We think we are in a body that is in space, but we are identifying with the results of a movement of attention in Mind.
To let love be the Mover is to release the identification with the idea of doership. Doership fixes the mind to the body as the 'driver' of the body that then 'acts independently'. The desires of doership are the desires to become a something in one's own right. This is always a 'densification and defeat experience' because it is untrue and impossible.
But the Movement of desire that is gifted you is inherent in your creation - as of your very being.
This desire is unseparate from its fulfilment. To accept the goal is also to accept the means - which are likewise given you.
In the world's thinking this is impossible, in God it is already accomplished. Accepting truth calls for the releasing of false limitations.
My personal sense of 'out of space-time' experience is that it is safe only in love's peace.
And that the stability and constancy of such a peace depends on our responsibility to not miscreate.
As a human I carry a fallen angel, and the memory of burned wings is written in a density of denial called the human condition.
To reclaim the greater participation of the 'levels' that seemed as if shut down by inappropriate and exploitative acts of will, is only desirable in terms of "Father, Thy Will be done through me". In such a Movement of calling and desire, it is simply necessary that I do not hide or fall back from the willingness just because something is humanly impossible. It is my part to stay with - and trust the movement that is discerned truth. The rest is Given.
I know that sometimes miracles occur that are like a preview. Temporarily one is lifted to a higher state of responsibility and discernment than was imaginable. There is scarcely the capacity to recall or hold or think about such experience because it is unseparate. But it's revelation serves to confirm and encourage the willingness to accept responsibility for blocks rather than to see them as the reality of a life that one suffers. No matter what.
The innocence of perfect trust calls on the power of love.
The body - or the world's body - does not limit unless you give it that function - and then you get what you want even though it is not true.
The experience of being in a private mind is the outcome of using the body as a defence against Mind.
While this is experienced as the world, it is invisible to you no matter what is said or shown.
Yet to shift to align with awakened Purpose uses the body as a means of communication only.
We think of communication in terms of forms, data, words, information - but it is love.
To allow love is to erase the fences of independent self control.
To be defenceless is to be intimately flowing without self-conscious intervention. Trust.
The miracle impulse can pop up clearly obvious in a mind that thinketh not - but is hard to discern amidst the chaos of a mind in its own noise.
As long as we believe the life we are Given is a sacrifice of the life we still think we can get for ourselves - we will defend our right to suffer and starve ourselves of love. Such a desperate struggle for such a little - amidst the Allness of God! Seek therefore God, and be found, and all things shall be restored you.
The 'cost' of receiving is giving. How much are you willing to receive?
Yet the cost of getting is losing - even what you seem to have grasped.
Don't let fear think for you. That is the withholding of your mind.
Give your mind, by not withholding it - for God is already the Giving.
I Thank you for your trust in the movement of your attention.
in Gratitude
Brian
2010/02/26
2010/02/24
Seek and ye shall find
'Seek and do not find' is the carrot on the stick that must forever remain out of reach if the status quo is to remain protected. For those of us for whom the status quo is running past its 'sell by date' - and whose need for change is our thirst for truth, we 'seek to be found'. Because we do not now look outside for things - to add to ourself, or to another place or time - to become more.
The desire to be restored at the root to sanity must seek and find its true rootedness. Shallow roots cannot be made deeper - no matter how much time is given to trying and our own thoughts have roots only in our own thoughts because of what they have been used for.
New growth is now growth in which there is a replacement of the false by the true. But until the desire is constant, it will seem to be choked back by the weeds of the old habit. The old habit is like an addiction to hide and possess - yet can have no power over the truth of what you want.
Using inspiration to discern and open the prayer of the heart is a listening within - even while all the noise of ego-habit does its thing.
The grace of truth shifts to a spacious calm when the negative loop falls away - and light shines obvious from its Source.
Often I write as part of my own 'journey' of listening - for to be found in the Root. Free of the miasma of thought and emotion that counterfeits Life.
I do not have a sense of a life to 'go back to' - and the coagulation of think-based life is a kind of living suicide that is not in my heart to desire. Delay is meaningless in eternity - but tragic in time. Well actually - that's not the whole truth - for the mind that thinks it thinks to delay life so to have its own way - is comic - from the vantage point of the Son of God remembering to laugh at the impossible as it dissolves in one's own awareness.
Buddha said - "Wake up! - your house is on fire!" he shouldn't need to tell you now to leave it. How long and hard do we attempt to live more comfortably in suffering - when perfect love - the Correction of mistaken thought - is Your Holy Spirit's Gift to you - at the exact place the problem is.
Yes - I know - it often feels dreadful to approach the Light - for our guilt surfaces and our fear increases. But this is only so in the temptation to use these to look through.
So grow relationship with Companionship - visible, and invisible. For the power to dispel and correct the mind of sin - is loving as God loves.
And this Power Must Already Be in You though it is not of you. Loving you perfectly as you Are - and given to your willingness to share it.
Be still for no reason but to take a shower in being - and then if there are issues to address let them rise to be answered.
Restlessness is properly, the call to rest.
in Gratitude
Brian
The desire to be restored at the root to sanity must seek and find its true rootedness. Shallow roots cannot be made deeper - no matter how much time is given to trying and our own thoughts have roots only in our own thoughts because of what they have been used for.
New growth is now growth in which there is a replacement of the false by the true. But until the desire is constant, it will seem to be choked back by the weeds of the old habit. The old habit is like an addiction to hide and possess - yet can have no power over the truth of what you want.
Using inspiration to discern and open the prayer of the heart is a listening within - even while all the noise of ego-habit does its thing.
The grace of truth shifts to a spacious calm when the negative loop falls away - and light shines obvious from its Source.
Often I write as part of my own 'journey' of listening - for to be found in the Root. Free of the miasma of thought and emotion that counterfeits Life.
I do not have a sense of a life to 'go back to' - and the coagulation of think-based life is a kind of living suicide that is not in my heart to desire. Delay is meaningless in eternity - but tragic in time. Well actually - that's not the whole truth - for the mind that thinks it thinks to delay life so to have its own way - is comic - from the vantage point of the Son of God remembering to laugh at the impossible as it dissolves in one's own awareness.
Buddha said - "Wake up! - your house is on fire!" he shouldn't need to tell you now to leave it. How long and hard do we attempt to live more comfortably in suffering - when perfect love - the Correction of mistaken thought - is Your Holy Spirit's Gift to you - at the exact place the problem is.
Yes - I know - it often feels dreadful to approach the Light - for our guilt surfaces and our fear increases. But this is only so in the temptation to use these to look through.
So grow relationship with Companionship - visible, and invisible. For the power to dispel and correct the mind of sin - is loving as God loves.
And this Power Must Already Be in You though it is not of you. Loving you perfectly as you Are - and given to your willingness to share it.
Be still for no reason but to take a shower in being - and then if there are issues to address let them rise to be answered.
Restlessness is properly, the call to rest.
in Gratitude
Brian
understanding
To dip into spiritual and metaphysical ideas can seem relatively safe - but should their meaning dawn - it will be as if the world you thought real, had disappeared - even though its all still in your face. In this predicament, you may be tempted to believe insanity is external to you - if you cling onto the belief that your thinking is your sanity. For reality beyond your control is the context in which your thoughts have no currency.
But the realisation that it is your thinking that is insane is also the realisation that sanity is in you. This is an awakening to the natural order of mind. For you are responsible for your thought - and can change your mind about your mind - as your sanity reveals itself to your acceptance.
Jesus in the A Course in Miracles, advises familiarity with the Text - so as not to initiate a traumatic ego-alien adventure - instead of a beatific and awesome oneness, when the later Lessons of awakening unfold. This is also to say that a true grounding in life serves as a foundation for awakening - and wishful thinking is neither grounding, nor in real relationship to life.
The forceful intent to mentally understand life, brings one to stark insanity. Not because there aren't understandings that can be helpful, but because the intensity of will is applied from a basis that is actually insane or in fact impossible. The idea of separating in order to understand is such an absurd notion - yet is already in place as the basic belief that your separateness is your life, and is the basis of what we refer to as ego. Such analysis is sightless and mechanical and seeks to control life so as to maintain separateness of self; a sense of private judgement and control.
This intent ‘kills’ what it would ‘understand’ - and then dissects the parts for meanings it can acquire for itself.
To understand, we have to be without anything that separates us from that which we would know; defenceless and receptive - in an extension of trust. In such a natural state of rest, discernment feels the currents within the current and can easily navigate the pathways that serve the wholeness - of which it is one with.
The understandings that help are always relating to the heart's awakening - and serve to release blocks to loving. They are the by-product of putting oneself aside in favour of loving.
I have the sense that, with our willingness, our Holy Spirit reconfigures the mind - which in human experiential terms means the perception and experience of our self and world - as an integration of body, mind and feeling. Thought adjustment is the correction of a mind that was deceived in itself - such that its intent and thought are brought into alignment with truth.
Openings and insights inevitably initiate a search to integrate and understand in human terms and yet this is to put 'new wine into old bottles'. In this, as in all wilful endeavours, the contrasts are made clear in bold - so as to facilitate the understanding, that true understanding comes as a result of a larger process.
The understandings of the ego - even if correct in concept - do not stand in a crisis. They ‘fly out the window’ at the first sign of threat experienced. Fear ‘does it thing’ in fight or flight - (though beneath that is it simply keeping the curtain blind drawn).
The understanding in Spirit, is an abiding presence that communicates itself to your trust - even if seeming to use terms that are not ‘correct’ to your existing concept, and is one with the presence that abides in calm despite the 'call for fight or flight' - and which corrects the perception so as to dispel threat and enable practical steps that extend awakened sanity. Regardless of how this may appear to the mind that believes in fight or flight - this step is one of communication. Extending love.
