We Are Never Alone

“We are never alone. We are not isolated fragments of creation, but part of one great Whole. We may always turn to the greater Whole and accept more and more of Its good, abundance and right action of which we have been unknowingly depriving ourselves.

 

“In using our thought, the function of our minds, we need always remember that it is not our mind that we use. Rather, it the individualization within us of the One Mind that we use at the level of our awareness of It.

 

“We attract to ourselves experiences corresponding to the nature of our thought.” Excerpt from A New Design for Living by Ernest Holmes.

Middle Men

 The ego, myself, always speaks first and is wrong. It says things like: “When the pain stops, you’ll feel better,” or “when you get the new house, you’ll be happy,” or “if it doesn’t rain, then it’ll be a great day.” All conditional, all based on the outside-in thinking and believing, all middle men, as if my experience depends on them. I don’t need these or any other middle men. I can go directly to awareness of mySelf.

 

I can go. Do I? Not often enough. I get bogged down in addressing the middle men – taking care of the pain, getting the new house, hoping and praying it won’t rain. My attention is drawn away from mySelf which is the ego’s goal. If I’m busy fing around with the ego’s middle men, feeling alone and victimized, I’m not with mySelf and my reality as a spiritual being having an earthly experience.

 

I want to eliminate the middle men. I’m sick and tired of buying retail. I want to go direct to the supplier, the manufacturer, the Source. And I can! How cool is that? I can and you can! We can know we’re dealing with middle men, but not alone and not as victims.

 

When we hear the ego and experience its middle men, we can understand what’s happening, agree that I’ll feel better when the pain stops, or whatever, breath into it, give it over to spirit and with spirit, take whatever action spirit—that deep inner knowing and intuition, suggest. Often no action other than releasing and giving over is needed. Trusting the Source, releasing the blocks—the middle men, giving them over and experiencing mySelf instead of myself is so good and works so well! I want to do it more often!

Namaste

Consistent experiences of spirit’s blessings cannot be forced upon me, but come when they are all I want. And to want only that I need help. Yes it’s a choice, and I have the capacity to choose, but the ego’s nightmare illusion is so strong and I am so invested in it, I need to feel the love of God supporting me to make the best choice. “Who with the love of God supporting them would choose madness and murder?” No one. Certainly not me and not you. The difficulty is tho the love of God is always there and always supporting us, we don’t feel it. And not feeling it, not knowing we are spirit first, we choose madness and murder.

 

Interesting phrase that – “The love of God.” It goes two ways, God loving me and me loving God….

 

With the love of God supporting me I can know that when I meet anyone it is a holy encounter. As I see you is how I see myself. As I treat you is how I treat myself. As I think of you is how I think of myself. Every encounter with you and everyone and everything is an opportunity to experience myself or mySelf.

 

The purpose of life is to ‘Know Thyself’. There is nothing else to seek. Everything else is illusion. We are looking for the Self we all share and think we have lost. And we are looking in the wrong places. The ego’s motto is: ‘Seek but do not find.’ The ego has us look only at ourselves. But that is not enough. If I look only at myself, I will not find mySelf for mySelf is in everyone and everything. Until I allow the love of God to uphold me and see It in, thru and around me, I will feel lack and limitation, pain, anger and frustration.

 

Namaste – the God in me salutes the God in you!

First Things First

When I experience the wholeness and love of spirit within me, I will experience it everywhere outside of me: in everyone and everything. Going within first and accepting responsibility for my choices and experience and not experiencing myself as a powerless victim is the first step. When I fail to do this, I attack, first myself feeling sick, stressed, weak, deprived, lacking and victimized then you, blaming you, certain that if only you were different or the Republicans were different, then what a wonderful world it would be.

 

This is bull shit, the ego’s nightmare illusion designed to keep me busy in the illusion so I don’t go within, take responsibility and choose mySelf. There is only one way out of the ego illusion just as there only one way into it – to become aware of the horror and disfunctionality of it, want something different, go within and choose mySelf instead of myself. Wanting only this, I will have only this. I will know that instead of being alone and having to do it all on my own, with all the stress and fear that goes with that; I will have access to and be supported by the power that makes the stars shine and the seasons change.

