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.
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
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