When we look at the world, we often see people doing things that we think they shouldn’t do. We see people in situations and places that we think they shouldn’t be in. Interestingly, that is not how knowledge sees.

Knowledge sees the light in everyone and it sees everyone in the light, because knowledge knows only the light. When the light is all that is seen, there isn’t a judgment that someone is doing something they shouldn’t do or that they are in a situation or place they shouldn’t be in.

The only “mistake” that knowledge knows of is the mistake of not welcoming the light. In this case, mistake means “to misunderstand or misinterpret.” It can also mean “to identify wrongly,” but it doesn’t mean to do something one shouldn’t be doing or to be in a place or circumstance one shouldn’t be in.

Since knowledge sees the light in everyone and sees everyone in the light, the only “mistake” is misunderstanding reality, and the only “correction” is accepting reality as it is. Since one can accept this correction at any time, everyone is always in the right place. No one needs to go anywhere else or do anything differently.

I remember when I first became aware of John Sherman. His awakening came while he was in prison. During the interview that I was listening to, he explained that being in prison was the perfect place for him to be in order to realize truth. And then he looked at the interviewer and said, “And your life is the perfect life for you to realize truth.”

That’s how knowledge sees.

Thoughts of Awakening # 95

Who you think you are
is made up of ideas.

Look at who you think you are,
and realize that is a list of ideas.

Ideas and definitions change.

Are you really that which changes,
or are you the constancy
that is witnessing and observing
the change?

~From our Holy Spirit

Today’s reading teaches that there is a direct correlation between how we see now and how we want to see. For some, this may be hard to read. Often people want to believe that their desire for truth is stronger than it is. However, we can see how strong our desire for truth is by looking at exactly how we see (and experience) now.

Why do we want to believe that our desire for truth is stronger than it is?

As we learned in NTI Luke, we believe that we are inherently guilty for seeing ourselves as separate individuals. We feel guilty for seeing ourselves as some thing, because that isn’t truth; life is what we are. Interestingly, seeing ourselves as guilty is an ego preservation strategy.

How is it an ego preservation strategy?

Seeing ourselves as guilty is seeing ourselves as something. In order to see ourselves (and everything else) as it is, we need to let go of all beliefs that we have about what we are. We also need to let go of all beliefs about what others are, what the world is and what the world is supposed to be.

Today’s reading says:

“When a man welcomes the Light fully, he ceases to be a man, and he becomes the Light. For the Light is a presence that denies the existence of man. It knows only the Light. … To know the Light is to know eternity.”

It is as Floyd Henderson wrote in his book, The Blissful Abidance Series:

“The entire contents [of the mind] must be discarded if you would “fill the cup” with that which can bring you something with a taste that can be enjoyed. There is no other way than the way of emptiness first, fullness second…

When all learned ignorance is tossed, then everything that also accompanies ignorance will go. … You will have returned to Your original nature … You will have tasted the sweet taste of the nectar of immortality.”

Michael Langford teaches that the most important first step you can take toward awakening in this lifetime is to increase your desire for awakening.

Michael Langford teaches, “another great key is self-honesty.” He writes:

“Self-honesty will help in all aspects of the quest for liberation. Self-honesty will help you to increase your desire for liberation.”

That means that in spite of the ego’s tendency to pretend that our desire for awakening is greater than it is, it is actually most helpful to be honest about our level of desire. When we pretend that our desire is greater than it is, we hold onto the repressed belief that we are guilty. When we are honest without guilt, we let go of the belief that we are guilty. That is letting go of one of the ego’s core preservation strategies.

Thoughts of Awakening # 94

Who you think you are
separates you from
who you think you are not.

Who you think you are
provides you with
the opportunity to judge.

Who you think you are
is more than an experience.
It is a tool.

It is a tool that allows you
to continue to play
the game of separation.

Are you willing
to let go of
who you think you are?

~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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