More be ye perfect

A corollary to, “Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect,” is – “and experience everyone and everything else as perfect, too.” Perhaps not at first, no usually and normally not at first. At first I experience with the ego. I instantly subconsciously assess the threat/benefit level and go from there. But the ego speaks first and is always wrong. So, I’m training myself to hear it then pause, take a deep breath, go within and first seeking the kingdom both within and without, go from there. I’m seeking to experience everything that happens, no matter how it seems to the ego at first, as a gift, moving me to Self actualization.

 

Neither spirit’s light nor mine is dimmed because I don’t see it – the sun is still shining somewhere even when its night. Everyone and everything are children of light, even snakes, spiders and Republicans. Each person, experience or thing I recognize as a being of light adds to my own awareness of light. Wholeness is indivisible, so I can’t learn of my own wholeness until I see it everywhere. What I offer, is what I receive. It’s a paradox. I won’t experience it if I don’t believe it first. How can I experience something, I don’t believe is there, or possible or real? But neither spirit’s light nor mine is dimmed because I don’t see it. Spirit is there, always – always giving, blessing, creating and loving. If I’m not experiencing It this way, it’s not because spirit limited its giving but because I have limited my receiving.

"Be ye perfect...."

“Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect.”

 

I used to think of this as a curse. C’mon! Give me a break! I can’t be perfect. That’ll never happen. What’s the point? When I didn’t think of it as a curse, I thought of it as a ‘nice’ idea, but not practical, as an ideal like Don Quixote’s impossible dream. So I became anti-perfect. Good enough was good enough. People who strived for perfection were brown nosers and losers. I didn’t mind being a ‘good boy’, but I didn’t see that as the purpose of my life.

 

But gradually, oh so gradually, I began to experience ‘perfection’ differently; not as an external thing, not as pleasing anybody or meeting anybody’s expectations or standards of perfection, not as a goal, something external to me that I had to strive for and to try to be, not as filling a hole in my soul, correcting some mistake or lack, but as something I already am. Wow! You mean I’m already ‘perfect’? There’s nothing to strive for, nothing external no goal that once achieved will make me feel whole and complete? Right! Remember the, ‘is that all there is?’ experience….  What a buzz! What a high, what a sense of OKness comes from not having to chase after perfection. Perhaps you’ve felt it but if you haven’t, try it now. Take a deep breath and relax into it. Wow, how good, how cool, how divine!

 

You and I are perfect because we are spiritual beings first and spirit is perfect. I’m perfect now, right now. Not when I die and go to heaven. Not when all my books are published and I’m a best selling author. Now. God, what a relief! No more stress, struggling and striving, pushing and shoving! Yipee! The challenge is to allow the perfection that I am, and you are, to flow; to get our bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits.

 

“Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect,” is an invitation to do that. It’s not a curse, it’s an enticement, a delicious invitation to be yourSelf, to allow your unique talents, ideas and skill to flow, unimpeded by fear, doubt and trepidation. Its an invitation to seek the kingdom first and allow all else to be added. It’s advise about how to use the spiritual technology available to you right now.

 

“Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect,” and use yourSelf to make a unique contribution to a world that works for everyone and everything in it.

No More Anxiety

 

Too often I’m uncomfortable, afraid and anxious; sometimes for good reason, often for no reason at all. I don’t enjoy these feelings and want to feel differently. Do you feel that way, too?

 

I know if I can simply accept reality – my reality as spirit and awaken from the ego’s nightmare to the happy dream of my oneness with spirit and all that is, I won’t feel this way. The ego always speaks first and is wrong. I’m never upset for the reason I think. The seeming external ‘problems’ are not the problem. The problem is denying reality. The remedy, the simple acceptance of reality. My ego’s attempts to deny what is – my reality as spirit, must be fearful. Willing against reality scares and threatens the ego. When I distort reality I will experience anxiety, depression and ultimately panic because I am trying to make mySelf unreal.

 

Reality cannot threaten anything except illusions of mySelf. Reality--MySelf, is the love and wholeness I share with God, you and all that is. What seems to be the fear of God then, is really the fear of my own reality.

 

Of myself, I do not know who I am. But mySelf does know. It has left a part of itSelf in my mind. By allowing that part to guide me, I am able to realize that the ego always speaks first and is always wrong, that I’m never upset for the reason I think and to feel better by simply accepting mySelf and letting myself slip away.

