Consciously Choose To Surrender To God's Will

 “The enormous breakthrough is that when you honor and accept the divine image within yourself, you cannot help but see it in everybody else, too, and you know that it is just as undeserved and unmerited as it is in you. That is why you stop judging, and that is how you start loving unconditionally and without asking whether someone is worthy or not. The breakthrough occurs at once, although the realization deepens and takes on greater conviction over time.”

Peace Pilgrim

From 1953 to 1981 a silver haired woman calling herself only "Peace Pilgrim" walked more than 25,000 miles on a personal pilgrimage for peace. She vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food." In the course of her 28 year pilgrimage she touched the hearts, minds, and lives of thousands of individuals all across North America. Her message was both simple and profound. It continues to inspire people all over the world.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good,

falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

FOUR PREPARATIONS
1. Assume right attitude toward life
2. Live good beliefs.
3. Find your place in the Life Pattern.
4. Simplify life to bring inner and outer well-being into harmony.

FOUR PURIFICATIONS
1. Purification of the bodily temple.
2. Purification of the thoughts.
3. Purification of the desires.
4. Purification of motives.

FOUR RELINQUISHMENTS
1. Relinquishment of self-will.
2. Relinquishment of the feeling of separateness.
3. Relinquishment of attachments.
4. Relinquishment of all negative feelings.

"Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!"
~Peace Pilgrim ~Quote of the Month for May 2000

There is a simple test by which you can tell a true teacher from a false one.

In “Core Transformation” it mentions “A good beginning in becoming more accepting is always acknowledging what is, rather than trying to be something we're not”.

Or as Byron Katie says: “The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.”

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation." : Jiddu Krishnamurti

Perhaps Okness is simply I AMness.
Accepting what is.
Knowing what is.
Being simply what is.

As Richard Rohr writes in “The Naked Now”:
“The enormous breakthrough is that when you honor and accept the divine image within yourself, you cannot help but see it in everybody else, too, and you know that it is just as undeserved and unmerited as it is in you. That is why you stop judging, and that is how you start loving unconditionally and without asking whether someone is worthy or not. The breakthrough occurs at once, although the realization deepens and takes on greater conviction over time.”

Teachers

Of her Charles Fillmore wrote: "She is undoubtedly the most successful teacher in the world. In many instances those who enter her classes confirmed invalids come out at the end of the course perfectly well. Her very presence heals and those who listen are filled with new life. Never before on this planet have such words of burning Truth been so eloquently spoken through a women."

Called the "Teacher of Teachers" Emma Curtis Hopkins(1853-1925), the author of "High Mysticism" and "Scientific Christian Mental Practice" was a student of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science, who started her own school , the Emma Hopkins College of Metaphysical Science in 1889.
"When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life."
I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me
In these last few days I've been afraid that I might drift away

Genevieve Behrend (1881 - 1960) in "Your Invisible Power" quotes from a letter of Thomas Troward (1847- 1916), the master of "Mental Science." to her regarding her inquiries to become his (only) student:
“I have studied the subject now for several years, and have a general acquaintance with the leading features of most of the systems which, unfortunately, occupy attention in many circles at the present time, such as Theosophy, The Tarot, The Kabala, and the like, and I have no hesitation in saying that, to the best of my judgment, all sorts and descriptions of so-called occult study are in direct opposition to the real life-giving Truth, and therefore, you must not expect any teaching on such lines as these.

We hear a great deal these days about initiation; but, believe me, the more you try to become a so-called “Initiate” the further you will put yourself from living life.

I speak after many years of careful study and consideration when I say that the Bible and its Revelation of Christ is the one thing really worth studying, and that is a subject large enough in all conscience, embracing, as it does, our outward life and of everyday concerns, and also the inner springs of our life and all that we can in general terms conceive of the life in the unseen after putting off the body at death.
You have expressed a very great degree of confidence in my teaching, and if your confidence is such that you wish, as you say, to put yourself entirely under my guidance, I can only accept it as a very serious responsibility, and should have to ask you to exhibit that confidence by refusing to look into such so-called “Mysteries” as I would forbid you to look into. I am speaking from experience; but the result will be that much of my teaching will appear to be very simple, perhaps to some extent dogmatic, and you will say you have heard much of it before.

Faith in God, Prayer and Worship, approach to the Father through Christ—all this is in a certain sense familiar to you; and all I can hope to do is perhaps to throw a little more light on these subjects, that they may become to you, not merely traditional words, but present living facts.”

After her studies with Troward, Behrend established school's in New York and later Los Angeles before touring other major cities throughout North America for the next 35 years as a celebrated lecturer, teacher, and practitioner of "Mental Science". Millions heard and enjoyed her, not only on the public platform but over the radio. Her students numbered tens of thousands all over the English-speaking world.

In “Your Invisible Power”she writes:

In prayer for a change in condition, physical, mental, or financial, for yourself or another, bear in mind that the fundamental necessity for the answer to prayer is the understanding of the scientific statement:
“Ask, believing you have already received,
And you shall receive”
So I've been telling old stories, singing songs that make me think about where I came from
And that's the reason why I seem so far away today
In “Prosperity”, 1931, Charles Fillmore wrote:
“Old thoughts must be denied and the mind cleansed in preparation before the affirmative Christ consciousness can come in. …
That is the state of consciousness that Jesus had, the Christ consciousness.”
I have moved and kept on moving proved the points that I needed proving
Lost the friends that I needed losing found others on the way
As Richard Rohr writes in “The Naked Now”:
“The enormous breakthrough is that when you honor and accept the divine image within yourself, you cannot help but see it in everybody else, too, and you know that it is just as undeserved and unmerited as it is in you. That is why you stop judging, and that is how you start loving unconditionally and without asking whether someone is worthy or not. The breakthrough occurs at once, although the realization deepens and takes on greater conviction over time.”
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”: Ghandi
I have tried and I've kept on trying stolen dreams, yes there's no denying
I have travelled hard, sometimes with conscience flying somewhere in the wind

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation." : Jiddu Krishnamurti
But I'm steady thinking, my way is clear and I know what I will do tomorrow
When the hands have shaken and the kisses flow Oh I will disappear
As A Course in Miracles says in the INTRODUCTION
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.Herein lies the peace of GOD.
Lyrics from “Caledonia” by Dougie MacLean.
“The ancient Celts saw a direct link between the fertility of the land and the wisdom and spiritual health of their kingdoms”. : Celtic Tides CD