DEMONSTRATION OF LOVE 4

 

P. 158-9

Three major themes come to me as I sit with today's class: one is that we are not being asked to separate from our humanness; in reality the acceptance and sanctification of our humanness is a huge part of this journey.

 

Two: the goal/object of our stay on planet Earth is to learn and practice how to love unconditionally.

 

Three best to see all being as love, and if we cannot to be willing to sit with our feelings, our life situation or our perceptions until the Love that is already there reveals itself to us.

 

I began this morning by reflecting on that marvelous musical line that states “Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn't already have.”

 

Each day we are confronted with the paradoxical learning that reflection contains. You do not become divine, you do not create the kingdom of heaven. Our divine nature is already here; we are already in the Kingdom. However, we do not always remain with that truth or that awareness. It is within our nature, our human nature, to be drawn into forgetfulness again and again and then to awaken again and again. Now to the personality,  to the thinking mind this seemingly endless cycle of sleeping and awakening,  of unawareness to awareness, seems useless and yet here we are.

 

In the cycle of awareness and unawareness in our study and work with ourselves and Spirit, we discover that one of the fruits of our labor is that the time between with the measurable time between sleeping and awakening becomes shorter and shorter as we allow ourselves to be drawn more and more into the Truth of Who We Are. Not only that, but in the moments of Awakening we become more loving towards ourselves rather than critical. “Yes I am falling asleep; yes I have gone into unawareness and yet today, now, in this moment, I am gratefully aware of my consciousness, of the Divine within me and all beings.”

 

This theme has been explored quite often: I either accept that the light of Divine truth is the essence of Love, is manifested in all beings. If I put one person or one being out of the Light then I cannot realize that in myself either. It is similar to being aware that when my heart is closed to you, for whatever reasons, then I have allowed myself to be shut off from the consciousness of Love. If I cannot love you, I csnnot love me either. (Or as the book suggests, “If I kinda/sorta love you; then I will kinda/sorta love myself.—-Kinda/sorta is not even closed to unconditional!)

 

In embracing my humanness, my body, mind, spirit and emotions, I am releasing it all from judgment. There are no good feelings or bad feelings, there are simply feelings and there are emotions. They can all be teachers; they can all be recognized as responses to the world in the circumstances I find myself in. We do not have to judge ourselves or others for our response to the world. I can use each and every expression within me as a teacher.

 

With my feelings, my emotional response to myself or to you or to a circumstance, I find in myself, they can allow me to be aware of an attachment that needs to be healed or can be a reflection that I continue to be a spiritual being having a human experience.

The shortest verse in Christian scripture is “Jesus wept.” Jesus was saddened by the death of his friend Lazarus, and even though he might have known that in the next moment or so he would raise Lazarus from the dead, he could still experience human anguish and the anguish of the family and those around him for the loss of this loved one. There are no apologies made, “I am simply being who I am.”

 

 

We were encouraged to make a list of all of those things that we perceive keep us away or prevent us from embracing the truth of our divine nature, the unconditional love that we are and that we are blessed by. I would encourage each one of us to do this. It is not an exercise in judgment or blame it is an exercise in awareness. One of the things I discovered for myself is that there are many many tiny, seemingly inconsequential, things in my life that can separate me or separate my perception from the love of God or the love that I am.

 

“If you wish now, take a piece of paper and write a list of all the things that you would keep outside of God, that you feel too good for, that you blame for this or that, that can never be forgiven or condoned. When you make this list, please ask yourself why you believe the things you do, who taught you these things, and why you create from them.”

 

 

 

A very simple and yet profound example came into my mind as we were working together this morning. It is within my nature and within my limited understanding of myself that I hold onto the need for a certain amount of perfectionism. “This is the way things need to be,” and so my obsessive neatness is not simply a desire to be organized, it is connected to a number of “shoulds” or “have tos” all of which are learned behaviors from times past. Boiled down, very simply it might say, “Well if your room is not neat there is something wrong or disrespectful about you.”

