Right Spiritual Excitement

Dear Classmates & Students,
I don't know about you, but so much has been going on in my life that I am excited about—spiritually excited. That means an excitement that arises from deep within.

Excitement that comes from events in the world fades quickly. Right spiritual excitement takes us deeper within and genuinely higher.

Spiritual excitement arises from the soul when it connects with Divine Intelligence. The soul is like a seed deep within Mother Earth, meditating—waiting—growing—evolving—towards the Light of Father Sun. Each human being must provide the tiny seed with the nourishment and right conditions it needs to grow and evolve.

I am excited because so many spiritual understandings are blossoming into springtime within me. Winter seems to be the end of summer—but it is only the beginning of spring. The earth needs winters. Even when someone lives in a tropical climate without snow, winter still comes, in the form of monsoons, dust storms, and other forces of nature.

Whatever winters you are in or have gone through, there is an eternal springtime blossoming within you. It is always there; you are just not always aware of it. Your spiritual work today leads you closer and closer to that springtime.

Right now, it is springtime in Austin, Texas, where I am living for the moment. The intense heat and humidity of summer isn’t here yet. There is a wonderful wind singing through the sunshine. Chimes are ringing outside my window. The entire backyard is filled with green and flowers. A scented candle is burning. I like to keep candles burning most all the time. There is something magic about fire. I have written about the magic of fire rituals in your lessons.

I am reading “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, who was an awakened man. I love the Russian authors. I haven’t read them since high school, so I am reading them all again. Now I can read them from a higher spiritual perspective, which helps me understand why I loved them as a teenager. Anna Karenina is nearly 1,000 pages long.

"Oh no, Father," Kitty objected heatedly..."she does so much good! You can ask anyone you like..."

"Maybe," said the prince...But you see, it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it." —(Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy)

We don’t have to read only “spiritual” books to be spiritually entertained and enlightened. Leo Tolstoy offers an in depth look at human nature, the way humans beings observe and react off each other, as well as great spiritual insight. So do many other books that one might not thing of as "spiritual."

It’s important to take off the cloak of so-called spirituality—judgments and ideas of one’s superiority over others. A person can get so locked into their ideas that they can’t see they are living in a false idea of themselves as a “spiritual” being. You might remember this from your lessons,  if you have gotten to this lesson:

What is this thing called spirituality, anyway? Spirituality is not about beliefs and ideas. Spirituality is about being absolutely present in your life. When you are absolutely present in your life, your life is spiritual and you are a spiritual being. Then intuition speaks to you crystal clear. 

Spirituality is not different from this earth you walk upon. It is not something else out there. It is not different from you. It is not separate from God. Spirituality is not something you attain. Anything that can be attained can be lost.

So try to notice where you feel spiritually superior or inferior to others. When you find any of these feelings inside you, that is a place within you that needs work. And humility.

Wishing you all a spiritually evolving day with lots of good nutrients, pure water, and sunshine for your soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhN3Y8aSJyI

Response to: "Making words penetrate the density of my resistance"

Janice, I am responding to your post here, since you say that you have trouble viewing comments. Is that still the case? Let me know. Does anyone else have this problem? Kevin did leave a very appropriate and helpful comment on your post, Janice. Maybe you have read it by now.

The lessons are designed to over time open you to new understandings. This is why it is important to read each lesson, one by one, and not share your lessons with others. Each person must make their own commitment to their spiritual path. When you take one step towards the angels, Truth, Reality, God, the angels take two steps towards you. This is universal law.

Great Enthusiasm!!!

Dear You,
I hope you are waking up or having dinner or going to bed, depending on your time Zone, with great enthusiasm. Angels tell us that anything worth doing is worth doing with Great Enthusiasm. Otherwise, why bother? We are here to be fully alive! Not half-awake or half-asleep: bored, unhappy, frustrated, wishing we were somewhere else than where we are. Speaking of, this is a good exercise to practice: the WHERE AM I? exercise. Ask yourself that question now and again (remember your lesson, Questions?) - "WHERE AM I?" Then find out! Your body may be driving your car, but you pass by your exit or your turn or go through a red light, because your mind is not where your body is.

Which leads us to another exercise: Remind yourself throughout your day: BE WHERE YOUR BODY IS! Your body needs you! There! Completely! Your body needs your full and undivided attention. Otherwise it gets into trouble.

