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Experience the Truth
2008-05-21 03:50:00
Experience is the fuel that drives you and teaches what direction you will take. I teach that your experiences are based on belief and should be discarded because fear is the origin of every thought in your mind. Wipe the slate clean and believe what I teach, since what I teach is beyond belief and that has always been the "place" you desire to BE.M: Yesterday I experienced a deep sense of dissatisfaction. I could not specifically place what thoughts resulted in this mood, yet it was palpable and consistent throughout the day and completely oppressed my ability to seek guidance. J: You might wish to see this as symbolic of great hope. M: But how can that be, since clearly I felt impaired by it. In fact, isn't this simply a form of fear? J: Fear is NOT a fact, but is simply an assumption you impose upon your perceptions, thereby shaping HOW you see. Your moods have always oppressed you and this is indicative of the beliefs that you allow to determine your experiences. You ...
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You are Both Cause and Effect
2008-05-13 18:53:00
The universe is a product of your mind and nothing can occur "out there" that has not been determined "within." This is the definition of "love" because it embraces everything as Truth and therefore, nothing is apart from you when you SEE it as One.M: How can you prove you are who you say you are? J: How can you prove the same? M: You answer my question with a question? J: Only to "prove" that neither I, nor you, can answer the question based on what you accept as “proof.” Although you cannot prove that you exist, you can prove that you have an experience that you then define as "existing." Yet, proving this to yourself has not appeared to be helpful.You are intoxicated with your “experience” of life and completely preoccupied with defining the meaning of that experience. Meaning determines purpose and you need only look to your current purpose to determine the meaning you have applied. What is your purpose?Clearly, through such an examination, you will discern cha...
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Accept No Substitutions
2008-05-11 16:44:00
The fearless mind can accept only peace and will not substitute delusions for Truth. Your "spectrum of fear" has many levels and degrees, but only one experience and that is absence. Whenever you are absent of deep and abiding peace, know that you have accepted fear and seek to change your mind by thinking with me.M: I can’t seem to incorporate this into my life. J: Nothing need be incorporated, just believed as True. Only delusions need be integrated, simply because obsessing on parts obstructs understanding the whole. If you do NOT believe this then it is understandable that you are deluded into making something a part of you that you have never been without. M: Then how come I don’t know it as me? J: There is nothing to “know.” M: Is this a riddle? J: Paradox is your invention and it exists only in your mind. Dissolving paradox is your choice as well and all that you need do is make the choice to SEE it differently. M: It seems clear that you know God. ...
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There is No Happiness, Only Peace
2008-05-08 21:03:00
Your seeking "happiness" has no other purpose then to conceal Truth. Peace is all you require and it is what you seek to HAVE. Fortunately, it is available to the mind that no longer seeks happiness in a world where happiness cannot be found. Perfect Peace is your destination and it is also the way home.M: So you’re actually saying that I should not trust in myself for anything? J: Why would you? M: I agree that I often do not know what is in my best interests. But, I do not have 24 hr access to this type of guidance you seem to ask that I rely on. I must rely on myself for some things. J: This will only prolong your disappointment and delay learning Truth. In this way you can only HOPE to succeed in your endeavors, but you can never be CERTAIN of success. I offer certainty and my offer is NOT in anyway based on your belief in “time.” I do not follow your schedule, but ask that you follow mine, since I am not victim to your beliefs. M: So you can inform me on the...
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Live or Die, the Choice is Yours
2008-05-02 00:23:00
Your belief in death counsels every thought in your mind. This is because every thought that informs you of what you DO, must be made in the recognition that you will eventually DIE. This simply means that you have so little time for which to DO your "living." The Truth is that you cannot DIE and to allow this as counsel to your mind is to LIVE in a Joy that is free of all constraints.M: So if I’m not a body why does the body get sick? J: To be precise, you are a BELIEF in a body. Currently, this is very difficult for you to understand simply because you require “forms” to teach you what is REAL. The idea that Truth can be known only through “forms” has resulted in your believing that you are powerless. Therefore, not only do you experience yourself as a body, but a body that is weak and impotent. A body that is limited and ineffective in meeting your plans. A body that seems to obstruct you at every turn and, basically, demands you suffer. A body that is afflicted by...
