Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CL 40, which was published in Volume 9 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"For many centuries there has been what people call New Year’s resolutions. Let us have moment-by-moment resolutions. Let us resolve within our mind to be freed from the bondage and the chains that have bound us to the past.
When we are feeling good and we are happy, we want to capture that moment; we want it to continue. The way that it continues, my friends, is dependent on your own acceptance. You have the power, as all children of God do, you have the power within your mind to choose heaven, which is a state of consciousness. But you also have the power within your mind to choose its opposite, known as hell. When we rely upon any thing, person, or place outside of us, we deny our God. And when that takes place, we pay the price and we pay it dearly, to such a point that in time we’ll walk upon the inward journey and we will find ourselves. Remember that all things outside of you are simply instruments of one Divinity. It is expressed through a vast variety of forms. But when you find the God inside of yourself, then you will find that great God outside of yourselves.
If you are having difficulty in finding God, then think, my friends, God is ever equal to our understanding. And so as we expand our understanding, our God becomes more full in our lives.
Some of my students over the years have asked how to find God. They find God so thin and so distant from them. When we ask that question, we open a door in our consciousness to start upon the path where we may find that eternal light. But there are many stumbling blocks on that path. They are the stumbling blocks of man and his own self-will. If God is thin in our consciousness, then it means we are fat in our consciousness. It means that our thought, our decision, our judgment, our intolerance is bigger than our acceptance of an authority that holds all things in space. I assure you, my good friends, there is no way that I have ever found of finding the fullness of God without expressing through the soul faculties of duty, gratitude, and tolerance, of faith, poise, and humility, of acceptance, which is, in truth, the divine will. When we as individualized souls become less important, God, for us, will become more important. Then, we will not have to worry about how thick or thin this great, Divine Intelligence truly is, because we will be permeated with its light, with its love, and with its truth.
Everyone, I know, wants to do the job that they have come to earth to do. But let us not tell a Divine Intelligence how hard it is, because by doing that it becomes a lot harder than we think at this moment. When these experiences in life become such a struggle, remember the divine, demonstrable law: direct your divinity to something else.
Everyone, it is said, has a cross to bear. But the cross is only the stepping stone to the crown of freedom. Only through a lack understanding is man intolerant to the rest of God’s creation. Let us not be so important in life that we know which path another human soul must walk. Let us not think in limited view. Let us encompass all of the children of God, and that includes the animals and Nature herself.
Let us not worry what our brother is doing, for that energy that we use for that level of consciousness is depriving that energy to heal our own mind, to heal our own body. Let us, rather, accept that we are an inseparable part of what is called a human race. And let us accept that what one soul does, all souls are capable of doing. And we never know the moment or the hour when another soul will do what we think is such a sin. Let us remember, as we look in this world, whatever experience we encounter, whatever we see another human soul doing, that we are an inseparable part of this human race and the potential of doing identically the same thing is ever at our fingertips. And we never know, because when we set the Law of Intolerance into motion, we guarantee that experience that we are intolerant of to come to us someday, that we may be granted understanding for that level of consciousness because it exists within our own mind. I assure you, my friends, our adversities not only become our attachments, they are the chains which bind us to hell itself."
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Sincerely,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President Serenity Association
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