Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from the spiritual awareness class CL 40, which was published in Volume 9 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"For many centuries there has been what people call New Year’s resolutions. Let us have moment-by-moment resolutions. Let us resolve within our mind to be freed from the bondage and the chains that have bound us to the past.
When we are feeling good and we are happy, we want to capture that moment; we want it to continue. The way that it continues, my friends, is dependent on your own acceptance. You have the power, as all children of God do, you have the power within your mind to choose heaven, which is a state of consciousness. But you also have the power within your mind to choose its opposite, known as hell. When we rely upon any thing, person, or place outside of us, we deny our God. And when that takes place, we pay the price and we pay it dearly, to such a point that in time we’ll walk upon the inward journey and we will find ourselves. Remember that all things outside of you are simply instruments of one Divinity. It is expressed through a vast variety of forms. But when you find the God inside of yourself, then you will find that great God outside of yourselves.
If you are having difficulty in finding God, then think, my friends, God is ever equal to our understanding. And so as we expand our understanding, our God becomes more full in our lives.
Some of my students over the years have asked how to find God. They find God so thin and so distant from them. When we ask that question, we open a door in our consciousness to start upon the path where we may find that eternal Light. But there are many stumbling blocks on that path. They are the stumbling blocks of man and his own self-will. If God is thin in our consciousness, then it means we are fat in our consciousness. It means that our thought, our decision, our judgment, our intolerance is bigger than our acceptance of an authority that holds all things in space. I assure you, my good friends, there is no way that I have ever found of finding the fullness of God without expressing through the soul faculties of duty, gratitude, and tolerance, of faith, poise, and humility, of acceptance, which is, in truth, the divine will. When we as individualized souls become less important, God, for us, will become more important. Then we will not have to worry about how thick or thin this great Divine Intelligence truly is because we will be permeated with its light, with its love, and with its truth."
Each moment is a new moment, a new beginning, a new opportunity for us to make the effort to awaken to and demonstrate our divinity.
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
Serenity Association
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