| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 23, which was published in Volume 2 of The Living Light Dialogue. This quote begins with a question from a student, whose words are italicized.
"I don't understand what you mean when you say that man is a law unto himself.
Thank you. I'll be happy to share that with you. Please bear with us, because we not only have new students in these courses, but we do have many review students.
Man is a law unto himself. In other words, whatever man thinks returns to him totally impartially. Whatever man entertains in thought, he experiences. Man is that law. Do you understand? Man himself. In other words, our teaching is not that God has put you into a certain circumstance or that God will take you out of that circumstance. Our understanding of God is a divine Infinite Intelligence; a divine neutral Power that sustains all things in all places, that has no beginning, has no ending. If man chooses to use this Law, this Divine Intelligence, for his awakening, for his joy, for his wonder of living, he may do so. Another man may choose to limit that Divine Intelligence—and perhaps it will help you on a discussion of what people call love, because most people are interested, to some extent, in that word called love. Either they love another human or they love a plant or a dog or a cat or money or something. And so perhaps by a little discussion on the word love, we may gain a greater understanding.
When man experiences things that are in harmony with his attitudes of mind, he—by man, I mean humanity—feels and experiences what he terms is love. Now if a girl gets married to a fellow and he does basically what she wants, though she's not consciously necessarily aware of this, then they say that they are in love. What they are really saying is that they are in harmony or in rapport with the basic taped patterns of their own subconscious. Consequently, they have that experience for a limited time. Now the reason that it's usually a limited time is because people are introducing new tapes into their subconscious. Well, if their husbands or wives don't introduce similar tapes, then there's no longer any rapport and, consequently, they no longer experience this energy, this intelligence, divine intelligence, that they term love. Man limits himself; God doesn't.
If a person says, "Well, I would like to have a true friend," well, of course, it's very simple: we cannot have what we aren't. If we accept that we don't have a true friend, then we certainly cannot experience one. So, my friends, what we've got to do is to become the thing that we desire. And when we become the thing that we desire, then we experience it, for it's magnetically pulled to us according to the law that like attracts like and becomes the Law of Attachment. So, you see, if there's anything that you're hoping for and if there's anything that you are desiring, become the thing you desire. Then you will experience it. You cannot experience something that you are seeking until you become it."
I thought this quote was very interesting not only for the insights that it offers but also because of the fluid way the topics changed in one short response. It begins with a discussion on law, touches upon love, and then circles back to law and how experiences are manifested. It is quite a journey in just a few paragraphs. For me, at this particular moment, what resonates is that we must become what we are seeking in order for us to experience it. In another class, Mr. Goodwin encouraged his students to stop seeking and start accepting. There is a world of difference.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President |
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