| Dear Friends, The quote for this week is from spiritual awareness class CC 55, which was published in Volume 3 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"You see, my friends—and we've spoken that many, many, many, many, many, many times—it is not outside: that is the illusion of life. It is not outside. It is inside. And that is the only place that it exists. We must awaken within our being the truth. Control is not something out there. That is not where it is. Now let's take the example that the gentleman has brought up in reference, of course, to material supply. Our mind has become addicted to the illusion that it is outside and we must do something about events and circumstances out there. That is the illusion, the great illusion. It is in our thinking; it is in our attitude. Now, a person says, "I always seem to attract in my life these so-called tolerance-testers." Now, you see, it's the same principle at work. The same principle in getting money is the same principle of what some students call tolerance-testers: that "I just can't understand how I'm always attracting to me these tolerance-testers." Well, my friends, it's the same law, you see. It's a magnetic law. The tolerance-tester outside is the testing one is doing to oneself. And the people out there that are attracted to them are the mirror. So it's the same principle with supply. It's the same principle with what you call money. It's inside, in our attitude. Now, when we change our attitude, then we can come into rapport with what is called money and divine flow. But, you see, the change has to take place in here. Now, we made a statement several classes ago that we don't need money, that money needs us. You see, the moment that your mind says that you need something, you deny your divinity. You take out of your aura energy, and you give it to the thing that you say that you need that's over here. Now, when you do that, you become the victim and the slave of circumstances and conditions. So, you see—let us put it another way. When man educates his desires, he finds his true wealth, you see. Now, we've also stated in the creative principle in one of these classes—and even made a chart and a diagram for you—"As you believeth, you becometh." If you believe that you need something, what you are saying is, "I deny the truth that I already have it." You see, we already have everything. However, we have permitted ourselves to sin for untold centuries—and by sin, I mean the error of ignorance— saying that we don't have this and we don't have that. Now our God is equal to our understanding and as our understanding has narrowed through the centuries, our God has become more stingy. And so we find ourselves in what is known as lack and limitation. Well, lack and limitation of anything—I don't care if you call it money or you call it health—is a revelation, my good students, of the narrowing of your understanding, you see. Now, we try to teach here to broaden your horizons, to expand your understanding. And then, these so-called needs will disappear, as you come to the realization that all that you are seeking, you already have. Then, my good students, you'll get off the treadmill of delusion and you will be free. But you will not, and cannot, be free until you dethrone the false gods that you have created in your thinking that tell you that you must chase here, there, and everywhere to get what you're seeking. That's not where it is."
The world is a mirror reflecting back to us where we are in consciousness. The more we place our attention upon abundance, the more abundance we will experience. The more we place our attention upon need, the more need we will experience.
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