Littleness vs Magnitude.

This is another chance to choose again—
it is the mind of man that is the Mouth of God.
God and ego are mutually exclusive as are Heaven and hell.

(excerpts from A Course In Miracles, Chapter 15, Sections III. & IV.)

What you do not realize, each time you choose, is that your choice is your evaluation of yourself.

Choose littleness and you will not have peace, for you will have judged yourself unworthy of it.  And whatever you offer as a substitute is much too poor a gift to satisfy you.

You are of course free to try as many forms of littleness as you wish, but all you will be doing is to delay your homecoming.  For you will be content only in magnitude, which is your home.

THERE IS A DEEP RESPONSIBILITY YOU OWE YOURSELF, and one you must learn to remember all the time.  The lesson may seem hard at first, but you will learn to love it when you realize that it is true and is but a tribute to your power.

You who have sought and found littleness, remember this:

Every decision you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that you put upon yourself.  Believe the little can content you, and by limiting yourself you will not be satisfied.  For your function is not little, and it is only by finding your function and fulfilling it that you can escape from littleness.

Ask yourself, “Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?”  Let this question be asked you by the Holy Spirit every time you make a decision.  For every decision you make does answer this, and invites sorrow or joy accordingly.  When God gave Himself to you in your creation, He established you as host to Him forever.

The Holy Spirit can hold your magnitude, clean of all littleness, clearly and in perfect safety in your mind, untouched by every little gift the world of littleness would offer you.  But for this, you cannot side against Him in what He wills for you.  Decide FOR GOD through Him.

It is littleness that deceives you, but your magnitude is of Him Who dwells in you, and in Whom you dwell.  Touch no one, then, with littleness in the Name of Christ, eternal Host unto His Father.

It is our task together to restore the awareness of magnitude to the host whom God appointed for Himself.  IT IS BEYOND ALL YOUR LITTLENESS TO GIVE THE GIFT OF GOD, BUT NOT BEYOND YOU.  He reaches from you to everyone and beyond everyone to His Son’s creations, but without leaving you.

Far beyond your little world, but still in you, He extends forever. 

Is it a sacrifice to leave littleness behind, and wander not in vain?  It is not sacrifice to wake to glory.  But it is sacrifice to accept anything less than glory.  Learn that you must be worthy of the Prince of Peace, born in you in honor of Him Whose host you are.

You know not what love means because you have sought to purchase it with little gifts, thus valuing it too little to understand its magnitude.  Love is not little and love dwells in you, for you are host to Him.

Remember that you learn not for yourself alone, no more than I did.  It is because I learned for you that you can learn of me.  I would but teach you what is yours, so that together we can replace the shabby littleness that binds the host of God to guilt and weakness with the glad awareness of the glory that is in him.  My birth in you is your awakening to grandeur.  Welcome me not into a manger, but into the alter to holiness, where holiness abides in perfect peace.  My Kingdom is not of this world because it is in you.  And you are of your Father.  Let us join in honoring you, who must remain forever beyond littleness.

Decide with me, who has decided to abide with you.  I will as my Father wills, knowing His Will is constant and at peace forever with itself.  You will be content with nothing but His Will.  Accept no less, remembering that everything I learned is yours.  What my Father loves I love as He does, and I can no more accept it as what it is not, than He can.  And no more can you.  When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts to offer to yourself, for you will know you are complete, in need of nothing, and unable to accept anything for yourself.  But you will gladly give, having received.  The host of God need not seek to find anything.

If you are wholly willing to leave salvation to the plan of God and unwilling to attempt to grasp for peace yourself, salvation will be given you.  Yet think not you can substitute your plan for His.  Rather, join with me in His, that we may release all those who would be bound, proclaiming together that the Son of god is host to Him.

Thus will we let no one forget what you would remember.  And thus will you remember it.

Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God, and of the Heaven that is in him.  FOR WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR BROTHER BE, THERE WILL YOU THINK YOU ARE.  Hear not his appeal to hell and littleness, but only his call for Heaven and greatness.  Forget not that his call is yours, and answer him with me.  God’s power is forever on the side of His host, for it protects only the peace in which He dwells.  Lay not littleness before His holy alter, which rises above the stars and reaches even to Heaven, because of what is given it.

WELCOME   YOURSELF   TO  THE HOLY INSTANT.

