Today’s reading says:
All are invited into the Awareness of God,
and none are to be left out.
And then, it introduces the obstacle to the Awareness of God. It calls the obstacle, “a wish.”
NTI Acts 23 said, “…cruelty lives in you as a wish.” However, that isn’t the wish that today’s reading is about. The wish that today’s reading is about is the source of the wish for cruelty. It is also the source of unworthiness, guilt, fear, and etcetera.
What is the wish?
We’ll find out tomorrow. Today, it’s important that we contemplate six teachings regarding the wish first:
- The wish is inside of your mind, not someone else’s.
- The wish is subconscious, and so it may not immediately be seen as your wish.
- The wish is only a thought, and so it is nothing at all.
- The wish hasn’t had any actual effects.
- The fact that you could explore your wish is cause for joy and gratitude.
- Now that the wish has been explored, it can be let go.
I’d like to comment on the first teaching in that list, and then I will leave it to you to contemplate the remaining teachings with inner spiritual intuition.
The wish is inside of my mind, not someone else’s:
On Day 125, we learned that ‘you’ refers to everyone and everything manifest. If your name is Sally or Harry, ‘you’ does not refer to Sally or Harry alone. ‘You’ refers to everything manifest. ‘You’ refers to consciousness appearing as something—as many things—other than consciousness. So, when NTI Romans says the wish is inside of your mind, it is referring to the one ‘you’ that we all are.
At the same time, we cannot heal this wish if we see it in other people’s minds instead of in our own. That’s why NTI says, “This wish is not within anyone else, although you would rather see it there.”
If we see others as responsible, we deny our own responsibility. When we deny our own responsibility, the wish continues subconsciously.
If we are to heal the obstacle to the Awareness of God—which is healing the obstacle to unity consciousness—we need to see the wish as “in my mind.” Everyone else is permitted to be exactly as they are. In fact, it is helpful to see everyone as perfect just as they are. If anything is upsetting to me, I look in my mind for the root cause of the upset. By always taking responsibility whenever I am upset, the wish is healed in me.
Likewise, we avoid healing when we blame others for our upset.
After reading today’s reading, please contemplate the remaining teachings in the list above as you journal with inner spiritual wisdom. You might try asking questions like:
What do I need to know about the wish being subconscious?
What is meant by, “The wish is only a thought, and so it is nothing at all?”
Etcetera.
Feel free to form your own questions. Inner wisdom will help you ask the questions that are most helpful for you to ask.
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