 

Myself has imprisoned my will to will with spirit – to be anxiety-free and accept my reality, beyond my awareness. The guide within seeks to restore my awareness of my will to will with spirit. This guide will never ask me to sacrifice anything but illusions. If I feel like I’m sacrificing, then I’m not with the guide, but with ego. The guide always brings peace, joy, harmony and creativity. The guide shows me, and you, that we cannot be safe from the truth of ourSelves, but only in the truth of ourSelves.

The Still Small Voice

Spirit’s voice—the still small voice, is as loud as my willingness to listen. I hear it, each time I am able to lay the ego aside; and laying the ego aside, spirit’s voice is all that remains. I know that the ego is an illusion, an error a mistaken use of mind, that it dictates endless prescriptions for avoiding catastrophic outcomes. While spirit, perfectly aware of the same situation, does not bother to analyze it at all. Spirit knows the seeming situation is an error, a mistaken use of mind and reminds me that any way I handle error results in nothing; that there is only one error and one choice, to go within and chose again. Spirit reminds me that the more complicated the situation seems to become, the harder it is to recognize its nothingness.

Healing

Healing is the result of allowing the mind to use the body solely for communication. This is natural and is mind’s function - it heals by making whole. Allowing mind to be limited or arrested by the body, is to mistake cause and effect. A mind that has allowed itself to be blocked in its purpose of communication and extension, has allowed itself to be vulnerable to attack, because it has turned against itself.

 

The removal of blocks, then, is the only way to guarantee help and healing. Perceiving the body as a separate entity cannot but foster illness, because it is not true. The body is meant to be used as a medium of communication and loses its usefulness if it is used for anything else. To communicate is to join. Allowing my body and mind to attack is to separate. To conceive the body as a means of attack and to believe that joy—which is joining and communion, could possibly result, is a mistake.

 

Joy is unified purpose—one single purpose, one God, one family, everyone and everything all children of the one Source. Of course the ego goes nuts at this idea. Just look around you, it says, how can you say that? But what the ego shows me are illusions and the only freedom from illusions is breathing into them, going within--to mind, giving them over and not taking them so seriously.

Thru, Not In

Mind, which is who and what I am as a spiritual being, transcends the body. Mind works through the body but not in it. Mind cannot be made physical, but it can be made manifest through the physical. So the New Testament idea that ‘the word (or thought) was made flesh’ is a mistake.

 

If the mind believes the body is its goal, it will distort its perception of the body, block its own extension beyond it to communicate with itself in other seemingly separated bodies, which is its function and natural tendency, and induce illness by fostering separation.

 

The purpose of learning is to lead beyond the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind in and thru it. This can be accomplished only if the mind extends to other minds and does not arrest itself in its extension. Allowing the mind to use the body only for its extension through communication, becomes a beautiful lesson in communion, which has value until communion is. This is spirit’s way of making unlimited what I have made limited.

 

In the body of another, I can see the use to which I have put mine. Seeing others as only bodies, belittles them and me. Spirit interprets the body only as a means of communication, a link between Itself, Its children and Its children with one another, enabling each seemingly separate part of It to join with every other seemingly separated part of it to make contributions to a world that works for everyone and everything in it.

Experienced, Not Explained

The truth of our reality as spiritual beings having earthly experiences can only be experienced. It cannot be described and in cannot be explained, even tho I keep trying to do that in these blogs and elsewhere. The ego’s world, even with the best of everything—health, wealth and happiness can add nothing to who we really are already – without further effort - children of God. But the ego’s world can blind us to spirit when we identify with it.

 

It is not possible to identify with the ego world and know our reality. Only one is true. Our experience of our reality as spirit--grace, unconditional love, deep calm, certainty and knowingness saves us, not from ourSelves but from our illusions of ourSelves. Our joy in the ego’s world, even with the best of everything—health, wealth and happiness is fleeting, leaving us with an ‘is that all there is?’ feeling, because nothing but the realization of our reality is worthy of us.

 

This is not to suggest we renounce life and go live in a monetary. We believe we are here in the ego’s world and will go on seeking the best of it for ourselves and everyone and everything else. But it is to suggest that we seek our truth and reality first, understanding that the whole power of ourSelves lies in all of us and not in anyone of us alone. Our function as spiritual beings first, is to work together, because apart from each other we cannot function at all.

 

Just as the truth of our reality as spiritual beings having earthly experiences can only be experienced, not described nor explained, so our reality as one child of one father/mother must be experienced to be known. We’ve all had a taste of this in group activities and teams when somehow, miraculously, it all comes together and we accomplish something grand, something none of us could have accomplished alone.