{"id":30875,"date":"2018-06-04T01:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T07:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=30875"},"modified":"2018-05-24T05:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:51:15","slug":"day-132-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/day-132-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Day 132, NTI Acts 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note<\/em>: If desired, watch all of Acts 23 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s reading was about the third phase of the spiritual path, which is service and merging. As mentioned, the third phase is a very attractive phase, and many people want to jump to the third phase without completing purification. However, purification is necessary in order to intuit spiritual intuition without confusing it with ego.<\/p>\n<p>Since purification is vitally important, today\u2019s reading returns our attention to purification. Today\u2019s reading is a serious reading. It points out that the purification stage can, at times, get \u201cvery, very tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was my experience, and it will most likely be your experience too.<\/p>\n<p>The seriousness of today\u2019s reading isn\u2019t meant to scare anyone. It\u2019s meant to prepare you. To \u201cprepare\u201d is to make someone ready to do or deal with something.<\/p>\n<p>How does today\u2019s reading help prepare you for purification?<\/p>\n<p>If you know there are tough times ahead, when the tough times arrive you can see them as a normal part of the process. Knowing tough times are normal can help you move through them more easily.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s reading also explains why the purification phase gets tough. Resistance makes it tough. We are afraid that the darkness in the mind is the truth about us, and so we resist looking at it. Yet, the darkness needs to be seen so it can be healed.<\/p>\n<p>The reading says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2026 cruelty lives in you as a wish. It is important to note that the cruelty <em>is a wish<\/em>, for a wish is not what you are. A wish is what you are not, but what you may pretend to be.<\/p>\n<p>When we are cruel, we get pleasure from causing pain and suffering in others. That isn\u2019t very pretty to look at, but in one way or another, we\u2019ve all been cruel.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we wish to be cruel?<\/p>\n<p>Cruelty is the ultimate divorce from oneness. When we are cruel, we feel powerfully separate. Cruelty inflates the ego.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s reading encourages us to look at the darkest aspects of the mind. It acknowledges that we may be afraid to look, but it encourages us to overcome that fear with a strong desire for our spiritual aspiration. It is as NTI Luke 22 said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Great fear is nothing more than great resistance.<br \/>\nAnd so the means for overcoming great fear is great willingness.<br \/>\nGreat willingness comes from remembering what you want.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/day-133-tip\"><em>this link<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 23 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts. Yesterday\u2019s reading was about the third phase of the spiritual path, which is service and merging. As mentioned, the third phase is a very attractive phase, and many people want to jump to the third phase without completing purification. 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