Hello Classmates, 

I like these words from my last lesson, so I am writing them here. I am on Lesson 105.  (and yes, I know these words have been posted before, but their message is always valuable to me.).

"Wake up, Beloved! Wake up! Come home. Come home to Consciousness. Thoughts come. Thoughts go. Emotions flow. Emotions go. Bodies come. Bodies grow. Bodies go. Wake up! Life is but a dream. Life is but a stream of consciousness. There is only Consciousness. Wake up, Beloved! Be loved."

Love, Kevin

Your Lessons

How are you keeping up with your lessons and homework? Please don’t worry if you seem to be falling behind. You can set the pace at which you read your lessons and do your homework. Unlike a regular school, where a teacher dictates everything you must do, Your School trusts the innate wisdom within you, which knows what you need. Your School simply helps you access this divine wisdom.


SHOWING UP FOR YOURSELF

Although you can set your own pace—if you need more time on a particular lesson, or are away for awhile—you cannot make progress if you do not show up at all. Even when you are on holiday, you can remember your lessons. You can apply yourself to your homework, most of which can be done in your everyday life. You will find that it is your commitment and receptivity that results in the greatest progress.


Love

Love is the great healer, the great revealer of both lies and truth. Love rejects nothing. Love accepts everything. Love is the ocean that holds the reflection of the moon within itself.  Love holds the sting of the jellyfish, yet is itself not stung.

Remember!

The ego cannot cure the ego!

 

Beloved

"Please know that you are beloved. Not by me. Not by any person. Though you may be. That is not our concern. The concern of the angels is your soul. It is God. You are beloved by God. And angels. You are the beloved of God. And God is your Beloved. Whether you know this or not."

From Lesson "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, Hallelujah"

 

This is from our lesson,  "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" and I love the words so much, that I am posting them here. I hope you don't mind, Indira! And greetings to all my Beloved Classmates. I am so glad to share this path with you, even when I never see you. We are all here, together as One. -Kevin

Be kind

"All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred." --C.S. Lewis

Lesson 104

I just love the new lesson (#104) that I received yesterday. Thank you so much Indira for your service! The lesson is filled with tremendous energy, just as you say. And it follows so completely from the last lesson -- from all the lessons. Each lesson opens my heart even more. And now I have a new "tool" -- I can sing this song, Michael row the boat ashore -- when I need help, when I am trapped in negative thoughts and feelings that threaten to overwhelm me. I can ask the angels for help. I can ask the angel Michael. I can sing my way out of the depths of hostile angry emotions, out of jealousy, out of conflict with others. Why not just sing a song, sing my way free!!!
The angels are great singers, so I have always heard. I dig the idea that I can join them in song, that I can ask for the angels to row my boat when my arms are too tired, when the oars are too heavy. Something higher -- as the lesson before said -- something higher can row my boat for me when I cannot row it myself.
For a long time I have been learning in the lessons that I must row my own boat, not try to row someone elses. That has been so meaningful and helpful to me. Otherwise, if there is no one to row my boat, it can crash on the rocks. Now, this is taken to another level. Yes, first I must learn to row my own boat. I must stop my unhealthy codependent relationships with other people where I try to take care of them when I should be taking of myself. That is the first lesson. I have to stay in my boat. And now I am ready for this new and wonderful lesson -- to allow God and the angels to row my boat for me. This seems so easy now. I don't think I could have heard it before. I have had to move gradually through each lesson to get this lesson. I am very happy to share all of this. I am glad for the space of the open classroom that allows me to share. Love, Kevin

Your New Lessons

Dear Students and Classmates, I am sending out lessons today and tomorrow. Some of you have already received yours. I like reading the lessons again and sending them to each of you. I gain so much with each reading. Something I missed hits home. Or I understand in a new way. As the angels say, Truth is always new ... and eternal!

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life. 

-Omar Khayyam

Connecting

Dear Classmates, I want to share my email here in case any of you ever want to write and share your experience of the lessons, to talk about Truth, and what you are learning here in our School. I am interested in sharing my spiritual journey, but not idle chitchat. If you are too, you may write to me here: kevsranch@gmail.com Love, Kevin P.S. and I do think it is most beneficial when we can have a discussion and sharing here in our Classroom where everyone can benefit, though I understand some of you are too shy for that.

Hi Kevin, 
I wantet to write back to you, but your mail and adress disappeared miraculasly from my computer. If you like you may write to my adress: info@praxis-lebensbegleitung.de
 I will write to you then.
All the best to you
Monika

Correction

 Some of the recent blog posts were somehow being published under the wrong names. Sorry about that. Technology! Anyway, that problem should be fixed now. Please do let me know if you experience anymore problems. Also, some posts were mistakenly deleted, but I don't know how to get them back, so they are gone wherever disappearing posts go. Post heaven maybe.