To attempt to extend love from a place of separateness that says ‘on my terms’, must give way to a willingness to receive love on Thy terms. And the term ‘Thy’ indicates intimacy. Such willingness can be seen as surrender or self denial - but both are separation terms.
To acknowledge truth with all your heart is the grace of the truth’s intimacy with you.
When such an intimacy is embraced and accepted, one is not seeking for understanding - so much as allowing being found.
When things have served their purpose they can become encumbrances - yet never in themselves - but if seen in the habit of outmoded purpose. Awakening is to a be-ing ness that is always present and always giving of itself anew. Your receiving is the gift acknowledged and the extending is the joy and freedom to be - all that you are.
Words may initiate a glimpse. The glimpse is the opening of intuition within. An intimacy. Grow relationship with the Intimacy of your being. Don't get hung up on the words. But when you do - notice that you lose the Intimacy - and that using words - even correct in concept - does not open the heart.
Understand. And be silent.
In Peace
Brian
But the realisation that it is your thinking that is insane is also the realisation that sanity is in you. This is an awakening to the natural order of mind. For you are responsible for your thought - and can change your mind about your mind - as your sanity reveals itself to your acceptance.
Jesus in the A Course in Miracles, advises familiarity with the Text - so as not to initiate a traumatic ego-alien adventure - instead of a beatific and awesome oneness, when the later Lessons of awakening unfold. This is also to say that a true grounding in life serves as a foundation for awakening - and wishful thinking is neither grounding, nor in real relationship to life.
The forceful intent to mentally understand life, brings one to stark insanity. Not because there aren't understandings that can be helpful, but because the intensity of will is applied from a basis that is actually insane or in fact impossible. The idea of separating in order to understand is such an absurd notion - yet is already in place as the basic belief that your separateness is your life, and is the basis of what we refer to as ego. Such analysis is sightless and mechanical and seeks to control life so as to maintain separateness of self; a sense of private judgement and control.
This intent ‘kills’ what it would ‘understand’ - and then dissects the parts for meanings it can acquire for itself.
To understand, we have to be without anything that separates us from that which we would know; defenceless and receptive - in an extension of trust. In such a natural state of rest, discernment feels the currents within the current and can easily navigate the pathways that serve the wholeness - of which it is one with.
The understandings that help are always relating to the heart's awakening - and serve to release blocks to loving. They are the by-product of putting oneself aside in favour of loving.
I have the sense that, with our willingness, our Holy Spirit reconfigures the mind - which in human experiential terms means the perception and experience of our self and world - as an integration of body, mind and feeling. Thought adjustment is the correction of a mind that was deceived in itself - such that its intent and thought are brought into alignment with truth.
Openings and insights inevitably initiate a search to integrate and understand in human terms and yet this is to put 'new wine into old bottles'. In this, as in all wilful endeavours, the contrasts are made clear in bold - so as to facilitate the understanding, that true understanding comes as a result of a larger process.
The understandings of the ego - even if correct in concept - do not stand in a crisis. They ‘fly out the window’ at the first sign of threat experienced. Fear ‘does it thing’ in fight or flight - (though beneath that is it simply keeping the curtain blind drawn).
The understanding in Spirit, is an abiding presence that communicates itself to your trust - even if seeming to use terms that are not ‘correct’ to your existing concept, and is one with the presence that abides in calm despite the 'call for fight or flight' - and which corrects the perception so as to dispel threat and enable practical steps that extend awakened sanity. Regardless of how this may appear to the mind that believes in fight or flight - this step is one of communication. Extending love.
To attempt to extend love from a place of separateness that says ‘on my terms’, must give way to a willingness to receive love on Thy terms. And the term ‘Thy’ indicates intimacy. Such willingness can be seen as surrender or self denial - but both are separation terms.
To acknowledge truth with all your heart is the grace of the truth’s intimacy with you.
When such an intimacy is embraced and accepted, one is not seeking for understanding - so much as allowing being found.
When things have served their purpose they can become encumbrances - yet never in themselves - but if seen in the habit of outmoded purpose. Awakening is to a be-ing ness that is always present and always giving of itself anew. Your receiving is the gift acknowledged and the extending is the joy and freedom to be - all that you are.
Words may initiate a glimpse. The glimpse is the opening of intuition within. An intimacy. Grow relationship with the Intimacy of your being. Don't get hung up on the words. But when you do - notice that you lose the Intimacy - and that using words - even correct in concept - does not open the heart.
Understand. And be silent.
In Peace
Brian
2010/02/22
The fulfilment of freedom to be love
Judgement always involves exclusion and withdrawl from the field of relations. Love - as attention, acknowledgement and honour - is withheld. The stance of judging is felt as justified - according to the rules for reality that we have accepted for ourselves, and our society.
Yet reality is the field of relations and in withholding our presence we let guilt block the movement of communication that is the present expression of our being. And lock ourselves into a world that is lacking in presence.
When we are willing to see the 'other' in a context of inclusion, we see in Light, and cease to assert the state of private partiality and exclusion. We put aside the looking glass of judgement and let the movement of trust live and guide us.
In guiltlessness, the presence of life extends through you to include all in peace. Such is the fulfilment of freedom to be love. The Universal is found in - and one with - its Expression; This particular moment, rendered truly.
The illusion of conflicting mind and minds is passed by, if only for an instant. But every instant teaches the mind of its truth - at a level beneath the superfical activity of private thinking.
As the light dawns from within, the capacity to maintain the masks of judgement disappears. And you will discover your need for your brother in truth replacing your use of him for illusion.
Yet reality is the field of relations and in withholding our presence we let guilt block the movement of communication that is the present expression of our being. And lock ourselves into a world that is lacking in presence.
When we are willing to see the 'other' in a context of inclusion, we see in Light, and cease to assert the state of private partiality and exclusion. We put aside the looking glass of judgement and let the movement of trust live and guide us.
In guiltlessness, the presence of life extends through you to include all in peace. Such is the fulfilment of freedom to be love. The Universal is found in - and one with - its Expression; This particular moment, rendered truly.
The illusion of conflicting mind and minds is passed by, if only for an instant. But every instant teaches the mind of its truth - at a level beneath the superfical activity of private thinking.
As the light dawns from within, the capacity to maintain the masks of judgement disappears. And you will discover your need for your brother in truth replacing your use of him for illusion.
Loving yourself truly - Open Sesame
Regardless of how or why or when we accepted guilt's judgement for our self, it is in imposition of a mind that asserts to be 'outside' God.
And when we let that 'stranger in', we recognize nothing but a sense of loss - within which seems to be a fragment of thought which sees all things estranged, in fragmented vision - and tries to make and keep a self amidst such chaos- to keep the chaos at bay. Its as if we are the Genie and we've been locked in a bottle with the lid screwed tight. But the Wishes that summon our presence - are simply the true desires of our heart.
As we are touched by the truth - the love that truly is lovely - enables us to look upon the fearful in calm and without identifying as fragment - reacting, shutting down, pushing away. We may not feel very spiritual in life when we are moving through messy and conflicted periods, but there is a still place and it does guide us - despite the noise and clamour that we've become habituated to using to suppress the old stuff that comes up when the 'lid' loosens and - once again - we feel the chaos and find it hard to abide in trust.
I have a sense of Infinite Patience - like a hand that reaches to us in every moment of willingness, that is never withdrawn when we seem to withdraw and that never judges us by any mistake we seem to make - still less does it uphold or have any dealing with blame, shame and hate. And in aligning with this love, peace, and joy, on the inside, I become likewise inclusive, accepting and appreciative of all that is true - and let fall away all else.
The ego cannot eject itself from your home - though it will offer endless plans for anything that can keep you engaged with it. But you can effectively evict it - from the joined or aligned Will that IS the Movement of Being.
The realisation of truth sees that there is not and can never be a mind 'outside' God - and that even to entertain the thought 'as if', is a waste of the appreciation of eternity. And the realisation can come because the game of self-division via guilt has been put aside as meaningless - no matter what.
Does a habit of mind keep on despite the undoing of its root? Yes and no.
Once truth has touched you - you cannot be as you thought you were - and any attempt of ego reenactment is not the same ignorance. For there is a place in you that knows. Now it is a matter of whether you want it. If you think you want what you do not truly want, you choose dissonance. Old habits trigger guilt to account for it - and you are back in la la land. For the mind's picturing of itself in guilt is causeless apart from its own wish to love what is imaginary - against the grain of its own being.
You do love yourself. But while in la la land, such love is held in trust for you until you are ready to accept it as it is. For what you thought to make of it has hurt you. This is not your truth - and so is not you.
And when we let that 'stranger in', we recognize nothing but a sense of loss - within which seems to be a fragment of thought which sees all things estranged, in fragmented vision - and tries to make and keep a self amidst such chaos- to keep the chaos at bay. Its as if we are the Genie and we've been locked in a bottle with the lid screwed tight. But the Wishes that summon our presence - are simply the true desires of our heart.
As we are touched by the truth - the love that truly is lovely - enables us to look upon the fearful in calm and without identifying as fragment - reacting, shutting down, pushing away. We may not feel very spiritual in life when we are moving through messy and conflicted periods, but there is a still place and it does guide us - despite the noise and clamour that we've become habituated to using to suppress the old stuff that comes up when the 'lid' loosens and - once again - we feel the chaos and find it hard to abide in trust.
