Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 12 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Yesterday’s reading said:

The words of the Holy Spirit are final. … They are the only authority in a world that seems absent of Authority, and so it is this authority that is given.

Today’s reading says:

The authority of the world is confusion and illusion, which is no authority at all. … This is why you have the Holy Spirit.

The “authority of the world” is thinking. The “Holy Spirit” is intuitive wisdom.

The world values thinking as its guide, but as today’s reading points out, and as it’s been pointed out to us many times before, thinking is the problem, not the answer.

Have you observed your own thinking processes enough to realize that thinking is the cause of your suffering, or do you still think that thinking will resolve your problems and lead you to freedom?

If you think that thinking will resolve your problems and lead you to freedom, intuitive wisdom rests silently within you, so silently that you may not know it is there. It doesn’t interfere with your attraction to thinking as long as thinking is what you value.

However, if you are beginning to see that thinking is the problem, wisdom is ready to replace thinking. It is ready to be your guide.

You have to make the decision.

Do you still value your mind above everything else?

Do you want your spiritual aspiration or do you want to protect your mind’s image of itself?

What do you choose as your authority?

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

Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 11 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Today’s reading is about authority. It is a simple reading, clear and easy to understand, unless you have an “authority problem.” If you do, today’s reading might bring up resistance in you.

It’s interesting that the word “authority” has “author” as its basis. One who feels resistance to authority might be able to see today’s reading differently by focusing on “author” in the word “authority.” Ask, “Which do I want to be the author of my script, ego or Spirit?”

As we learned when we studied The Code, everything is part of a script. Every thought that comes into your mind comes from the script (the code). The only real choice that you have as awareness is the choice regarding what you will give your attention to. Through this choice and the creative principle, more script (code) is written.

If you give attention to the ego thoughts that come into the mind, ego and its script are emphasized and reprocessed by the creative principle. If you give attention to intuitive wisdom, wisdom and its script are emphasized and reprocessed.

What do you want emphasized and reprocessed in your experience?

Choose that as your author-ity. By choosing that as your authority, and by allowing it to be your authority, you will discover where that script leads.

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

Today’s reading says:

Each of your brothers is one with you. And so each of your brothers has one purpose, and that is the purpose given him within the mind.

In this sentence, “mind” is synonymous with consciousness. This sentence is another way of saying that light is spreading within one mind (consciousness). If we use the cake batter analogy, the moment the blue food coloring was put in the cake batter, it became one purpose for all of the cake batter to become blue. In that same way, it is one purpose for all of consciousness to awaken to itself.

Since all of consciousness has the purpose of awakening, awakening is the true purpose of every heart. Of course, it is easy to look at the world and see that not everyone lives by this purpose. In fact, most people don’t. However, our hearts communicate with us all of the time. When a person is, in the moment, in harmony with the true purpose of the heart, that person experiences joy. When a person is not, in the moment, in harmony with the true purpose of the heart, that person experiences some type of suffering.

Let’s look at an example:

Let’s imagine a man who lives in a self-centered way. He is a businessman. His primary objectives in life are to make money and enjoy himself. However, he experiences stress and anger at work regularly. Stress and anger indicate that he is out of harmony with consciousness’ purpose, which is a purpose he hasn’t consciously discovered yet.

One day a friend recommends a book called Busting Loose From the Business Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Recreating Yourself, Your Team, Your Business, and Everything in Between, by Robert Scheinfeld. He is motivated to read this book, because of his desire to make money. As he reads the book, he recognizes some of his self-limiting beliefs. Since he sees them as obstacles to success, he uses the process in the book to let them go. As he does, he begins to experience more joy at work.

Why has stress and anger been replaced with joy?

Even though he doesn’t have a conscious goal of awakening, he is beginning to live by the principles of awakening. Through these principles, he is falling into harmony with the true heart, and the effect is joy.

Everyone is joined in one purpose, because it is consciousness’ purpose, and everyone is consciousness. When one is in harmony with the purpose of the heart, one experiences joy. When one isn’t in harmony with it, one suffers.

What about your suffering? You have chosen awakening as your purpose. Doesn’t that mean you are in harmony with consciousness? Shouldn’t you experience joy?

Let’s look at another example:

Let’s imagine a woman who is committed to awakening. She is in Gentle Healing. She contemplates the Thought of Awakening each day, and she reads the daily tip, reads from NTI and meditates for 30 minutes. She feels at peace each morning as she does this. However, when the woman moves away from her morning contemplation and meditation time, and into her day, the peace fades. She begins to experience other emotions, especially worry and annoyance.

The woman experiences peace during contemplation and meditation, because in those moments she is in harmony with the true heart. As she moves into her day, she lets other ideas enter the mind, and she begins listening to them. She worries about her children. She unconsciously believes ideas that indicate she is unworthy if her children’s lives do not look a certain way. She also listens to ideas of blame. She believes the reason she isn’t happy is because of her husband, and so she finds herself annoyed with him freqently.

In other words, the woman experiences worry and annoyance during the exact moments  that she is not in harmony with the true heart.

This can change for her, if she learns to look immediately whenever she is not happy. If she learns to look immediately to see what she believes in that moment, and then learns to let it go because it isn’t joy, she will learn to remain in harmony with the true heart throughout the day, and she will begin to experience joy in her daily life.

Peace, joy, and contentment are the signs that you are presently  in harmony with the purpose of consciousness. All forms of suffering indicate that you are not currently in harmony with consciousness.

How can anyone be out of harmony with consciousness if everyone is consciousness?

Consciousness is life-awareness-freedom. The freedom aspect can never be removed from consciousness, because that is what it is. Therefore, even though awakening is the purpose of consciousness, aspects of consciousness can choose to be mentally  out of harmony with that purpose. This is the hallmark of freedom. Freedom can choose to experience itself any way it chooses, even if that choice is different than its truth.

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