This learning is not beyond what can be immediately grasped, unless you believe that what God wills takes time.  And this means only that you would rather delay the recognition that His Will is so.  The holy instant is this instant and every instant.  The one you would not have it be is lost to you.  You must decide when it is.  Delay it not.  For beyond the past and future, where you will not find it, it stands in shimmering readiness for your acceptance.  Yet you cannot bring it into glad awareness while you do not want it, for it holds the whole release from littleness.

Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let all littleness go.  The instant in which magnitude dawns upon you is but as far away as your desire for it.  As long as you desire it not and cherish littleness instead, by so much is it far from you.  By so much as you want it will you bring it nearer.  Think not that you can find salvation in your own way and have it.  Give over every plan you have made for your salvation in exchange for God’s.  His will content you, and nothing else can bring you peace.  For peace is of God, and no one beside Him.

Value no plan of the ego before the plan of God.  Ever allegiance to a plan of salvation apart from Him diminishes the value of His Will for you in your own mind.  And yet it is your mind that is the host to Him.

WOULD YOU LEARN HOW PERFECT AND IMMACULATE IS THE HOLY ALTER ON WHICH YOUR FATHER HAS PLACED HIMSELF?

IT IS YOUR MIND THAT IS THIS HOLY PLACE.  LOOK NOT ANY PLACE ELSE.

THIS YOU WILL RECOGNIZE IN THE HOLY INSTANT, IN WHICH YOU WILLINGLY AND GLADLY GIVE OVER EVERY PLAN BUT HIS.

Make your mind home to His peace, and it will become perfectly clear when you are wholly willing to meet its conditions.  You can claim the holy instant any time and anywhere you want it.  In your practice, try to give every plan you have accepted for finding magnitude in littleness.  It is not there.  Use the holy instant only to recognize that you alone cannot know where it is, and can only deceive yourself.

I stand within the holy instant, as clear as you would have me.  And the extent to which you learn to accept me is the measure of the time in which the holy instant will be yours.  I call to you to make the holy instant yours at once, for the release from littleness in the mind of the host of God depends on willingness, and not on time.

The reason this learning is simple is that truth is simple.  Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego’s attempt to obscure the obvious.  You could live forever in the holy instant, beginning now and reaching to eternity, but for a very simple reason.  Do not obscure the simplicity of this reason, for if you do, it will be only because you prefer not to recognize it and not to let it go.  The simple reason, simply stated, is this:

The holy instant is a time in which you receive and give perfect communication.

This means, however, that it is a time in which your mind is open, both to receive and give.  It is the recognition that all minds are in communication.  It therefore seeks to change nothing, but merely to accept everything.

How can you do this when you would prefer to have private thoughts and keep them?  The only way you could do that would be to deny the perfect communication that makes the holy instant what it is.  You believe you can harbor thoughts you would not share, and that salvation lies in keeping thoughts to yourself alone.  For in private thoughts, known only to yourself, you think you find a way to keep what you would have alone, and share what you would share.  And then you wonder why it is that you are not in full communication with those around you, and with God Who surrounds all of you together.

Every thought you would keep hidden shuts communication off, because you would have it so.  It is impossible to recognize perfect communication while breaking communication holds value to you.  Ask yourself honestly, “Would I want to have perfect communication, and am I wholly willing to let everything that interferes with it go forever?”  If the answer is no, then the Holy Spirit’s readiness to give it to you is not enough to make it yours, for you are not ready to share it with Him.  And it cannot come into a mind that has decided to oppose it.  For the holy instant is given and received with equal willingness, being the acceptance of the single Will that governs all thought.

The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure.  But it does require that you have none that you would keep.  Innocence is not of your making.  It is given you the instant you would have it.  Atonement would not be if there were no need for it.  You will not be able to accept perfect communication as long as you would hide it from yourself.  For what you would hide is hidden from you.  In your practice, then, try only to be vigilant against deception, and seek not to protect the thoughts you would keep to yourself.  Let the Holy Spirit’s purity shine them away, and bring all your awareness to the readiness for purity He offers you.  Thus will He make you ready to acknowledge that you are host to God, and hostage to no one and to nothing.

In  deeper   awareness  of   His  truth,   miracles   will  begin  to  follow  us  home. 

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—God bless.

Death is a Reset.

Intelligence =  knowing that meaning must ESCAPE the dream.