I have a sense of Infinite Patience - like a hand that reaches to us in every moment of willingness, that is never withdrawn when we seem to withdraw and that never judges us by any mistake we seem to make - still less does it uphold or have any dealing with blame, shame and hate. And in aligning with this love, peace, and joy, on the inside, I become likewise inclusive, accepting and appreciative of all that is true - and let fall away all else.
The ego cannot eject itself from your home - though it will offer endless plans for anything that can keep you engaged with it. But you can effectively evict it - from the joined or aligned Will that IS the Movement of Being.
The realisation of truth sees that there is not and can never be a mind 'outside' God - and that even to entertain the thought 'as if', is a waste of the appreciation of eternity. And the realisation can come because the game of self-division via guilt has been put aside as meaningless - no matter what.
Does a habit of mind keep on despite the undoing of its root? Yes and no.
Once truth has touched you - you cannot be as you thought you were - and any attempt of ego reenactment is not the same ignorance. For there is a place in you that knows. Now it is a matter of whether you want it. If you think you want what you do not truly want, you choose dissonance. Old habits trigger guilt to account for it - and you are back in la la land. For the mind's picturing of itself in guilt is causeless apart from its own wish to love what is imaginary - against the grain of its own being.
You do love yourself. But while in la la land, such love is held in trust for you until you are ready to accept it as it is. For what you thought to make of it has hurt you. This is not your truth - and so is not you.
2010/02/15
Do You want to die? Or would You rather Awaken?
I don't equate death with 'physical death'.
The desire for death - (which is unconsciously active) - is of a desire to 'be' different than life. To experience different than Is. A special and partial experience of being.
That desire is active in the mind of the sleeping Son of God - (or the Divine Expression of Mind). But it cannot actually cause anything real to be born or to die. It can cause the mind to become engaged and identified in figments of its own fragmented sense of itself. And it can believe it has changed or lost eternal and universal being - as a result. And as it believes so will it experience.
Who are you?
If you answer from the past - you are identifying with the desire to die - regardless of the form. For to be different than reality as it is - is:
1. a mad idea worthy of laughter.
2. a delusion which makes life appear as death and death appear as life.
3. a confusion by which desire for death is protected from life so as to continue to think different.
4. a sense of self that is false - which distorts or obstructs the appreciation of the truly shared - which is real.
5. a drive to get one's self validated or saved or justified - so that it no longer feels threatened - or undermined - by the Movement of Being - as it Is.
6. to not be - or to become altogether unaware. In other words - to die.
Death is not an option in truth - but nor is an independent mind in a body in a world 'out there'.
So it is the desire for limitation, exclusion, separation - or playing the game of judgement - which is the issue. For death is not an alternative to reality or to the awakening to awareness of reality as it is.
But the desire for an alternative - will make there seem to be a way of looking at All in All as if it is all revolving around your wish and dancing to your own meanings.
Give everything to God - why? Because that is the way to restore acceptance and inclusive peace.
Jesus showed this as the way to remain continuously conscious through the process that we have come to call death.
Practice this in every waking moment by letting one will replace a will born of division.
I sometimes feel this is like dying while we are still alive - for the release of the self-will is felt as death to the perspective of the thinking that believes itself real. Yet in awakened peace - and in loves unified embrace - there can be no loss, no death and no thought capable of changing or even interrupting Reality.
This is already the case and only by accepting love that rises of itself from the condition of peace can our mind be released of its error.
Such that when idle thoughts suggest a dillemna of options - you simply let reality Be.
For the love of truth is no home for meaningless thoughts.
The desire for death - (which is unconsciously active) - is of a desire to 'be' different than life. To experience different than Is. A special and partial experience of being.
That desire is active in the mind of the sleeping Son of God - (or the Divine Expression of Mind). But it cannot actually cause anything real to be born or to die. It can cause the mind to become engaged and identified in figments of its own fragmented sense of itself. And it can believe it has changed or lost eternal and universal being - as a result. And as it believes so will it experience.
Who are you?
If you answer from the past - you are identifying with the desire to die - regardless of the form. For to be different than reality as it is - is:
1. a mad idea worthy of laughter.
2. a delusion which makes life appear as death and death appear as life.
3. a confusion by which desire for death is protected from life so as to continue to think different.
4. a sense of self that is false - which distorts or obstructs the appreciation of the truly shared - which is real.
5. a drive to get one's self validated or saved or justified - so that it no longer feels threatened - or undermined - by the Movement of Being - as it Is.
6. to not be - or to become altogether unaware. In other words - to die.
Death is not an option in truth - but nor is an independent mind in a body in a world 'out there'.
So it is the desire for limitation, exclusion, separation - or playing the game of judgement - which is the issue. For death is not an alternative to reality or to the awakening to awareness of reality as it is.
But the desire for an alternative - will make there seem to be a way of looking at All in All as if it is all revolving around your wish and dancing to your own meanings.
Give everything to God - why? Because that is the way to restore acceptance and inclusive peace.
Jesus showed this as the way to remain continuously conscious through the process that we have come to call death.
Practice this in every waking moment by letting one will replace a will born of division.
I sometimes feel this is like dying while we are still alive - for the release of the self-will is felt as death to the perspective of the thinking that believes itself real. Yet in awakened peace - and in loves unified embrace - there can be no loss, no death and no thought capable of changing or even interrupting Reality.
This is already the case and only by accepting love that rises of itself from the condition of peace can our mind be released of its error.
Such that when idle thoughts suggest a dillemna of options - you simply let reality Be.
For the love of truth is no home for meaningless thoughts.
2010/02/14
Perception, vision and knowledge
Does our perception set out in search of gathering data - for the purpose of maintaining and extending my self - protective control?
Do I look at the form of your appearance and seek out all of the aspects of that perception which seem to more than justify my withholding of love?
In fact is my perception of your body my sense of you in imperfection and lovelessness?
Do I see on you the judgement that is already active but suppressed in my own mind - about myself?
And do I need to keep such a judgement pointing clearly away from me because it speaks of such an intolerable sense of un-loveliness. So that it seems - just below the surface - is the ugliness of mortal creature - a bestial or monstrous human creature that actually looks like some kind of alien?
For is not the focus on the body, the death of God?
And is not reality the diminishing realm of finding and joining with the special moments and aspects of the world that I can use to hide from the intolerable, and make a continuity for myself that is part love and part hate - so as to be saved from madness and oblivion - at least for a while longer?
All these things speak of a mind that believes the body is its home.
And looks not with or from love's vision - but on bodies as if they are separated embodied different minds.
For this IS the intent held in the mind of the perceiver; to fragment their own mind and become casting director of the parts - who are now seen externally embodied - relative to the central role. 'Myself'.
Such a mentality is debilitating. It can only be flimsily engaged as an overlay upon the natural awareness. Yet it creates an illusion of density and solidity to the notion of independent existence. Even though it is frail, always threatened and constantly in need of maintainance and support. While IT seems to be your life, you will feel likewise limited to a temporary grip upon form whose initial brightness fades to leave an aging and withering form.
Yet is the spark always is present that is the light of truth. It can be covered over - but cannot be extinguished.
It is invisible to the eye that seeks only to set its own meanings on form - yet is the light of awareness that rises as a shared sense of life - of itself.
To look upon the seeming loveless - and then refuse it - not in hiding from it in fear - but to lift vision beyond its dictate - is to rest the mind. To a rested mind, truth rises and spontaneously restores the perceiving mind to its unified function and nature.
To look out in the blessing of love's unity is to seek and find all the witnesses to the truth. It is not stopped by judgement nor stoppered into 'old bottles'. It is the extension of inclusion - yet it is effortless - because it is the Movement of life.
Initially it will be glimpsed and then lost to the mind that then tries to grasp. From a perspective of thought in love's failure it may seem to be unreal and delusory. But the heart is not arrived at by deduction and analysis - but is only known in giving and receiving - as one.
To become free of the insane attempt to make fantasy real, is to release the body of being an end in itself and allow communication to be restored to it fullness. In this the body - or mind equated with body - initiates nothing. It is gently put aside as the willingness to embrace communication is recognized as love's truth, revealing.
But not a love between separate parts that attempts to placate, soothe and console the mind in exile.
Rather - love's nature expressing in which separate parts are meaningless.
To such a love - that sees itself in all - there is the freedom to be all that it is.
The attributes of love shine forth and are beheld.
I may say "I love you" but it is the energetic spilling over that speaks its own name. There is no I or you projected out in fragmented figment. The I of we is the touch of one - wordless and carrying all that is it within itself whole.
The above is what I wrote.
What I thought I was to write was how radiant you are - somehow eternally bright with youth - now like a child, now as a deep wisdom. Indefinable and yet altogether lovely.
To accept the atonement for yourself is to accept the love that undoes the fear driven factory of forms to which the mind clings as if it could yet fulfill any desire that you still hold dear.
The fear associated with 'losing control' is a 'territory' to revisit with love's guidance.
With The Spirit's companionship we can look unafraid upon what once was the cause of terror - and dismiss it. Pass it by unanswered and unasked. It doesn't matter that it takes time to grow trust - for this is to have repurposed time to serve love.
To look in the mirror - without engaging the mind of judgement - is part of a willingness to live FROM and within a presence without compare.
The desire for love's inclusive salvation or for peace of truth - is the same. It is the RELEASE of the intent to save oneself for oneself. As such it cannot be the desire for eternal youth - but the symbol of eternal youth can serve to reawaken true desire - for the good , the beautiful and the true, are innate qualities of a prior unity of being whose memory is not entirely forgotten.
The mistake is to seek it in the world - from the mindset of the orphaned consciousness.
