Be Here Now

A friend is a gift you give yourself. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you past or future trip often?  The moment you notice you are past or future tripping:

1. Breathe

2. See what is in front of you.

3. Feel the sensations in your body.

4. Say, ‘I’m back!” Josh Pais

“Awareness is awareness itself”

as William Samuel wrote. I AM aware of the chair underneath me. My consciousness is aware of this chair. I can appreciate this chair.

I AM aware of the room I AM in. Is the room aware of me? 

Crisis: A close encounter of the truthful kind.

You are not a mortal being who contains an awareness. You are the Divine Awareness, itself!

Perception is an effect (of a belief), not a cause.

Dimension, being an ego construct, has no inherent meaning in terms of ACIM, as the world is an illusion but this reference helps clarify in terms of the ego: “Eternity is ONE time, its ONLY dimension being "always."”

T-1.I.25:1-2 Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement. Atonement works all the time and in all the dimensions of time.

"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“With your loving all people because God is Love, you will heal, and feed and comfort by your presence.” ECH

Seeing your natural gifts and true desires clearly is a powerful filter that leaves behind what is not important to you and shines the light on the purity of what you are and what you are here to do.

We live in a society where a tremendous amount of information comes at us daily. If we don't know what we are and what we value, we could easily become overwhelmed and exhausted, not knowing which way to turn.

I could choose peace instead of this.

"And when you are desirous to be blessed, I'll blessing beg of you"  Hamlet (III,iv)

The miracle does not awaken you, but merely shows you who the dreamer is. It teaches you there is a choice of dreams while you are still asleep, depending on the purpose of your dreaming. Do you wish for dreams of healing, or for dreams of death? (T-28.II.4:2-4)

You must learn some one thing well.

"A teacher told his pupils, 'A man who really knows the answers has no need for confirmation from others. Give up the false pleasure of having others agree with your pet beliefs.'"- VH

You have but to be a faithful witness, a faithful Awareness, and in fact, you are this already, without effort, because Awareness is God's activity, God's own knowledge of Itself, Reality's Awareness of being what It is. William Samuel

There is nothing around you to make you dissatisfied. It is all your own state of mind, wholly subject to your will. ECH

Whatever You Are Fascinated by -- You Become! – Rev. Ike

You must learn some one thing well. "I abide in Truth." ECH

Where your attention goes, power flows. - Rev. Ike

Think outside the box!

Come up hither and realize that there is only ONE. As I look at you I do not speak to the dress you wear, for I know that at the end of your day, that garment that you are wearing will drop into a hamper and you will be left standing. In just the same way, I do not speak to your outer form-body and assume that that is YOU. At the end of ‘your day’ of thinking you are a human being, in the day of the Lord, you will drop that form-body as your identity and the True You will still be standing, still aware, still conscious, and alive as Life Itself, and you will still be here.

Can a murderer be forgiven - even if they murdered someone?

In 1938, Dr. Emma Smiley was named president of the Victoria Truth Centre and later that year she was ordained as a minister. She was appointed permanent leader of the church in 1940 and for more than 40 years until her passing in 1983, Dr. Smiley became recognized as one of North America’s leading New Thought ministers.

"Eternally the Voice of the Infinite is rapping at the door of our consciousness offering us - what? New Thoughts for old, new dreams, new desires, new understanding, new knowing." Dr. Emma Smiley 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

There is another advantage, - and a very important one, - in referring decisions to the Holy Spirit with increasing frequency. Perhaps you have not thought of this aspect, but its centrality is obvious. To follow the Holy Spirit's guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. Do not, then, think that following the Holy Spirit's guidance is necessary merely because of your own inadequacies. It is the way out of hell for you. To say, "Of myself I can do nothing" is to gain all power. The Holy Spirit knows the truth about you. The image you made does not. To ask the Holy Spirit to decide for you is simply to accept your true inheritance. Teachers Manual

Can you imagine what this means?

The problem?

Reality is WHAT IS (YouTube - Byron Katie Loving What Is *). Take a walk in nature, don’t worry about what’s behind you (past) or what’s in front (future) of you. See the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees.  When you do that everything becomes up close and personal. Then you see things as they are . Not as you are.

That’s part of my 10^th speech at Toastmasters I gave yesterday. I’m now designated as Competent Communicator (CC). 

Awareness (I AMness) is the only power of the universe.

We are God's children, destined to be God himself, and God creates everything he, individualized as you, consents to. Therefore, resolve only to hear what is good concerning yourself and another. If you adopt this attitude, everything that enters your mind will contribute to a noble life and you will discover the joy of feasting on higher states.

Consciousness is the only reality, and where you are conscious of being psychologically, determines the circumstances of your life. The ancients knew this great truth, but our modern teachers have yet to discover it. There is only one substance in the world. Man, seeing a variety of forms, thinks of numberless substances, but what is seen is only a change in the arrangement of the same basic substance -- consciousness.