 

Now, of course, if we were to look at that at face value, it would seem ridiculous and yet why is it that my socks should be folded this way or this is how my closet should look or wherever else are compulsiveness might take us.

 

I mentioned that one of the themes in my life and probably one of my deepest ingrained lessons is to realize that I am unconditionally loved no matter what. I have spent so much time and effort in wanting or trying to get people to like me. Now again, I do not use that as a point of judgement, but you will notice that this (being liked) is a value that comes from the ego or personality consciousness and has nothing to do with the deeper reality of unconditional love. When I forget this, then I put my “okayness” into your hands and think to myself in a rather hidden kind of way that “If you think I'm okay then I guess I am.” The biggest difficulty with this is that today's sense of “okayness” does not translate into tomorrow. Tomorrow I must start all over again to gain your approval to be okay.

 

All of what goes on within my personality in my ego consciousness is a reflection of a deeper truth but so often that becomes lost. From the ego’s perspective, from the personality’s perspective, being liked or accepted is a primary value. Even if I were to say, “I do not give a damn about what you think about me,” I still find myself reaping the benefits having you think that I am strong and unique.

 

The reflection here on a deeper level is being aligned to the truth as Paul said, “Nothing can separate me from the love of God.”

 

“...in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

 

It is the realization that my sense of “okayness” comes from outside of me whereas the reality of knowing that I am an aspect of unconditional love comes from a Truth that already exists within myself. it cannot be created; it can only be reinforced because the truth never disappears.

 

Who would I be without my limitations on unconditional love?

 

 

Thank you for your Presence.

 

Here’s another secret--you are always a beloved child of God even if you are not acting like one, and even if you don’t feel like one.

 

 

DEMONSTRATION OF LOVE 3

 P. 157-158

 I wonder, “Are we just a bunch of personalities trying to convince ourselves that we are something more?” or “Are we something more convincing ourselves that our personality is not who we are?

Kind of like the Zen story of the Monk who is dreaming he was a butterfly and then woke up and ask himself  “Am I a man who dreamed about being a butterfly or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”

Please know that all of these reflections are coming from my level of awareness at this moment and I do not claim them as being the truth with a capital T. I’m kind of like Paul, I’m a spokesperson for the message, BUT there will be times when my own, sometimes clouded perception will get in the way.

It is important to me that we do not make our ego or our personality or whatever descriptions we are using to describe our limited self--it is important that we do not make this into the enemy. Whenever I make anyone or anything into the enemy I create more fear and separateness. In fact, as the book points out I find myself creating that which I did not want.

That might be a good or powerful expression of identification with the limited self “that we produce or create that which we were attempting to avoid or get away from.” We have a profound example of that in terms of addictions: the very thing we were attempting to avoid or get away from or make disappear becomes even stronger with our compulsive behavior.

We do not wish to demonize the personality. It is an aspect of self, it is an aspect of self that each one of us has diligently worked on and created over these years we have been residents of planet Earth. We could explore detail upon detail about why we created the personality we did, but that is not our subject this morning. Suffice it to say that the personality we created was our effort to protect ourselves from whatever we felt we needed protection from, to try to make ourselves as lovable and accepted possible, and to be as much in control of life or convince ourselves that we are in control of life as much as we can be.

You see, none of these are bad things but you will also see from an extended viewpoint that's called The Observer, standing apart from the personality and looking upon it, you begin to see and realize did everything you created with this personality were goals that were never quite within our reach. For example, if I have created a persona it seeks out the praise of others so that I can feel good about myself, I will soon discover that yesterday's compliments are like smoke or like fog, they are useless, they disappear, and so I will have to work even harder today to earn the praise to feed my need for self-esteem. We could use that description as a metaphor for many of the needs and layers of the personality self.