The body is the seeming betrayer only because it is used for an impossible task.
All of the senses will serve the extension of love as their root is released to its source. But such vision will not stop or be limited to forms definition - but rather extends to the light that is both before and beyond perception. That is where perceiving is replaced by knowing. Yet in such knowing there is no self having an experience. This cannot be communicated as information - but love can always be shared and contains within it - all that it is.
Do I look at the form of your appearance and seek out all of the aspects of that perception which seem to more than justify my withholding of love?
In fact is my perception of your body my sense of you in imperfection and lovelessness?
Do I see on you the judgement that is already active but suppressed in my own mind - about myself?
And do I need to keep such a judgement pointing clearly away from me because it speaks of such an intolerable sense of un-loveliness. So that it seems - just below the surface - is the ugliness of mortal creature - a bestial or monstrous human creature that actually looks like some kind of alien?
For is not the focus on the body, the death of God?
And is not reality the diminishing realm of finding and joining with the special moments and aspects of the world that I can use to hide from the intolerable, and make a continuity for myself that is part love and part hate - so as to be saved from madness and oblivion - at least for a while longer?
All these things speak of a mind that believes the body is its home.
And looks not with or from love's vision - but on bodies as if they are separated embodied different minds.
For this IS the intent held in the mind of the perceiver; to fragment their own mind and become casting director of the parts - who are now seen externally embodied - relative to the central role. 'Myself'.
Such a mentality is debilitating. It can only be flimsily engaged as an overlay upon the natural awareness. Yet it creates an illusion of density and solidity to the notion of independent existence. Even though it is frail, always threatened and constantly in need of maintainance and support. While IT seems to be your life, you will feel likewise limited to a temporary grip upon form whose initial brightness fades to leave an aging and withering form.
Yet is the spark always is present that is the light of truth. It can be covered over - but cannot be extinguished.
It is invisible to the eye that seeks only to set its own meanings on form - yet is the light of awareness that rises as a shared sense of life - of itself.
To look upon the seeming loveless - and then refuse it - not in hiding from it in fear - but to lift vision beyond its dictate - is to rest the mind. To a rested mind, truth rises and spontaneously restores the perceiving mind to its unified function and nature.
To look out in the blessing of love's unity is to seek and find all the witnesses to the truth. It is not stopped by judgement nor stoppered into 'old bottles'. It is the extension of inclusion - yet it is effortless - because it is the Movement of life.
Initially it will be glimpsed and then lost to the mind that then tries to grasp. From a perspective of thought in love's failure it may seem to be unreal and delusory. But the heart is not arrived at by deduction and analysis - but is only known in giving and receiving - as one.
To become free of the insane attempt to make fantasy real, is to release the body of being an end in itself and allow communication to be restored to it fullness. In this the body - or mind equated with body - initiates nothing. It is gently put aside as the willingness to embrace communication is recognized as love's truth, revealing.
But not a love between separate parts that attempts to placate, soothe and console the mind in exile.
Rather - love's nature expressing in which separate parts are meaningless.
To such a love - that sees itself in all - there is the freedom to be all that it is.
The attributes of love shine forth and are beheld.
I may say "I love you" but it is the energetic spilling over that speaks its own name. There is no I or you projected out in fragmented figment. The I of we is the touch of one - wordless and carrying all that is it within itself whole.
The above is what I wrote.
What I thought I was to write was how radiant you are - somehow eternally bright with youth - now like a child, now as a deep wisdom. Indefinable and yet altogether lovely.
To accept the atonement for yourself is to accept the love that undoes the fear driven factory of forms to which the mind clings as if it could yet fulfill any desire that you still hold dear.
The fear associated with 'losing control' is a 'territory' to revisit with love's guidance.
With The Spirit's companionship we can look unafraid upon what once was the cause of terror - and dismiss it. Pass it by unanswered and unasked. It doesn't matter that it takes time to grow trust - for this is to have repurposed time to serve love.
To look in the mirror - without engaging the mind of judgement - is part of a willingness to live FROM and within a presence without compare.
The desire for love's inclusive salvation or for peace of truth - is the same. It is the RELEASE of the intent to save oneself for oneself. As such it cannot be the desire for eternal youth - but the symbol of eternal youth can serve to reawaken true desire - for the good , the beautiful and the true, are innate qualities of a prior unity of being whose memory is not entirely forgotten.
The mistake is to seek it in the world - from the mindset of the orphaned consciousness.
The body is the seeming betrayer only because it is used for an impossible task.
All of the senses will serve the extension of love as their root is released to its source. But such vision will not stop or be limited to forms definition - but rather extends to the light that is both before and beyond perception. That is where perceiving is replaced by knowing. Yet in such knowing there is no self having an experience. This cannot be communicated as information - but love can always be shared and contains within it - all that it is.
2010/02/10
Love raises the dead
I read the word death and see that it means separation from God.
the sense of a term such as ‘physical death’ means as much to me as does ‘physical life’.
What life and death from my personal human perspective is "I can not know".
But this 'I-not-knowing' is not another human thought - but the portal or condition in which unbounded timeless awareness or light - simply Is.
And yet this 'God' is infinitely Alive.
And is the True Movement of Life in me.
Me seems to be human, and has all the story and idiosyncrasies of human personality.
But until grace touched me Alive - my life was entirely about running away from love, and the human story was in many ways a machine of defence against the Life. It was a kind of death - and in something I wrote elsewhere today I found myself writing:
"This sense of myself that is habituated to correcting mistakes in terms set by judgement – must be rested of its futility and become instead the willingness to let the answer speak through me to raise the dead.
God is not dead. Nor you."
I was surprised at the turn of phrase 'raise the dead' because it isn't one I have used before. yet after pausing in the meaning that chose it, it stayed. It isn't here used to refer at all to human ideas of death - but to the living dead who think they live.
Now comes to mind the saying: "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth me".
This isn't the claim of independent Christhood - but the release of any claim of an independent power or will.
From where I feel life - it would seem that only the ego bound would want to live forever in such definition as we call physical existence - because eternal life is simply the nature of being and is not subject to birth or death.
I sense that planes or levels of existence are compromise maps. Ego intent may make them up, and so seem to compartmentalize life into different vibrational levels through which attention focuses an experiences accordingly. Holy spirit can translate them all to truth for that is His (or its) Function. Translation into Light is not really a change at all - but simply the undoing of an apparent change that seemed to render light dense.
If the Holy Spirit can look on all that is and see ‘that it is Good’ - and share that vision, then I can look on anything and be guided to see it likewise. But if I first believe in death - then I can hardly share Life - for I have decided what to see - even if I then turn around and say now help me see it disappear!
So I have to find innocent eyes of a present willingness to dare to look without flinch or indulgence in the meanings from the past. I know from seeing the hanging body of my firstborn child, that guilt and fear and horror can not shut the eyes of the spirit. Yet first I had to look at horror to deny any secret place to my mind in which fear could remain hidden. For I could not let love’s truth die without denial of very being. Love lives eternal. I don't get to hug Ellie. Things shift beyond visibility - and yet such a shift in an open heart - through faith - serves the shift of identity from fear based perception to a love that is everywhere.
Is it true that the power of love could have resurrected my daughter? It didn't occur to me to ask it. Nor in rigor mortis, my daughter's shell. Perhaps no - because I saw my daughter and death and believed my experience. Yet I didn't accept death for her or love at the level of which I was willing and able to abide. My willingness to abide in Light was greater than my agony. But it was an agony of experience to bear.
Jesus once said that if he had seen his mother as his mother during the crucifixion, he would have died like any other man. He saw only the Father’s Will in all - in which there is no death.
I found the quiet place periodically - but also was taken under by the throes of shock and grief . Yet this experience brough conscious a perspective that is now simply part of my living.
Consciousness can be used to denote or point to God:
Pure Loving Awareness. All that is - knowing itself through every idea that is itself not separate.
Consciousness can also be used for the focus of attention in the form based identity.
My mind, your mind, the self conscious activity of mind.
Our understanding of all terms - and of all teachings, will change as our own identity shifts open into peace.
For nothing can then be understood that 'teaches' conflict - and if it cannot be understood, it is nothing. There is nothing to understand. Trying to understand it is to feed the idea that it can be understood. Forget not to laugh here! Or you choose illusion and struggle yet again.
The Light can not interfere with the will of its children who pretend to play in the dark. But is can join with every willingness to be re-included. For this, must self-will be released at the root. The result is the life in the Spirit - where all that is helpful is returned as a shared lesson in acceptance.
It is true that teachings can and will be misunderstood and misused - even as the very Light is made slave to the ego sense - in illusion.
The only way of discerning truth is for a condition of trust to be extended.
Not to a stone god or to some ideal. But living trust in which I am undefended and sharing love just by virtue of refusing to share separative thought. It only need be an instant for the touch and shift to occur. Every step is maximal. The willingness to awaken to ‘the madhouse’ is a brief step of the greater willingness to trust there is guidance and grace to guide and protect through it into sanity.
It is not true that all our guidances must agree at the level of form. There are many individualized needs that are met in highly specific forms. But it is true that all divine guidance brings us the recognition "God's Son is guiltless". (This could also be said in any or no religious terms). Yet this is the Gift of the Holy Spirit and Not our responsibility to make true or enforce.