Faith

The gift of life is mine to give, because it was given me. It is my birthright as well as yours. And I in turn want to give it, to feel the joy of sharing and seeing everyone and everything as whole, healthy and happy. What I want like that, is what I am. But I am not aware of the gift and feeling this way because I do not give it. The gift must be given first trusting and having faith in the fact that what we give, we have. We have so much corruption, fear, loathing, conflict, blame, and guilt, because, mistaking ourselves for the ego, that is what we have been giving. This need not be. We can turn away from this and give from our reality as spirit instead of our illusion as ego.

 

Every perceived attack is a call for the infinite love and patience that is mySelf. When I attack or perceive myself as attacked, I am unaware of mySelf and the gift of life, love and patience that is mine to give. When I share the illusions of attack, lack and scarcity, I am unaware of mySelf and the gift of life, love and patience that is mine to give. Turning away from these illusions and giving freely from mySelf no matter what seems to be happening, not only enable me to claim my reality, but you to claim yours.

 

Suddenly we see grace and ease and abundance, possibilities, creativity and innovation all around us! We are free! We know things need not be as they are! We can envision a world that works for everyone and everything and know how to make a contribution to it. All things are possible for mySelf! Wanting only this, I will have only this and giving only this I will be only this.

Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This

I do not need God’s blessing, the Course says, because as a spiritual being I have that forever. But I do need my own blessing. The ego’s picture of me, and you, is deprived, unloving and vulnerable. We cannot love this.

 

Yet we can fairly easily escape from this false image by leaving it behind. I am not there and that is not me, or you. If I do not see this image in anyone else, I will not see it in myself. Given reality as a holograph, what I see in others, I have accepted in myself.

 

All the ego’s nightmare illusions are dispelled together as they were made together by the choice of the decision maker in my mind. I don’t want to teach anyone that they are what I would not want to be. Other people and my experiences in the world are mirrors in which I see my perceptions of myself and my decision maker’s choices.

 

Illusions are investments. They will last as long as I value them. The only way to dispel illusions is to withdraw all investment from them. Then they will have no life for us because we have put them out of our minds—the source of all life.

 

The gift of life is ours to give, because it was given us. We are not aware of this because we do not give it. What we give, we have. We have so much corruption, fear, loathing, conflict, blame, and guilt, because that is what we have been giving. This need not be. We can turn away from this and give from our reality as spirit instead of our illusion as ego.

 

I’m reminded of that old joke: Patient: Doctor it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Don’t do that.

Reality as Holograph

I am never upset for the reason I think because the real reason I, and you, are upset is because we have identified with ego instead of spirit and are mistaking events in the ego’s nightmare world as real. We need to wake up and claim our atonement with spirit, our true identities as spiritual beings having earthly experiences. I, and probably you too, am able to do this sometimes - to awaken and feel the grace and know the truth, but it is the exception, not the rule.

 

“Reality cannot be partly appreciated,” the Course says. Denying any part of it means I have lost awareness of all of it. It’s like a holograph—one piece of the whole contains the whole, just as a drop of seawater contains all that the ocean is. Yet on the other hand, like the holograph, recognizing part of it means I am aware of all of it.

 

So it is that when I deny my own reality as spirit, I am denying yours and when I deny your reality as spirit—condemn, judge, fear and hate you—see you with ego—I am doing the same to myself. I need to see you as a spiritual being in order to see myself as a spiritual being. The blessing I withhold from you, is the blessing I need and withhold from myself.

 

There is no way for me to have the blessing, except by giving it to you – or the Republicans, or the so-called militants, or the bankers, or the Wall Street criminals. When these people act insanely believing that events in the ego nightmare are real, they are offering me an opportunity to see that I have denied my own reality, and their need for blessing is my own.

 

My ego says: ‘No way! I’m not a Wall Street criminal nor a T Party radical!’ And that’s true from the ego perspective. But that is a limited perspective, one that denies the greater holographic reality we all share. It is not the truth and not the whole story. “Reality cannot be partly appreciated.” This is the law of life and has no exceptions. What I deny either in myself or you, I lack, not because it is lacing in truth, but because I have denied it and am therefore not aware of it.

 

Every response I make is determined by what I, and you too, think we are. And what I want to be is what I think I am. So, what I want to be – either ego or spirit – determines every response I make. I have but to look to my experience to know what I want to be. Hate, fear, judgment, guilt, and doubt are of the ego. Love, trust, appreciation, cooperation and innovation are of spirit.