On Day 263, I wrote:

You cannot read today’s reading from the idea, “I am a person,” and understand it. “I” cannot mean “me and not others.” “I” must mean consciousness, and it must include all things in manifestation as  “I,” or the meaning in today’s reading will be lost.

That’s true with today’s reading too. Today’s reading is not talking to Bill or Harry or Sally, or anyone else with an individual name. Today’s reading talks to consciousness, which misperceives itself as Bill and Harry and Sally, and every other apparent individual. However, the point of the reading is this:

There are no individuals. It is one consciousness appearing as many, just as one heating system blows through many vents to heat several different rooms in a house. It is all one heat. In the same way, the consciousness that enlivens many different personality-minds is all one consciousness.

As Jesus said in the Book of John in the Bible:

In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” ~ John 14:2-4, English Standard Version

Likewise, today’s reading says:

I have come to help you remove your faith from the illusion, which you have believed in until now, and place it firmly with one mind (consciousness), which is not separate. With your faith placed in the one mind, you can look at the one mind, see the beliefs that have been accepted there, and then choose to use the one mind to peacefully see another way.

Choosing to look at the image of the world as the reflection of consciousness while abiding with attention on truth is how we “prepare a place” for consciousness, so that it may come and be “where I am.”

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In the Bible, Jesus said:

Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

When a person is identified with the ego, his point-of-view is selfish. He sees himself as different from others, and he cares more about himself than anyone else. This is true even though he may deny it to himself.

That is why a mother can be annoyed with her children, even though she loves them more than anyone else on earth. You see, she loves herself even more, and when her children conflict with her present desire (e.g., They are noisy when she wants quiet), she becomes annoyed with them.

As we awaken to consciousness, we begin to love others in the same way we love our self. That means their needs (perceived or real) are just as important to us as our own. Even more, we put others before  ourselves, because we notice that the only part of us that wouldn’t put others before ‘me’ is the ego, and we have no more interest in ego.

These are signs that you are awakening to consciousness:

• You naturally care about others as much as you care about yourself, even if you’ve never met them before.
• You happily put yourself aside without any sense of sacrifice in order to accommodate someone else’s needs (perceived or real).
• You prefer to take on a responsibility that you know you can manage yourself than pass it to another, if the other would perceive it as a burden.
• You are willing to do things someone else’s way, as long as the effect of that decision is in harmony with intuition’s guidance.
• You recognize others as yourself and greet them with great joy and familiarity. (Sometimes you have to tone it down a bit, because others are not accustomed to it.)
• Others often tell you they feel more at ease or happier when they are around you or after talking with you.

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