| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from the spiritual awareness class entitled, "Class November 15, 1974," which will be published in Volume 18 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"You know, there's nothing that keeps a man where he is, except satisfaction. When you're satisfied, you certainly don't make any effort to do anything different. So, you see, the teaching is "Irritation wakes the soul and satisfaction lets it sleep." So let us not be so satisfied and so pompous in what we have or have not.
Let us be a little irritated because then we'll be about the business of the Divine. Then we will not look out into the world and say, "Oh, there's a sugar shortage. There may be a depression and there's a shortage of this and there's a shortage of that." Well, what was it? Last year there was a toilet paper shortage. There's always some kind of shortage in the consciousness of the human mind. But is there a shortage? Where does it exist? I assure you, my good friends, it is not the time of year for our annual forecast, but I can assure you of this: there is no sugar shortage. There is in truth no paper shortage. And you will never be short of anything you desire if you will accept that you have it. All you have to do is to learn to control your mind. Accept that you have whatever you desire.
But do not desire what another has, for that is a transgression of the divine law. Whatever another has, you may desire from the universe, which is limitless, but do not desire to remove it from another human soul, for if you do that, you will set a law into motion guaranteeing all the experiences necessary to understand why that person has it and you have it not.
So let your desires be directed to the Divine. The Divine is the only one capable—believe me!—of fulfilling them. You see, through an error of ignorance, of course, our mind says, "I have this desire and it's over there. And I must move over there and I must go through a certain path in order to fulfill it." As long as the mind has accepted that as the way, then it has set that law into motion. But isn't it better to sit at peace to see, in full visualization, all that you have desired and to say, "Thank you, God," [and] to accept it in your consciousness?
Remember that gratitude is the first soul faculty: duty, gratitude, and tolerance. And it is through the soul faculty of gratitude that man's supply and abundance constantly flows. And so, accept what it is you desire, and don't tell the Divine Intelligence that you have to do a certain thing in order to have it. Because when you do that, that's the law that you set into motion. You descend from a spiritual realm where all things are in the eternal now, and you descend into a mental realm where you must go through the necessary mental gymnastics of what your tapes are dictating in order to experience it. Now which is the best way? Which is the simplest way? Which is the easiest way? But that takes a slight dethronement, a slight dethronement of what they call the unbelievable, tenacious human ego. That's what that takes to accept an intelligence in the universe that is greater than our brain."
For example, if you have a desire for a car and you allow your mind to think, "I have to do this; I have to do that; I have to have so much for the down payment," those are all laws that must be fulfilled before you will merit a house. An alternative path is to accept the possibility, but avoid dictating the form of that possibility. I am reminded of an affirmation that I have found very useful when I was over-identified and dictating how my desires will manifest.
"That which is mine knows my face and is already on its way to my heart."
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President |
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