Now just because we are encouraged to go beyond the personality or to know ourselves beyond the personality doesn't mean that it disappears. It might still be part of, a necessary piece of my ability to communicate with others. It might be a necessary vehicle, just like my body is, to participate in the activities of planet Earth.

The object here is to be in awareness that my personality is not who I am and therefore your personality is not who you are either. So then when I can't stand you, when I would like to punch you in the face, make you disappear or so drastically change you so you fit in my mold if who I think you should be--that is my personality reacting to your personality. And just as we have described in the past, egos by their very nature rub against one another creating heat or friction. The same is true with personalities. In fact, our personality self might be a more specific definition of our ego consciousness.

Simply put, when I become wrapped up in anger, fear, separation or closed heartedness, I am locked into the limited view or perception that I am my personality and you are too.

You might recall the during his ministry, Jesus had difficulties with this elite group of teachers call the Pharisees. I believe an aspect of their theology is that you are what you do. You are your personality. And of course the message of Jesus was that you are much more than that.

The whole aspect of love and self-love which is the essence of the Gospel, the good news, has nothing to do with personality. There is only a tiny piece of scripture that touches upon this directly but the message of Love, true love shines forth all through it.

 

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Matthew 5:43-48

In talking with one of our classmates this morning I recognized something that I had taken for granted but probably need to express more definitely. These books emphasize that what is referred to as the Christ Consciousness, but it has nothing to do with a particular religion or set of religious beliefs. Christ Consciousness refers to that awareness that is a reflection of our experience, our inner knowing, of the truth of Who We Are and the connection with all beings.

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From Divine Love: Understanding the Universal Christ Consciousness How to Move from "Churchianity" and Embrace the Truth Behind All ReligionsBy Bianca Alexander, EMMY Award-Winning TV Journalist + Host, Conscious Living TV

 “I choose to resurrect the Universal Christ Consciousness within my own heart. For me, this contact has nothing to do with how I express my religion on the outside – what I wear, whether I go to church or not and the songs I sing are of little importance. Though it may work for others, I don’t need a cross, communion, or special hymn to find God.

This means walking humbly through the world with kindness and compassion; loving others especially when they don’t believe what I do, whether they’re Islamic, Jewish, atheist, white, gay or republican. And perhaps of greatest importance is cultivating a deeper love for the Divine – whether I call it Christ, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, Elohim, Higher Power, Divine Mother, or God.”

 I would sum up (and greatly simplify) Selig’s core teaching in I Am the Word like this: People function at different frequencies or energies. Most people operate at a lower energy, guided by their ego or false self, while others are able to tap into a higher frequency or energy. This energy is known as Christ consciousness.

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From Realizing the “Christ Consciousness” Within You

 DECEMBER 19, 2018 BY TOM RAPSAS

 I’ll let Selig’s wise spiritual guide explain the rest; the key points from the book are listed below. Please note that I’ve done some light editing and rearranged the text, it appears in a different order in the book. I’ve also added a few points of my own in italics.

The Keys to Christ Consciousness

Christ is a consciousness, a frequency, an offering to man from the Creator to align to. Christ is, in essence, the vibration of God as realized in man.

The Christ vibration does not belong to Christians. It is a frequency of consciousness that was manifested in form by Jesus and by others in different names over history.

No one is without Christ consciousness, it has not bypassed anyone. Anybody is welcome to this consciousness and frequency. Any man, any woman, can be a conduit with the divine.

Achieving this connection with the higher frequencies, starts by rejecting what might be termed low-frequency thinking. Your pride, your fear, your loathing of the self…these are the low frequencies that must disband, that must release, that must go away for good. If you believe things will always be the way they have been, that is what you will create.

If you are vibrating at a higher frequency, you do not get zapped by the lower because, in fact, you have risen above it.

Man cannot be put outside of God because God is everything. God is the frequency of every cell in your being. You are vibration. You are an aspect of the Creator in form. You are inherently perfect, manifested in perfection, that is your true state of being.

