| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class SC 1, which will be published in Volume 18 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"Stop and think of the various emotions and experiences you have had since you were informed that there would be a special meeting here at the house, for there would not be a church service this Sunday. [This class was held at the Serenity Temple on Sunday morning, a time when devotional services were normally held at the American Legion log cabin.] As we came closer to the hour and closer to the day, various emotions rose up in the consciousness of many people. Not because of being here at this house, but because there was a change in routine. And so it is, my friends, that we experience our trauma whether we move from one house to another or we change our particular dining habits. Or any change that takes place, we must pay the price with our emotional realm, which is our magnetic realm, because of what is called attachment to the fruits of action.
If you want to know how attached you are or are not to anything, remove it from your consciousness and you will soon find, in the effort to remove any form, any object, you will soon find the degree of attachment. And the degree of attachment that we have permitted our self to make in anything is also the degree of control that the thing, the form, the person, has over us. None of us, of course, appreciate an awakening of things, of people controlling us.
We all know deep inside our self that we are formless and free. Whether we call it a spirit or anything else is not important. We do know we are formless and we do know we are free. And because we do have that inner knowing deep inside of us, we are constantly doing whatever our minds permit us to do to experience that formless, freedom and truth that we are."
It has been my experience that I am often unaware of how attached I have permitted myself to become to people, places, and things. At least I am unaware until they, by the laws that I have established, spread their wings and leave my life. Then I become very aware of my attachment. The degree of my emotional upheaval at their departure reveals the degree of my attachment. And the goodness that is waiting to enter my life cannot do so as long as I cling in consciousness to what has been.
The philosophy teaches hold not to form --- even the form of a thought --- for form doth pass. The goodness of life is not dependent upon form, but is dependent upon where we are in consciousness.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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