| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from the spiritual awareness class CC 75, which was published in Volume 4 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"We all know that divine will is acceptance, total acceptance. If you are ready to accept into your consciousness a better way of thinking than you already have, then you're on the first step to being the vehicle through which divine will may express itself without the limitation of past experiences. How does one know whether or not they're truly ready to accept the will of the Divine without limitation? All we have to do is to look at the present so-called problem that we have. And we all have some type of situation that we want settled, some type of problem in our life, this moment, that we are seeking a solution to. If the thought, the thought of the situation, the thought of the so-called problem, continues to entertain your conscious mind, then you may be rest assured you are still controlled by patterns and experiences of the past. If you are ready to make the change, then you will move to another level of consciousness and you will do what we have all been taught here: you will release it to the Divine.
Now, how does man release something to his own divinity, to the only level of consciousness that is able to see clearly, not just in this moment of the now, but is able to see what will be in the best interests for him, for that is his divinity? It knows what's right for us as individualized souls. We know when we have released it to the Divine within us when we no longer give it thought. 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?"
We will usually experience a reaction from the established thoughts of our mind whenever we say an affirmation or make any effort on our spiritual exercises. Our established thoughts will work to undermine our spiritual efforts because our spiritual efforts represent a threat to them. Any change, even greater greater harmony and peace, represents a threat to those patterns. It is often not easy to release a thought to the divine within us, but it is possible.
Say an affirmation of your choosing. Say it with conviction. And then listen to what your mind has to say. And remember, as you listen to the protests, we are not our thought. We are that which moves our thought.
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