| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 75, which was published in Volume 4 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"Now, each and every moment when we're consciously awake and when we are asleep, the so-called computer of our mind is playing what we call, in this understanding, tapes. It's playing experiences of the past. It is doing it whether or not you are consciously aware, for that is the very nature of mind stuff. There are moments when we have an awareness of a thought that continues to repeat itself in our mind, and we find that condition most disturbing. But, my good students, that process of thought—and thoughts—is taking place in our mind day and night.
So, my good students, does it not behoove us to permeate our consciousness with potent and positive affirmations, to introduce into our tape recorder of the mind tapes that will reap us a beneficial harvest? It's like a student striving to learn one of the many affirmations that are given here, a most important affirmation, which simply states, "God is the source of my supply." The students work on that. Perhaps they say it a few times. Maybe they say it fifty or a hundred times. But what happens? As that affirmation strives to record itself in the gray matter of our mind, a multitude of contradictory experiences of this life flood into our consciousness. What does that reveal to us? It reveals that we are in self-will, not divine will; that we are still controlled by yesterday. How can we truly progress when we permit ourselves to be constantly controlled by yesterday's experiences?"
It seems that we are frequently controlled by the subconscious patterns of behavior (or tapes) that we learned as young children. We see those patterns express more clearly in others because we have a greater degree of objectivity with others than we do with our own patterns, for all too often we believe that pattern is us. We often see more clearly those patterns of behavior when people are upset. Perhaps they shout, perhaps they pout, perhaps they stamp their foot. These are all patterns of behavior that we learned as children in an attempt to gain what we desired at that moment. Perhaps they served us well in our childhood, perhaps not, but they clearly no longer serve us well as adults. No one consciously chooses to become upset or angry. Yet, when one of our judgments (that we are over-identified with and believe for a time that we are) is threatened with change or obstructed, we often express the various children of our temper, which rarely, if ever, brings goodness into our lives.
As we make the effort with our spiritual exercises and affirmations, we do become more aware of the tapes that so often control, through our lack of awareness, our lives. And in our increasing awareness of those patterns of thought and behavior the seeds of our freedom are planted.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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