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Your Experience of Nothing
2008-04-24 03:29:00
Your experience of life is an experience of nothing. It is only "something" in your mind. When you realize it is nothing, you have then accepted freedom from the suffering that never was.M: You continue to inform me that I will see what I believe MUST be seen. Therefore, when I choose that suffering no longer be seen, will I no longer experience death? J: Notice how you confuse the learning tools of sight and experience. You do believe in death and so your eyes seek out death as truth. However, you have never experienced death only the BELIEF that you will one day experience death and this is what you rely on to advise you on how to "live." “Others” die, and this seems witness to your fate and therefore, it is your teacher. You will not learn of death through experience, although you may continue to believe in an eventual experience of "death" and this attests to your choice of teacher. I did not die, nor did I experience death. This is only because I learned that all experi...
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The World is Your "Unconscious"
2008-04-20 13:45:00
Every part of your world; every tiny detail you experience, is purely a product of your mind. Knowing this, and living from that knowledge, is freedom beyond your wildest imagining. This was always the message.M: I believe that the problem is that many of my thoughts and beliefs are unconscious to me. Therefore, what obstructs knowing my Source are the thoughts in my mind that I am not conscious of. J: You have invented imaginary “places” in the mind for which to conceal your fear. These places, or layers of your mind, are not real, but you do believe that you have much to hide. There are NO unconscious "levels" of the mind through which to safely lock away your fear. You simply project it outward and there is where it is revealed to you. However, in your refusal to accept ownership of the parts of your mind that you fear, you refuse to acknowledge parts of YOU and this is the purpose of your projection. This refusal is what you call “unconscious.” But, make no mistake,...
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Teach to Learn
2008-04-17 14:27:00
Forget everything you have ever learned. There is only One message you need learn. That message is that learning is unnecessary and this is what you must teach. In learning this, student and teacher are One. This is because only One Mind need learn because there is no "other."M: I often feel discouraged that what I write fails to be understood by others. J: There are no "others," only a Universal One Mind. In what way do you require “others”? M: I thought you said that I was required to teach so that I could learn? J: Learn ing is one of many functions you have invented for your many purposes. I will aid you in adapting your functions to OUR one purpose, as opposed to your varied purposes which have never aided you.You will teach simply because you so deeply desire learning of the unified joy of Christ Mind, which is beyond anything your religions can ever teach.The problem may be that you are learning the curriculum through guidance, but fail to allow guidance in wh...

Talking with Jesus: "No Need for Questions"
2008-04-13 17:30:00
You see "clues" to Truth all around, yet fail to recognize that every experience is a clue YOU have provided to attain certainty of what and who YOU are. When you know your purpose you will interpret the clues correctly, until then you will believe in the delusion of a "reality" as outside your control.M: I feel conflicted over the idea that I should see God in everything. This conflicts with your teaching that the world is a product of my thought and does not exist separate from me. J: This should be perfectly apparent to you and the fact that it is NOT simply attests to your incorrect assumptions as to what you ARE. But of course, all you have are assumptions, since you are certain of nothing. What you do SEE is an assumed world made possible only because you see it through a conflicted mind. When you are certain, assumptions will no longer be needed only because all conflict will dissolve through certainty. M: If I simply believe the world is a product of my thought, then I...
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Talking with Jesus: "Reality is Your Choice"
2008-04-07 13:54:00
M: If the world can be different simply through my seeing it differently, why is it that you have not made the world change? J: I have and I only ask that you see it as I do. M: You’re saying that the world is at peace? J: You clearly see conflict and therefore, IN your mind, there can be NO peace, but I tell you, peace is most certainly there when you desire to SEE it. Until such time, your belief in conflict will direct your sight. M: I don’t see peace because peace is not present to see. The world is full of conflict and war. How could I see peace instead of war? J: How could you NOT see peace, if peace is ALL you desire? The problem is that peace is not ALL that you desire, therefore, it is not ALL that you see. Christ Vision, as opposed to the body’s "seeing," is all-encompassing and leaves out nothing. Belief in what the eye’s teach must discriminate and looks for what you choose to perceive based solely on what you have learned MUST be seen. The fact...