How could I doubt but that my faith and vision can be expanded and deepened. I have participated in miracles that prove time and space are not subordinate to the Movement of Being. Yet I have NO desire to meddle with God's part - (as if I really could do anything but frighten myself thereby). It is in the rested gratitude and communion of love that the spontanaity of Love-Desire Moves as one with the very wind. I say again - "Not I but Christ liveth me". Whenever such a Movement is discerned, welcomed and accepted as the very heart desire - there is no separation. And to Let It Flow whither it will - even to the sweetest nuance of Inclusion - is to witness true power of love's dominion. For it knows all things itself and they align to it as to fulfill their very purpose.
Why is there so little evidence of Love's dominion?
Because love-in forgetting yet asks to suffer?
I can only speak of my own awakening and say - there Is such witnesses, but outside the Vision of Christ it cannot Be seen.
What is this vision
It is the replacement for the interpretation that gives the experience of a private self-dom in a physical body.
Does the body disappear?
Yes - even as my guitar disappears when I play from the heart. Even music disappears in Communion!
This is to say that any sense of separation disappears. The body serves communication.
When all serves communication, oneness knows itself through all. Nothing is sacrificed in loss or payment. That is not love.
I sense there need not be death IF the condition of moving attention through the whole body-mind and beyond is seamless, flowing and unobstructed. But fear of Light has barred the door to the guilt ridden mind. level upon level descending. These so called planes are not separated. Nor is the participation in any plane of existence any different in essence from any other. God moves you - or you wish otherwise upon the movement and experience it your way.
Exploiting any experience leads to a descent into the pigbins of blind appettites. Mechanical loveless scenarios. A prodigal waste. Guilt and fear lock attention into form such as to leave a tiny gamut of experience in which to reenact the script.
yet even the script of a loveless urge to survive in imaginary independence - given up to God - is rendered anew as your script of awakening to Only God - and the life is not now of survival - but of shared love. Of gratitude for love and of growing willingness to serve only love.
Such is the witness I can give with typing tonight.
It has no point except to share love.
The only 'effort' to make is to make way for love's remembrance.
Love takes over from there - with your permission.
(As your truth loves you).
In Peace
Brian
the sense of a term such as ‘physical death’ means as much to me as does ‘physical life’.
What life and death from my personal human perspective is "I can not know".
But this 'I-not-knowing' is not another human thought - but the portal or condition in which unbounded timeless awareness or light - simply Is.
And yet this 'God' is infinitely Alive.
And is the True Movement of Life in me.
Me seems to be human, and has all the story and idiosyncrasies of human personality.
But until grace touched me Alive - my life was entirely about running away from love, and the human story was in many ways a machine of defence against the Life. It was a kind of death - and in something I wrote elsewhere today I found myself writing:
"This sense of myself that is habituated to correcting mistakes in terms set by judgement – must be rested of its futility and become instead the willingness to let the answer speak through me to raise the dead.
God is not dead. Nor you."
I was surprised at the turn of phrase 'raise the dead' because it isn't one I have used before. yet after pausing in the meaning that chose it, it stayed. It isn't here used to refer at all to human ideas of death - but to the living dead who think they live.
Now comes to mind the saying: "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth me".
This isn't the claim of independent Christhood - but the release of any claim of an independent power or will.
From where I feel life - it would seem that only the ego bound would want to live forever in such definition as we call physical existence - because eternal life is simply the nature of being and is not subject to birth or death.
I sense that planes or levels of existence are compromise maps. Ego intent may make them up, and so seem to compartmentalize life into different vibrational levels through which attention focuses an experiences accordingly. Holy spirit can translate them all to truth for that is His (or its) Function. Translation into Light is not really a change at all - but simply the undoing of an apparent change that seemed to render light dense.
If the Holy Spirit can look on all that is and see ‘that it is Good’ - and share that vision, then I can look on anything and be guided to see it likewise. But if I first believe in death - then I can hardly share Life - for I have decided what to see - even if I then turn around and say now help me see it disappear!
So I have to find innocent eyes of a present willingness to dare to look without flinch or indulgence in the meanings from the past. I know from seeing the hanging body of my firstborn child, that guilt and fear and horror can not shut the eyes of the spirit. Yet first I had to look at horror to deny any secret place to my mind in which fear could remain hidden. For I could not let love’s truth die without denial of very being. Love lives eternal. I don't get to hug Ellie. Things shift beyond visibility - and yet such a shift in an open heart - through faith - serves the shift of identity from fear based perception to a love that is everywhere.
Is it true that the power of love could have resurrected my daughter? It didn't occur to me to ask it. Nor in rigor mortis, my daughter's shell. Perhaps no - because I saw my daughter and death and believed my experience. Yet I didn't accept death for her or love at the level of which I was willing and able to abide. My willingness to abide in Light was greater than my agony. But it was an agony of experience to bear.
Jesus once said that if he had seen his mother as his mother during the crucifixion, he would have died like any other man. He saw only the Father’s Will in all - in which there is no death.
I found the quiet place periodically - but also was taken under by the throes of shock and grief . Yet this experience brough conscious a perspective that is now simply part of my living.
Consciousness can be used to denote or point to God:
Pure Loving Awareness. All that is - knowing itself through every idea that is itself not separate.
Consciousness can also be used for the focus of attention in the form based identity.
My mind, your mind, the self conscious activity of mind.
Our understanding of all terms - and of all teachings, will change as our own identity shifts open into peace.
For nothing can then be understood that 'teaches' conflict - and if it cannot be understood, it is nothing. There is nothing to understand. Trying to understand it is to feed the idea that it can be understood. Forget not to laugh here! Or you choose illusion and struggle yet again.
The Light can not interfere with the will of its children who pretend to play in the dark. But is can join with every willingness to be re-included. For this, must self-will be released at the root. The result is the life in the Spirit - where all that is helpful is returned as a shared lesson in acceptance.
It is true that teachings can and will be misunderstood and misused - even as the very Light is made slave to the ego sense - in illusion.
The only way of discerning truth is for a condition of trust to be extended.
Not to a stone god or to some ideal. But living trust in which I am undefended and sharing love just by virtue of refusing to share separative thought. It only need be an instant for the touch and shift to occur. Every step is maximal. The willingness to awaken to ‘the madhouse’ is a brief step of the greater willingness to trust there is guidance and grace to guide and protect through it into sanity.
It is not true that all our guidances must agree at the level of form. There are many individualized needs that are met in highly specific forms. But it is true that all divine guidance brings us the recognition "God's Son is guiltless". (This could also be said in any or no religious terms). Yet this is the Gift of the Holy Spirit and Not our responsibility to make true or enforce.
How could I doubt but that my faith and vision can be expanded and deepened. I have participated in miracles that prove time and space are not subordinate to the Movement of Being. Yet I have NO desire to meddle with God's part - (as if I really could do anything but frighten myself thereby). It is in the rested gratitude and communion of love that the spontanaity of Love-Desire Moves as one with the very wind. I say again - "Not I but Christ liveth me". Whenever such a Movement is discerned, welcomed and accepted as the very heart desire - there is no separation. And to Let It Flow whither it will - even to the sweetest nuance of Inclusion - is to witness true power of love's dominion. For it knows all things itself and they align to it as to fulfill their very purpose.
Why is there so little evidence of Love's dominion?
Because love-in forgetting yet asks to suffer?
I can only speak of my own awakening and say - there Is such witnesses, but outside the Vision of Christ it cannot Be seen.
What is this vision
It is the replacement for the interpretation that gives the experience of a private self-dom in a physical body.
Does the body disappear?
Yes - even as my guitar disappears when I play from the heart. Even music disappears in Communion!
This is to say that any sense of separation disappears. The body serves communication.
When all serves communication, oneness knows itself through all. Nothing is sacrificed in loss or payment. That is not love.
I sense there need not be death IF the condition of moving attention through the whole body-mind and beyond is seamless, flowing and unobstructed. But fear of Light has barred the door to the guilt ridden mind. level upon level descending. These so called planes are not separated. Nor is the participation in any plane of existence any different in essence from any other. God moves you - or you wish otherwise upon the movement and experience it your way.
Exploiting any experience leads to a descent into the pigbins of blind appettites. Mechanical loveless scenarios. A prodigal waste. Guilt and fear lock attention into form such as to leave a tiny gamut of experience in which to reenact the script.
yet even the script of a loveless urge to survive in imaginary independence - given up to God - is rendered anew as your script of awakening to Only God - and the life is not now of survival - but of shared love. Of gratitude for love and of growing willingness to serve only love.
Such is the witness I can give with typing tonight.
It has no point except to share love.
The only 'effort' to make is to make way for love's remembrance.
Love takes over from there - with your permission.
(As your truth loves you).
In Peace
Brian
Live from, and in, a clean clear now.
Have you ever tried to overtake someone going uphill, found that your motor hasnt quite enough power to complete the manoeuvre and found yourself trying to 'will' the car faster or lean forward to somehow increase speed?
And even found it hard not to do it even when you realize it is delusional, (level confusion), for as long as the desire to overtake is held as in any way necessary, (old program).
Can there be an element of embarrassment that must be simply felt through, in slowing down and tucking back in behind the car you'd thought to overtake?
Isn't it amazing how we can play out scenarios in our mind that have nothing to do with reality at all and everything to do with a private sense of self image and adequacy!
To discover the energetic doesn't support action is to realize that self efforting is masking a deeper and currently ignored reality. It is also the opportunity to open into a living relationship. To feel and flow where the energetic is. But this isn't a relationship of manipulating the energetic in order to seem to be in control – but of simply abiding in an ordinary oneness of peace. Free of false goals, and therefore free to be guided back 'on the beam' if attention wanders.
When we want answers and understandings that we can use to maintain an imaginary but cherished control of our self reality – we limit and delay our healing, wholeness and happiness. In other words we prolong a sense of conflict, limitation and suffering, in the name of a false goal.
