Salvation Is in Your Mind. Find It!
This talk goes into some profound distinctions between specialness and being joined and connected in the purpose of forgiveness. Salvation is our only function in the world, and the only concept that is helpful is forgiveness; forgiveness is salvation. It is like the golden needle in the haystack of your mind. It seems buried amidst many other thoughts, but you can and must find it! The Holy Spirit is speaking to you all through the day, offering you the “breadcrumbs” you need to find this golden needle that will lead you back to the Kingdom of Heaven within.
Gold Nugget:
“Jesus says in the Course, a teacher of God can heal the world without a sound. Well, that puts everything into perspective. It is in the stillness. It’s in the prayer and in the stillness where the answer is found. We’re not going to find it among the words even; those can be if the Spirit’s using them, we can feel our hearts opening up, and we feel very heartwarming when we hear a transmission coming from the Spirit. So we don’t want to deny that feeling. But a teacher of God could heal the world without a sound. Isn’t that magnificent? You think of some of these yogis that just are dropping deep into the deep stillness; how wonderful without a sound. It’s amazing in a book of words, that’s what got slipped in there. It was funny too, because, you know, most people read through the Course, and they talk about the purpose of the body. And it says that bodies, you know, solely a means of communication. And people will find those passages: the only purpose for the bodies are means of communication, communication, communication. I actually found one sentence where it kind of dipped even deeper than that one. It says, ‘the body has no function.’ T-8.VIII.5:1 He came right out and said it! I’m happy. Get the highlighter out for that one! Everybody quotes that body only solely as a means of communication, communication. But then I found one: ‘the body has no function’! Well, that kind of fits with that ‘At no single instant does the body exist at all.’ T-18.VII.3:1 Haha, that one matches up good with that one. ‘It is always remembered or anticipated.’ T-18.VII.3:2 So while you’re remembering it, or anticipating it, use it for communication. But then you can dip into the silence and heal the world without a sound, just by that pure ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ T-4.In.2:2 That was always the answer. We knew there was something to ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ We resonate with that. We know that that’s the truth of it.”
Recorded at the Into His Presence Would I Enter Now Gathering on April 21, 2015 at Alverna Heights Spirituality Center in Syracuse, New York
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