X. The Equality of Miracles, P 10
10 It is impossible to remember God in secret and alone. For remembering Him means you are not alone, and are willing to remember it. Take no thought for yourself, for no thought you hold is for yourself. If you would remember your Father, let the Holy Spirit order your thoughts and give only the answer with which He answers you. Everyone seeks for love as you do, but knows it not unless he joins with you in seeking it. If you undertake the search together, you bring with you a light so powerful that what you see is given meaning. The lonely journey fails because it has excluded what it would find.
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And so once again, Jesus is telling us that our brother is essential to our salvation. We are not alone and acting like we are is what keeps the separation going. We all act like we are alone, if not all the time, then some of the time, and in some ways. Some people choose to keep their body separate from other bodies and that is one way of being alone.
Someone else keeps her thoughts away from others, and that is another way of being alone. Some people pick and choose who they will share their time with, or how much they will share, and that, too, is being alone. And perhaps the loneliest of all is searching for God apart from our brothers, a hopeless task because He is not to be found alone. Being alone is separation, and separation is suffering.
We cannot know ourselves until we join fully and completely. We cannot know God until we do this. I practice this by noticing my tendencies to separate, and to become willing to see this differently. I notice the thoughts that make me feel separate and alone, the thoughts that make me feel different than the other. Once noticed, I become willing to see this differently, too. I remind myself that I am only dreaming of separation because I cannot be separate. I was created whole and that can’t be changed. No matter how deeply I have fallen into my sleep and no matter how strange and convoluted my dreams, reality remains unaffected. I am not alone; I am whole.
I want to wake up. I want to remember God. I want to remember what I am, not just learn about what I am, but to feel it, to know it. There are still times that my thoughts are disordered and I have no means of communicating anything real. So I ask the Holy Spirit to order my thoughts and I communicate only what He gives me, which is always some form of love. And love is whole. So when I do this, I begin to experience wholeness and my memory is awakened.
Dear God, may I always communicate love and may I always allow the Holy Spirit to show me what love looks like in each situation. May each person and each situation be as one to me. May my mind be illuminated with the Light that is God, and may I shine that Light into my brother’s mind and thus join with him on the deepest level. God, please wake me up and help me wake up all of us so that we remember we are one with you.
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