Beloved One

Beloved One How are you faring? Please do not be harsh with yourself. “Spiritual” people are often hard on themselves for not living up to their “spiritual” ideas. What if there is nothing to live up to—especially your own ideas of perfection. What if there is just Being…being in the moment. Learning in the moment. Understanding in the moment. What if you could “forgive” yourself each moment? Where would be the stress, then? The tension? The despair? Wouldn’t it all disappear? Let yourself be. Just be. Leave yourself alone for a while — stop identifying with harsh thoughts of lack, loss, fear, limitation, and self-condemnation. Stop letting harsh thoughts control you, make you feel bad and worthless. Stop telling yourself that you did it wrong, should do it better. Accept what IS now. What just happened — happened. It’s over now. It’s over. You do not have to continually blame and reproach yourself for what just happened—whether it happened a minute ago or ten years ago. You really don’t. You. Really. Don’t. You are free to forgive yourself. Now. Each now. Each now is new when you do not carry the burdens of a moment ago into now—otherwise, there is no now for you. There is only the past with all its burdens. Let yourself alone. Let yourself be. At least for a moment. At least this moment. Perhaps you’d like to tour to a tomb in Egypt today... https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=NeiMEZa9d93&fbclid=IwAR2sQ5D54j3XIiH6SQKMQuPc9ytsZDHtmtiMNfECZ3-OFGb5tAAQhaL3LKM

Forgiveness

When it comes to a question of our forgiving other people, it is partly the same and partly different. It is the same because, here also, forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or no bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. They keep on replying, “But I tell you the man broke a most solemn promise.” Exactly: that is precisely what you have to forgive. (This doesn’t mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart—every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.) The difference between this situation and the one in which you are asking God’s forgiveness is this. In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough.
From The Weight of Glory
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

Intimacy, Closeness, and Friendship

The closer we get to people, the more is required of us. Intimacy doesn't always feel "good." It's harder to hide our darkness from others the closer we get. True intimacy requires that we SEE our darkness and OWN that darkness, instead of blaming it on the other. And that we be willing to see that others are a reflection of who we are. Too many people just cut someone lose at the first sign of conflict or disagreement, without bothering to work it through -- which requires some effort. Real intimacy calls for effort and nurturing; otherwise relationships can easily fade away.

So do what you can to nurture your friendships. Our lives on earth are so fleeting. We may think we have lots of time, but we don't. Look at where you are holding onto darkness in the form of hurt, blame, and judgment. Do not harbor resentments and old hurts. Left unresolved, they turn into bitterness, and bitterness is much harder to resolve and let go of. 

If someone chooses to walk out of your life, gently let them go. Feel your pain. When you do, all the angels will shower you with raindrops of love. That pain will blossom into a beautiful flower, a mandala of love. You will come to understand that God is your best friend. Angels are always with you. You are never alone, even when you think you are.

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness comes when you recognize that there was never anything to forgive, but there was only something to understand.

More on Forgiveness

L.A. sky the other night

Are you eager to hear more on the subject of forgiveness? I am eager to write more. . . Forgiveness is a very interesting subject. I have thought about it for a long time, the meaning of it, how it happens.

One of the best ways to learn is by asking the right questions, though it is also possible to learn even when you ask the wrong question--when your question is sincere and your heart is open. We can't always ask the right question because we, ourselves, don't always know what that question is.

What goes with forgiveness? Or rather, what goes with unforgiveness? Ponder this for a moment, then continue reading....

Anger and resentment go with unforgiveness. Since we feel angry and resentful when we cannot forgive, then who is hurt? The answer is clear -- the one who harbors the anger, bitterness, and resentment. We hurt ourselves when we hold onto negative thoughts and emotions.

So you can see how vital it is to forgive -- for our own health and well-being, at every level. The more negativity we store within us, the more pain we have, even when this is unconscious pain.

It takes at least two to stay stuck in unforgiveness. There must be a "you" who is angry and hurt, as well as the person who hurt you. That makes at least two, right? We can also be angry at situations and events or whole groups of people. This keeps us always in duality. For so long as we are trapped in duality, how can we realize our Oneness?

Resentment blocks us from knowing God. Unforgiveness is like a huge boulder on our path that we can't go around, under, over, or through. It can only be dissolved by love.

We are not loving ourself when when we fill ourself with the negativity that comes with resentment and anger. We are feeding ourself poison, not love. We must realize this at a very deep and expansive level to become willing to forgive.

Forgiveness and Receptivity

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°☆★°★●*Forgiveness

by Hirth Martinez, "Jesus Talking to God"

Dear Students, Hopefully you are all reading your new lessons, imbibing their messages, and practicing your homework.

In addition to your monthly lessons, you also receive email messages and an opportunity to visit Your Open Classroom. Your Open Classroom is filled to the brim with present day messages as well as archives way back to when the school first began.

You can visit Your Open Classroom anytime you need spiritual upliftment, even in the middle of the night. You can wear your pajamas. Drink coffee. Chew gum. It’s your Classroom. Just as this is your school. What you do here, how involved you are, is all up to you. So what you receive is also up to you.

Isn’t that encouraging? What you receive depends on what you give of yourself, how open you are, and how willing you are to let go of what isn’t you.

What are you willing to give to receive something new? What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to do? What are you willing to stop doing?

All of the above depends upon how receptive you are. Think about this word, receptive. Receptivity is the most important quality on the spiritual path.

When you are receptive, you are open to forgiveness. Receptivity and forgiveness go together in ways we will explain in the  days to come.

For now, just know that receptivity is soft and open. Like forgiveness.

Love,
your fellow classmate & teacher

°☆★°★●*FORGIVENESS°☆★°★●*

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Sky over Los Angeles Last Night

Gratitude is often talked about in spiritual circles as a powerful force for inner transformation. And it is.  Forgiveness is an even more powerful force. Forgiveness is not bantered about so much as the word gratitude. That’s because forgiveness is much more complicated, and it carries more religious connotations.

As you know, we are not a religious school. We are a spiritual school. Angels are not religious, since all  religions are man-made. Angels are of God and nothing about God is man-made.

It’s not that forgiveness is hard; it is the mind that is hard. The human heart is hard, at least until it
encounters the sweetness of true spirituality and begins to become soft.

We must see and admit how hard our human heart is, how hard it has been, before it can begin to soften. The problem is that none of us want to do that. To do that is the beginning of the end. The end of a hard hard heart and a hard hard way of life and a hard hard ego.

In India the ego is often compared to a coconut shell. We have to break that shell to experience the soft sweetness within. Birds often fly high in the sky with a hard nut and drop it on the ground below in order to break it.

Forgiveness is a very important subject, one we all need to learn more about. This means we have to unlearn our hard ways that keep us living inside a coconut s(hell). Stay tuned to your monthly lessons and Your Open Classroom for more on forgiveness.

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