Authentic Love and Y O U

VH

"If you love Truth you will enjoy your life. You will enjoy your life for the first time because the love of truth is life. What you have now is a muddled blundering, unhappy existence and the reason it is unhappy is because there is no authentic love in it. All there is ‘is you’.
 

A Practical American Spirtuality and Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes.

Alan Anderson passed away in  Nov 2012. See notice in http://www.neweverymoment.com/newsletter.html
Alan and his wife Deb Whitehouse authored "New Thought: A Practical American Spirtuality" and "Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes". Besides their blog they were active proponents of the INTA.

Lectio Divina

In Christianity, Lectio Divina (Latin for divine reading) is a traditional Benedictine practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God's Word. It does not treat Scripture as texts to be studied, but as the Living Word.

Lectio Divina has 4 separate steps: read, meditate, pray and contemplate. First a passage of Scripture is read, then its meaning is reflected upon. This is followed by prayer and contemplation on the Word of God.

For example, given Jesus' statement in John 14:27: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you" in Lectio Divina rather than "dissecting peace", the practitioner "enters peace" and shares in the peace of Christ.

2013: New Dreams, New Goals, New Possibilities.

If you can make the reader believe anything no matter how absurd it is, he will prove it to be true by his experiments. This proves that our beliefs make us act and our acts are directed by our belief, for the wisdom or knowledge is in the belief. People are not aware of this.

Make man responsible for his belief and he will be as cautious what he believes as he is in what he says and does, for he will see that just as he measures out to another just so it will be measured out to him.

If you make a person believe that he is in danger of any trouble he will be affected just according to his belief, so all beliefs are to be analyzed like food or drink to see what it contains and how it acts upon the body, for the belief being in the mind, it shows itself on the body.

THE STORM

A group of friends rented a mountain cabin for a few days. When an unexpected storm kept them indoors, the first few hours were spent in pleasant conversation. But one man suddenly revealed a deep bitterness by complaining of past mistreatment by people. Surprised by his outburst, the others said little.

Next morning, the complainer asked someone who had just stepped out the door, 'Is it still storming?'

'Not out here.'

“_It is the inner storm which needs attention and correction._"

Vernon Howard

“Reality” is what you see and hear now.

Period.

You are the creator not the creation.

I have beliefs, I am not my beliefs.
I have thoughts, I am not my thoughts.
I have feelings, I am not my feelings.
I do things, I am not my actions.
I am the consciousness that creates and then observes my beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Beliefs are the meaning we give (usually) to a series of events. Beliefs are broad generalizations, for example, I am …. People are …. Life is ….

Whatever situation you find yourself in now is the effect and YOUR beliefs were the cause. Quimby would have liked Morty Lefkoe’s work.

As ACIM teaches: You are the DREAMER not the dream. “ As the course also teaches:“I am willing to see _________ differently.” The willingness to change your perception and instead of choosing the ego as your teacher you come more in alignment with the Holy Spirit.

And Morty Lefkoe also says:

There are three ways to “know” something:

1.       First, by understanding it. This is conceptual and involves language and explanation. You can understand that you create your life when someone explains it to you or when you read about it.

2.       Second, by experiencing it. You know you are the creator of your life in a totally different way when you experience it.

3.       Third, by bringing something into existence by creating/distinguishing it. When you distinguish yourself as the creator of your life as distinct from the creation, you know you are the creator of your life in this third way, which cannot even be described.

I create my Beliefs.
My beliefs determine what I do and feel.
Therefore, I create my life and I can change it.

You are not your beliefs,
you are the creator of your beliefs.
You are not your life,
you are the creator of your life.

You must distinguish yourself as the creator instead of the creation you thought you were.

And when you make it real for yourself that who you really are is consciousness,
you will no longer be at the mercy of the effect of the cause, which is whatever has been upsetting you.

Food for thought:

the "New Heaven and New Earth."

We should understand right now that we are Totality; that nothing exists outside of us: there is nothing, therefore, which can or does oppose us. I am Self- Being-Spirit. I am one Infinitude, one Totality, one All-in-all. From this basis, we can see clearly that nothing is to be considered as originating elsewhere than in us.

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When we are not dwelling in the God-state, but turn from it, it may then be said that we represent the "prodigal"; that we "sleep and dream;" that we function as "man."

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Now, then, when you sleep, and in your dream see a world of people, landscape, animals, and so forth, these are, of course, all within you, still you see them as though they were "out there," do you not? In like manner, the very people, animals, land, water, et. cetera, which you behold in your waking state, and have called the "without", are not external at all, for the simple reason that inasmuch as you are conscious of them, they exist in and of you; in fact, nothing that we see is ever external to us for we are the infinite ALL.