There are many passages in the book where the reader is invited to recite a passage ending with the words, “I am Word.” Selig writes that by setting our intention to operate at a higher frequency, we open this energy to us and realign our conscious minds. Here’s one such intention: “I am now choosing to think only those thoughts which will bring me peace and will align me to a higher consciousness. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”

You all have the ability to be a tuning fork for the higher frequencies.

When you set the intention to vibrate at a higher frequency, your frequency changes and the feeling in your energy field will actually shift. Your vibration will attune to a higher octave.

Each time you progress in the higher frequency, you retain the information and the consciousness that you have come to.

Christ consciousness represents a change in your own consciousness, a change in how you experience yourself on a moment-to-moment basis.

You are changing your path to vibrate at one with your Christed Self. You are calling these energies to yourself. Once this change has been made, your feelings in your body will begin to shift as you begin to exist in a higher frequency.

When your Divine self works at a higher frequency, it doesn’t really get angry about anything. It integrates with the energies of love. True love is a frequency that is emitted and it transforms all it encounters.

You will begin to witness the divine perfection that is in every man and woman you encounter. When you move to this level of identification, you resonate at a higher frequency. You align yourself to the Christ consciousness. You know that God is in everything and everyone and cannot be otherwise.

When you resonate at this frequency, you bring those around you into the same frequency and align with the Christ consciousness. You are a benefit to all those you encounter.

Your choice right now is to embark on this consciousness shift with a decision. These higher frequencies are already working within you. Believe you can lift your frequency and exist at this level and you will.

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We ended on a note that somewhat surprised me. I have rarely spoken about other lifetimes because so often that can simply hook us into some useless drama. To me it is much more important to ask the question “What do I do with this now?” However this morning as I was speaking of the personality self some information came through that was beyond my personal knowing or usual expression. Let me see if I can recap the sharing. I will put it as close to verbatim as I can.

“Of course when we die, when we let go of our bodies, we also let go of our egos and our personality consciousness, but if we have become overly Attached to this personality as being Who We Are then we might very well take it with us even into our next incarnation.

After those words came through, I recognized that there was a certain sense of fear and apprehension, many people saying to themselves “I don't want to do that; I don't want to repeat this trip. It's okay if I have a new one, but I really don't want to do this one again.” The expression of fear or anxiety was clustered around the fear of repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Let me go back to what was spoken. It is only if you have overly identified with the personality self and in a sense, made it an essential part of Who You Are, that you might “take it with you,” as it were. The wonderful truth is that because you are sitting here on Sunday morning openly expressing, not only your desire to be free, but your willingness and intention to be free and your willingness to do the work to allow that to happen, is a reflection that you are intentionally removing yourself from overly identifying with this personality or ego structure.

Please note, it is a personality and the ego that creates fear. Fear by its very nature creates more attachment. So that if I am fearful of not being able to let go of my personality guess what I create? An even deeper attachment.

Here’s the paragraph that started it all:

 “Now, what is not worthy of love? If you ask yourself this, “What is not worthy of love?” you will discover very quickly the things that you put outside of God. And what you put outside of God you give great power to, because those very things you put outside of God keep you outside of God in your experience. Do you understand this? When you decide that someone is not worthy of the kingdom, you have decided that you are with them on the rock you place them on in isolation. You call yourself to that very thing you wish to not be expressed as, through your judgment and your fear.” 

Thank you all. Happy New Year

 

DEMONSTRATION OF LOVE 2

P. 156-157 

“Now when we speak of love, we encounter resistance from Paul, who still thinks that love is something that is unattainable, or an ideal that is a wonderful thing to speak of, but has no foundation in truth in his own experience. Of course, that is not so. And the first thing we have to do with each of you is define what you mean by love. When you say that you are in love, you are in a frequency, a divine frequency that will lift you to an expression of love in all that you encounter. When you are not in love, and not in accord with that vibration, your experience reflects that, and you offer yourself to a life without this alignment.”