That truth replaces illusion isnt to suggest that illusion is of a like kind, or an actual something that can be lost, surrendered or annihilated. It is just awakening truth in which illusion is no longer operating as an attention grabber, compulsive soap drama, or meaningful thought to desire to look into.
We think we want something – but increasingly it hurts us. And our efforts to overcome seeming opposition or obstacle, only get us more entrenched and entangled – and confused. We are spontaneously moved to release all meanings 'I have given this situation'. This is the natural experience of realizing 'I forgot what I want and have only found conflicting desires and outcomes - and this is not what I want!' So I naturally let cease self-effort, taking pride - and the thinking that fuels them both.
And abiding so, I discover in the simple peace of my being – the desire that, of itself, speaks for the truth, the life and the way, in which I can accept unconflicted wholeness – and live from, and in, a clean clear now.
"Go in peace and sin no more", may dawn on us as the simple sharing of truth.
In Peace
Brian
And even found it hard not to do it even when you realize it is delusional, (level confusion), for as long as the desire to overtake is held as in any way necessary, (old program).
Can there be an element of embarrassment that must be simply felt through, in slowing down and tucking back in behind the car you'd thought to overtake?
Isn't it amazing how we can play out scenarios in our mind that have nothing to do with reality at all and everything to do with a private sense of self image and adequacy!
To discover the energetic doesn't support action is to realize that self efforting is masking a deeper and currently ignored reality. It is also the opportunity to open into a living relationship. To feel and flow where the energetic is. But this isn't a relationship of manipulating the energetic in order to seem to be in control – but of simply abiding in an ordinary oneness of peace. Free of false goals, and therefore free to be guided back 'on the beam' if attention wanders.
When we want answers and understandings that we can use to maintain an imaginary but cherished control of our self reality – we limit and delay our healing, wholeness and happiness. In other words we prolong a sense of conflict, limitation and suffering, in the name of a false goal.
That truth replaces illusion isnt to suggest that illusion is of a like kind, or an actual something that can be lost, surrendered or annihilated. It is just awakening truth in which illusion is no longer operating as an attention grabber, compulsive soap drama, or meaningful thought to desire to look into.
We think we want something – but increasingly it hurts us. And our efforts to overcome seeming opposition or obstacle, only get us more entrenched and entangled – and confused. We are spontaneously moved to release all meanings 'I have given this situation'. This is the natural experience of realizing 'I forgot what I want and have only found conflicting desires and outcomes - and this is not what I want!' So I naturally let cease self-effort, taking pride - and the thinking that fuels them both.
And abiding so, I discover in the simple peace of my being – the desire that, of itself, speaks for the truth, the life and the way, in which I can accept unconflicted wholeness – and live from, and in, a clean clear now.
"Go in peace and sin no more", may dawn on us as the simple sharing of truth.
In Peace
Brian
2010/02/03
If it is of value to me - let it change me
Someone said: “Does awakening happen when God decides?”
Any idea that considers when or how enlightenment might happen, is part of a mind that believes it is not already happenning. So even as it Is - it will be passed by unnoticed while we think some more.
The conviction and reaslisation that it Is happening now is an altogether different basis from which to live.
"If it is of value to me - let it change me". (Is this God’s decision manifesting in the heart?)
I have long ago noticed that a love such as has started movements of cultural renewal, community inspired projects or inspired endeavour, teachings and exemplary lives - is the same love as is frequently opened at special events, workshops or gatherings and relationships.
But it is as if a consumer mentality has become able to dip in - and out - of love so as to get a recharge for an otherwise routinely compromised existence. For those love truth - the valuing of truth wins out over the 'freedom' to have different compartment lives to switch between - and a crisis ripens in which they can no longer function or tolerate their lovelessness. So they are obliged to separate from that within their own minds which separates them from love - without being able to 'manage'or control the change that then come from this to their relationships so as to maintain a ‘hidey hole’.
These ones now have a direct and ongoing need and capacity for present innate guidance and inspiration - not to console or recharge their batteries or their egos - but to navigate and bypass the mind of fear and guilt - which is no longer kept as a pet in a hideyhole - and so is increasingly exposed in oneself amidst the everyday of life.
These ones discover their need is to give only as they would, in their Right Minds, receive - and not to survive and protect their 'life' all by themselves. And so they shift from the mind of getter - by the practice of giving as they would receive. True giving is not of our own self - but of the selflessness or ‘Self’ of love. And true receiving is not a filtering of data for the extraction of a desired part to fulfil a predefined desire. It is the act and extension of trust in an entirely present sense.
So, Awakening, Love, Enlightenment, is never going to happen, to the one who commits to thinking themselves to be as they think they are. And if nonetheless light does awaken spontaneously - it will be unrecognized by all but the seed of truth in silence within - which then moves in secret within the mind of the dreamer as it grows a different basis from which to live.
The good news is that it is never true that we Are that which we ‘think we are’ - and no matter how frightening that may seem to the ego (the mind identified with image and form) - it is the stirring in the heart of deepest gratitude and relief to Life.
Awakening is active in every Instant of Truth.
Any idea that considers when or how enlightenment might happen, is part of a mind that believes it is not already happenning. So even as it Is - it will be passed by unnoticed while we think some more.
The conviction and reaslisation that it Is happening now is an altogether different basis from which to live.
"If it is of value to me - let it change me". (Is this God’s decision manifesting in the heart?)
I have long ago noticed that a love such as has started movements of cultural renewal, community inspired projects or inspired endeavour, teachings and exemplary lives - is the same love as is frequently opened at special events, workshops or gatherings and relationships.
But it is as if a consumer mentality has become able to dip in - and out - of love so as to get a recharge for an otherwise routinely compromised existence. For those love truth - the valuing of truth wins out over the 'freedom' to have different compartment lives to switch between - and a crisis ripens in which they can no longer function or tolerate their lovelessness. So they are obliged to separate from that within their own minds which separates them from love - without being able to 'manage'or control the change that then come from this to their relationships so as to maintain a ‘hidey hole’.
These ones now have a direct and ongoing need and capacity for present innate guidance and inspiration - not to console or recharge their batteries or their egos - but to navigate and bypass the mind of fear and guilt - which is no longer kept as a pet in a hideyhole - and so is increasingly exposed in oneself amidst the everyday of life.
These ones discover their need is to give only as they would, in their Right Minds, receive - and not to survive and protect their 'life' all by themselves. And so they shift from the mind of getter - by the practice of giving as they would receive. True giving is not of our own self - but of the selflessness or ‘Self’ of love. And true receiving is not a filtering of data for the extraction of a desired part to fulfil a predefined desire. It is the act and extension of trust in an entirely present sense.
So, Awakening, Love, Enlightenment, is never going to happen, to the one who commits to thinking themselves to be as they think they are. And if nonetheless light does awaken spontaneously - it will be unrecognized by all but the seed of truth in silence within - which then moves in secret within the mind of the dreamer as it grows a different basis from which to live.
The good news is that it is never true that we Are that which we ‘think we are’ - and no matter how frightening that may seem to the ego (the mind identified with image and form) - it is the stirring in the heart of deepest gratitude and relief to Life.
Awakening is active in every Instant of Truth.
2010-02-03 What does it take to awaken?
In another writing I posited:
Q: What does it take to awaken heart and mind to its own truth and trust?
A: Whatever it takes.
I later read it and had a feeling to change this to
Q: What does it take to awaken heart and mind to its own truth and trust?
A: A: Whatever it takes for the Holy Spirit to get and keep your attention?
In part I felt this because I do not feel to suggest that calamitous and negative experience is required or necessarily associated with awakening. Nor is ANY process of punishment involved as a result of neglecting to give priority to truth - apart from the self induced experience of truth forgetting - that fantasy inherently involves.
But also because I wanted to point to a relationship that opens the scene from a 'someone' in a supposed process of awakening - into the relational Condition that underlies and actually constitutes awakening.
Thoughts may come in and seem to cause you to 'lose it' - but relationship with Holy Spirit is the allowing of the Perspective that shows my thoughts to me from beyond the mind that believes them as definitions of life as it really is.
See the power of thoughts to define and ‘create’ experience of limitation.
Then release the fascination with wielding power to let the Light be itself.
Q: What does it take to awaken heart and mind to its own truth and trust?
A: Whatever it takes.
I later read it and had a feeling to change this to
Q: What does it take to awaken heart and mind to its own truth and trust?
A: A: Whatever it takes for the Holy Spirit to get and keep your attention?
In part I felt this because I do not feel to suggest that calamitous and negative experience is required or necessarily associated with awakening. Nor is ANY process of punishment involved as a result of neglecting to give priority to truth - apart from the self induced experience of truth forgetting - that fantasy inherently involves.
But also because I wanted to point to a relationship that opens the scene from a 'someone' in a supposed process of awakening - into the relational Condition that underlies and actually constitutes awakening.
Thoughts may come in and seem to cause you to 'lose it' - but relationship with Holy Spirit is the allowing of the Perspective that shows my thoughts to me from beyond the mind that believes them as definitions of life as it really is.
See the power of thoughts to define and ‘create’ experience of limitation.
Then release the fascination with wielding power to let the Light be itself.
I thought that I had time
We can defer acting upon our heart's desire - ‘until tomorrow’ - over such a long period of time - that we forget we are love's need and nature to behold and share; instead rehearsing a fantasy self and world that can never become real - but only hold out a sense of hope or promise forever unfulfilled.