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Any one of us may believe or say that 2 plus 2 are 5, but none of us can ever actually see it. From this simple illustration we can understand that incorrect answers to Life and Being may be mentally experienced, but never actually seen: such experience is like any dream. There are no events in a dream; no reality to it. All the time the Self, his world, and his true experience continue on, uninterrupted. The practice of the Self, therefore is its practice of Reality. The Self practices being the perfect Self, being intelligent, perfect Mind; practices living in the perfect world where there is no evil anywhere. In no other way can we practice the living Truth which we are, and function as the Christ consciousness.

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… Indeed, the "new heaven and new earth," which we are destined to see and experience as it really is, is not another dwelling place, but...

Beliefs

Beliefs are the meaning we give (usually) to a series of events. Beliefs are broad generalizations, for example, I am …. People are …. Life is …. A belief is a statement about reality that we feel is the truth, although it is possible to intellectually disagree with something we believe. Once formed, beliefs continue to exist and affect our behavior, feelings and perceptions forever, unless we are able to eliminate the belief. We view life through the filter of our beliefs. The miracle of your mind, rewiring for joy.
There are number of different approaches. Visit the following:

Morty Lefkoe

Gemma Stone

Steve Andreas



You must learn to make a clear distinction between reality and how that reality "occurs" to you, in YOUR mind only. as long as your mind believes that the meaning you give reality IS reality, you will feel negative emotions that logically flow from that view of reality. If you believe something is dangerous, you'll feel fear. If you believe someone did something on purpose to offend you, you'll be angry.
When your mind gets that the way reality occurs to you is not part of reality but something separate from it, you'll find that your “occurring” and the emotions caused by the “occurring” disappear.  Instead you are left with calmness and peace of mind.  
Beliefs are the meaning we give (usually) to a series of events. Beliefs are broad generalizations, for example, I am …. People are …. Life is …. A belief is a statement about reality that we feel is the truth, although it is possible to intellectually disagree with something we believe. Once formed, beliefs continue to exist and affect our behavior, feelings and perceptions forever, unless we are able to eliminate the belief.  We view life through the filter of our beliefs.
If your boss asks you a question and it occurs to you as she doesn’t trust me, she doesn’t like me, or I’m going to get fired. That is the meaning you have given to the boss’s question. In reality all that happened is that she asked you a question. Contrast that occurring—the meaning you gave to that specific event—to beliefs that act as a filter through which we view all events, such as No one trusts me. No one likes me. Nothing I do is good enough. I am inadequate.

So far as Fact is concerned, there is no real value, power, nor importance in any 'thing'. GOD is the Reality. God, Fact, Reality, Truth is the value, power and importance. 'Things' are just what they are—'things', ideas and objects within Awareness—but without power to help or harm.

“If I give God ALL the power and the glory, there is none left for ME, If God is everything, I am NOTHING. This is self-destruction. It eliminates ME” says the little ‘me’, the EGO.

Yes, it eliminates the seeming 'me', the 'me' who suffers all the agonies mankind is heir to, including limitation and lack, sickness and sin, fear, loneliness, old age and death. It gets rid of the 'me' who judges everything Awareness beholds, but (Listen, Listen) it does not get rid of this Awareness that beholds. It does not stop the consciousness of the rose, the mountain, the little boy nor the perception of these words right here. It does not get rid of the Awareness that is being all I am, nor does it get rid of the objects of perception. It only eliminates the 'me' and the distorting lens through which I see darkly.

Awareness is not the servant of anybody or anything. Awareness 'belongs' to the Divine Mind, Infinite Consciousness, Reality, God, just as 'yellow' belongs to gold, just as the numerals belong to arithmetic. You are this very Awareness itself. You are not a mortal being who contains an awareness. You are the Divine Awareness, itself!

Can you imagine what this means? You no longer have any responsibility as a person to see this or experience that! You no longer have to judge anything that you see or hear as Awareness! You have no personal responsibility at all. You have but to be a faithful witness, a faithful Awareness, and not the enslaved Awareness of Bill or John or Mary. In fact, you are this already, without effort, because Awareness is God's activity, God's own knowledge of Itself, Reality's Awareness of being what It is. All there is to Bill or Mary or John is the belief that they are something that can contain, possess, imprison, or make a servant and slave of God's Awareness of being, of God's knowledge of existing. Since the Awareness of Being is God's activity, Awareness cannot be possessed, made a servant, or contained within a body, an object of perception. This eliminates the possibility that something exists that can contain Awareness, even in belief. Does this not put Bill and Mary and John in their proper perspective? They have no power, importance, nor authority of their own at all. GOD, REALITY, TRUTH is being exactly what they are. God's Awareness of being God includes what is called Bill or Mary or John, just as it includes 'beauty' and 'love'. 2+2=Reality By William Samuel