This week’s reading from NTI Colossians says:
“You are the flow that is the first and the last, the beginning and the end, the creator of all things within time. You are the heavens and the earth, the bees and the sunshine. You are the process that made all things and is all things, so they live through the process that created them. You are the flow of Life and separate from nothing that is Life, for that which flows through them is the process that you are. You are beyond concepts and difference and form, and within the Life force that is all things.”
When NTI says, “You are the process that made all things,” and “You are the flow of Life,” it means you are That which is God.
Today’s lesson says:
“God is in everything I see. … You will probably find this idea very difficult to grasp at this point. You may find it silly, irreverent, senseless, funny and even objectionable. Certainly God is not in a table, for example, as you see it.”
For some people, it may seem objectionable to say, for example, “God is in that waste basket.” It may be even more objectionable to say, “I am God,” and it may seem ridiculous to say, “I am in that waste basket.” I don’t ask you to say, “I am in that waste basket.” I’d like you to follow the Workbook lesson instructions as they are written. However, I’d like you to contemplate this as you do the workbook lessons:
You’ve seen the video about my experience as an apple, and you’ve seen the video about my experience with the towel rack and floor. The life-awareness and divine love that I experienced in those objects is God. The life-awareness and divine love that I experienced in those objects is in everything that you see. Also, the life-awareness and divine love that I experienced in those objects is what you are.
You are no different than the waste basket, because it is life-awareness divine love, and so are you.
You are no different than the door, because it is life-awareness divine love, and so are you.
You are no different than another body, because it is life-awareness divine love, and so are you.
You are no different than a lamp, because it is life-awareness divine love, and so are you.
You are not different than a finger, because it is life-awareness divine love, and so are you.
You are no different than a magazine, because it is life-awareness divine love, and so are you.
You are no different than a coat hanger, because it is life-awareness divine love, and so are you.
Regina’s Tip for Lesson 30
Pause for a moment and notice yourself.
Notice that you are aware.
Notice that you are present now.
Now, look at something near you.
Notice that it is in your awareness.
Notice that it is present now.
Look at something a little further away from you.
Notice that it is also in your awareness.
Notice it is also present now.
Look at an object that fairly distant from your body, possibly something out the window. Notice that it is in your awareness. It is in your awareness just like the object closer to you is in your awareness. They are equally in your awareness.
Notice that the fairly distant object is also present now.
Think of something that you’ve seen before that you cannot see now. Notice your thought about it is in your awareness, therefore it is in your awareness. You are aware of it now, aren’t you? Both what you see and what you think of is in your awareness. They are equally in your awareness.
Notice the object you are thinking of is present in your awareness now as a thought or as a mental image. In that way, it is present now.
Now, consider these statements:
Your mind is awareness.
Thought appears in mind.
Thought appears in awareness.
Notice these statements are true. Check them in your own experience.
Your mind is life-awareness.
You cannot separate your mind from life.
You cannot point and say, “Life is there and mind is here.” They are one. Notice these statements are true. Check them in your own experience.
Life-awareness is present now.
Thoughts about the past appear in life-awareness, but life-awareness is present now.
Thoughts about the future appear in life-awareness, but life-awareness is present now.
Notice these statements are true. Check them in your own experience.
Regina’s Tip for Lesson 31
Today’s workbook lesson begins by saying:
“Today’s idea is the introduction to your declaration of release.”
This week’s reading assignment may help you understand how “I am not the victim of the world I see” is the introduction to your release. NTI Colossians, Chapter 2 says:
“You are all things, and all things are you. You are the Life that flows in and out of all things. You are the wisdom and knowledge that travels on the current of Life, which moves through everything seen and unseen. In this way, you are absent from nothing, and nothing is disconnected from you. …
“Your mind communicates with all things through the flow of Life that is your reality. It is not partial to the body that you think you are. For within its flow, it is all things without partiality. It reads communication as it travels throughout spirit, and it delivers that which it is given through faith and desire.”
