Journaling with Lesson 39

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Today we will practice stepping away from every way that you have and do look with madness. Every idea, judgment and perception that keeps you in hell. The thinking mindsets do you no favors. Their narratives, moment by moment, make assumptions about your conditions, survival, and needs. These thoughts tell you that there is one ‘normal’ way of interacting within the world and succeeding; and yet, all perceptions are based on a lie. If you see separation among bodies and conflict between minds, you are keeping yourself in hell. If you identify as a body-time-self and believe that peace comes only from being agreeable to whatever errant and struggling conditions the world offers, rightly for your comfort and success, you are not in Holiness; you are in hell.

Yes, I understand that you, as a body-time-self, do not see these experiences as choices. You ‘didn’t choose to be born.’ You are not conscious of your judgments or decisions most of the time. You have no personal control over war, death, victimization, and crimes against humanity. Thinking seems to ‘happen all on its own.’ Trying to silence the thinking mind seems much more impossible. There are many moments where you recognize that striving for goals in this conditional world seems merely necessary but far from satisfactory. Yet, what else are you supposed to do? Give up a job? Be unhoused? Deny yourself material comforts, medical care, relationships? No. This is not the type of behavior that I ask you to choose for realizing Holiness.

The only denial we must accomplish is distancing oneself from how these choices are used to define you. The thoughts are what keep you in hell and nothing else. The attachments, striving, self-exhaustion, disappointment, rationalization, anxiety, and terror are the cause of your sole cause of misery. A house cannot cause you pain. A house is simply a structure. However, the distaste of the structure, jealousy, and longing for a different type of house, cursing your perceived limitations, will cause much agony. Accept the ‘four walls’ being as they are, and joy is known. Similarly for relationships, jobs, vehicles, children, any object, or defined circumstance, etc. The objects or people themselves are not the problem. The problem is only the thoughts around these mere scenes and players. The problem is all the ways you curse the darkness instead of choosing the Light. See through the eyes of Holiness and no matter the size, shape, behavior, words or content, there will be gratitude. With stillness beyond thought there is only Peace.

I understand that when the world is seen and interpreted through physical eyes and a vulnerable body, the conclusions made are ‘rationale.’ Your thinking mind’s position is mainly to defend and protect. In fact, the mantra of the thinking mind is ‘protect to defend.’ Why else would these thoughts work so exhaustively to maintain the illusion? The claims made against Source seem real. The thinking mind mourns and fears the choice believed to be accomplished and so now it must ‘live with what it has done.’

However, the one and most essential concept the thinking mind does not realize is that the experiment has failed. The choice was instantly over the moment it was perceived. You are here looking back, whispering to yourself in the dark, dreaming of a distance that never ultimately occurred. Yet, if all that is looked upon is dark, the Light will seem inexistent.

To heal the first step is to welcome the Light. This welcoming will require you to turn away from every thought that you perceive to be ‘real.’ No longer do we construct more rationalizations for functioning within a world that is misperceived. No longer do we find solutions to a problem that is only rooted in endless problems. No longer do we seek a solution from within insanity. No, none of these ideas of temporal salvation shall be your wayward guide to more wanting and despondency.

Today we practice the remembrance of True Source, which Your Holiness is not but a Perfect Reflection. Your Holiness is your salvation simply because your Holiness is Your Reality. In Holiness, distortions cannot linger. In Holiness, lies cannot pretend to be truth. In Holiness, longing has no purpose or presence. In Holiness, there is no defense because there is no threat. Holiness literally is your salvation, in that Here you are Ultimately and Truthfully Safe as Source Extends.

The word ‘salvation’ literally ties to the word source or cause. Beloved One, Who is Your Cause? Who is Your Source? Know this one answer and no other questions exist. Know your Source and no other lessons need to be unlearned – for literally is nothing else. Therefore, use time wisely today to reconsider the only Truth that exists for You and never against you.

Choose to Know Thyself today as many moments as possible. Yes, there will most likely be resistance because the thinking mind is uncertain. Doubt in Your Source and the conditional world will seem to be salvageable, if not necessary, because there is no certainty on either side of the mind. Here, not but every thought spins out of control, grasping and grappling for something to cling to for safety. Emptiness requires a place to hide from uncertain threats.

Use today’s practice as your opportunity to return to ultimate Safety. Allow yourself to finally, beyond time and altering circumstance, cling to that which is Permanent, Unyielding and Knowing. No longer will we seek but do not find. No longer will we beg for answers and only hear noise or distraction. No longer will we choose ‘just get by’ to keep the body protected and sane (of which it never really is, correct?) Enough!

Your Holiness is your Salvation because Holiness is Your ONLY Certainty. No, not thinking about holiness, but indeed Allowing the Totality of Permanence Beyond All Else. Use today to once again investigate the pits of hell that are self-made and self-sustained. Look at the judgments, the fear, the depression, the aching, and longing for Home. Look and offer this up to an Altar of Peace, even if the altar image is seemingly ‘imagined’ within the mind. Picturing an Oasis today is still better than having none.

As we have practiced before, allow yourself a gentle healing. Breathe and center. Breathe and center. Do not fear what you may find, but picture your mind surrounded by a band of angels, wings outstretched, encircling you in Love and Protection. You cannot be harmed by any aspect of the misbegotten mind that you look upon. In fact, these are not but dancing shadows. Notice the shadows without being consumed by them. See how they pass by as if playfully dancing across the stages of your neutrally observing recognition. As you notice each one, breathe again, release and state today’s lesson. You also may wish to add, “my Holiness rests not upon this. In Certainty I Am.” Then allow the idea, definition, thought or concern to simply fade or move past.

Use this process as many times as is helpful and not distressful or mindless. Let the time spent be healing and not ritualistic or repetitive. Let yourself feel the errant ideas pass by without further analysis or resistance. In our time together, as always, we utilize time for our best advancement. Rest and know that Your Holiness cannot be deterred under any circumstances – perceived or even beyond your current conscious recognition. You, as Source Extends, are Changeless and Secure in Pure Protection of Love’s Beingness. Your Holiness is Your Salvation and you are saved.

Love Is!

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