To be human is to think that you are human.  The “think” MUST come before the “thing.”  What is human is the effect of the thought of being one, the thought being the cause of what will then seem to be.  An understanding of why we think the things we do will change the world.  Knowing why ends all fear and removes the mental blocks to the awareness of God’s eternal presence within us.  It is meaningful to understand our true relationship to God and that is what human beings fear the most because what is being human and what God is is mutually exclusive; both cannot be real.  A belief that something can remain separate of what is God prevents God from occupying the same reality.  Reality is consciousness taking form around a field of thoughts.  Our experience within it is a creation of the human imagination.  The mind of man is the mouth of God but only when perception has been corrected—our thoughts should be His voice.  His power includes the human imagination.  But when what is One becomes two, God’s power has been misused.  You are misusing God’s power when you believe that your thoughts are yours, alone.  This must be an impossibility if God is to be real at all.  Nothing that is outside Heaven is without fear and nothing that is outside Heaven is real and what is not real has no meaning.

In order to exist, human beings must believe that they are real.   And this but only shows the power that is behind the imagination because of what the human being needs in order to have existence:  a beginning to Time (the “Big Bang”), a Universe full of stars and planets, a world of his own, a body for his mind and what he believes are his thoughts to occupy that mind, a story (religions, past, future and the cycle of birth and death) and the eyes to watch what he has made unfold.  But what is “real?”  I’m not asking WHAT is real?  I’m asking what is REAL?  The human mind wants to create things that seem to go together such as a body with eyes, a world and the entire Universe and yet these things seem separate by conjecture.  A human being cannot, for example, occupy every point in space.  But anything that is real, does.  Not because it does but because all of space and time lies within what is real.  And that’s God.  But what is not real cannot escape the dream because it is this non-dualistic thought-system that brings manifestation to the reality that humans experience and human beings depend upon illusions for their existence.  Heaven offers only destruction to the ego but that is what man is (when his thoughts are not in order).  Thus human beings are born as they are in the Universe.

These are but only limitations that are set in the mind by way of our thinking, shared through the telling of stories by way of domestication; humans are and will always act like animals.  Our thoughts cannot touch reality.  Think about this.  How can a human being not pull from prior experience and then using that data judge what is being perceived?  But the human being only knows how to pull from its own experience which seems limited to a single lifetime of experiences.  None of it carries any meaning and only the ego believes that it does.  Then realize that any perception taking place in a human’s field of consciousness (which is nothing but a sort of hazy fog should Christ be absent from it) cannot be separated from his interpretation which is all based on past experiences and judgement which is a reflection of his emotional state at any given moment and what judgement is is a weapon that is used against ourselves because it is only used to feed the ego’s appetite for fear and to endorse separation between God’s Sons.

In this transaction where is the present?  It seems as if the human mind cannot comprehend the present because the present is totally free of insanity and is a place where human beings do not belong.  It’s just like Heaven.  And we only seem to imagine a future that for the most part resembles images that we carry with us from the past.  Indeed, the future is whatever we can imagine.  There are no limitations, really, other than those we impose upon ourselves.  But why do we even do that?

Are we all not here because in truth we are afraid of what we will lose if we choose Heaven instead of hell?  But does that sound like the thinking of God’s Sons?  But if we are God’s Sons (and we surely are that) then what has possessed us to think apart from our Father?  What is doing our thinking for us and yet convinced us that it is us doing the thinking, still?  Surely, it is that we offer all of our power over to the ego simply because we are afraid of our Father’s love.  We see ourselves as being so unworthy that we have hidden ourselves from ourselves and have placed upon the altar of God our illusions rather than our truths.  And in this way we hide our shame for having been the cause of the separation in the first place.

But all that is needed is a step right into Heaven (the present) which is done the very instant you look upon yourself with God’s vision and God’s love instead of looking upon yourself with your own eyes, which is the eyes of the ego. 

It is that which is the source of the guilt and fear that you have carried throughout all of time.  The miracle—the ONLY miracle that exists—is the one where you see that you are as God created you.  You can never NOT be that despite your many efforts with all the nightmares you create in order to inflict your suffering onto yourself and others;—any place that you create separate of God is hell.  You cannot find happiness in Time but only within Eternity because what you are is the only thing that is real and it is before time began.  It is where you belong.  What you are and WHERE you are IS GOD.

God is Heaven.  Heaven is Reality.

