How does the mystic see humanity? In an entirely
different way from ordinary men and women. It is profitable for us also to see
people from a mystical viewpoint. It provides power.
The enlightened mystic sees human
beings as little children. The children are sometimes nice and sometimes not so nice.
If they behave badly, he knows it is because they
have not as yet made contact with their spiritual being within.
He sees them
as secret sufferers, for that is always the condition of little children in
spiritual darkness. He has great compassion toward them,
knowing the price they must continue to pay until they use their very suffering
as a liberating teacher. He is like a father who hears his
child call out in distress when they are separated in a crowd. While knowing that the distress is genuine, he also knows that the
child need only look in the right direction to make everything all right.
'You are loved,'
the mystic never
ceases to proclaim,
'far more than you think.'
Vernon Linwood
Howard
Let Divine wisdom now be
shown by the righteousness with which I speak and act.” Emma
Curtis Hopkins
"The supreme
answer is within you, just as the melody is somewhere within the piano."
Vernon Linwood Howard
Say to the Holy Spirit
only, "Decide for me," and it is done. For his decisions are
reflections of what God knows about you, and in this light, error of any kind
becomes impossible.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fourteen - Teaching
for Truth - The Decision for Guiltlessness
A great way to understand your own behavior better....the
compulsive behavior especially....is to invite it in for tea. Have a
conversation with it. You might be surprised at the wisdom it has to offer,
that you aren't hearing. An exercise to try, to get to know this inner part of
you that wants so badly to find expression through something other than eating
(, or drink, or smoke, or do that addictive behavior....)or being
self-destructive. An exercise to study what's going on more clearly, and slow
it waaaaay down, when the urge to do something compulsively comes in. Welcome the
Compulsive One in so you can talk with him/her and find out what it really
wants to tell you.
"Do not allow yourself to suffer from imagined results of what is not
true. Free your mind from the belief that
this is possible. In its complete
impossibility lies your only hope for release. But what other hope would you want? Freedom from illusions lies only in not believing them. There is no attack, but there is unlimited
communication and therefore unlimited power and wholeness. The power of wholeness is extension. Do not arrest your thought in this world, and you
will open your mind to creation in God." ACIM
Ch.8.VII.16
It
is important to remember that it is not up to you to solve your problem, no
matter how big or complicated it seems to be. Whenever your peace is disturbed, for any reason, you can
turn inward to your Teacher of Peace, and say: I do not know what
anything is for, and so I ask the One Who Knows to respond for me. I am looking
at the effects of my past thoughts and beliefs, and nothing more. I will not
use what I see or feel to validate what is not true. The body cannot be sick. I
want the truth instead of this. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for responding for me
and for accomplishing the healing on my behalf.
Guy Finley: No one finds the true
upper way without grace and true guidance.
And yet, on the other hand, seemingly in direct opposition, we have this
beautiful fact of life... [Doing Your Part
in the Divine Plan]
Even though…
I feel frustrated… because
I have so many challenges… that I never thought I’d have.
I am overwhelmed by my circumstances… because there is so much beyond my
control.
I feel restricted… and I can’t enjoy life the way I want to ... or the way I
would like to…
o
I am willing… to see myself… my life… my body… and my whole
situation differently.
o
I am willing… to forgive myself… for all past mistakes and
failures… I am not my past.
o
I am willing… to love myself… and know that I am doing the
best that I can.
o
I am determined… to see healing as possible… because with
God… all things are possible.
o
I am not a body… I am free… I am as God created me… I am
infinite Spirit… Purity & Love.
o
I release the past… along with every judgment or decision
against myself… or anyone else.
o
I ask God… to heal any part of my mind… where I accepted
illness or aging as real.
o
I am not a body… I am not bound to the process of aging… I
am under no laws but God’s.
o
I am as God created me… whole, complete, loved…&
deserving of a happy, comfortable life.
o
I thank God for miracles… to replace all of my worries…
concerns… and fears.
o
I am entitled to happiness… I am the Light of God… Nothing
can take this from me.
o
I am willing to have my thoughts healed… and my mind and
body restored to peace.
o
I am as God created me… I am under no laws but God’s…
Happiness is His Will for me.
Robin Duncan
Money is constantly striving to get you, to give
of itself. But you put up a barrier by worrying about it. And money
asks,
"Why
do you worry about me?
You treat me like a
lost little kid, but I’m just fine. Quit being anxious. Open your arms and receive me. Come
on, let’s dance
together." John Randolph Price
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