Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CQA 55, which will soon be published in Volume 11 of The Living Light Dialogue.
“Now, you have a question in reference to thought and judgment. Judgment is the effect of thought. It’s the final end of it, you see. You have a thought. You think that you need something in life. You think that you need, perhaps, happiness. This seems to be a very common need with people. You think you need happiness. The reason we think we need happiness is because we believe that we don’t have it. The reason that we believe we don’t have it is because a judgment rises in our consciousness and tells us it’s not having its own way. You see, we have within our subconscious, we have a whole package that says “Happiness.” Now happiness is dependent upon that, that, that, that, and that. Now when we permit our mind to over-identify with form (self), with self, we push the button and up comes the judgments that say, “I don’t have what I need.” Now we believe that we are those feelings that rise within us.
A few people, through—you know, every philosopher has taught know thyself and you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. But we’re not making the effort to know our self. We have a feeling. We think and we believe we are the feeling and we don’t pause to know ourselves, to understand that is a judgment, which is the effect of a thought pattern, which was created by the over-identification with a thought within our mind way back when. And so, we go through our life and all of a sudden we say, “I’m unhappy.” And when you—you see, it’s a question that comes into the mind. And we keep our self so distracted, so tempted with creation, we’re not even aware anymore, rarely aware, “Why do I think I’m unhappy?” If we were truly making the effort to know our self, we would hear this judgment-form come up within the subconscious and tell us, “I am unhappy. I represent happiness and I don’t have that, that, that, that, and that. Therefore, I am unhappy. This is what you do.”
You see, that which we do not make the effort to control controls us. If we do not make the effort to control what we are responsible for, we very quickly learn in life we are controlled by it."
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Russell Fitzgerald
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