Love & Relationships

I have been reading C. S. Lewis, who wrote many things, including 'Alice in Wonderland,' and other children's stories which were deep and profound. He was also a spiritual writer, though his later thought was based in Christianity -- though I think, not what Christianity has become to so many people, but a more pure form. So many 'religions' have become politicized, warped, made into something dark and ugly, which gives people reason to hate and even kill. But there is a pure form of religion, which is more spiritual. People's actual 'beliefs' may differ -- one person may 'believe' in Jesus, another in Allah -- those are not really important -- but there can be a deep inner core, where all spiritual paths meet. We have that deep inner core here -- just find the thread that leads to it and follow it. You will end up in your Heart.

Here is some writing by C.S. Lewis that I find very deep and helpful. Perhaps you will to, especially if you are in, or considering being in, a relationship:

"The idea that ‘being in love’ is the only reason for remaining married really leaves no room for marriage as a contract or promise at all. If love is the whole thing, then the promise can add nothing; and if it adds nothing, then it should not be made. The curious thing is that lovers themselves, while they remain really in love, know this better than those who talk about love. As Chesterton pointed out, those who are in love have a natural inclination to bind themselves by promises. Love songs all over the world are full of vows of eternal constancy. The Christian law is not forcing upon the passion of love something which is foreign to that passion’s own nature: it is demanding that lovers should take seriously something which their passion of itself impels them to do.

And, of course, the promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise never to have a headache or always to feel hungry."
From Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

Gratitude

Just a cheery Good Morning, Classmates! And to let you know I am glad to be sharing this journey with you. I do feel connected to and a part of something greater than myself, knowing there are angels, knowing there are all of you. I don't see angels anymore than I see any of you, but that does not make you any less real, as it does not make angels any less real. I am deeply touched when I visit this classroom, by all that is available to me here, by knowing I share this with others who are also deeply committed to their path. So Thank You. Cheers, Kevin

Your Open Classroom

This is a different kind of classroom. This is where you learn from yourself. You are the teacher and you are the student. You are both.

"Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?"
-some people think Buddha said this, and maybe he did, since Truth is said in many ways, by many people. But as far as I can tell, it came from Socrates. Who also said...

"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."

A practical path

I like today's daily message, thank you, Indira. "A truly spiritual path ought to be a practical path. If your path does not help you have better relationships and function better in the world, of what use is it? Because this is where you live your life. At the same time you must recognize that you are in the world and you are not of the world."

Yes, it is so important to recognize that a spiritual path is not some airy fairy blissful thing. It is hard work. It is applying the teachings in day to day life. It is practicing awareness exercises. It is practicing being present. It is being actually kind to other people. It is going against so many of the ways we have learned to be, which have not taken us to happiness.

It is following the teachings, not just reading them, to see what happens, what changes. It is staying open and committed to the lessons of our school as well as the lessons of daily life. It is not hiding from the pain, but allowing myself to see how much pain there really is inside of me. And remembering that all negativity is pain. I am grateful for our school and all I am receiving.

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

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FEAR NOT!

You do not exist.

Your flesh is no evidence 

of your existence

past or future

You only think you are real.

What you think is only what you think.

What you think is a thought.

A passing thought, passing through time,

without constant thoughts you do not exist

your name is just a name 

your body is just a body

it all passes away with time

what you are is beyond time

timeless, beginningless, without end

You cannot die because you were never born

a body was born and given a name

given an identity that you believed in

a believe is a strong thought

you are not a thought

you are eternity in a body

a great treasure lies within you

when all thoughts come to an end

then what remains is what you are

a treasure without end

your greatest friend

the only true friend

the body dies

Spirit does not

So never fear

your true nature 

IS 

ETERNAL

Love, Indira 

Already Gone

When we are open and receptive, we can find words of truth and inspiration everywhere, for example, in the song Already Gone by The Eagles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM6ibXV20Dk

"Just remember when you look up in the sky, you can see the stars, but still not see the light."

"Well, I know it wasn't you who held me down. Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free. So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

The point of this message is to encourage you to stay open and receptive to messages of Truth. Life can be an exciting journey of discovery when you let it be. Resolve to live your life alert and aware. See the stars with something more than just your physical eyes. Resolve to see with your heart. Resolve to see without fear. 

When we look at life through eyes of fear, we have no choice but to shut down to protect ourselves. When we shut down in an attempt to stay safe, we are less safe .  . . because we are living life with less intuition, less open to the Truth in every moment. We are focused on the fear in the mind, instead of the love in the heart. 

Truth is always speaking to us. When you know this, when you stay open to discovery, then your life has meaning because you see the meaning of life, which is self-discovery . .  . discovering your true nature, the nature of everything. You allow yourself to be guided by light . . . and there is no need to fear the darkness when you are guided by light.

So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.

*Written by Jack Tempchin & Robert Arnold Strandlund for The Eagles 1974 On the Border.