You can figure that out now, in the present moment, or spend another 13.798±0.037 billion years (the current measurement of the age of the universe within the Lambda-CDM concordance model) figuring it out.  If Heaven is reality then what is truly real must be eternal.  It would make sense that the Universe could be measured in terms of age because it would be folly to conclude that something that is an illusion could share Eternity with God.  It would also make sense that human beings cannot make sense of what was before time (ie. before the Universe was).  To know what was before time is to know God.  To know God requires that you know yourself as God created you like Him.  To know what was before the Universe is to share in God and be in Heaven.  God’s only dream for His Sons is that they share in what He has.  God gives all of Himself in perfect love to His Children.

Unfortunately, you and your brothers have had your vision compromised and your thoughts annexed from you.  Salvation rests in separating your thoughts and minds from the ego so that the love of God can return to where it belongs.  God wishes to come home to you just as much as He knows that you wish to return home to Him.  But what has been made real in God’s place—the guilt for letting go—fills the hearts of all the separated ones.  God does not suffer and only God is.  Why must you suffer?  You suffer because you believe that you are alone.  You are not.

Galileo and Newton thought that time was the same for everyone everywhere whereas a more modern conception is that rates of time act independently based on motion when compared relativistically (based on Einstein’s general theories).  My point is that the ideas formed in the human mind will continue to gain a level of complexity until a point where it has become recognizable that all observable and quantifiable phenomena in the Universe exists simply as a marker to point out to us that all observable and quantifiable phenomena are illusions.  We are not part of reality as it stands, now.  Reality and Time are mutually exclusive as much as Thought and God cannot coexist.  In Heaven there is no cause for perception.  God has no cause.  The Universe, or some form of it, must exist for human beings because the human mind cannot accept anything that has no cause.

Everything that the human mind knows as real needs to be as a result of an effect of some kind.  This is pattern formation and that is the brain’s function.  That’s what it does.  And it is the brain that would forever destroy God and Heaven and every human being has one.  But is the brain really what we think it is?  More to the point:  is the brain capable of ever being correct?  About anything at all?  And if the truth is that it cannot be right about anything, ever, then do we have access to some other method of perceiving?  Or is meaning beyond what we can know and experience?  What if what the body’s eyes see are only projected illusions that are a result of patterns formed via electrical impulses in our brains?  What if coming to know reality is akin to coming to know God and Heaven within Eternity and that this is also coming to know what we are separate of the illusions the mind has made (the body being just another one of the brain’s patterns of perception).

Your brain is as much outside of you as it is outside of God and Heaven.  Maybe looking within, rather than without is a good start to acquiring data that is truly meaningful.  For meaning to be gleamed, we truly must escape the cycle of dreaming, the cycle of birth and death, which is what we humans experience every night, and every morning.  These cycles, these patterns are markers left in our minds to fire the imagination up to higher purpose.  And this, too, is the same purpose of the gospels.  They were left to us as markers so that we could recognize ourselves in them.  What can lead us to finding ourselves again, when we look without ego, is what is meaningful to us, now.

The human mind cannot accept God because Ego is everything God is not and we accept the ego gladly because it does not ask for us to abandon the world we made for us in exchange for Heaven.  Heaven is the end of Ego.  If Heaven is the light then surely Ego is the darkness.  And human beings and the ego are to each other what God is to Heaven. 

To Be a Lure, or Not To Be a Lure…

This brings me to an analogy about life that came to me earlier today (and not a particularly eloquent one at that).  Imagine yourself fishing.  But although you are the Fisherman you are not experiencing the life being lived.  The life that is being lived is represented by the lure.  When the lure plunks into the water after you cast the line that’s “birth” and that’s the beginning of the life that’s about to be experienced by the lure.  The water that the lure finds itself in is what it thinks of as its world and reality but from the Fisherman’s point-of-view it’s not really any of these things.  The Fisherman fishes because he’s hoping to catch a prize.  This Fisherman is in a sense addicted to fishing and will spend forever casting over-and-over until the prize is found because he needs what the prize will offer him.  The Fisherman is incomplete and his only purpose is finding the one missing piece that hooking a fish will deliver.

