Being in the Flow
Awareness of dreaming
Dec 30th, 2009
Today I was aware of dreaming. I just flowed happily along in a detached way as I drove my wife to Boston, where she had a very positive experience showing her art work. As I looked at cars and people, they no longer had a sense of hard physicality about them, which I found to be refreshing and fun. Everything unfolded perfectly.
But when we got home at about 3:30 I realized that I had lost a lens from my sunglasses somewhere during the ride home. Then I opened my e-mail and found that my son had requested that I deposit some money in his bank as he was about to overdraw his account. This set up clicked with me as I remembered that his bank and my bank each had branches in Goffstown. I felt certain that I would find my lens if I went to back Goffstown.
Tags: Forgiveness
Sickness - The Big Picture
Summarized from David Hoffmeister
Dec 29th, 2009
All apparent symptoms of sickness are the result of an attack thought, the attempt to project unconscious guilt stemming from the belief in separation onto the body. The mind believes it is guilty; and it is so determined to hang on to that concept, that sickness seems like a small price, because sickness is a witness that the body can tell the mind how to feel. It is a witness that smallness, that vulnerability must be true. The deceived mind so much wants to be right about being a separate self that it uses the body as proof. The sick body is the witness that it calls to the stand.
In the miracle it is seen that the mind was mistaken about what it thought it was; it no longer sees that it is in the body and no longer needs to see the body as a symbol of sin or as proof that separation is real. That is where the patient can rise up in the miracle and say, “I have no need of this.” Because the decision is seen to be a decision of mind and returned to the mind. The body is no longer victim.
The Choice for Health
My experience
Dec 29th, 2009
The initial thoughts are summarized from A Course in Miracles, Lesson 136.
The Truth is whole and gives me everlasting life. Truth wants to give me happiness. I am not a body; I am free, for I am still as God created me.
Attentiveness to Spirit
Paying attention over the holidays
Dec 28th, 2009
This letter is from Kirsten Buxton, a Messenger of Peace with Awakening Mind.
Dear Friends,
Tags: Awakening Guilt Relationships
Peace of God
His Will is wholly without opposite
Dec 26th, 2009
The peace of God is the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite... Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. He does not seek to keep it for Himself. Why would you seek to keep your tiny frail imaginings apart from Him? The Will of God is One and all there is. This is your heritage. The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can conceive, belong to you. God's peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His peace, and you remember Him. M-20.6
Tags: Awakening
Oneness
My mind/Christ Mind
Dec 26th, 2009
My mind can never be lost. "In me is His Creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life."
I have been playing a game of mind asleep, of self-deception, of separation. I have found no real enjoyment in this.
Undoing Linear Time
David Hoffmeister
Dec 19th, 2009
Hypothetical thinking is the whole problem, that things could somehow be different from how they are. Thinking that the future can be different than the past keeps you stuck in time. The script is written. Only handing over what you see to the Holy Spirit will get you out of time. Learn to give time over to the Holy Spirit and you shorten time for everyone. See it completely differently, in the now. There are no problems right now. They are all time-based, all hypothetical; the future is the past. Seeking to change the world is seeking to change the past. “I see only the past.” W-7 It is over and gone. The mind fears future consequences; protects the body. We believe there is safety where there isn’t safety.
But the whole thing is a trick. What if you set aside your fear of consequences and live from love? The ego spun out the linear script. But to the Holy Spirit, time is simultaneous. The Holy Spirit is about the collapse of time in the holy instant and that is brought about by desire. You do nothing, let your mind rest. Stillness is energizing; this is a complete reversal of the thinking of the world.
Demonstrate You Are Not an Ego
Bill Thetford's example
Dec 18th, 2009
Frances Vaughan speaks of a particularly important aspect of Bill's acceptance:
One of Bill's gifts was a presence that enabled people to grow. He was very accepting. He never tried to impose his own views on anybody. I would describe his way of being as an absence of personality noise. He created a safe place for people to be who they were. He was definitely very attentive to whomever he was with; it was as though he didn't need to take up any room. By making a space for you to fill up, he made you feel that you could just be who you are.
