| Dear Friends, Serenity's annual drawing is open for the month of February. So there is still time to join. For more information on that, please see below. This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CL 85, which was published in Volume 10 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"So often in the study of this, The Living Light philosophy, a student will say that they have tried and the months have passed and perhaps even the years, but there's been no change. There's been no change in the level of consciousness from which they speak, for no effort in that level of consciousness was ever made. Now there is no question that effort was made in other levels of consciousness and when, from those levels of consciousness, they speak, they readily and willingly admit the changes that have taken place for the better in their lives.
We all know from our own personal lives that we have many levels of consciousness, for one moment we find our self with certain attitudes towards life, only in the next moment to find ourselves in totally different attitudes of mind to life. These represent and express the various levels of consciousness through which our eternal soul is moving and expressing. It is a matter, then, of gaining control of one's vehicle of expression, known as the human mind, not to let it wander around in the universe in any level that it so chooses. It is a ship of which, by the very laws, you are the captain of. You certainly would not want your suit that you wear or your dress to tell you where you are going, to tell you that it's taking you here and there, whether you like it or not. No one wants to think that they are so controlled by a vehicle designed for them to use for their own eternal good, but I assure you that Life herself—our personal lives—reveal day after day, experience after experience, that that is exactly what the vehicle of our eternal soul is so often doing to us. We all have had experience in our life when we found it most difficult to still our thought, when certain feelings rose up and we lost control of our mind, that we said and did things that a moment later we sincerely wish we had not. What does that reveal? It reveals the various levels of consciousness. It reveals a lack of control. And because of this lack of control we experience regret, we experience sorrow, and we experience these many negative functions. We don't need to experience those things. It is not necessary for us to suffer to be free. By our divine birth, we already are free. We are free. It is when our minds, without control of the faculty of reason—which is an expression of our eternal soul—our minds take us into these many different things. That's when we experience what we know deep within our self is bondage."
Serenity's Annual Drawing
The annual drawing to commemorate the birth and the passing on of the founder of Serenity, Mr. Richard Goodwin, is open. The prizes for the drawing are 5 copies of Volume 1 of The Living Light Dialogue. That is, there will be 5 winners and each winner will be mailed a copy of Volume 1. The drawing is open through the month of February and closes on February 29, 2020. All are welcomed to enter---just respond to any of the weekly emails saying that you would like to enter. In order to be fair, only one entry per email address will be allowed. In the first week of March, the winners will be drawn. The winners will be notified by email and asked to provide a mailing address so that their copy of Volume 1 can be mailed. If a winner does not provide a mailing address in a timely manner, a new name will be drawn. If the winner of the drawing already has Volume 1, then he or she may choose any other published volume. The winners may also choose to receive a PDF of their volume. As soon as all copies have been mailed to the winners, their names and countries of residence will be announced in this weekly email. This drawing is being sponsored by a number of friends of Serenity in order to make these beautiful teachings more available to those who are seeking. And I think this is a beautiful way to honor and commemorate Mr. Goodwin.
One moment we want to go to the mountains, but in the next moment we want to go to the sea. This is another example of our many levels of consciousness. When we do not make the effort to control our minds, then, from our own lack of effort, we become controlled by the strongest pattern in our minds. And those mental patterns are often not harmonious or considerate of others or even considerate of our other levels of consciousness. And so we experience discord within and without. As we make the conscious effort to separate ourselves from our thoughts, we are no longer so controlled or disturbed by the passing panorama of our thoughts. The choice to make that effort is ever ours to make: to continue to be ruled by what has been or to experience the freedom and the goodness that we in truth are.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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