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.
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
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