The body-image you see in the mirror is an idea in the Mind you are, but “it” is not you. If one is of a split mind, thinking they are a separate being from God, then they would consider their body to be something which they are living “in” and “out of,” and would consider it to be aging. Once one apprehends with clarity and certainty his True Self as the Only Mind and Perfect State-of-Being, the body image is viewed differently. The body is now understood to be an “image” – an illusion, a hologram. All “things” are formed in Mind. All “things,” including “bodies,” are the embodiment of ideas of Mind, formed in Light and sustained by Light. All “things”- “ideas” - are what is otherwise referred to as Creation. Creation is finished, in that all ideas that ever were and ever will be, are simply “here now” awaiting their issuing forth. There is Only the One Perfect body-world, or embodiment of ideas - referred to as the world. . . .
Realize that there is no 24 hour day, no 7 day week, no 12 months, and certainly no “years.” This is “eternal” Life we are speaking of. Spirit is All and Spirit is the Conscious Awareness behind, beyond and above the scene - or the “seen,” so to speak. Conscious Awareness is what I AM, my one and only True State of Being, and IT –being What I AM - is never subject to the images cast on the screen of life. Once I realize this, recalling my True Self, living now Consciously Aware, no longer “trying to be somebody, build a reputation, hoping to get recognized,” I no longer expect the picture on the mirror to reflect “age.” It takes what seems like some “time” to realize what is being said here, but once it is realized, then the picture on the morning mirror begins to change somewhat, and it certainly loses its importance. . . .
When once you realize that you are not the man/woman/image in the mirror, then you will see your SELF, and you will see your Self face to face, as you are, and always eternally have been. You will see that though the one in the mirror appears to change, to age, it has nothing to do with YOU, with “I”, with Self, and thus, just as the dream last night fades in the morning light, so does your “self-image!” You will know your Self as you are Known and this knowing changes the picture. You know that you cannot change, age or die. You remain ever the same, regardless the appearances. But the truly wonderful thing is, things do change for you in knowing this. You no longer get sick, have the pains and miseries of those who seem to be complaining around you. You no longer need medications, doctors, insurance, or burial plans, for Truth makes you free of the image world. You still seem to be part of it, but you are no longer fooled by what you see and hear, you KNOW you are not “of” it. You feel lighter than air at times. Unweighted by the world of belief, you seem to soar above it all, watching from the pinnacle as the world sorts itself out beneath you. You take flight in your thoughts and at the end of “the day,” think of it all as a dream. You collect neither memories nor time, neither do you hold on to anything, for all that you see, hear, taste, smell and touch has any significance only in the moment, and eternally is neither here nor there, rather all that appears to be simply “is what it is” momentarily, a passing “thought.” . . .
We cannot change the pictures before us, for they are simply that, pictures, being cast on the screen called “life.” But these “pictures” are seen for what they are: light images, holographic forms - when once you discover your True I-dentity. There is nothing wrong with them. It is simply the perspective from which one views the body/world, creation, which can seem to produce a distorted picture. If your perspective if heavenly, spiritual, wonderful - then your body/world/creation, will be heavenly, spiritual and wonderful! In this Light the image, body, world, creation, takes on a whole new meaning. When Only Perfection is accepted and seen, the outflow of the Mind is a reflection of Perfection. The Truth projected onto the screen reveals a new heaven and a new earth. Then, and only then - which is NOW, the body, shape, form is changed and What is seen in the mirror of Life, is beautiful, whole, perfect, no longer a distorted image, because the Truth can only shine forth the Pictures called Heaven.
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Realize: I AM PERFECT NOW. You have never been im-perfect. You cannot be otherwise than you ever-eternally are. You are not the reflection in the mirror carrying the false ID. You are not the distorted image you see in the mirror. YOU are the Perfect I that sees all, knows all, is All in all. You are the I that is above all and all is in the I, the Mind, that you Truly are. Creation lies in you, and is made visible in the moment you “need, wish, recognize or desire.” You can “do” nothing to “get” it or any “thing.” You simply have to “be” and Life will simply continue (eternally) to “happen” about you, in you, through you, as you rest in the Blessed Assurance of Infinity, as Eternal Life. All of creation is yours, IF you do nothing to try to obtain anything, if you rest from all effort to have, make, improve, or do. You will simply know, intuitively, when something is coming into the visible, for it will come to you as a wish, need, or desire. It would otherwise be your prayer. And as it comes you will walk through – without taking thought – all that “helps” to make it so. But you cannot set your hand to it, or you will prolong the coming forth! You will hinder it, because you will be operating on man’s level, the level of thought taking, where nothing ever actually happens!
When you leave all, give all and forsake all: leaving effort behind, giving up all reasoning, logic, means, methods and formulas, and forsake all attempts to make anything happen, and simply BE, Life becomes a grand Revelation, with you at center stage watching it all happen about you, in you and through you, and actually all because of you! You will simply “know” when to turn to the left and when to turn to the right, when to be still and when to move, when to speak and when to be silent - you will know that your words are not your own as a personality, for there is no such, rather they are Living Words, Words of Spirit and Life. You will know that “of your own self” you can do nothing, but with and in Consciousness, God, you can do all things. And you will lack for nothing. The way is made straight before you. You simply stand still and see Life as you BE LIFE.
Truly, it is wonderful! And the wonder of it all is that IT is ALL IN YOU!!!
Excerpts from Creation by Jane Woodward
Full Text http://sigler.org/woodward/creation.htm
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