Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness CC 32, which was published in Volume 2 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"When I face an experience—whether it’s on a job, whether it’s something that is disorganized or whether it’s emotion, no matter what it is—the number one question to entertain in thought is, “Why this and why now?” The experience is an effect. Now, say that we go onto a job and our desk is piled heaping with disorganized papers and etc. Now the mind usually says, “That person is very disorganized. I just don’t know how I merited that individual.” But we have to go beyond that. We have to see that this is an effect. “That person is only instrumental in presenting disorganization to me. That is giving me a golden opportunity to organize myself.”
Now if a disorganized experience repeats itself in our universe, what it means is, in some area in our universe, we are disorganized. Now, you see, where the mind gets deluded. It says, “Well, I’m not disorganized. I have all my papers neat and etc.” That’s the delusion, because we’re trying to relate it specifically, instead of by principle. If the experience of disorganization keeps hitting us, that reveals to us on a level of consciousness we are disorganized. If it is a great disorganization, that is how disorganized we are on that level of consciousness.
Now, how do we find out what level of consciousness that is? It’s very simple. When you have the experience of these disorganized papers, ask yourself, “How does it affect me? Does it make me angry? Does it affect my emotions? Do I get upset?” Now, if that is how we react, that reveals the level of consciousness that we are disorganized on. Isn’t that beautiful? So you see, every day we are being taught. Whether we like it or not, we are being taught. The effect reveals the level of consciousness where we need growth. And you have that whether you go to the supermarket or you’re on the telephone or you’re driving your car. No matter where you go, the effect, my friends, reveals the level of consciousness where organization or growth is needed within."
The philosophy is filled with spiritual exercises to help us awaken and enjoy a greater goodness and a greater harmony in life. But it is up to us to make the effort to apply those exercises.
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