Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class A/V Special Seminar, which will be published in Volume 12 of The Living Light Dialogue. Also, the annual drawing is open and I invite everyone to enter, and for information on that, please see below.
"Now, for example, you have a desire. You’ve got to have it fulfilled. You go through that experience and you get all frustrated and it’s not fulfilled yet. What happens within your consciousness? This form, this desire based upon past experiences, runs you all over the universe to fill it. And if you still don’t get it filled, it tells you in your mind, “You either do that or else!” And the next step you have is a compulsion to do it. Then, after the compulsion, the very next step is an absolute possession. Either you fill that desire or you become a total nervous wreck.
Now tell me something, is that you? Why, of course, that’s not you! No intelligent person would tell themselves, after the desire is filled, that that was them. In fact, they would say the experience never met the expectation at all. How could it possibly? There’s no way you could put that much energy, which has been directed to frustration and running all over the universe to fill the desire, into one short moment. There’s no way possible. It’d be like the nuclear bomb. You’d blow yourself up. No, no, no.
So let us think about these things for what they really are, not what we believe they are. Number one: they are not us. But they are things that we have created. We’re responsible to them. We have the intelligence to say, “No, no. I choose not to do that. If you bother me again, I’ll let you have it. Don’t tell me who’s having what!”
You see, it’s just like smoking or any habit. For years and years I’ve tried to teach my students and to demonstrate when you want something really bad, when it’s just about causing you to have an epileptic attack, say, “No. Five minutes. And if you bother me in that five minutes, I’ll give you another five minutes.” That’s when you start to gain control.
The Living Light Philosophy does not teach nor does it demonstrate that you must do without the goodness of life. If you in your evolution have decided, based upon your experience, that you enjoy a cup of coffee or that you enjoy a cigarette or that you enjoy these various things of creation, there’s nothing wrong with that if you are awake, aware, and alert. Because you must face the truth that, “This feeling of goodness that I am experiencing, that’s God. I have, however, limited this goodness or God to doing this particular thing.” Now if you have the intelligent awakening of that truth, you’ll have no problem. You decide. “All right. I wish to experience this goodness, this feeling, through this avenue of expression. However, my God, my God is not such a small God that that’s the only way that he may enter my universe. Oh, no! I can do that if I choose or I don’t have to because I will still experience the goodness, the God, that is my divine right, that is within me.” Now if you look at all of these things that way, intelligently, then you’re not going to be trapped, frustrated, dependent upon, and the victim of these forms of creation. Because, you see, then you may experience God in that way or that way or that way, but you will never be left without experiencing the goodness of life, the joy of living. For, you see, creation is everywhere. It is not limited—God is not limited to any particular avenue for you to experience the goodness of life."
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 yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
Serenity Association
P.O. Box 4187
San Rafael, California 94913
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