Leave when the guides speak of a definition of love they are not speaking of an intellectual concept or something that could be completely put into words. I believe they are speaking of the sense we experience within ourselves of what love is and knowing that we use words to attempt to describe that in her knowing realizing that words themselves are going to be somewhat inadequate.

There are three descriptions of love that have stayed with me through the years and continue to contribute to my evolution involves understanding as well as expression. it's fascinating to me that these three descriptions come from very different sources and yet they continue to speak to me.

The first one came from a book in my Old Hippy Library a science fiction book as a matter of fact call The Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. in a piece of dialogue between two of the characters in the book One expresses his definition of love besley, love is that state where someone else's happiness is essential to your own.

When I first read that it knocked my socks off. I could sense the value and the trueness of it. the literal meaning stayed with me for a number of years until the code dependency evolution movement came into being. according to much of what I had learned in that codependency adult child era was it that definition or description of love just didn't fit. I tossed it away for awhile but as I will explain in a bit I took it back again but at a deeper level of understanding.

show my search continued until I came across this wonderful and rather difficult expression from the psychiatrist Sheldon cop in his book if you meet the Buddha on the road kill him. the depth of his thinking was expressed in this love is sometimes living with the helpless knowing that I can do nothing about another person's pain. the meaning of this became very clear to me after my father's transition. I went home to help my mother with the funeral details and Social Security in putting the house up for sale and all of those other things that go with the loss of a spouse. I was grieving in my own way and I knew she was as well but I wanted to make it easier for her. I would take her out to dinner I would cook dinner myself we go to a movie and eventually I remember her saying to me stop I need to grieve.

What she was saying was you cannot take my pain away from me I need to deal with this myself. I understood and I understood on the deepest level I could at that time is that I cannot take your pain away but I can be here for you. I can be present to you. Even if I cannot be present to you physically when I go back to work I can still be present to you emotionally psychologically spiritually.

This was a difficult description how's the power of love and I knew left much out of the picture but its expression was still essential to my gross in to my knowing

The number of years later while reading Scott picks A Road Less Traveled I came across another description that's said very simply love is the ability to stretch oneself 41 spiritual growth growth of another. wow. that really moved me I understood that on a deep deep level far beyond words far beyond the intellectual meaning

And what began to happen in my own understanding in my own evolution is the text description of love began to embrace those other two that I mentioned above kind of put them in perspective.

The ability to stretch oneself. see there is a description that is continually on going that innocence will never end I stretch I stretch I stretch again.

So here we are for instance each Sunday morning with an openness and awareness and perhaps not attempting to Define anything literally but each one of us realizes in our own way then as we speak as we sit as we listen as we all walk one another home play we are going to be stretched we might not know how we might not know what that's going to look like we might not know what that's going to feel like we might not know what challenges might emerge. could we enter the process with an openness and a willingness to allow Spirit to work with us and to us and through us. And that is a continuing blessing 

“Now, as you align to love, to be expressed as love and, consequently, to demonstrate your consciousness in love, you are offering yourself to the world, and we will emphasize this, you are offering yourself to the world. You are not offering yourself to your best friend, or the person you always say hello to in what you would claim to be a loving way. You are offering yourself to the world as an energized aspect with the Creator in accord with love.”

Here is an absolute elegant description of the truth of Who You Are and therefore the truth of all beings. I will not Sully this is Central truth with any more words than necessary.

I would encourage you though to perhaps make that into your own affirmation I am an energized aspect of the Creator in a cord with love.

 “Now the responsibility you each hold is to realize, once and for all, that love is not a personality construct, nor is it special, to be handed to the special. It is the action of the Creator, working as and through you, in His own dominion, honoring all that He sees before him as a creation worthy of love.”

DEMONSTRATION OF LOVE 1

 

P. 155

Apologies for rambling this morning. I was just really turned on. Have no idea why. It wasn't even my second cup of coffee.

