Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness CQA 13, which was published in Volume 10 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"Some time ago in counseling with a married couple when they came to my home, the wife said she brought her husband because he had a problem. The Spirit revealed to her at that time, “Your husband has no problem.” She said, “Oh, yes, he has a problem: he drinks.” I asked the man, “Does your drinking bother you? Does it create for you a problem?” And he said no. I said, “You see, ma’am, it is evident that you have the problem, for it bothers you.” And that that bothers us in life, controls us. That is the Law of Personal Responsibility. Now if a man and his wife are having problems, you must go to the one who is having the problem, to the one who is bothered. That’s the only way you can ever help them. Because the one who is bothered is the one who is controlled. And the one who is controlled is the victim—the victim, my friends, of their own judgments.
How do people get along? It’s very simple: accept the Law of Personal Responsibility. That that is around you will grow or go, for the law is very clear: like attracts like and becomes the Law of Attachment. What so few people realize is that our adversities in life become attachments, that our attachments in life become adversities. It is the divine law, in order that we may experience the freedom which is our right. And so we have people, they marry, and they divorce. And they marry again, and they divorce again. They come, and they go, because they move from attachment to adversity to attachment to adversity, until finally, finally we accept personal responsibility. Take a look at life, here. Take a good look. One moment we love them, the next moment we hate them, and we move back and forth constantly. We love them when they do what we want them to do. We hate them when they don’t do what we want them to do. My good friends, when you desire to control another, you establish the law in the universe to be controlled. And when we are bothered, we know we are controlled.
And so the great circle of life, the great, clear, beautiful reason of life, clearly states all things shall return unto their source. It is only when we become aware that we, indeed, are the source and that that is returning unto us we are not happy with. Instead of growing up and accepting responsibility as adults, we react with the trauma of little children.
How beautiful life is, if we permit our self to accept it. There is no limit. There is no shortage. There is no struggle until we make it so. God did not make it so. And because God, the divine Neutral Intelligence, didn’t make it, God can’t take it. Only the created gods, the gods that we have created (the “Santa Claus” gods) can give and take. Let us use our simple, reasoning faculty. If we believe that God is a giver and we believe that God is a taker, what a miserable life we have to live, for we look around the world and see, “That one has everything. I have most nothing. God has given them all of that. What kind of a God am I believing in?” My friends, awaken. God gives nothing, and God takes nothing. The law, the law that we set into motion, that one, that is what gives, and that is what takes. Unfortunately, frequently we forget that the Divine Spirit is flowing through everything.
If we have difficulty with people, if we have difficulty with communication, the only difficulty is that we do not communicate with our self."
Recently a member emailed a question about relationships. This quote is in response to that email. Mr. Goodwin also once said that our meaningful relationships have a tendency to become meaningful in ways we did not originally intend.
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
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