| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class A/V CP 8, which will soon be published in Volume 14 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"You see, the loss of anything, when we register a loss in our consciousness, it is ever dependent upon what our attachment is. You see, the greater the attachment, the greater the suffering from the loss. So if we permit our self to overly attach to anything or anyone, we guarantee the payment for that attachment. And that we call a loss. What has happened, you see, when you attach to anything, you depend on it for your survival. So the more you permit yourself to attach to anything or anyone, the greater is your bondage from your own dependence. Now that dependence grows as you deny what you are, and you become and you believe what you are not.
For example, a person [is] attracted to someone; their senses register satisfaction. And unless they're very careful, they will begin to strengthen their belief of experiencing good or God from the person. You understand that. Well, as they strengthen that bondage of belief, they guarantee the ending of it or the loss of it. Now the loss of something is—the loss of one thing is ever the freedom of something else. You've surely had those experiences in life. So each loss and the experience of what the senses call suffering and pain should be looked at by creating, at those times, an electric thought form. As you create an electric thought form, you free yourself not only from the dependence, the suffering, and the struggle, you don't create another magnetic form."
My experience reveals to me that I am often unaware of how attached I am to people, places, and things, at least until they leave my life. Then I become intensely aware of my attachments that are taking their flight from my life. But that is how I have chosen to learn those lessons. There is no divine law that requires that I form my many attachments; it is just my error of ignorance. It seems to me that attachments are a form of denial of the goodness that we all are, which, as I understand these teachings, is a denial of the Principle of Goodness. In time, our attachments are removed from our lives in order that we may awaken that the goodness of life is not dependent upon any person, place, thing, or even thought.
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