| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 64 which was published in Volume 3 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"Now, let us take a few moments on what we call motive. When we become aware of the feelings and the thought patterns that exist beneath our so-called conscious level, we then become aware of our motives. Now, it is stated in this philosophy that if the motive is pure, the method is legal, dependent, of course, upon the purity of our own motive. It is a teaching to be applied, as all of these teachings are, to our own levels of consciousness and to ourselves.
Each day we experience what is known as the level of consciousness called justification. We must express through that level in order to defend the position that we have taken concerning any experience. It is also taught in this philosophy that truth needs no defense. Because, you see, my good students, truth does not need to be justified, for truth is. And therefore there is nothing, of course, to defend.
So let us ask ourselves daily, more often perhaps than we have been, "What is my motive in any given situation? What is my true motive?" We cannot find our true motives in anything until we become first aware of the multitude of desires in our lifetime that we have already suppressed. For it could well be, and often is, a suppressed desire that motivates us into action. And because we are not aware of that suppressed desire that has motivated us into action, we find ourselves in a position to defend the action that we are expressing. And so, as one of my students said, as I asked him what was the soul of action, he said, "Awareness." Because it takes, my friends, self-awareness.
Week after week, month after month, and year after year, we teach in this Association that it is inside our own head, that all experience, all freedom, all bondage, all things exist within our own consciousness. This is, for all of us, at least at times, a most difficult teaching and philosophy to accept. But, my good students, until we accept that truth, which is demonstrable, until we stop relying upon things outside of ourselves for freedom, for expression—until we reach that plane of consciousness—we will not, and we cannot, be free."
The philosophy also teaches that motive is the accepted faith to our duty and that is what sets the law into motion. Our motive is what moves us. So the more that we become aware of our true motives, the broader is our understanding of the experiences that we encounter, for our experiences are reflecting our true motive.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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