A New Way to See

Listening

These are some thoughts that have come to mind recently.

WB Lesson 250:  Let me not see myself as limited. 

Holy Spirit, I’m listening.
Let me not cherish my illusions; the images I have made do not give happiness. I choose to let them go. I empty my mind of all I thought I was; I choose peace and joy instead of fear and pain. My mind is part of God’s, I am very holy.

WB Lesson 251:  I am in need of nothing but the truth.

All that I sought before was to support a foolish dream. It is a dream I want no more. I give my mind to God today. I want the simple truth, not the lies I made to deceive myself.

The unreal has never happened. I remain as Love created me. I am not a body. I am free. I am still as Love created me. Only truth is true. Only Love is real. There is nothing outside of Love.
Love is All that Is.

  WB Lesson 254:  Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

If I want the truth then I cannot listen to the other voices in my mind. I really want to hear only God’s Voice. In all the raucous noise of the dream world, I can still hear God’s Voice. If I want to be happy this is the one Voice I will give value to, only It is certain.  (WB Lesson 106—Let me be still and listen to the truth.)
I will my mind be still and listen to the truth. “And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him.” WB Lesson 254.

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Complicated Game

I had a dream recently that appeared to highlight all the egoic operating methods.

I was taken into an organization (tightly maintained) not wholly willing. But thought if I did not “play along” I would be eliminated (as they did not want their ulterior motive to be revealed). As a “newbie” you had to progress through the “levels” by completing various tasks. It was a complicated game, each level with more challenges or difficulty. If you needed help, you were allowed to seek help, but you had to ask the “correct” person, not someone too high up. Also the rules changed as you progressed, without advance notice.

To me, this symbolizes the ego system. It uses “tricks” to keep you submissive and to keep you occupied with meaningless pursuits.

Spirit: Dear one, you indeed made up the game. But it is not necessary that you continue playing it. It is not a failure if you cease playing—for it has no true meaning or value. If you give the playing/motivation to H.S., then it may be used for waking and not for denial.

Giving the game to Spirit will direct you away from confusion, contrary thoughts and empty pursuits. For there is nothing in the game or at its end that is worthy as a gift to God’s Son. You are beginning to accept that you do not want anything the game offers you.

Your simple, uncomplicated purpose is to let go of the false, which enables you to remember what and who you are in truth. You always have Help to do his, never think you could be alone.
I am here, with you always.

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Defend or Attack

I recently gave myself another opportunity to learn, and forgive.
These thoughts came to me.

The ego mind wants to defend itself against perceived attack. My partner is angered ‘cause I sent away the old chair that he used. My perception was: it was dirty, stained, upholstery worn thru. I questioned myself: Why should it be so important to me to have “nice” looking furniture?  The replacement for the old chair is not working out for him, it’s too low, and he can’t get the adjustment screws to hold tight. My misperceptions have made this up.

A brother’s perception is only my own. His “attack” is only a call for Love, help and healing. Which is my call for help and healing. Let me remember we are one Self; his pain reflects my belief in guilt. When I think that I am guilty I see that idea reflected back to me in my world. I will find my mistaken perception everywhere for the ego demands obedience, it demands to be “right” without question.

I was aware that the ego was trying to get me to defend, and each time I would hear its objections, I would say to myself—No, I won’t attack/defend. I am only seeing my own fears being reflected back to me. I am doing this.

I then used the Ho’oponopono prayer: “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.”

About an hour later, my partner came to me, gave me a kiss. I felt that I had forgiven my self.

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It’s All a Dream

It’s all a dream (this life) so what does it matter?

It “matters” only to show me what is in my mind. For the ego system sorely tells me that all is outside me and can therefore affect me. It does not condone the thought that ideas leave not their source. It wants me to defend against the cruel, uncaring world, thus ensuring that I do not escape from guilt and insanity.

Yet I am learning to listen to another Teacher Who knows the truth and would teach me all that He knows. In the idea of separation there is pain and guilt, which gets projected outward making up the world the body’s eyes “see.” With my willingness, my holy Teacher shows me the truth beyond the images the sick mind has made up. He teaches me how to let go of the false and receive what has been given me and was never lost or stolen. With willingness to lay aside my past choices I am led the way of Love.

My wholeness remains intact, unblemished, shining in the Light of Love. My holiness is shining in me now.

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Folly of Pretense

I just finished re-reading “Her Fearful Symmetry.” To me, it’s about the folly of thinking you know what you want. Or what makes you happy.

I guess there’s that part of my mind that doesn’t want to give up the idea that it can know and decide what it wants. It wants to keep “trying” till it finds that happy thing. It searches for what it is and has already in reality.

The folly of pretending to be something you’re not. I’m pretending to separate from my source, so I made up a world and a body that I could hide in, for attacking my Creator (Father). A definition of folly: •lack of good sense; foolishness; • a foolish act, idea, or practice. When I am foolish, it does not make me sinful, only in need of assistance or correction. But I need to ask for help!
Salvation lies in the fact that all my pretending has not changed me or Love one iota.

“Why do I insist on hating my self and punishing myself?”

“You are merely asked to take small steps to ask for Help more increasingly so that true emotional healing can begin.”

“First, realize that if you are ill you have somehow asked for its form to help you return to Love. The dark emotions you are repressing are what make you physically ill.”

“It [the body] is your idea of some form of replacement for love. It cannot last, for it is not love, but a shabby deception to keep you from the real experience of Love God has always kept for you.”

Quotations from “The Book On .... and Jesus Answers” by Joel Wright,©2009.

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Dreaming a Little Dream

I had a dream recently that repeated itself, similar to “Groundhog Day.” Sometimes the characters played different roles. When I realized the story was repeating, I chose to be observant, stepping back from the role I was in. I then found I could place myself where I wanted to be before the sequence began again. that way I did not have to be in the role of victim or of condemner. Most times I was self concerned with my comfort, other times I just wanted to to be the observer and not play an active part. Towards the end I was compassionate of the other “actors” for most of them knew they were playing a role but had no idea of how to stop playing.

My impression is, that I chose this role (in this life) that I am playing. It is a repetition so that I can choose differently this time.  ”Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth.”  T-31.VIII.3,1-3

I can stop playing the role of victim. I can be compassionate and gentle. I can give up the judging, which only keeps the illusions in place. I can love myself instead of attacking myself. That is what this “school house” is for.

Dear lord, help me to remember my only purpose here. My true desire is to wake from the dream I made; to accept the Love I am and everyone is. I surrender my thoughts of separation and accept wholeness instead. Thank You very much. Amen.

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WB Lesson 229

WB Lesson 229
Love, which created me, is what I am.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen.

Only the thought that something could be different from what it was has given me insanity. Mind is one, it cannot be split but seems to be divided because it hears 2 voices. One Voice speaks for Love, Unity and wholeness, the other has no meaning and speaks for nothing. It is not real.

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