Tags: Ego
Vision
Lesson 158
Dec 14th, 2009
"Into His Presence would I enter now," W-157 ushers in the experience of the joy of life, a touch of Heaven. This experience leaves me with an awareness of perfect Love, [metaphorically] a transformative vision of Christ's face, that I can offer everyone. The Holy Spirit has dreamed this journey for me.
In Lesson 158 Jesus gives me a gift--Christ's vision! This is the point of the lesson. "Our concern is with Christ's vision. This we can attain." Unlike the revelation of Oneness, I can learn vision. "Today I learn to give as I receive." I demonstrate vision in order to learn it. Jesus explains it clearly:
Have a Happy Day
Dec 12th, 2009
Your day is not at random. The script is written. There is no freedom from what must occur.
This is not a problem, however, because you do have freedom in whether or not you experience happiness. Your happiness is linked to how you make decisions.
Two must be joined before there can be a decision; so you always ask advice before any decision is made. Your happiness is set by the counsel of the advisor you choose to make the decision with.
Three Songs
Resta Burnham
Dec 11th, 2009
Be lifted up, high above the ground. Be lifted up where holiness looks down
and shows you that the battlefield of angry ghosts was never real,
and shows you all is in your mind: The world's a mask you hide behind.
Be lifted up, into a higher place. Be lifted up, beyond all time and space.
Let Spirit teach you how to see, the miracle will set you free
from images that never lived, that disappear when you forgive.
Be lifted up, into the quiet truth that lets you share love's gentle point of view,
where fragmentation is undone within the wholeness of God's Son.
A different world then shines with peace when grievances have been released.
Be lifted up into your holy home. Behold the light of glory that's your own.
Remember Who You really are, the Child of God, safe in His heart.
Remember that He ever sings this song to lead you back to Him.
Be lifted up. Be lifted up. Be lifted up to God.
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The Script is Written
Condensed from Awakening Mind
Dec 09th, 2009
Life seems to be linear: the past is behind me, here I am now, and I’ve got certain things to deal with in the future. But the Course teaches that the script is written. W-158 The script is past and over. It is like watching a movie. It is not an interactive thing. It just seems interactive as long as it is perceived to be fragmented and to not be over.
During that tiny instant of madness, all of the perceptions that ever could be were spun out. The script is written, over and done. In the Rules for Decision it says there is no way of avoiding what must happen. It is not a question of free will. Jesus says that my will does not have anything to do with this world; my will is in Heaven. My will is complete happiness in my Father’s Will. It doesn’t meaningfully translate to the world. My will seems to be imprisoned while I am in this world. We can’t equate that with choice.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness Miracle Time Vision
Watching My Mind
The process
Dec 08th, 2009
I pay attention to what I am thinking and feeling. I notice when I am not at peace and ask myself what is causing my upset. I often think my upset is caused by a person, event or situation.
I am wrong. I need to remember that I am never upset for the reason I think, that the reason for my upset is never in form.
Tags: Body Ego Forgiveness Guilt Judgment
His Holy Sinlessness Itself
Thank you
Dec 06th, 2009
I got out of bed today and went right to my morning meditation. I was thinking time was short because there were three things I wanted to get done before 8:00AM. In meditation, I kept trying to let go of them, become still, and focus on spirit. But my mind kept drifting back to what I was planning to do.
I finally became frustrated—a sure signal to me that I needed the Holy Spirit’s help. I became still and asked sincerely for that help, went above the battleground, and had a serious talk with myself. What is important here? What is it for?
Tags: Awakening Forgiveness Guilt Miracle
Go Deeper Within
Selections from David Hoffmeister
Dec 04th, 2009
When progress in meditation and peace of mind seems slow and frustrating, this is always a Call to go deeper within. There is a tremendous fear of looking within, for the ego has convinced the sleeping mind that God will punish those that have “left” Heaven.
Christ teaches in the Course:
