Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CQA 38, which will be published very soon in Volume 11 of The Living Light Dialogue. The quote begins with a question from a student.
“How can we become less emotional?
One becomes less emotional through less identification with the self. The more we think of our self, the more emotional we become. You see, we must someday accept scientific fact: in the human mind, through its process of evolution, is what is known as the primitive mind. So we study the lizard to see how it reacts and then we know a little more about our own emotions. And we study the various animals and we learn a little bit more about our aggressions and all of those different types of things. Then we make a reasonable decision—remember, the soul faculty of reason only expresses through the conscious mind; it is not something that reacts from the depths of our subconscious. So the less we identify with the thought of I, then we become more identified with the I that we are and we’re not as emotional.
What is emotion? Emotions are levels of consciousness that rise up to protect themselves; they feel threatened. Man is always threatened because man insists on being emotional. A non-emotional person is not threatened. You cannot threaten that which is, for that which is has always been and shall ever be. It is only that which you think is that can be threatened. If you think that this is the only life you will ever know, then you walk around in great fear. You never know, because it’s constantly being threatened. And if you think the judgment that you have is right, absolutely and positively, and the next step you believe that you are that judgment (you believe that’s you), then you walk around the universe threatened and one lives in fear.
You see, fear is mental substance—the human’s mind control over the eternal being. So when man is experiencing fear, man is expressing his emotions and constantly on guard, constantly working to defend himself, to protect himself. Truth needs no defense because truth just is. Crushed to earth, it constantly rises again. So if we want to be less emotional, more reasonable, therefore successful in life, then we must make the effort to stop over-identifying with the self, which offers to us only emotional reaction to everything to protect itself."
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Sincerely,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President Serenity Association
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