How Can I Experience Life from a Right-Minded State of Awareness?
Arlington, Texas Gathering: Part 1—How Can I Experience Life from a Right-Minded State of Awareness?
Gold Nugget:
This whole realm of time and space is the belief that there’s something outside. When we come back and talk about living from right mindedness we’re coming back to that experience that the mind is causative and I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. W-281 I can be helped by nothing but my thoughts. So it’s very important that we get in touch with our thoughts. If thoughts are unconscious, if thoughts are judged against and pushed down into the unconscious mind then you might say what seems to be our life in this world is more like a robotic acting out of unconscious thoughts and beliefs. So it’s absolutely imperative for us to become fully conscious of our thoughts. The reason our thoughts are pushed out of awareness is because often times they’ve been judged against. They’re judged as too horrible to be held in awareness so you might say that there is a fear in the mind of the power of these thoughts. And why is it that we would be so afraid of thoughts except that there’s a belief in our mind that we could miscreate with our thoughts, that we could go against our Source, go against our Creator with these thoughts? That’s where the terror comes in and that’s why all of the discipline, the mind training that I speak of, is about becoming fully aware, and to come into the actual experience that our Source, our Creator, God, never gave us the power to destroy; never created us with the power to miscreate. It’s only this ego belief that brings up this idea of miscreation. God is Spirit, and God creates in Spirit, and the Spirit is pure love. So love comes from love. Love extends love. Even in this world we get apples from apple trees, we get pears from pear trees. And if we take that back to the realm of Spirit; Spirit comes from Spirit.”
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