When we think we have time , we tend to indulge our opinions, imaginations and storytelling skills in a way that offloads or covers over - (so as to escape, overcome or turn to advantage) - an undercurrent of self inadequacy associated with pain and shame. Some of this is associated with personal history - but underneath is a nameless sense of lack of power or dispiritedness that seems to be - ‘the way it is’ - and I presume this of myself and for others, as the world as I see it. And cast ourself and others in whatever light salves or serves our particular mood or disposition, and fill up our time with our story.
Sometimes, crisis bring everything to a point. There is simply no time for floating in fantasy options and possibilities, or for maintaining such appearances to self or others.
Then there is a kind of honesty that isn't a result of any kind of self regarding effort - but the stripped away residue of the heart's call and the willingness to heed it.
This is a 'need to know basis'. When our need to know is paramount, all else is put aside and we listen with all our heart for guidance, moment by moment. Because we know our own thought or power is insufficient without opening to fresh direction, help or inspiration.
When the crisis is no more, the old habit of a private mind tends to resume, but there has now been experience that contrasts the world and self of thought, with the presence, immediacy and connectedness of being. Because the mind is still tending to ‘sleep’ in its own thought and story, such experiences tend to be associated with externals, and may even be retold in a manner that validates the sense of self that had to be released for help to be received.
As the contrast of the nature of these openings with that of the story driven sense of self, grows to become consciously acknowledged, the insight arises that the ‘mind’ which gives rise to a sense of limitation or conflict is an act - rather than my being. So I begin to stop harbouring or nurturing the desire to act out of such a basis - because I quickly discover it hurts and because it costs me joy and sanity - which are also becoming increasingly conscious as my freedom to feel and appreciate being, presently, in its movement.
So now the ongoing ‘crisis’ of my own immediate consciousness fuels a ‘need to know’ realisation whereas once it was seen as if external circumstances caused my attention to be brought present. In this ordinary and daily 'crisis’ of a call to awakening, I discover that I have to accept responsibility for my own habits of mind in a way that I had never really addressed before. Not responsible as if to any external judge - but a willingness to notice the working of my own mind in the act of previously unseen intent or desire.
This was hidden by design and cannot be seen by the mind in desire to hide - only a tip of an iceberg that lets me think I have some sense of what is at work. It is hidden, in our face, by Life interpreted as separated and conflicting self and world and selves. A fragmented sense in which wholeness is ascribed only to parts.
The ‘other’ in my experience - is seen as playing out a role that is relative to the role the script defines for me. But in truth I am never NOT the maker of the script. All the roles in it are drawn from - and never do actually leave - my own mind in story.
And yet what I ‘make’ of you - or any ‘other’ - is not what you are - but what I have used you for in a ‘mind-game’ I have at some level agreed to play.
When the script is recognised as one mind involved in ego, forgiveness is automatic and immediate. For you clearly never have done the things I believed of your intent. But only of my own intent. An intent that in truth and light I would not and cannot desire or maintain. The unwillingness to look upon the ego is the measure of the desire we still hold to play the game of ‘being apart’.
In actual release of the ‘mind of error’, the presence of you is truly felt beyond and distinct from any story or presentation in which I had colluded to make out of my own past experience. And you are inseparable from One mind or Spirit - the same mind alive in me. I simply cannot judge you or I am immediately cut off from the living appreciation of the presence of being. So the awakened living context itself, becomes the guide for direction, if I would be in love’s presence. My judgements no longer serve as my guide - but become useful by the Guide as maps that indicate a hidden desire of self specialness - a fantasy at odds with reality. Once it can be seen truly, it can only be released. Seeing and releasing is pulling out roots at cause level rather than entanglement amidst effects. And constitutes the replacement of a managed self image, with heart shared life.
In ignorance I used you for selfish ends - but truth is forever unaffected. I discovered this when I released my demands and judgements, and a presence of guiltlessness shone in their place. In this light I remember and am remembered truly and presently - for this light was what I thought I'd killed and lost when I played with selfishness and then ‘put that mind out’ as if to be safe in hiding.
When there is no more time to play ‘as if’, the truth of the heart will be the only truth. It is not consistent with the story for it sees only in ways that serve the truth of love. Wheras the ‘truth’ in story is what serves the teller of the story.
Does accepting Truth mean I never get to be heard, understood and redressed for the pain and loss I have suffered?
Yes. It is walked out of without further ado the instant it is seen truly. The very basis of a reality in which a self can control or suffer reality is given up.
In Truth I am undone of that mind and restored to a peace and light that cannot be attacked. And should conflict arise and light seem lost, then I can recognise I slipped into illusion again - and set myself the lesson and journey of awakening; the acceptance and love of true desire.
As the pathways of self forgiveness and peace become often used, resistances become less dramatized and the sense of self reconfigures to a true selfless sanity that gives itself and sees itself in all. Stories of awakening are also story - but serve the shift of attention out of the script and into the conscious movement of Being.
The shift is correctly seen as urgent whenever it is required. But once it is embraced, guidance relaxes and restores all that is to be as it is - in you as you are.
Stories cannot tell of Creation excepting to limit and diminish. Creation is too full to have time out in which to take notes or tell stories.
Too full to take time out to make symbols of the reality of love’s being. There simply is no desire for - no attention given- and no time in which to.
When we think we have time , we tend to indulge our opinions, imaginations and storytelling skills in a way that offloads or covers over - (so as to escape, overcome or turn to advantage) - an undercurrent of self inadequacy associated with pain and shame. Some of this is associated with personal history - but underneath is a nameless sense of lack of power or dispiritedness that seems to be - ‘the way it is’ - and I presume this of myself and for others, as the world as I see it. And cast ourself and others in whatever light salves or serves our particular mood or disposition, and fill up our time with our story.
Sometimes, crisis bring everything to a point. There is simply no time for floating in fantasy options and possibilities, or for maintaining such appearances to self or others.
Then there is a kind of honesty that isn't a result of any kind of self regarding effort - but the stripped away residue of the heart's call and the willingness to heed it.
This is a 'need to know basis'. When our need to know is paramount, all else is put aside and we listen with all our heart for guidance, moment by moment. Because we know our own thought or power is insufficient without opening to fresh direction, help or inspiration.
When the crisis is no more, the old habit of a private mind tends to resume, but there has now been experience that contrasts the world and self of thought, with the presence, immediacy and connectedness of being. Because the mind is still tending to ‘sleep’ in its own thought and story, such experiences tend to be associated with externals, and may even be retold in a manner that validates the sense of self that had to be released for help to be received.
As the contrast of the nature of these openings with that of the story driven sense of self, grows to become consciously acknowledged, the insight arises that the ‘mind’ which gives rise to a sense of limitation or conflict is an act - rather than my being. So I begin to stop harbouring or nurturing the desire to act out of such a basis - because I quickly discover it hurts and because it costs me joy and sanity - which are also becoming increasingly conscious as my freedom to feel and appreciate being, presently, in its movement.
So now the ongoing ‘crisis’ of my own immediate consciousness fuels a ‘need to know’ realisation whereas once it was seen as if external circumstances caused my attention to be brought present. In this ordinary and daily 'crisis’ of a call to awakening, I discover that I have to accept responsibility for my own habits of mind in a way that I had never really addressed before. Not responsible as if to any external judge - but a willingness to notice the working of my own mind in the act of previously unseen intent or desire.
This was hidden by design and cannot be seen by the mind in desire to hide - only a tip of an iceberg that lets me think I have some sense of what is at work. It is hidden, in our face, by Life interpreted as separated and conflicting self and world and selves. A fragmented sense in which wholeness is ascribed only to parts.
The ‘other’ in my experience - is seen as playing out a role that is relative to the role the script defines for me. But in truth I am never NOT the maker of the script. All the roles in it are drawn from - and never do actually leave - my own mind in story.
And yet what I ‘make’ of you - or any ‘other’ - is not what you are - but what I have used you for in a ‘mind-game’ I have at some level agreed to play.
When the script is recognised as one mind involved in ego, forgiveness is automatic and immediate. For you clearly never have done the things I believed of your intent. But only of my own intent. An intent that in truth and light I would not and cannot desire or maintain. The unwillingness to look upon the ego is the measure of the desire we still hold to play the game of ‘being apart’.
In actual release of the ‘mind of error’, the presence of you is truly felt beyond and distinct from any story or presentation in which I had colluded to make out of my own past experience. And you are inseparable from One mind or Spirit - the same mind alive in me. I simply cannot judge you or I am immediately cut off from the living appreciation of the presence of being. So the awakened living context itself, becomes the guide for direction, if I would be in love’s presence. My judgements no longer serve as my guide - but become useful by the Guide as maps that indicate a hidden desire of self specialness - a fantasy at odds with reality. Once it can be seen truly, it can only be released. Seeing and releasing is pulling out roots at cause level rather than entanglement amidst effects. And constitutes the replacement of a managed self image, with heart shared life.
In ignorance I used you for selfish ends - but truth is forever unaffected. I discovered this when I released my demands and judgements, and a presence of guiltlessness shone in their place. In this light I remember and am remembered truly and presently - for this light was what I thought I'd killed and lost when I played with selfishness and then ‘put that mind out’ as if to be safe in hiding.
When there is no more time to play ‘as if’, the truth of the heart will be the only truth. It is not consistent with the story for it sees only in ways that serve the truth of love. Wheras the ‘truth’ in story is what serves the teller of the story.
Does accepting Truth mean I never get to be heard, understood and redressed for the pain and loss I have suffered?
Yes. It is walked out of without further ado the instant it is seen truly. The very basis of a reality in which a self can control or suffer reality is given up.
