Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from CL 66, which was published in Volume 9 of The Living Light Dialogue.
“And so often have you heard that the wheels of God grind slow, but sure. Whatever it is that you are presently experiencing, you may be rest assured that it is in the process of passing. It is when things within our mind are in the process of passing from our consciousness that we experience the great struggle and the suffering. The reason that we experience the suffering and struggle as experiences are passing through our consciousness is because, through our errors of ignorance, we believe that we are those experiences. It is our belief in creation that is our conscious awareness of creation. It is our belief in the experiences that we encounter that makes us, through the Law of Identity, an inseparable part of those experiences.
It has been known by many philosophers for many ages that the greatest difficulty of all difficulties is to help man to change his beliefs. It has taken untold centuries for the planet Earth, the people upon it, to evolve to the present state of evolution. And it will take centuries yet to be for man to accept the freedom that his very soul is crying out for. It will take centuries for the masses because beliefs are rigidly held to. We hold to our beliefs so tenaciously because we believe that we are them. And through that belief do we have our ups and downs and are we robbed of the peace that passeth all understanding. Take hold of your thought. Awaken yourself consciously to what your beliefs really are. For as man has stated long ago, “As you believeth in your heart, so shall you becometh.” For it is the Law of Identity and you have, through that belief, identified with and become a part of the experiences of your life.
It may seem to be a very simple thing to sit and say, “I shall change my beliefs. I no longer believe in illness. I no longer believe in poverty. I no longer believe in suffering. I no longer believe in the struggles of life.” But there is one soul faculty that must be awakened to its fullness before the transformation can take place. And that soul faculty is known as the soul faculty of inspiration, reason, and consideration. When you awaken within your conscious mind the fullness of that triune soul faculty, then you will have qualified yourself to flood your consciousness with the infinite, demonstrable truth that you are formless and you are free.
You drive your cars along the highway, but you know you are not your automobiles. You wear your suits of clothes, but you know you are not the things you wear. And yet in the greatest of all illusions, the illusion of time and experience, you wear your physical suits, your human bodies, and believe that you are them. It is because, my good friends, you have identified with the limitation of form. You have identified and because of that over-identification you believe and, therefore, you become.
Surely it is reasonable, and common sense and practical to believe in the goodness of life, which is in truth your own divinity. But to believe in the goodness of life, you must identify with the goodness of life. How does man identify when he has lost control of his mind and thoughts fly, seemingly, free through his mind? Man must first learn the simple lesson of life: the lesson of control of the self; the control of the thoughts that pass through the minds of self. For the greatest gift to God is the gift of self and you cannot give to God what is not within your possession to give to God. So first, we must consider control.”
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Sincerely,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President Serenity Association
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