| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 162, which has just been published in Volume 6 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"Fascination is the demonstration of the Law of Greed. Think, my good students, about what you experience when you fascinate. You create a form and forms. And they change and they move and you create more forms. And you're never satisfied with the forms you create. You always find a flaw and there's always a constant, constant insatiable need for more and more and more. And so the mind continues on and on and on and on and on. It's never filled. And so it fascinates and it fascinates and it fascinates. And the soul never gets in, because the mind is in total control. And the mind is constantly utilizing the energy to create more forms and different forms. And so the soul is void, for the soul is not expressing. The soul is not in balance. There are no faculties expressed. And so fascination and greed go hand in hand. And it's never enough. There is no gratitude, for there is nothing to be grateful for. For there is constant, constant more and more and more.
When a person has a desire and the desire is being fulfilled, there should be a moment of pause. For in the pause does man experience the soul faculty of gratitude, in that moment of pause. But in fascination, there is no pause. There is just the constant, constant utilizing of energy to create so many mental forms. And you know it's never enough. It's never enough.
Think, my students. Think what self offers. It's never enough. No matter what you have or have not, it's never enough. And so let us pause more often. Let us enjoy the moment to pause. Let us be grateful for the ability to pause, for in the pause, you experience your true being. You're freed from the processes of fascination. You're freed from need and need and need that grows and grows and grows and grows.
Pause, my students. Pause more often. Stop the wheels in your mind from turning. Learn to pause a few moments every hour. Pause as often as you can, for when you pause, you enter the life eternal. In that stillness, in that pause, you experience all of life. Nothing is left out when you truly pause."
Unless we become more aware of the tendencies of our minds, like how easy it is to become fascinated by our technological devices, we will continue to be controlled by that vehicle of expression. Either we make the effort to control our minds or our minds control us. The problem with our minds controlling us is that the strongest thought of the moment often dictates our reactions to our present. One of our jobs, it seems to me, is to free ourselves from past experiences in order that we may not be limited in our expression to reactions that have almost become automatic, but rather respond in the light of reason and common sense to our experiences and enjoy the goodness of life.
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