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Talking with Jesus: "Be Vigilant for Truth"
2008-04-04 14:13:00
Stop protecting yourself from the world you believe is real, since it is ONLY your belief that makes it "real" and it is this belief that YOU experience. What you learn is what you teach yourself. If your experience is fear, teach yourself differently and be vigilant for only that.M: I thought that I “need do nothing” but, you then tell me that I must be vigilant against fear. My being “vigilant” means my doing something and thus requires action, albeit mental action, but action nonetheless. J: Vigilance for truth is not vigilance at all, since truth requires no vigil and thus, no protection whatsoever. Yet, you are very vigilant for what YOU believe is true. Therefore, if what YOU believe requires protection in any way, how can it be truth? It is therefore helpful if you choose to be vigilant against fear so that you can learn the truth that demands nothing. The very act of complicating what I teach demonstrates your current vigilance in protecting your beliefs. But, ma...
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Holiday Festivities
2008-03-26 02:17:00
This discussion occurred during a recent holiday. I have reproduced the dialogue from memory (with some assistance) J: Why do you feel discomfort? M: Why? Well, I have no interest in this holiday socializing. J: Then what is your interest? M: I don’t know. Anything but this, I suppose. Obviously, I’ve certainly participated in holiday revelry in the past and I’m no stranger to social activities. However, since talking with you I have found little satisfaction with past activities. J: Yes, and to some degree you feel that my message is at fault and that I am cause of your dissatisfaction. This reveals your tendency to seek for blame and I assure you that what the ego seeks, YOU will find, as that fulfills its purpose. If you look closely you will see that the purpose is to absolve YOU of all guilt while at the same time requiring YOU remain guilty. This premise for "living" is clearly insane, yet you continue to "live" by it. An ego without a purpose cannot con...
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Talking with Jesus: "Transcend or Transform"
2008-03-21 00:43:00
M: You keep talking about the need to transcend the body since it is the chief cause of suffering. The problem is that I don’t know if I want to be without a body since this is all I know. It seems to evoke fear. J: We must be careful with our terms. You need NOT transcend the body, however, you may simply choose not to consider it and hence, it will fail to trouble you further. Currently, all thinking in some way considers the body and this is very troublesome to you. This is only because you are convinced that the body is what you ARE and therefore, it has profound implications in how you think about your "self" and your world. Fear is to be expected in the relinquishment of any belief and the level of fear is always based on the depth of the belief. Your belief in the self as "body” is very deep and it informs all subsequent beliefs. This is the premise for which you conduct your “life.” Therefore, in changing the premise, your “life” must change accordingly. How...
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Talking with Jesus: "What is Your Purpose"
2008-03-14 02:04:00
M: I can sense the truth, yet I resist it. Why do I resist? J: What you mean by “sensing” is that you feel changes occurring to your belief system creating a sense of disorientation with regard to participation in the world and this is to be expected. You must recognize that learning is always proportionate with your readiness to learn and therefore, all learning is indicative of the growing faith between student and teacher. This is the only effective way learning can be facilitated. Lack of faith in the teacher obstructs and stalls the transfer of knowledge. This results in needless protraction of the learning process.If you examine our previous talks you should note your own advancement in the ability to understand theses concepts and take value from recognizing your progress. This has occurred only due to your growing faith in me. If you require the gift of inspiration in order to remain motivated, do not resist when it is handed to you or else you will experience guil...
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Talking With Jesus: "Dealing with Discouragement"
2008-03-08 12:16:00
M: So what should I be doing or thinking in order to better understand what you teach? What should I be doing right now? J: You have made plans for this day. You have set the goal and you will seek to fulfill the goal you have set. M: I have no specific goals at all. J: There is always a goal since each moment must hold some meaning for you and not to experience the meaning you have applied is to be “timeless,” which is, in fact, what you are, yet your behaviors reveal that you disagree with the truth and thus negate the experience. Only time requires planning. Although, you often evaluate your moments as "meaningless," or as less valuable to you, fear will not allow for complete emptiness of meaning, since you cannot experience a void. To have attached NO meaning to the moments in your reality would be a void. I realize this is your requirement and I will provide you meaning in replacement for the insanity through which you fill time. M: Well, I’m not conscious ...