In other words, you are not the victim of the world you see, because the world you see comes from you. That knowledge is the introduction to your release, because when it is understood and accepted, you can change your way of giving attention to thought, and the world you see will change too.
Today’s lesson is related to lessons 18 and 19. Take a few minutes to go back and review the tips from those two lessons. As you review those tips, ask yourself this question:
How is this information the introduction to my release?
See what realizations come as you contemplate that question.
Regina’s Tip for Lesson 32
Today’s lessons says:
“You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it. … You will see it or not see it, as you wish. While you want it you will see it; when you no longer want it, it will not be there for you to see.”
NTI Colossians makes the same connection between what you want and what you see. It says:
“For this reason, let your mind be focused on that which you truly want, the motive you have set your mind on.”
Our minds think they want many things, because the thoughts that are received into mind chatter about many things. In one day, you probably cannot count the number of desires that you give attention to, some big and some small. However, most of those desires have one thing in common: they are about the world. Therefore, in wanting those many different things, you continually want the world.
One important step in your release is realizing your spiritual aspiration, and then contemplating that spiritual aspiration deeply until it becomes the only thing that you want.
What is a spiritual aspiration? It’s what you want spiritually.
For example, do you want to be only love? Do you want freedom? Do you want truth realization?
Have you considered what you want spiritually? If not, now is a good time to begin considering that. We will revisit the spiritual aspiration later. Right now, we are only taking beginning steps towards developing a spiritual aspiration.
Please take a few minutes to review the tip for lesson 23, since it is related to today’s lesson and this tip.
Regina’s Tip for Lesson 33
Yesterday, I asked you to review the tip for lesson 23. In that tip, you learned to give attention to thought differently by holding a thought in the mind while saying the daily workbook lesson to yourself. That practice is a simple and powerful practice, since it is different than giving believing-attention to thought.
Holding a thought in the mind and saying the workbook lesson to yourself is another way of looking at thought. Since the world you see comes from the thoughts you give believing-attention to, holding a thought in the mind as you say the workbook lesson is also how you look at the world differently.
Instead of letting the thoughts that come into the mind tell you how to see and experience the world, you choose how you will see and experience the world by choosing which thoughts you will believe and which thoughts you will let go.
This is the practice recommended in NTI Colossians when it says:
“Therefore, do not look at the world letting it tell you what to think. To make this mistake is to participate in illusions, …
“Watch your mind, and you watch what it is that you do. With this knowledge you may gladly choose again.”
Regina’s Tip for Lesson 34
The tip for lesson 32 pointed out that there is a connection between what you want and the world you see. Today’s workbook lesson helps you to become clear on what you want.
Consider this quote as you practice today’s workbook lesson:
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
~ Dada Vaswani
Regina’s Tip for Lesson 35
As today’s Workbook lesson points out, you probably do not see your mind as a part of God’s mind. You probably do not see yourself as “very holy.” However, that is exactly what NTI Ephesians and NTI Colossians teach. That is “what vision will show you.”
Today’s lesson implies that you believe you are a person in a world, because you do not believe you are one with God’s holy mind. NTI Colossians points out how you can begin to reverse this misperception. It suggests that you align yourself with the desire of the Heart. It says:
“Remember this. The desire of the Heart is only this, for this is the only desire it would place on the flow of creation that is you:
“Know thy Self. …
“Place your mind in subordination to your Heart in great joy! For in placing the mind in subordination to the Heart, you join with your Self in the true desire of Self.”
Interestingly, “Heart” is capitalized in this excerpt, which means NTI isn’t referring to the human heart. It refers to the spiritual Heart. The spiritual Heart is the Heart of oneness, which is also called the Self. In oneness, there aren’t many desires like there are among humans. In oneness, there is one true desire. That desire is to know itself as its Self.
Today’s workbook lesson is inspired by this true desire. It is a call to oneness, inviting it to return from the misperception of separation by remembering itself as a unified whole.
