Yesterday’s reading began:

“The question that you always ask is: How are you to live in the world without being a part of the world?”

Today’s reading continues to answer that question. Today’s reading emphasizes that the way we are to live in the world without being a part of it is to live with a rested mind. It says:

“Resting is the realization that confusion rules the world. And it is also the decision not to be ruled by confusion anymore.”

One who lives with a rested mind is also the empty shell. They are synonymous.

How do you rest the mind?

You rest the mind by:

• Letting your spiritual aspiration be the guiding principle in your life.
• Staying focused within; instead of relying on thinking, let inner wisdom be the author and director of your role in the world.

As we learned on Day 122, the mind will try to regain command and control. Thinking will become loud. You will feel the emotional energy associated with the points of experience in thought. That doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It simply means that the mind doesn’t want to be dethroned. When the mind acts up, rest as deeply as you can. Rest-accept-trust is  healing. You set yourself free and serve the greater good by choosing to live with a rested mind.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 186

Watching the story
and being guided within it
by a Voice that is not
part of the story
is not the same
as believing
and being involved with
the story.

One must take a step back
with an awareness
that the story isn’t important
in order to be guided
by a Voice
that is not part of the story.

Pain is part of the story.
Therefore, the only answer
to all problems of pain
is to willingly step back
from the story.

~From our Holy Spirit

Saina guides a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Thursdays at 6-8 pm ET and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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FunPlay for the week:

1. Assignment A: Workbook lessons 215-221 including the tips. Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons 215-221. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. Here’s a direct link: Click HerePractice daily awareness-watching-awareness, Loving Consciousness or Abandon Release Method meditation for 15-20 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
2. Assignment B: Read ‘The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss,’ Chapters 4, 5 & 12. You will find it at this link: http://albigen.com/uarelove/most_rapid/contents.htm

Today’s reading begins by saying:

“The question that you always ask is: How are you to live in the world without being a part of the world? … When you are thinking this way, you are listening to the voice of confusion. … You are looking at the world as if it is real, and you are looking at actions as if they are actions.”

If awakening to truth is our goal, it is important that we remember truth and live by truth to the best of our ability. If we continue to live by falsehood, falsehood is strengthened in us. When we live by truth, falsehood weakens until it passes away.

Truth is represented by the four principles of God. Everything in the fourth principle is illusion; it is consciousness appearing as something other than consciousness. The appearances are created by declaration. When we declare something meaningful by believing it and giving it attention, that value is reprocessed by the creative principle, and the energy from the appearance creates more appearances with the same energy.

The energy that I am speaking of is also called “thought.” As mentioned on Day 183, “thought” is broadly defined to include general attitudes and ways of being. Action is an expression of thought. That means that every part of how we be  in the world is fed into the creative principle and creates the world, including its characters and their thoughts.

Most people are completely unaware of the four principles of God. They do not know truth, and they do not know that we are all a part of the creative process. They live from ignorance. That’s why Jesus said:

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.”
(Luke 23:34)

Most people are completely unaware of truth, but we are not completely unaware. That’s why yesterday’s reading said:

“This service that you perform of not believing the world and of not acting as if the word is real, is a service you provide for yourself and for the entirety of the one mind that you are.”

Those of us who are not entirely ignorant serve everyone by living from the wisdom we’ve realized.

How do we do that?

• Actively remember your spiritual aspiration.
• Actively remember the wisdom you’ve realized.
• Act based on your spiritual aspiration and the wisdom you’ve realized instead of acting from ignorance.

The best way to act based on wisdom is to stay focused within. Ask inner wisdom, “What am I to do now?” and let it guide your perception and your actions.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 185

One can live within the story,
while being aware of reality.
This is what is meant by
“awakened.”

One who is awakened
does not fear,
because that one knows
what he looks upon
and lives within.

To hold to the story as true
is not to awaken.
To awaken
one must be willing
to let go of all appearances
as not true.

~From our Holy Spirit

Rev. Helen Avery is an Awakening Together Ordained Minister. She shares weekly in our Sanctuary with a half-hour of heart-felt deep-diving into truth, love, and awareness. This candid sharing is a time when Helen explores different modalities and teachings with various non-dual teachers and how the real-life application of those particular teachings is currently showing up in her life. She shares about experiences from her path of awakening including the demonstration of how to utilize these helpful processes and spiritual tools. In her most recent Awakening journey, she discusses radical truth and wisdom from teachers such as Mooji and Helen Hamilton.

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Please join us for our Quarterly Member Meeting on Sunday, September 12, 2021, from 7:30-9 pm ET/5:30-7 pm MT.

In this member meeting:

• New Ministers will be ordained.
• Rev. Jacquelyn will present the quarterly financial report.
• Rev. Jacquelyn will share information about the Online Retreat Facilitator Certification Program.
• Rev. Jacquelyn will discuss our virtual classroom (Zoom-based) MPP Curriculum starting in September.