today’s reading speaks of Jesus as a symbol “of all that is true with you.” It says:

“… all that he accomplished, he accomplished within you.”

You might think of enlightenment as something you will accomplish some day. You might think of it as something you are working towards. However, this excerpt from today’s reading means that enlightenment is already within you now. You are consciousness now, and you know your Self as consciousness now.

This might be hard to understand, especially if you have experiences that seem to prove otherwise, but those experiences are temporary manifestations. They are like waves on the ocean. You are like the ocean itself.

Imagine the ocean. See it in your mind. Allow yourself to see all of an ocean. It spans thousands of miles, and it is thousands of feet deep.

When you look at the entire ocean, which has the most mass, the waves on top of the ocean or the still depth?

Which is more permanent, a wave or the still depth?

Imagine the ocean as a sentient, experiencing being. If the ocean can feel, does it experience the waves on its surface?

Which is its substantial reality, the waves or the still depth?

If you answered these questions the same way I did, you see that the waves are less significant than the still depth, the waves are temporary and the depth is permanent, the waves are experienced, but the depth is the ongoing reality.

This is how it is with you, consciousness. Everything in manifestation comes and goes and changes. They are like the waves on the ocean. You experience manifestation, because that is a part of you just like the waves are part of the ocean, but your substantial reality is the still depth. The still depth is present now, within you, even as the waves continue on the surface of consciousness.

In other words, you are enlightenment, but you may not realize it, because you are focused on the temporary waves instead of the substantial still depth.

The reading also says:

You are eternal, as all of eternity is within you.

Let’s imagine the ocean again. You are the ocean. Somewhere in the middle of you, a small wave is born as it rises up out of you. The wave is moved along the surface by currents and winds. On quiet, clear days, the wave moves along the surface as a gentle roll, barely noticeable as a wave. On stormy days, it rises up and topples small fishing boats. One day, it comes upon a beach, crashes and ends.

From the perspective of the wave, time existed. There was its birth, still days and stormy days, and then its death. However, from the perspective of the still depth, there is only continuous stillness as I am. Time does not exist.

Enjoy today’s reading.

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