“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don’t actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss–the dissolution of the familiar self–is beyond what was bargained for.” ~ Jan Frazier
October 10, 2015 Daily Quote
“Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.” ~ Jan Frazier
October 9, 2015 Daily Quote
“Fully forgive someone you’ve been mad at or annoyed by. See them as Love. See them as an equal and full-bodied expression of the One Infinite Creator that made you too. Pick someone now and forgive them untill you smile with love in your heart.” ~ Bentinho Massaro
October 8, 2015 Daily Quote
“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go–that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state–then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm’s length.”
~ Jan Frazier
October 7, 2015 Daily Quote
“There are many kinds of knowledge, only one of them worth everything, only one of them not subject to opinion or degree or damage. If you come to that, you will know what I mean. If you don’t, listen to someone who has.” ~ Jan Frazier
October 6, 2015 Daily Quote
“Can the universe not be on my side? It is not possible. It can only be possible if there are fundamentally two beings in the infinite vastness of the One. But there are not. There is only the infinite vastness of the One, expressing itself, so it is always on its own side.” ~ Bentinho Massaro
Weekly Gathering 10/4/2015
Rev David Fishman talked to us about: “AWAKENING” – from self-doubt to Certainty
Lee Catalano Read from: Entering the Ark Text 20.4.8
You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time, there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. Perhaps this seems impossible to you. But ask yourself if it is possible that God would have a plan for your salvation that does NOT work. Once you accept His plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you, WITHOUT your effort.
He will go before you, making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to trip on, and no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied you. Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. You need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only purpose that you would fulfill. As that was given you, so will its fulfillment be. God’s guarantee will hold against all obstacles, for it rests on certainty and not contingency. It rests on YOU. And what can be more certain than the Son of God?
Barb Deurwaarder was our Admin
October 5, 2015 Daily Quote
“Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn’t something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don’t fight the present reality with thoughts of how you’d like it to be otherwise, or what you’re afraid the next moment might bring, when you don’t resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.” ~ Jan Frazier
October 4, 2015 Daily Quote
“It is very important for the sake of your own well-being that you are able to stand your ground vibrationally. If you let skeptics and less liberated people’s ideas convince you of their reality, you have just handed over your power to create an amazing life to those world views with which you don’t resonate to begin with. Don’t accept any idea that does not seem absolutely exhilarating to you.” ~ Bentinho Massaro
Unfolding Detachment, by Liz Cronkite
Once upon a time as this mind’s awareness of Truth grew the natural result was that this mind came to experience that it was “in the world but not of the world”, as the popular phrase goes. This meant that it felt that it was still a self operating in the world but that it had a growing awareness that its interest was really in Truth. It was a lot like being at a party but standing on the edge of the room and watching the party rather than fully participating in it.
Then this mind attained an experience of detachment that was “not in the world but aware of the world”. This meant that it no longer lived through the self to fulfill a sense of lack but that there was still a world in its awareness. This was a lot like being outside of the house in which a party was occurring but still being aware that there was a party.
Now this mind is attaining an awareness that it is “not in a world but aware of a meaningless idea of a world”. This is like being in a quiet place and remembering that once it had an idea, far distant now, of a party that was only ever an idea.
In the A Course in Miracles community there is a lot of talk about “observing the world” and “observing your thoughts”. This practice comes naturally as a mind’s awareness of Truth results in it experiencing itself as apart from the world and its own thoughts about the world. At first this detachment is vague but grows as one’s awareness of Truth grows. This first experience of observing helps a mind to gain an awareness that the ego’s (personal thought system’s) thoughts are not the mind. Since the mind can observe them, the mind cannot be them. This practice results in the first two experiences described above. It is done by mind as a “decision maker” or “learner”. This is when it still makes sense to mind that it has a choice between Truth and illusion. Mind seems to be making a choice, or a decision, to detach from the thought system (ego) about a self. Mind is becoming aware, very dimly at first but stronger as time goes on, that the self and its world is not reality.
Beyond the decision maker or learner-mind is Mind Itself. Mind Itself observes it all: the ego, the world, the decision maker, the mind’s growing awareness of Truth. The Observing Mind is always present. It is not something that a mind practices; It is something that a mind allows. This leads to the latter experience described above.
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