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What in the World are you Thinking
About?
We're either thinking about Spiritual Unity (contemplation), or thinking about the means to attainment of some imagined pleasure and satisfaction (money). Spiritual Unity is God, and the means to attainment is money. Why would we choose the former? Well, think deeply into this question. Does money bring happiness or does happiness bring money? Why would we choose the contemplation of Spiritual Unity over the thinking about the accomplishment of our desires? Could it be that one causes anxiety and the other causes peace? Attain Peace First, and let all else be added unto you. Peace is the source and wellspring of all inspira-tion. Peace can be felt, and the feeling of it increases our sense of well-being. God is Peace. God is Love. Both can be felt and both feelings increase our sense of well-being. Increased sense of well being increases relaxation and relaxation increases health, which results in an increase in our capacity to sense, experience and emanate more of the Divine Peace and Love that is available to us when we sit quietly and grow in our capacity to contemplate Spiritual Unity (God/Love/Peace). There is a direct bypass to the investigation of causes. Investigation of causes is for the satisfaction of curiosity of the scientific mind but all investigation will lead the same conclusion so for those who are satisfied in their investigation, investigation is dead. And God is Life. Remembrance/connection with God/Love/Peace is immediate be-cause it was never not there. it is a easy as shifting the focus of your consciousness from that which is ruling you to that which is fascinat-ing. The direct attainment of that which you desire obviates and eliminates the need for desire. It is said that God will do one of two things with our desires - eliminate or fulfill. How is the fulfillment of a de-sire not its elimination? And God himself is the fulfillment of all desire, if you but only knew it. What desires does an innocent newborn bay have, or a tree, or a bird? Is not God the fulfillment of all desire? "O man! What foolishness is it that distracts you from the mercy of your Lord?" Contemplation leads to realization. Doing it (your homework) correctly entails withdrawal of sense pro-jection from other (distraction) and right intention (your intention is to right livelihood). The contemplation/realization of Spiritual Unity is the wellspring of inspiration and without inspiration there is no correct motivation and without correct and divinely inspired motivation there is only error, and why would anyone want to move on error unless compelled? So answering the question of what compulsion is it that distracts us from the mercy of our Lord is the process of investigation; it is answer-ing the question of why we are moving when we know it is not the right thing to do. But even in order to get to the answers of those questions we have to stop asking, as though our salvation derived from those answers, and turn to salvation itself if we want the answers but salvation itself is the answer and no longer are the answers important or necessary. This is what we mean when we say that God himself is the answer and the satisfaction of all desires. Our desires can be satisfied. Did God create in us a world of desires only to be a source of anger and frustration to us which then became the source of out testing and character building? But the satisfaction of our desires comes from God, and not from the fruit of our labors, and that is the only recognition he demands of us as the key to gardens of paradise and the satisfaction of all our desires. With that recogni-tion come the peace on earth and good will toward men that we all sing about in Christmas carols. We're either in contemplation or in thought. Thought is imagining, contemplation is wonderment at the real and the envisionment of possibilities. Thought is the attempt to use the imagination to create some-thing imagined to be missing. When thought is eventually or willfully surrendered to contemplation, re-ality is such that allows for the drawing to us of all that we desire through the simple art of envision-ment, which is dependent upon the knowledge that it is there already and does not need to be created. To say "it's possible" is to have faith in what is. It's vastly different from imagining an absence and at-tempting to "create" it. w/love ali |