Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 213, which was published in Volume 7 of The Living Light Dialogue.
These are the final few days of the drawing for free copies of Volume 1. If you would like to enter, just respond with a short email. This annual drawing commemorates the birth and the passing on of the founder of Serenity, Richard P. Goodwin. It was through his mediumship that these teachings were given. For information on the drawing, please see below.
“No matter where you go and no matter what you do, if your experiences are not harmonious, pleasant, and beneficial, it is because of what you are identifying with in your own mental universe. If someone comes to you with a disturbing vibration, then you have identified with a disturbing vibration within you. You do not have to continue to identify with that disturbing vibration within you. You can recognize it as it comes to you and make the effort to gain control of what you are identifying within you and change your experience by changing your reality.
We must learn, my friends, in time, the great freedom of the level of consciousness known as objectivity. We must learn someday to speak, to discuss, and be free from identifying with it within. We must learn to be in a world of seeming turmoil and be the perfect peace that passeth all understanding.
If you find that you identify quickly and easily with certain negative things in life, then that is the area in which you need great work to learn to become objective, to truly accept God’s manifestation of variety. But each time you permit your mind to blame a person, place, or thing for the way you feel, for your lot in life, each and every time you permit your mind to blame outside for the experiences that you have, each time you do that, my children, you weaken the very fiber of your spiritual character. Think about it, my friends. For each and every time you permit your mind to blame outside for your feelings, each time you do that, you not only weaken your spiritual fiber and character, but you become the slave and the victim of those forces of creation. And the bondage becomes very great in time.
Whenever you experience the thought that you don’t feel good because of what someone else is doing or has done, take control of yourself in that moment and declare the eternal truth: It’s your thought. It’s your mind. If you have lost control of it, do not blame someone else for taking what you have not taken care of.”
I am pleased to announce the second annual drawing to commemorate the birth and the passing on of the founder of Serenity, Mr. Richard Goodwin remains open. The prizes for the drawing are 5 copies of Volume 1 of The Living Light Dialogue. That is, there will be 5 winners and each winner will be mailed a copy of Volume 1. The drawing opens today and will close on February 28, 2018. All are welcomed to enter---just respond to any of the weekly emails saying that you would like to enter. In order to be fair, only one entry per email address will be allowed. In the first week of March, the winners will be drawn. The winners will be notified by email and asked to provide a mailing address so that their copy of Volume 1 can be mailed to him or her. If a winner does not provide a mailing address in a timely manner, a new name will be drawn. As soon as all copies have been mailed to the winners, their names and countries of residence will be announced in this weekly email. This drawing is being sponsored by a number of friends of Serenity in order to make these beautiful teachings more available to those who are seeking. And I think this is a beautiful way to honor and commemorate Mr. Goodwin.
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Sincerely,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President Serenity Association
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