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Talking With Jesus: "Choosing Teachers"
2008-03-06 22:27:00
M: You seem to say that I lack nothing, but clearly that is not my experience. J: What could you lack? M: I lack happiness of any permanence or depth. J: How do you "measure" this experience of lack, since in a world of "degrees" you do tend to rely on measuring your "reality" in determining truth? M: The point is that I do not experience it. In fact, since I have been involved in these "talks," I sense it less only because you teach that what I attached to in past is fleeting and insubstantial. Those things that I once believed brought happiness are illusory and only bring moments of pleasure with no lasting presence in my life. I am beginning to see this more clearly and it is not a pleasant experience. J: You state that your knowledge of lack is from experience. How would you define that “experience”? M: I would define the experience of lacking happiness by its intermittent absence. J: I teach that you lack nothing and, if what I teach is true, how could...
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Talking With Jesus: "The Guilt of the Body"
2008-02-27 16:00:00
M: It somewhat annoys me that I have to go through this. Why is it so difficult to know God? J: God is always known. How could Creation not know its Creator?Separation is a state of denial made to veil the truth and your world is that veil made manifest. It is a delusional fantasy where fear fills awareness instead of love. Although Heaven is your Being and does not require choice, you choose denial. Essentially, knowledge always exists in the mind, yet through distraction, the mind seems to have forgotten. Yet, what is forgotten is not lost, but simply requires remembering.M: Why would I choose denial of God. J: In the "thought" of separation, guilt was born. Denial is unavailable in eternity, yet, in time, you believe it is an effective defense for the guilt inherent in your belief of separate minds. In a sense, you are angry at your “self” for forgetting and the fear of facing your denial is incredibly burdensome. This causes guilt. I teach that you are innocent ...
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Talking With Jesus: "Rationalizing the Miraculous"
2008-02-20 14:15:00
M: What do I do about confrontational or angry people? J: Why would you perceive confrontation? M: I don’t want to experience it, other people do and often that anger is projected onto me. J: All is within YOU. Nevertheless, you rely on external perception to define your "experiences." Therefore, you would benefit in looking to yourself as the point of origination to all your perceptions and thus, all of your experiences. You have struggled with the concept of One Mind, which cannot be easily conceptualized through separate minds. Because your mind can only consider “concepts,” you must struggle with this unified paradigm, or model of perception, which conflicts and essentially negates all other beliefs.In considering yourself as cause AND effect, you will eventually realize the Unity of One Mind, as did I. M: You say that I must look to myself to understand experiences in which I perceive others projecting anger. How can that change my experience? J: Rather th...
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Talking With Jesus: "Look for Your Completion"
2008-02-16 13:44:00
M: How can I get beyond this feeling of sacrifice and loss in relation to what you teach? J: Loss is defined by sacrifice, and you must ask how you can feel loss when there is nothing you can lose simply because there is nothing you are WITHOUT. You are not incomplete but whole, thus nothing can be lost to that which is complete as this would negate completion. There is nothing here that can sustain you and valuing it for that purpose only perpetuates your lack of sustenance and your feeling of loss. Valuing anything as necessary to attain completion, only reinforces your belief in your incompletion. Nevertheless, you have always felt that something was missing. You have lived with an emptiness that your struggles to fill have only served to further deepen. Every “loving” relationship, every moment of pleasure, every object coveted, has left you still feeling incomplete. Your relationships drain and disillusion you, your moments of pleasure fade and all objects lose their v...
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Talking With Jesus: "The Present"
2008-02-10 14:35:00
M: You keep using the concept of the “present” as something I should seek to be in. This is one of the many platitudes repeated in spiritual circles. How can I be in the present? J: You are always “present,” yet believe you are "past." Nothing has happened, nothing will occur, and your fantasies to the contrary do not change this fact. Yet as long as you expect change there is much occurring and happening around you that seems beyond your ability to control. M: Why would I create a reality beyond my control? J: You do not “create” as long as you believe you are NOT an extension of God. Extension IS Creation. You have the capacity to extend, but only in the realization of that capacity. You believe you do NOT have that realization therefore you do not experience your capacity. Until such time, you will misinterpret your function and this misinterpretation is what you SEE everywhere you look. If God believed in littleness and weakness, you would not BE. The fact...
