The purpose of NTI 2 Thessalonians was to help us let go of the \u2018I am bad\u2019 belief. The purpose of NTI 1 Timothy is to help us let go of the belief in \u2018me\u2019 as an individual, separate person. This is also letting go of the belief in separation.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s reading says:<\/p>\n
The personhood of man, which is based on the belief in the world, is meaningless. It is meaningless because the world itself is not real, so all that is based on the world is also not real.<\/p>\n
This is a very deep thought that you do well to sit back and soak in fully, for within this thought is another symbol that is key to your own salvation.<\/p>\n
What is the \u201csymbol that is key to your own salvation?\u201d<\/p>\n
It is Self-inquiry.<\/p>\n
Who\/What am I?<\/p>\n
I was not ready for Self-inquiry when it was introduced in NTI 2 Corinthians 12, so like a GPS, inner wisdom recalculated to help me see that I am the Third Principle of God, the creative process. I accepted that teaching more easily. Through that teaching, I could see that I am not what I think I am and that the world is not real; it is made through attention on thought, perception and emotion.<\/p>\n
In NTI 1 Timothy, inner wisdom asked me to contemplate that more deeply. If I go deeply \u00a0<\/em>into the realization that I am not what I think I am, that the world is made by attention on thought, emotion and perception, and that the body-personality is part of the world, I will eventually come to the question:<\/p>\n What am I?<\/p>\n And that question is key to salvation (awakening).<\/p>\n Some of you accept that you are not what you think you are. You accept that the world is not real; it is made by attention on thought, perception and emotion. Now, notice that the body and personality are part of the world. That means they are also made \u00a0<\/em>in the same way all manifestation is made. They can\u2019t be what you are, so what are you?<\/p>\n