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 Happiness ~
A means is a roadway. It is the way you travel to get to a final destination.
When seen this way, what, then, is truly desired? Is it the roadway that is desired or is it the destination?
A roadway can be said to be desired, but only as a means to the end. The true desire is the end, or the destination.
If the true desire is the destination of happiness, which roadway do you wish to follow? Is it the roadway that seems to promise the end, but then only leads to another, possibly longer, roadway? Or is it the roadway that forgets all other roadways and leads determinedly to the end result?
There is a direct roadway to true happiness, and that roadway is simply this:
Do not forget what you truly seek. Know that what you want is love, and love loves all things, so love does not seek special circumstances in order to know and love itself.
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening # 215
Peace comes from desire.
Lack of peace also comes from desire,
through your desire
to choose fear and noise.
Rest in this realization.
Rest in the acceptance of your truth.
Rest in the realization
that your exact experience
is chosen by you now.
And so, since this is true,
you may now choose
a different experience.
~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, 211-217 including Commentary on Desire (with 211), Commentary on Gratitude (with 213), Commentary on Happiness (with 215), & Commentary on Experience (with 216)
- Read NTI Collosians 1-4 (No NTI reading on days 211,213,215, or 216).
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p210-214, A Knowing Space.
- Exercise is the What is Constant game. As changes seem to occur in your daily life, ask what is constant? If you are mad at someone now, ask what is constant. What is the same now as it was earlier that morning? Even ask, what is the difference between experience and non-experience?