And so he begins to reel in the line with great hope and anticipation that it will be this time that something miraculous will happen.  A human being’s life is represented by the lure being dragged through the water on its return trip to the Fisherman’s reel.  Once reeled in that particular cast is completed and so is that particular life.  The point at which lure-meets-reel is physical “death” as far as the lure understands with its notion of time being a parameter, the basis for timelines.  The lure has no idea that it is a rig connected to a line and that it is being fished by what has made it as a tool for a specific purpose.  There is no connection between the Fisherman’s purpose and what it might see as being its own purpose.  The lure, if it is able to see up and out of the water might see the Fisherman and realize that the Fisherman is more it than the lure itself, and that not being able to see above water is what gives meaning to the lure’s world and that it’s all made up in its mind and that a belief in its existence as the lure only ensures the life of the ego.  And it is the ego which has all the power in that world because it controls every mind which lurks beneath its murky depths.

The fact that the lure seems to have consciousness at all is because it possesses within itself the power of God.  Recognition of this true power begins with choosing to unite purpose with the only thing that matters, which is God’s purpose.  And this is also to choose against what the ego has made in order to have its purpose fulfilled through you.  But which you is you?

Imagine too, then, other fishermen surrounding this one fisherman who all are casting lines into the same body of water several billion times over.  The lure may run across older lures or lures that had plunked before he plunked and who carry stories of how things work in the water.  In order to create more agreeable symmetry and to account for plunking, lures would all agree that they are the creators of lures and that even plunking is a process which happens through a “natural process” via their plastic and rubber forms.  Quickly, there’s never enough time to bother searching one’s own mind for potentially better ways to navigate through water.  Death tugs away relentlessly and we become convinced of its inevitability.  And some lures seem to be pulled along much more quickly than others—the reasons why never are known.

But what of the lure that looks up and into what must appear like blinding light?  And half-way, or so, comes to the conclusion that he is just the bait for someone else’s catch?  How surprised would the lure be when he discovers that he’s doing the fishing as well?  And that knowing the self as a lure was in fact only the ego’s interpretation of what was being perceived as present circumstances?  The Fisherman will re-cast the line many, many, many times again.  But it is a pattern not like what the brain can interpret (or the ego) because it requires that the lure be extracted from the water and so happens out of time and where a brain cannot go as it, too, is part of an illusion.  The extraction experience goes with the lure each time it’s casted but replunking as well as the incessant domestication process which ensues reduces such residual memories to something seen as illusory.  There exists no prize whatsoever in the water.  What the Fisherman seeks is the lure because the lure is himself.  The prize and him are one and the same.  But sometimes the lure can wake up and see himself, too.  Looking out and into the light does not actually reveal the image of the Fisherman but is a reflection of self looking back at the only thing which is needed or required to end the cycle of birth and death.  Things only seem to change and end in water because only what is real has no ending and no need of change.  This is God’s vision of reality.

Although we are only beginning to understand the human mind at the level of the brain, and we know nothing about how consciousness itself comes into being, it isn’t too soon to say that the conventional self is an illusion.  The sense, therefore, that we are unified subjects—the unchanging thinkers of thoughts and experiencers of experience—is an illusion.  The conventional self is a transitory appearance among transitory appearances, and it vanishes when looked for.  We need not await any data from the lab to say that self-transcendence is possible.  And we need not become masters of meditation to realize its benefits.  It is within our capacity to recognize the nature of thoughts, to awaken from the dream of being merely ourselves and, in this way, to become better able to contribute to the well-being of others.  Yes, the cosmos is vast and appears indifferent to our mortal schemes, but every present moment of consciousness is profound.

We are always and everywhere in the presence of reality.  Indeed, the human mind is the most complex and subtle expression of reality we have thus far encountered.  This should grant profundity to the humble project of noticing what it is like to be you in the present.  However numerous your faults may seem, something in you at this moment is pristine—and only you can find it.  Cut the string and look up.  Look down, left or right.  You are using eyes from within to look without.  Everything those eyes light upon is you.  And when you find what is perfect in you, you will finally have found yourself and that’s the prize that you seek.  And when you have it you’ll give it to everything and everyone you see by seeing that in everything and everyone and in this way no two things can exist apart.  Heaven is a place where finding you becomes where you belong.

The Peace of God.

From Lesson 185 of A Course In Miracles:

I want the Peace of God.  To say these words is nothing.  But to mean these words is everything.  If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time.  Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

No one can mean these words and not be healed.  He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream.  He cannot make hell and think it real.  He wants the peace of God, and it is given him.  For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive.  Many have said the words.  But few indeed have meant them.  You have but to look upon the world you see around you to be sure how very few they are.  The world would be completely changed, should any two agree these words express the only thing they want.