In Truth I am undone of that mind and restored to a peace and light that cannot be attacked. And should conflict arise and light seem lost, then I can recognise I slipped into illusion again - and set myself the lesson and journey of awakening; the acceptance and love of true desire.
As the pathways of self forgiveness and peace become often used, resistances become less dramatized and the sense of self reconfigures to a true selfless sanity that gives itself and sees itself in all. Stories of awakening are also story - but serve the shift of attention out of the script and into the conscious movement of Being.
The shift is correctly seen as urgent whenever it is required. But once it is embraced, guidance relaxes and restores all that is to be as it is - in you as you are.
Stories cannot tell of Creation excepting to limit and diminish. Creation is too full to have time out in which to take notes or tell stories.
Too full to take time out to make symbols of the reality of love’s being. There simply is no desire for - no attention given- and no time in which to.
The Simplicity of Being.
What if everything were perfectly unfolding the awakening of love to its truth and nature – exactly as this life – but unrecognized?
What if everything that occurs is perfectly designed as an expression of Love to Love - awaiting recognition?
What if the only difference between the life in fear and hiding and the life of love sharing is acceptance of all as it simply is?
For who can hide within the acceptance of love?
Who can want to hide from out of the acceptance of love?
Non acceptance of love seems to be possible only because I asked love to wait.
By keeping a part of it I hid all of it.
Love waits where it is – while I play the drama of hiding.
In hiding, I am as a child with hands over my eyes – convinced that I cannot be seen.
But it is my own truth I hide from me – so I need but my own belief in hiding to make the desire.
Why would I choose this?
Because it was absolutely safe in the freedom of my being to choose to explore such thought.
There is no way thought can limit or define or oppose the Light in which all is as it is.
And no way to get truly lost – though the thought of lost-ness can be experienced to extremity.
Thoughts that are made from a place of hiding – witness and work to maintain the illusion.
Illusion is not a 'two dollar bill' – but works as substitution of appearance for the real.
Seeing the light in light, does not require anything to change except desire
In the light of Presence – thoughts of endarkenment do not serve my desire.
They may seem to want me to fight them.
But this is simply the residual desire to play alone in the dark.
The love of God in my heart is one with God.
Swimming in the pool is not different in principle from swimming in the ocean.
Discovering the support of my being in trust is not a way to survive more successfully in the dark.
The Light of my being is not the assurance that the divine will support 'my life in the world'.
To attempt these is to dam the flow of awakening and to demand a greater alarm call.
For it simply answers my heart's call.
Awakening to the Real world – in which the light of Reality is accepted.
Peace becomes the nature of I, in knowing this heart's desire, in welcome – un hidden.
The light will bless – for such is the nature of light.
But it is this heart that is being homed – by abiding in the simplicity of being.
What if everything that occurs is perfectly designed as an expression of Love to Love - awaiting recognition?
What if the only difference between the life in fear and hiding and the life of love sharing is acceptance of all as it simply is?
For who can hide within the acceptance of love?
Who can want to hide from out of the acceptance of love?
Non acceptance of love seems to be possible only because I asked love to wait.
By keeping a part of it I hid all of it.
Love waits where it is – while I play the drama of hiding.
In hiding, I am as a child with hands over my eyes – convinced that I cannot be seen.
But it is my own truth I hide from me – so I need but my own belief in hiding to make the desire.
Why would I choose this?
Because it was absolutely safe in the freedom of my being to choose to explore such thought.
There is no way thought can limit or define or oppose the Light in which all is as it is.
And no way to get truly lost – though the thought of lost-ness can be experienced to extremity.
Thoughts that are made from a place of hiding – witness and work to maintain the illusion.
Illusion is not a 'two dollar bill' – but works as substitution of appearance for the real.
Seeing the light in light, does not require anything to change except desire
In the light of Presence – thoughts of endarkenment do not serve my desire.
They may seem to want me to fight them.
But this is simply the residual desire to play alone in the dark.
The love of God in my heart is one with God.
Swimming in the pool is not different in principle from swimming in the ocean.
Discovering the support of my being in trust is not a way to survive more successfully in the dark.
The Light of my being is not the assurance that the divine will support 'my life in the world'.
To attempt these is to dam the flow of awakening and to demand a greater alarm call.
For it simply answers my heart's call.
Awakening to the Real world – in which the light of Reality is accepted.
Peace becomes the nature of I, in knowing this heart's desire, in welcome – un hidden.
The light will bless – for such is the nature of light.
But it is this heart that is being homed – by abiding in the simplicity of being.
2010/02/02
The fear of Love
The ‘fear of God’ isn't really fear of God - but is the fear that becomes visible as it is undone by an unobstructed welcome to Light.
The presence-ing of God - is all there is - as all of this - right where you are.
Not God presence-ing to you - or for you.
Any attempt to interpret such direct and present awareness via the identity and perspective of limited mind will induce terror and trigger defence in re-enactment of the separation wish. This should hardly be surprising to one who has awoken to the law of mind - that the effect is an extension or projection of cause - and does not leave it in nature or content.
The mind of separation has to be seen to be passed by. Only Awakened vision can see it.
This is Already Given you as: Guide, Holy Spirit, Teacher. These seem to be agencies of a Light you are willing to remember, even though you know this means fear must be faced and passed through instead of hidden.
In experience it could be said to be ‘passed through’, yet it is not that ‘you as you identify fearfully’, who passes through.
The fear is dissolved in Light by willingness to abide in faith of love, peace and truth - as your own Root Cause, despite any suggestion or temptation to engage fear as guide and protector.
This faith does not invest in the faithlessness of engaging private self interest - but in the undoing of faithlessness - and so is empty of all else but receptive trust.
It is the welcome to Light.
And Light knows itself and all as Light and offers its interpretation in replacement and healing of the mind that ‘thought it thought alone’ and thus ‘stole’ its life from God.
The Light stirs within as a movement through you at a depth and subtlety you are accustomed to disregard by habit of defence.
Yet as your desire for truth grows, you will make a pathway of willingness to such ‘stirrings’, that will cut off the mind of conflicted perception from automatic employment and you can choose anew. And as Light grows, the fear of love diminishes, vision is restored.
Heaven is here and now - before a judgement does, and can be neither earned nor achieved. But to recognise this as our birthright, the Light must be given welcome, in correction and replacement of the image and idea that you had mistook as your self.
Every instant of love's willingness is maximal. You not only can do no more but must not attempt to do more - or you will reassert the very ‘mind’ that blinds you to your truth and light.
To be in and of and as Light - is the original fullness and flow of Being - empty of illusory self assertion or control from a partial perspective. Not a crowning of man - but the Christing of Man and World as one. From 'would-be controller as a separate will', to active service in Sonship, sharing one will.
The recognition of truth is of a wholly present awareness.
To seek to use it, or control it, is but to choose self-illusion as your source.
Your demonstration is teaching you, and you are always free to choose what you value - and share it.
To be aligned with that which can be truly shared is to be of one mind.
Others may stir from the resonance with your witness by their own freedom realised.
But to the Christed mind - there cannot be self or other - except as a language to which one accommodates, in order to grow and restore a channel of trust.
The presence-ing of God - is all there is - as all of this - right where you are.
Not God presence-ing to you - or for you.
Any attempt to interpret such direct and present awareness via the identity and perspective of limited mind will induce terror and trigger defence in re-enactment of the separation wish. This should hardly be surprising to one who has awoken to the law of mind - that the effect is an extension or projection of cause - and does not leave it in nature or content.
The mind of separation has to be seen to be passed by. Only Awakened vision can see it.
This is Already Given you as: Guide, Holy Spirit, Teacher. These seem to be agencies of a Light you are willing to remember, even though you know this means fear must be faced and passed through instead of hidden.
In experience it could be said to be ‘passed through’, yet it is not that ‘you as you identify fearfully’, who passes through.
The fear is dissolved in Light by willingness to abide in faith of love, peace and truth - as your own Root Cause, despite any suggestion or temptation to engage fear as guide and protector.
This faith does not invest in the faithlessness of engaging private self interest - but in the undoing of faithlessness - and so is empty of all else but receptive trust.
It is the welcome to Light.
And Light knows itself and all as Light and offers its interpretation in replacement and healing of the mind that ‘thought it thought alone’ and thus ‘stole’ its life from God.
The Light stirs within as a movement through you at a depth and subtlety you are accustomed to disregard by habit of defence.
Yet as your desire for truth grows, you will make a pathway of willingness to such ‘stirrings’, that will cut off the mind of conflicted perception from automatic employment and you can choose anew. And as Light grows, the fear of love diminishes, vision is restored.
Heaven is here and now - before a judgement does, and can be neither earned nor achieved. But to recognise this as our birthright, the Light must be given welcome, in correction and replacement of the image and idea that you had mistook as your self.
Every instant of love's willingness is maximal. You not only can do no more but must not attempt to do more - or you will reassert the very ‘mind’ that blinds you to your truth and light.
To be in and of and as Light - is the original fullness and flow of Being - empty of illusory self assertion or control from a partial perspective. Not a crowning of man - but the Christing of Man and World as one. From 'would-be controller as a separate will', to active service in Sonship, sharing one will.
The recognition of truth is of a wholly present awareness.
To seek to use it, or control it, is but to choose self-illusion as your source.
Your demonstration is teaching you, and you are always free to choose what you value - and share it.
To be aligned with that which can be truly shared is to be of one mind.
Others may stir from the resonance with your witness by their own freedom realised.
But to the Christed mind - there cannot be self or other - except as a language to which one accommodates, in order to grow and restore a channel of trust.
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