I really started this post to share the link below with you. It is about writing, and so much more! Read it if you get the chance. Teachers are everywhere, and goodness knows, we all need teachers and Teachers to keep us on the path and help awaken us to our Inner Teacher. Even if you never write (though I encourage you to write) this article contains valuable information, for being one-pointed, for being disciplined, for not letting yourself be controlled by the world - or your own mind - for following the dreams that are meant to become your realities!

With Great Enthusiasm!
your fellow classmate and teacher

p.s. -- might I add that the article below is written "tongue-in-cheek" -- with a sense of humor because, of course, the author is not this disciplined. No human being is.  She does all the things she says she doesn't, at least some of the time -- and still manages to be a published writer.  So the best message is: Don't be hard on yourself. Strive for your dreams. Be as disciplined and aware as you can be, but don't...don't...don't...be too hard on yourself when you don't live up to your own expectations. Approach life with some humor. And keep climbing the ladder. With GREAT ENTHUSIASM! Higher, higher.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-writers-process

A Stone Tower I found in the Forest. Not the dark forest of Ego, but in the light forest of Mother Nature, which is akin to our True Nature. Go to Nature whenever you can: forests, woods, oceans, fields, meadows, mountains, gardens, rivers, lakes, and ponds, and you will find your True Nature there. Go and be rested. Be healed. Let yourself be filled with Great Enthusiasm for Life. Let yourself Live.

Conscious Suffering

Jacob's Ladder by William Blake

"For many years before I met this Work I was Jung's pupil in Zurich. One of the useful things he taught was that we all cast a psychological shadow and that the beginning of the way to internal evolution lay in making the shadow gradually conscious. The shadow is the part of us that we are not conscious of, but must—with pain to both pride and vanity, which is CONSCIOUS SUFFERING—eventually make conscious.
It is absolutely necessary to face this shadow if we are serious. Of course it alters our idea of ourselves very much. This shadow, which is in everyone, can make havoc in our lives, as long as we are unconscious of it. As a part of our Being that we do not acknowledge, it attracts much that seems incomprehensible in our Life, owing to our not accepting it. A man without a shadow would be fully conscious to himself. He would have suffered usefully." -Maurice Nicoll, 'Commentaries' p. 1729-30

I am posting this quote (above) because I happened to read it this morning and perhaps it will be as meaningful to you as it is to me. It is what the angels say in your lessons, in different ways. In our lessons, we talk about becoming conscious of everything -- this includes the darkness. In the words above, it is referred to as the shadow, but it means the same.

Sri Nisargadatta

“The world is but a show, glittering and empty. It is, and yet is not. It is there as long as I want to see it and take part in it. When I cease caring, it dissolves. It has no cause and serves no purpose. It just happens . . .  It appears exactly as it looks, but there is no depth in it, nor meaning. Only the onlooker is real. To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens.”

~Sri Nisargadatta, "I AM THAT"

Self-Realized Beings of Truth

From two of my favorite Teachers, Self-Realized Beings of Truth, these beautiful words...

“Simply stated, the problem is that there is a perception that there is an individual self which wants to extinguish itself so that the state of Realization will be revealed, but anything which this individual self tries to do to eliminate itself merely prolongs its own existence. If one sees spiritual practice as something that one does to attain Realization, then there is no solution to this problem; there is no solution because the whole problem stems from the totally false assumption that this individual self has a real existence.”– Sri Ramana Maharshi

All that a Guru can tell you is: ‘My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you think yourself to be.’ Trust nobody, not even yourself. Search, find out, remove and reject every assumption till you reach the living waters and the rock of truth. Until you are free of the drug, all your religions and sciences, prayers and Yogas are of no use to you, for based on a mistake, they strengthen it. But if you stay with the idea that you are not the body nor the mind, not even their witness, but altogether beyond, your mind will grow in clarity, your desires—in purity, your actions—in charity and that inner distillation will take you to another world, a world of truth and fearless love.– Nisargadatta Maharaj

Beautiful words of true love, beautiful doves, beautiful that we are left this Truth on this dark and lonely small blue planet spinning somewhere in space, filled with the human race held captive by their own desires, we can destroy ourselves, and never Mother Earth, never Light, never Truth...Reality is our only salvation. –Judy Indira Parsons

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    The concept of angels exists throughout time, religions,
cultures, and peoples. Many people have had experiences
of angels. Once you have an experience of an angel, you
never can forget it.
   
    A vision of an angel is a vision of unforgettable light,
love, and beauty. Angels guide us to God. Angels are
Guardians, Protectors, and Messengers of Light.
   
