The world is a reflection of the mind. That statement is true in two ways:
- The scenes of the world are created through the creative principle based on the believing-attention that consciousness gives to thought.
- The scenes of the world are interpreted through the filter of the individual mind.
The world is seen and experienced with clarity when there isn’t mental chatter. Inspiration shines through the mind that is not blocked by mental chatter, and it looks out on a world of miraculous beauty. The things that were important to the mind blocked by chatter, aren’t important to the clear mind. Although the person may still work in the same way and face the same daily challenges, she is happy, because she lives and works amid the spontaneous magnificence of consciousness.
Here’s a story that illustrates this:
St. Francis traveled from Assisi to Rome to get the Pope’s approval, so that his order of friars would be legitimized in the eyes of the church. This could have been seen as an important journey, one that could end in success or failure. In fact, it could have gone very wrong. Francis could have been arrested as a heretic and thrown into the Vatican’s dungeon.
One who listened to mental chatter would have had quite a bit to worry about on this trip. And once the approval was given, one focused on mental chatter might have big plans to focus on and talk about with his fellow travelers. You may be able to imagine what this journey could have been like if mental chatter was active in Francis’ mind.
Here’s a poem by St. Francis, which illuminates his experience of that journey to and from Rome:
A bird took flight.
And a flower in a field whistled at me
as I passed.
I drank from a stream of clear water.
And at night, the sky untied her hair
and I fell asleep clutching a tress of God’s.
When I returned from Rome, all said,
“Tell us the great news,”
and with great excitement I did:
“A flower in a field whistled,
and at night the sky untied her hair and
I fell asleep clutching
a sacred tress …”
Francis lived in the moment—in the miracle.
The world is seen and experienced with clarity when there isn’t mental chatter. Inspiration shines through the mind that is not blocked by mental chatter, and it looks out on a world of magnificence and beauty.
Please read Revelation 18:1-3 in the Bible before reading today’s reading in NTI.
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