Yesterday we saw that mental chatter is the greatest of all human addictions, and so the greatest of all desires is necessary to set yourself free from mental chatter.
As your desire for awakening increases, mental chatter catches on to your desire for awakening. It uses that, too, to try and save itself.
If you give mental chatter your attention, it will distort your desire for awakening into another desire that is similar, but not the same. It might distort it into the desire to attract people or circumstances. It might distort it into the desire to get approving attention from others. It might distort it into the desire to be a spiritual teacher. It might distort it into the desire to be part of a spiritual community. It might distort it into the desire to write and sell spiritual books, to sing spiritual songs, to be seen as spiritual by others, to buy spiritual objects, to go to spiritual places, to have a close relationship with an enlightened person or to feel spiritually special in some other way.
Today’s reading says:
True desire is known by its desire for only one thing.
True desire desires truth. It is immune to deception. If you remain fully focused on the desire for truth, you will not be sidetracked by the myriad of distortions that the ego can come up with. Because mental chatter is highly deceiving, you need to remain fully aware of what you desire in every moment.
Today’s reading says:
The only way to pass through the tests of the thinking mind, without being led astray by false desire, is to remain fully focused on true desire now. There is no other way.
You do not need to read from Revelation in the Bible today. You can go directly to the reading in NTI.
Thoughts of Awakening # 289
All that you see
with the body’s eyes
cannot harm you.
There is no reason to be afraid.
There is also no reason
to look on the world without love.
It is but Light
play-acting that it is not Light.
Have compassion for the ones
who do not know,
and choose for yourself
to remember.
~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, 288-294
- Read NTI Revelation 19-22. Read the Bible excerpt whenever there is a Bible icon next to the verses in NTI Revelation.