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Talking With Jesus: "Nothing out of Nothing"
2008-02-07 15:26:00
M: You have taught that God is an experience and that it is beyond my mind’s ability to comprehend. So why am I even trying to reach God through my intellect? Why think about any of this?J: I am not part of your intellect. However, I can use your intellect to help YOU no longer rely on IT. For now, however, you DO rely on thinking and this is where correction must be made since this is where your judgments and discriminations originate. I teach that it is your insistence on judging reality that keeps you imprisoned IN reality. Perception must involve differentiation between two or more opposing viewpoints and in choosing one, the other MUST be excluded. Clearly, this denies the all inclusiveness of One Mind which makes no such discrimination. Nevertheless, you believe that you cannot detach from judgment since as of yet, you continue to believe in sacrifice. You believe you must chose one above another and NOT to do so will harm you.I will aid you in making judgments that will se...
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Talking With Jesus: "To Know it, You Must Teach It"
2008-02-02 11:52:00
This Post is related to the Saint Francis ProjectM: I would like you to comment on the first part of this prayer by St Francis of Assisi "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon;" J: "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace." You ARE peace as God Created, yet you are NOT fully aware of what you are because war distracts your attention and fills your mind and thus you deny what you ARE, because you believe you have no choice. You believe you must prepare for war, yet still seek peace. However, if you believe that war is possible, you deny that you ARE peace.God does not Create opposites, but God did Create YOU. When belief in war is alleviated, you will no longer SEE it. Every thought in your mind that does not attest to perfect peace, is a belief in war on some level and an affirmation of opposites. Nothing can oppose what God Created why would you believe the opposite? Perfection has no opposite simply b...
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Talking With Jesus: "Stop Compromising"
2008-01-29 15:10:00
M: It seems you’re telling me that every thought in my mind is useless and that I must think only what you think. J: On the contrary, every thought in your mind is highly useful if used to correct improper learning. Nevertheless, previous patterns of thinking have been essentially useless to you and has resulted in wasted time.Knowing the Truth is certain, nevertheless, the time you take to achieve certainty is based on your decision to correct your perceptions NOW or later.Each time you choose NOW through which to perceive your "self" and your world correctly, you will experience a shift in consciousness. If you do NOT choose NOW to change your thinking, know that you simply delay what is certain. Make no mistake, change in thinking will result in changed perception and the inverse is not applicable. The choice can only be delayed, but it MUST be made and you will make it. As an extension of God’s Being, you have no reason to choose, since in that extension the choice was m...
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Talking With Jesus: "Perfect Equality"
2008-01-26 14:00:00
M: Maybe if I cloistered myself in a monastery and continued this for several years I would then be able to realize and experience what you teach. Unfortunately, I must participate in my life and life is chock full to the brim with fears in the form of worry, depression anger, etc. I still do not see how I can get beyond fear? J: In desiring to get “beyond” that which does NOT exist, your belief in its existence is certified. Nevertheless, fear is a delusion that you believe crucial to your survival. Examine closely how much of your life is spent in negotiating YOUR fear in all of its blatant and subtle manifestations.Fear demands self-protection and it is this need to protect your “self” which bars the gate from learning that you are eternally secure and in need of nothing. Recall that I have informed you that love and fear are the only paradigms available through which to PERCEIVE your world. I have chosen one, but you have yet to choose and only one choice CAN be made....
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Talking With Jesus: "You Only Fear the Past"
2008-01-24 20:49:00
M: I feel that I need to keep going over these concepts repeatedly. What other way is there to learn them? J: You will need to "experience" what I teach as relevant to your daily living; otherwise, it will fade with time, since this is the purpose of time. However, Truth is timeless and does not fade simply because you choose to ignore it. I am always available to provide guidance to the truth if you ask, but only IF you ask. YOU demand that learning occur through experience. However, there must be sufficient belief in the “potential” for experience or you will fail to create the conditions for allowing it. The conditions necessary to experience what I teach have nothing to do with your attachment to a delusional past. As long as you believe you are a product of TIME, you will fail to meet the conditions of "timelessness."Your vacillating impedes the experience of what I teach. Nevertheless, if you do not learn from me, then you will simply repeat past learning which, as you...