However, putting all of that aside, I am deeply blessed and grateful for our gathering on Sunday mornings. It has been and continues to be a profound blessing in my life. Thank you

As I was reading over this morning's material I became very aware the a huge commitment each one of us has made to transforming our lives, our thoughts and the world around us. It is a tremendously gutsy move to be willing to take responsibility for the healing of the world.

Of course, as we well know the healing begins with each one of us. We stand in a place where we are conscious of our own individual existence as well as our Cosmic connection with all other beings. It is only by or through the process of transformation that this continuing healing can take place.

We begin to realize, very deeply, that the conflict we perceive in the external world is a reflection of the conflict within ourselves and in order for any of that to transform or to be transcended means accepting responsibility as a first step.

When we accept responsibility for our perception of the world, as limited as it might be, we begin to open ourselves up to the possibility of healing. When John the Baptist presented his directive of “Repent,” it was mistakenly used or interpreted to mean there is something wrong with us; that we are sinners; that we are bad; that we are rotten to the core.

The word “repent” simply means to rethink something, to look at it differently, to realize that my perception, my limited perception has gotten me all caught up in limited thinking. The old “law” that the world was living under was “an eye for an eye.”

Paul later confirmed the new law by his wonderful declaration of Love in I Corinthians, and by teaching “Be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind.”

We come here each Sunday morning in some ways to be renewed, to allow our minds to be transformed, to see ourselves to see the world differently.

I'm not sure whether the times we are living in right now are more difficult than other times. I do realise for myself personally that my perception and my sense of the polarisation of our society seems to be quite vivid and powerful. Because of that, it is quite challenging. A primary challenge is not to become too wrapped up in judgment--especially about myself.

I was mentioning that an aspect of my perception about what we sometimes refer to as the “two sides of the aisle” is that there seems to be no common ground. There seems to be no way of communicating. Then we are all so entrenched in our beliefs of what is right and what is wrong that there seems to be no room for debate or raising our consciousness.

I imagined myself speaking to someone of different beliefs and attempting to find a platform or a base from which we could communicate. I wondered what it would be like To speak with someone on the other side of the aisle, I might say something to the effect of “I am frightened. I am frightened that if those in power proceed in the direction that I am perceiving at the moment that the world will be a much more difficult place to live in; hat there will be a continual rise in a sense of separation, hatred and prejudice; that there will be the rule of the rich rather than the rule of the righteous. Can you tell me what you are afraid of?”

It was pointed out that perhaps the person I am talking with will not acknowledge any fear at all. If that scene where the present itself I could very easily see myself becoming angry, belligerent, self-righteous, and accusing them of being small-minded, of being ignorant of their own inner workings, etc. What I also realized was that, for whatever reasons, I was not able to reach this other person. I do not have to judge them as being overly entrenched or in denial of their own fears. What I need to recognize is that what I said or how I said it did not open the doors to communication. I might not have any other ideas to present at the moment. So instead of getting into a conflict or a judgmental rage with you, I need to move back for a moment and in my heart and in my mind to ask for forgiveness for not being able to connect. I am not blaming myself, I am not blaming you either, I am simply being aware of the impasse that seems to be present right now in our communication and recognize my responsibility for not being able to work through it yet.

Now we did not presuppose if there is a wrong that needs to be righted that we ignore that, but it is true I can work justly without rancor or judgment, what the Buddhists might call right action without stepping all over you. That does not mean I will be able to completely avoid conflict, but I can certainly make that my intention.

During our discussion this morning we came across our old friend that we sometimes refer to as “illusion.” Primarily it was related to a sense of fear. “Isn't fear an illusion?” one of our classmates asked. Of course what we have been taught is that it is an illusion it's not real. And yet even though it might be an illusion, even though it is not real, doesn't mean that I don't have it or that it doesn't affect me in some ways. I am still affected by my fears or I still perceive myself as being affected by my by my fears. Just because they are an illusion or not real on a higher plane of reality does not mean that they simply disappear. I might have to work with my fears, to forgive them, to heal them in order for them to be released. It is usually only after they are released that I recognized the illusory nature of my limited thinking.