Two minds with one intent become so strong that what they will becomes the Will of God.  For minds can only join in truth.  In dreams, no two can share the same intent.  To each, the hero of the dream is different; the outcome wanted not the same for both.  Loser and gainer merely shift about in changing patterns, as the ratio of gain to loss and loss to gain takes a different aspect or another form.

Yet compromise alone a dream can bring.  Sometimes it takes the form of union, but only the form.  The meaning must escape the dream, for compromising is the goal of dreaming.  Minds cannot unite in dreams.  They merely bargain.  And what bargain can give them the peace of God?  Illusions come  to take His place.  And what He means is lost to sleeping minds intent on compromise, each to his gain and to another’s loss.

To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams.  For no one means these words who wants illusions, and who therefore seeks the means which bring illusions.  The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained.  And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.  Whatever form the lesson takes is planned for him in such a way that he can not mistake it if his asking

….is sincere.

The Mouth of God is in the Mind of Man.

“We do not possess imagination enough
to sense what we are missing.”
¶                               — Jean Toomer
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The Absolute is the only reality and is the one God—infinite in how It must forever extend itself, timelessly; for that is its will and desire.  Expression of itself and creation are the same and this is its power and also its purpose.  And the Mouth of God is in the mind of Man.  God became man so that we could become God.  We can know God through ourselves and more specifically through the power of the human imagination.  That’s God.  The desire to redeem our minds is to align our will and desire with His and is a hunger for the word of God.  All that Man can do is dream.  Reality is God’s dream.  But it can also be your dream.  And when you feed into the mind only what are loving and noble thoughts this is matching our ‘inner speak’ to our fulfilled desires.  This is when magic seems to happen.  This is The Secret, the Holy Grail.  This is the difference between life and death and it is your birthright to realize how to create life out of a dream.  Life is in the extension of the experience of self—eternal presence—and is the practice of waking up to a new paradigm called reality:  a state of total non-duality and of pure love; truly the experience of self dwells within God:  the Birth from Above.

Anyone familiar with the teachings of Neville Goddard (1905-1972) have heard such ideas expressed before.  For anyone who hasn’t, they are worth serious contemplation.

Buried in the skull and covered over with a garment of flesh is Jesus Christ.  The cross is ours and is generated by a misuse of power.  While it is true that Jesus never has to bear the cross alone it is so only because the cross is something that we have made; the cross is symbolic of a choice and we fail continuously to redeem Jesus Christ with every thought we have.  The Mind is Jesus Christ and of it exists the power to redeem what is real and it is this alone that leads to salvation.  Christ’s tomb is the misuse of the power of the mind and of the human imagination. God is in you and the human imagination is God’s power.  The Resurrection of Christ is actually your resurrection from your own slumbering.  Awake as a child from the nightmare that Ego has created within you and that has been projected out of your mind as the world.  Instead of basing your creations on thoughts delivered to you by what Ego has made choose instead to see the Absolute in everything.  Know thyself further not as a child of God but as a child that is God.  Be of Him as His Son is of Him remembering that it is Ego alone that desires individuality.  Realize that the power of the human imagination is God and must dwell from within you.  How could you be not in God? Or He not in you?  Be only what can be real:  an extension of pure love.  And so a loving and noble mental conversation will echo your experience of conscious reality;—let Mind & Speech be your guide.

The energy of our thoughts and words never dissolve into a past (power can never be wasted but it can be misused).  What we see outside is a confrontation born out of necessity.  It is a projection of a mental landscape.  A better world is one that shares in our experience of the present and must reflect such a state.   This is the timelessness of infinite expansion.  Then it is possible to see the world for what it has always been.  A portrait that mirrors what has been created perfect.  Mind is the pure and formless ground of being from which creation and manifestation arise and cannot be explained or comprehended in terms of any manifest reality;—everything perceived follows the imagination.  The world is a reflection of an inner conversation.  Make your inner talkings be the voice of God, instead.  Let thy Kingdom come.
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Stephen J. Rivele speaks about music…

“Vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God.  We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.”

We must all find the silence in ourselves so that we can hear the music of God. When that silence envelopes you then your soul can sing.