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Talking with Jesus: "Ask and You Must Receive"
2008-01-20 21:38:00
M: You are saying that since reality is NOT outside my mind, but contained “within” my mind, that essentially I think it into existence. Therefore, everything I experience I ask for and receive as I have asked. So, why am I unconscious to what I ask for?Yesterday, I bounced a check and this resulted in considerable resentment. Why a bounced check? Why not stub my toe or have a disagreement with a coworker? What I don’t understand is why I give myself certain specific experiences? J: You must ask yourself what is it that you WANT and in that answer you will learn why you RECEIVE. What you believe must be found is what you look for and what you find. You believe you are looking for specific "blessings" from your world, yet you refuse to bless. Your world requires your blessings and only in that will you RECEIVE. Why would you keep yourself apart from your joy and abundance? M: So how do I give joy and abundance to myself? J: By acknowledging that you HAVE it. In the...
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Does Your Belief System Limit You?
2008-01-18 03:16:00
Belief is the underlying foundation of your physical existence and your spiritual evolution. Belief is the springboard of thought. It frames your reference point and shapes your interpretations.This is the starting point of all introspection and self-analysis. When Voltaire (18th century pundit) stated that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” he was speaking about the examination of your beliefs.Beliefs can shackle us or set us free. Even the monolithic, somewhat dogmatic, medical establishment is beginning to understand how beliefs can promote healing or cause debilitating disorders or dis-ease. The power of belief has been known for centuries, but often denied in the face of "reality." The contingent conditions of reality require you believe only what the senses can prove. Beliefs based only only on what can be proven can oppress and limit you.“If we think distress we get distress; if we think success, we get success. When we entertain destructive thought we set up a ...
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Talking with Jesus: "See With the Mind"
2008-01-13 17:35:00
M: In essence, you are asking that I no longer identify with my ego or the “self” that I believe I am. This has been advocated by many spiritual masters, yet the world is full to the brim with ego and all the hell that the ego brings. What is different in what you teach? J: You are now willing to learn. M: So all the world’s suffering could have been alleviated long before now, if only I was willing to learn how to detach from my ego? That puts a lot of responsibility and guilt on my shoulders. J: You are your world and nothing is without YOU. Yet, you believe you are without IT and therefore, you remain in proximity, but not as ONE. Thus, it is easy for you to avoid responsibility, yet still maintain guilt for what you perceive as real and make no mistake, you do believe you are guilty.Resisting Truth will NOT negate IT, yet it will prolong the time needed to know IT. More precisely, if the world is IN your mind, what PART of your mind is guilty? God does not recogn...
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Talking with Jesus: "An Epsiode at the Grocery Store"
2008-01-10 19:36:00
This was a “talk” that occurred yesterday in the supermarket while I stood waiting in the checkout line. I'm replaying it here from memory (and a little help) J: Do you see that man there? The one in directly in front of you behind the woman at the register? M: Yeah, so what? J: He is your salvation. M: What?! That guy right there will save me? J: That’s correct. However, the choice for allowing him to save you must inevitably remain with you. M: Sorry, I don’t get it. I’m not going to have any interaction with this guy. We’re both waiting to checkout. I have no desire to interact in any way, let alone for him to save me or even for me to allow him to. J: Clearly then, you have made your choice. M: Well, wait a minute, how can he save me? J: The moment you cease to judge him or any other “person” you are saved. M: Well that should be easy. I haven’t judged him at all. J: Notice how little vigilance you provide your own thoughts. Y...
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Should You Accept or Surrender?
2008-01-09 15:55:00
Most of the personal development blogs I often read seem to emphasize that surrender means the letting go of, or release of, pain and suffering. I contend that surrender confirms loss, while acceptance asserts that you have nothing to lose.The need to surrender confirms loss or failure. Therefore, you have not released yourself, but further bound yourself to your belief in your inadequacy and littleness. Choose carefully the words you use to define yourself since what you think you ARE is what you will BE.Accept ance identifies and asserts that what was once fought against is no longer deemed worthy of battle. You do not surrender and thus admit defeat, but rather you accept and admit freedom from conflict. You cannot win nor lose, conquer nor surrender, since neither is applicable to a life lived in acceptance. Many might contend that this is exactly what “surrender” means. However, if you surrender to your depression, you essentially concede that it has controlled your life. ...
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