Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class A/V CP 32, which will be published in Volume 15 of The Living Light Dialogue. This quote begins with a question from a student. Also, the annual drawing is open, and for information on that, please see below.
"Thank you. When we have been guided that we would experience greater harmony through acceptance, how may we grow in acceptance?"
"Well, the question of how may we grow in acceptance—for example, when you are concerned or interested in growing in acceptance, try to understand that it reveals to you how you can find a way to control acceptance. So that actually is not acceptance at all. One accepts and that’s what’s done. One does not question how they can grow in acceptance, for it isn’t a matter of question. It is a matter of demonstration. For example, a person has opportunities thousands of times daily to accept or to battle. And therefore, one should not concern themselves with the mental activity of growing in acceptance. One should simply demonstrate, through declaration, “I accept personal responsibility. My thought is in my mind. I put it there. I can take it out. By the law of putting it there, I have the right to take it out. I think this is a beautiful day. I alone put that form there. I alone can take that form out. No one can take from me what I do not first, through my error of ignorance, give to them.”
So if you permit yourself to believe that someone has made your day miserable, if you permit yourself to think in that way, then you are demonstrating, through a lack of accepting personal responsibility, that whatever someone else does is how you live. Surely a person in that attitude and frame of mind is ever lost in not knowing who they are, why they are, and not even knowing what they truly are.
And so let us not be concerned in how to grow in acceptance. Let’s just be acceptance and growth will take care of itself, freed from the mental concern. And remember, whenever you do not make the effort to declare the truth, “This is a thought in my mind. I put it there. I put it there by my belief that someone else is greater than I. And I demonstrate they are greater than I when I permit myself to be miserable and judge that it is because what someone else is doing to me.” Remember that no one can do anything to you that you do not want, first, done unto you, for you alone allow the form to enter your mind and only you alone can move the form out of your mind."
I am pleased to announce the annual drawing to commemorate the birth and the passing on of the founder of Serenity, Mr. Richard Goodwin is 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 will close on February 28, 2019. All are welcomed to enter---just respond to any of the weekly emails saying that you would like to enter. There is no cost to enter. The expense associated with purchasing and mailing the volumes is covered by donations from the members and friends of Serenity. 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 then 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. If the winner of the drawing already has Volume 1, then he or she may choose any other published volume. 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 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
P.O. Box 4187
San Rafael, Caliifornia 94913
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