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?
Thoughts of Awakening # 120
Forget who you think you are
and what you think you need
in order to be happy.
Forget the rules
that tell you how to be good and worthy
in your eyes
and in the eyes of others.
Forget the stories
that tell you what you see
and how to understand it.
Forget everything,
and just be.
This is the way of remembering.
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~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 120-126
- Read NTI Acts Chapters 12-18
- The reading shared on Tuesday night was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, p. 143-151 or for Kindle users the Chapter titled Unveiling Reality & We Are What We seek
- Exercise: This week we give our attention to our meditations. Notice when you become distracted by something, thoughts, images, sounds. Ask yourself whether you are trying to make it stop or you are trying to hang onto it. See what the answer is and then let it go.
