...In this way, [deep, subconscious knowing] we know we are using the power. Through prayer and meditation, we come to that last layer, and strip it away. After all, we are children of God. Simplicity has given rise to sight, so we now see more clearly. Is this not the answer to our prayer?
To open our eyes for real this time, not as a dream.
To open our true eyes.
People will say it's too simplistic.
People will say many things. But remember, this is just a book. Spirit speaks through us, speaks through all, simple and uncluttered. Every day, let us be still. Read what books inspire, listen to what music lifts the soul, but get still.
We get so caught up in the world. Everything happens at the speed of light. We can send a message from here to Australia in the blink of an eye. No wonder we've become so impatient.
We have convinced ourselves that this world is real. We maintain this delusion because we fear that if we do not, we will surely die. Physical reality crumbles away, even as we form it. As we type these words, a few miles to the west, the Rocky Mountains rise from the earth. But they are falling away, too slowly for the eyes to see. After millions of years, they will be hills. Millions more, a plain. Ego chooses not to see such things.
So deeply turned from home, we're actually suspicious when we hear its call. Anything that pulls our attention from the world is subject to scorn.
Our turning from God is illusion. We are home. Prayer has been placed on a shelf, to be pulled out as a last resort. It is often seen as weakness, but there is great strength in giving up the shouting of ego for the whisper of God. When we pray affirmatively, give thanks for what we do not yet see, what greater strength! How could it be weak to sit in awe, tears of joy falling, hands raised to the dawn?
The dawn. That physical act of the earth turning is a symbol of our awakening...from dark to light.
Let us begin to see beyond symbols, to the simplicity of experience. Let us know the reality of God. Even the most devout have trouble moving past the point of theory, but it is only fear of the unknown.
"Tears of joy". Some fear not only weakness, but a loss of control.
We speak of joyful tears because when we are faced with the reality of God, we face the removal of our perception.
Let's prove it to ourselves. After attending classes, reading books, get inside, and prove there's really something beyond that lump of flesh we call, "Brain".
In this way, we demonstrate our freedom to find ourselves, for there is no possibility of our becoming lost. Now, these are mere words, little marks on a screen, that will find their way onto paper. Some readers will respond favorably, some will not. Those who do, are not more found than those who do not. As part of God, we are perfect. It is ego that tells us otherwise. Perfect life could never create imperfection, for that life itself would be imperfect.
"Perfect" is a human concept.
God did not tell Moses, "I am this or that"; God said, "I am that I am." We approach truth, "dragging" ego with us. God is. This utter simplicity drives ego to distraction. Ego sees the world as complicated. Clearly, God must be even more so. Since it is done as we believe, God will seem to be the same mass of complexities we find in ourselves.
I think of all the words written--metaphysical, fundamentalist, scientific--all searching for meaning. Someone said the only thing to remember is what we know as, The Golden Rule.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow creature. That is the whole law; the rest is commentary." --Rabbi Hillel, first century. (Oxford Companion to the Bible.) Yes, millions of words, written and spoken. This is the search for God, that mysterious "Something" that whispers to each. The Rule is the key to life, the principle that carries over into the every day world. We hold a door open for someone behind us, let another car merge ahead, (or try to save a flower from certain death.)
(Pg. 10-14.)
[I forgot that for the reader to get the pages in the right order, I must put them in "backwards."]
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