    Angels have many kinds of jobs, and they love working.
An angel at work is like a child at play. Angels love working
because they love serving God.
   
    Angels never complain because they know that to
complain = pain. Angels accept what they cannot change.
This gives them the energy to change what is theirs to
change.

    All negativity is pain. All untruth is pain.

    It takes many lifetimes finally to begin to see the
pain of a human life lived in separation from God. Those
who refuse to see this are those who want to continue to
hold themselves above and separate from God. This is
the state of the world today — human egos living separate
from God, from each other, in hubris and arrogance.

    You are not here to be part of the world that man has
created in his own image. You are in the world, but you
are not of the world.

    Never forget this. Forgetting draws one into the
darkness, into the fear that comes when one forgets. You
are in the world, where your soul journey has taken you
for now, and you are not of the world. You are of God.

    You must use every moment — every moment —
to find out what you are not. When you find out what you
are not, what remains is the Clear Light of Understanding.

    Do not falter. Do not give up When you falter or give
up, start again, from where you are. Say NO! to all negative
voices, wherever they come from. So NO! to all negative
emotions that arise from negative thoughts.

    Each moment is simply a matter of choice. Choose
well, or choose hell. Hell is not a place you go when you die.
Hell is a state we live in each time we choose to believe
a negative hurtful thought, remark, or situation.

    Angels say — you are not here to be a bline believer. You
are here to find out for yourself what is true by your own
experience. This is the way to freedom. Believe only what
you KNOW to be true from your own experience.

    Truth is a deep inner knowing that arises from a
place higher and deeper than mind can travel. Go there!

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School of Angels

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There was once a School of True Wisdom. An angel stood on guard before it, blocking entrance at the front gate. One morning a seeker approached the gate and asked admittance. The angel told him, ‘If I step aside and you enter here, you will see that you have been a shameless faker all your life.’

The seeker answered, ‘I wish to enter. Please step aside.' The angel then said to the seeker, ‘If I step aside and you enter here, you must abandon all your usual and beloved hopes and ambitions.' The seeker said, ‘I wish to come in. Please step aside.'

The angel continued, ‘If I step aside and you enter here, you will come face to face with every evil and secret thought you have ever thought.’ The seeker replied, ‘I wish to go inside. Please step aside.' The angel smiled and stepped aside.”

Quote from Vernon Howard which sums up the spiritual path and The Clear and Simple Way School of Angels. It is not for the weak hearted. The only way to the Light is through the dark forest of ego. Do you wish to journey there?

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom is freedom from worry. Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention. -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Tibetan Proverb

"The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure." Tibetan Proverb

I saw this and liked it very much. Loving without measure -- such a beautiful thought. Even more beautiful -- Being Love Without Measure. Love has no measure. Hate, violence, anger, greed, competition, revenge. They all have a measure. We measure ourselves against other people. We measure what we get, what we give, what we have. Love without measure -- and there is peace.

Words of the poet Bukowski

LIVING FROM A THOUGHT SELF

Human beings live from a thought self and call it real. Sigh.

Thought = Feeling = Action = Your Experience of Life.

Watch yourself get worked up over something you are thinking about--something that creates negative feelings within you. When you notice that you are deeply, emotionally involved in negative thoughts, take a breath, step back from yourself, and ask:

Is this who I really am? Am I these thoughts I have been believing? Am I these emotions I have been feeling? Do I want to be this negative thought self?

Ask these questions anytime you find yourself getting caught up in a negative experience. If you believe you are a thought self, you will be compelled to act as if you are. For example, when you start thinking jealous thoughts, you soon feel very jealous. If you do not stop to question this, you soon believe you are this jealous person. Then you are compelled to act like a jealous person.

This is true for any negative thought self you create. If you think thoughts of anger, sadness, hostility, paranoia, and inferiority long and strong enough, soon you feel that way--and then you act that way.

Taking a moment to stop, step outside of your thought self, and ask intelligent questions about what you are thinking and feeling can give you perspective. You may realize that you are not a thought self unless you believe you are. You may become calmer. You may come into touch with who you really are.

You may begin to see that thoughts come and go and change all the time. You may begin to see you are not a thought, but the space between two thoughts.

THE CREATION OF ANGELS

Dearest Students,  Please click below to read the special message. It is a Present from me to you for this Holy Season. May your hearts be merry and bright and may you accept yourself as you are, so that you might live in peace and happiness all your days.