Shall we begin a new phase in our learning with this chapter entitled a Demonstration of Love.

Most of us do not have a difficulty or a problem recognizing our love for other people. It is difficult however to allow ourselves to receive or to be loved. Part of the difficulty here is that we are still seeing ourselves as a personality self that somehow has to deserve love or that has barriers to love or that lives in a world where unconditional love seems to be an impossibility. When we speak of love, the essence of love, the essence of Who We Are, we are not talking about the emotion of love or romantic love or a sense of love that comes from the personality. We are speaking of the essence of love which is the essence of Who You Are. “God is love and he who buys in love abides in God and God in him.” That's it; that's the truth.

And we are being asked to go beyond those words. Each one of us, including myself, can be quite glib about saying or affirming those words as being the truth, but all I have to do is to stop and listen to the negative chatter in my mind, to observe how I am treating myself, to notice how free or not free of judgment I might be with regards to myself.

Awareness is the beginning of transformation. 

Here is part of a message I've used in  another class that I would like to pass on:

So it begins with me, realizing and opening myself up to the possibility of a world without war, a world without conflict, and the next step (because that first one is kind of a generality); the next step is opening myself up to the possibility that I can be without conflict. Now again we might fall into the trap of trying to beat up or destroy or tear up all that seems to be conflict in our lives, throw it out. The next step is to focus on myself and the truth of the Divine being that I am. In this step or stage in the process of manifesting Truth, I am not in a struggle with myself, not in a struggle, even with my lower personality self. I bypass the struggle, which is unnecessary on this plane of realization, and by opening myself up to the truth of who I am, whatever I was holding as struggle or war or conflict ceases to exist. I cannot hate you or judge you if I hold you in the light of truth that you are.

This does not deny my personality self that still holds you in judgement, is still annoyed at your personality, that still thinks you are wrong etc etc but, I am choosing not to feed that lower vibration.

There is even another level of Truth here it for me that demands awareness and practice. I was watching and listening to Ram Dass recently giving a presentation with a couple of other teachers. He asked a question in his halting peaceful loving way— a question that seemed to come out of the blue. He asked “What do you do with these awful, horrible, terrible thoughts you might have?” He didn't give an example of that, but you can imagine what that might be— like “I hate you blah blah blah; I wish you would croak; I wish you were never part of my life; I wish you would disappear from existence; if you would only go away everything would be okay;” that and many others. He waited for these other teachers to give an answer to that question, but they seem to have been dumbfounded at the question itself, and so he answered that for them, “What do you do with these awful horrible and terrible thoughts you might have?” He smiled and said, “You love them to death. You love them to death.” How beautiful!

“The changes that you are undergoing now, as you engage with this text, are on two levels. Your own consciousness is acclimating to the information we offer you, and the vibratory field that you stand in is engaging with your changes and realigning itself to a new possibility.”

 

These two levels are happening whether we are conscious of them or not, but I do believe that our purpose, our intention is put into play simply by our willingness to show up. The yearning or the desire of our hearts significantly raises our vibration. I often quote Augustine's observation and affirmation “Lord you have made our hearts restless and they will never rest until they rest in Thee.” I am suggesting that by simply recognizing that and letting it be a guiding principle in our lives, even though we might forget occasionally, our vibration, our sense of Truth is expanded. Holding that awareness in front of us without a doubt raises our vibration. Our wanting to is a vehicle for providing that to happen.

We do not always realize these changes or Transformations are taking place until we might be challenged by a situation and we discover that we are handling it differently. The result does not have to be dramatic or terribly overt. There might be subtle changes in our awareness in our responses and, to go along with this chapter, in our ability to love ourselves or to be the love that we are.

 

In Love, Gratitude and Simplicity

Peace!