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
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