Serenity's Weekly Spiritual Quote: The purpose of these teachings

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 47, which was published in Volume 3 of The Living Light Dialogue.

  

“We discussed in the last class how cheaply so many of us sell our soul. We sell our soul to our emotions and to the patterns that we have become addicted to. We sell our soul to the circumstances that we have placed ourselves in. That’s not the purpose of these classes, friends. It is not our purpose to give you platitudes. It is our purpose to share with you an understanding, once applied, which will free us from all of these entrapments, from all of these emotional realms, from all of these experiences of rejection where we have to express retaliation. Now, when we feel rejected and we automatically, so to speak, retaliate, who, in truth, are we harming? Who, in truth—whose soul is being placed into the bondage and the prison house of that level of consciousness? Not someone else’s soul, unless the other individual is so weak and so lacking in self-control that they sell their soul to the person who retaliates. So let us give that some thought this evening. What are we truly working for in life, and what are we truly doing with our life?

Where is God in our universe, if God is not in our thought, in our attitude of mind, in our feelings, in our faith, in our consideration, and in our spoken word, act, and deed? On this path to what some call illumination—and I personally prefer to call awakening or awareness—there are many, many, many things that will distract us. For there are many, many, many things that we have given power to. So let us consider more deeply and more thoughtfully what it is we truly want in life. Then, let us go about our business and let us attain it.

It takes a constant effort, my good students, to maintain and to sustain any degree of freedom. As we walk upon the spiritual path, as we unfold our soul faculties, we find things magnified in our lives—magnified because we are becoming more sensitive. Now when we become more sensitive to these higher rates of vibration, known as spiritual vibratory waves, we also become more sensitive to the gross and to the mundane. We find that our feelings are more easily hurt. We more quickly take a slight for an injury. But that is part, my friends, of the payment of growth."

 

It is our divine right to enjoy the goodness of life, the goodness that we in truth are, every waking moment, but that is not so is to demonstrate. But as we make the effort to separate ourselves from the thoughts that we entertain, we do experience a greater goodness that is not dependent upon outside experiences.

 

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Sincerely yours,

 

Russell Fitzgerald

Vice President

Serenity Association

P.O. Box 4187

San Rafael, California

 

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Serenity's Weekly Spiritual Quote: The value of self-control

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 47, which was published in Volume 3 of The Living Light Dialogue.

  

“You know, it’s like the story of the little children. They’re willing to play the game with another as long as the game is played by their rules and their way. And so it is that we find ourselves here in this world, in adult bodies, playing the games the way we think they should be played—or we won’t play at all. Now this is known, in this understanding, as rejection, which guarantees retaliation. And so it was when we were little, small children, if things didn’t go the way we wanted, we felt rejected. And when we feel rejected, we guarantee ourselves to retaliate.

My friends, the moment that you feel or sense a rejection, you may be rest assured that you are in a level of consciousness known as personality; you are expressing through your emotional, magnetic field of expression, through which principle does not flow. For there is no reason in that level of consciousness. There is only personality or what is commonly referred to as self-interest and self-pity.

So what is it, my friends, that we look about within our own universe and find most beneficial to us? And, of course, that word is self-control: to be able to control ourselves when we have experiences in this life that we find distasteful to us. If we will express some degree of self-control, then we will free ourselves, our soul, from the magnetic field of emotion and personality and we will go on in this life with principle.

We all know, in our inner being, that we are seeking something in this great universe, and that something, when it comes right down to it, may be termed spiritual freedom. But what is spiritual freedom? How do we experience it? What is it in life that will guarantee an expression of this so-called spiritual freedom? Well, my good friends, spiritual freedom is nothing more and nothing less than the direct effect of self-control. When we control ourselves, we experience what we call spiritual freedom."

 

Whenever we express any emotion, whatever that emotion may be, the light of reason cannot express through our consciousness.

 

Those who are new to Serenity, you will find recent quotes on Serenity's Facebook Fanpage and that is also where you can join students of the Living Light from around the world to ask questions and share your understanding. I hope you will join the conversation. 

 

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Sincerely yours,

 

Russell Fitzgerald

Vice President

Serenity Association

P.O. Box 4187

San Rafael, California

 

 

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Serenity's Weekly Spiritual Quote: Knowledge knows much

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 47, which was published in Volume 3 of The Living Light Dialogue.

  

“At our last class, the statement was made that knowledge knows much, but wisdom knows better. Now the question must arise in our minds, “What is the difference, if any, between knowledge and wisdom?” Well, my friends, the moment that you apply knowledge, you express wisdom.

Many of us are knowledgeable in many things in this life. But it is a fact, if we will look at ourselves, that it is not frequent that we apply the knowledge that we have. For example, we are most knowledgeable about the traffic laws governing the community in which we live, but we do not always apply that knowledge, and therefore we and we alone pay the penalties of our acts, our thoughts, of course, and our deeds. And so it is with spiritual knowledge, knowledge of spiritual matters. We may know many laws that govern the universes and we may know many laws that govern our own life, but how often do we express wisdom? How often do we apply the knowledge that we already have? Now the question arises in the mind, If we have all of this knowledge, then why don’t we apply the knowledge that we already have? Well, my friends, I believe if you will listen to our last class, you will remember that we discussed, to a great extent, the patterns of mind, the levels of consciousness that control our lives."

 

The obstruction in consciousness that prevents us from applying the knowledge that we have merited is our over-identification with our own established thought patterns. Heaven is only a thought away.

 

Those who are new to Serenity, you will find recent quotes on Serenity's Facebook Fanpage and that is also where you can join students of the Living Light from around the world to ask questions and share your understanding. I hope you will join the conversation. 

 

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Sincerely yours,

 

Russell Fitzgerald

Vice President

Serenity Association

P.O. Box 4187

San Rafael, California

 

 

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Serenity's Weekly Spiritual Quote: The counterbalance to fear

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class AWF 9, which will be published in Volume 18 of The Living Light Dialogue.

  

“Remember, my good friends, that in your earth realm fear has long been the ruler. Many a politician has used that force to control the masses. Remember that God has given you charge over all creation. If you entertain thoughts of discord and fear, you disturb Nature herself, for she responds to energy and thought is expressed energy. So when you hear so much of disaster in your world, you may serve the divine by counteracting that vibratory wave with the positive one of knowledge, of faith, and of truth."

 

Moment by moment we are given the opportunity to choose fear or faith. But it is our choice, and it is up to us to make that effort.

 

Those who are new to Serenity, you will find recent quotes on Serenity's Facebook Fanpage and that is also where you can join students of the Living Light from around the world to ask questions and share your understanding. I hope you will join the conversation. 

 

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Sincerely yours,

 

Russell Fitzgerald

Vice President

Serenity Association

P.O. Box 4187

San Rafael, California

 

 

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