VII. Looking Within, P 6
6 I am the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and when you see me it will be because you have invited Him. For He will send you His witnesses if you will but look upon them. Remember always that you see what you seek, for what you seek you will find. The ego finds what it seeks, and only that. It does not find love, for that is not what it is seeking. Yet seeking and finding are the same, and if you seek for two goals you will find them, but you will recognize neither. You will think they are the same because you want both of them. The mind always strives for integration, and if it is split and wants to keep the split, it will still believe it has one goal by making it seem to be one.
Journal
No wonder we live in such confusion. This paragraph made me think of the ever elusive “love.” Through our real mind we seek for love. Through our ego mind we do not want love. So we seek and do not find. Of course. What else could happen? We seek love and find neediness. We tell ourselves that we were seeking love and so neediness must be love. Our love songs sing praises to it. “I need you so much. I can’t live without you.” Not really songs of love, but songs of ego. Only our minds can’t tell the difference because we have tried to integrate opposite goals.
When we are ready for the truth, we begin the search for love in the only place we will find it; we look within. We are the love we seek and until we recognize this, we will fail to find love. Once we recognize that love has found us, and there is no other place to look, we will see love everywhere. We will be in love with everyone and all things. There will be no place where love is not. This is true because our mind is no longer split. We have one goal and so we seek one thing and what we seek we will find.
I can talk about this because I have had glimpses of it, not enough to discuss it further, but just enough to know this is true. Now I spend all my time recognizing goals that are not love and changing my mind about my desire for them. For instance, I think that I need my daughter to spend time with me. I think I need my son to be something different. I think I need my friend to agree with me. Then I will feel loved.
Ha ha ha. This is not love no matter how the ego argues for it. I watch for that kind of confusion in my mind, and I give it to the Holy Spirit to correct. This is how my mind is healed and my vision made singular. One goal assures success. It is in this way, I will soon reach such clarity about what I want that I will ask for only the one thing. I will no longer obscure the love that is waiting for me to acknowledge it.
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