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 Listening ~
In order to listen, you must choose not to want things your way…the independent way…which does not consider the way of the whole.
In order to listen, you must also realize that the perspective from which you see is limited, and therefore, the perspective from which you see cannot make a decision based on benefit to the whole.
When you want only that which benefits the whole as an entirety, and you realize that you cannot decide for the whole based on your limited perspective, you are then ready to listen, because you realize that listening is the only satisfactory answer for you.
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening # 210
When you listen,
listen to the Heart.
Not the human heart,
which may dream
but is still limited in its perspective.
Listen to the Heart of all,
which is connected to life
and our one joy.
Listen in silence for a moment.
Ask the Heart what to do,
how to respond,
and what to say, if anything.
When you ask the Heart
with no personal attachment to the answer
and with a desire
only to do what the Heart
would guide you to do,
a clear answer can be given,
because no other desire
blocks the answer
you most want to hear.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 204-210 including Commentary on Obedience (with 206), Commentary on the World (with 207), Commentary on the Wish to Be Independent (with 208), Commentary on Peace (with 209) & Commentary on Listening (with 210).
- Read NTI Philippians 3 & 4 (No NTI reading on days 206-210).
