You are
blessed beings; indeed, I am that one that you know as Jesus.
There is a
sentiment amongst many that A course in miracles is a stayed old tradition. It
is not fun. It is not exciting. It is not exciting, it is a sort of trudge through
phrases and practices that are not going to benefit you.
That idea
only comes from people who have not done it. Anybody who has done A course in
miracles and applied it to their lives will tell you a different story. They
will tell you that it has changed their lives. That it has changed the way they
experience the world. It has changed how they feel about everything and
everyone, which is its intention.
Its
intention is to remove, from you, all unloving beliefs and the thoughts and
feelings that are generated from those beliefs. You cannot just stop your
thoughts and your feelings. They come from what you believe to be true about
the world, about yourself and about other people.
So, you must go to those beliefs and shift and change them systematically and
repeatedly for your feelings and thoughts to change.
So, what most beings do is they say to themselves: ‘well I don't want to think
that’, and then they will try and control their thinking. But because they
think the thought is coming from a belief that they think is true, they have to
side and believe that thought. They cannot let that thought just go through
their mind and go ‘well that does not mean anything’, because to them it does
mean something. And when you believe a thought, you create a feeling. And this
is why so many of you are emotionally, you are emotional roller coasters,
having ups and downs throughout the day and in your relationships, saying
things that hurt people, giving them the cold shoulder or the silent treatment,
getting angry, all of these things are emotions out of control, because you
have thousands of beliefs residing within your mind that have not been given a
good test. The good test is: ‘does this improve my life overtime and make me
feel good or does it not’.
So when you go to things like substances, you can say: ‘well this substance
makes me feel better, so it must be a good thing’. But does it improve your
life overtime. No. Having a cocaine habit does not, it might make tonight's
party a lot of fun, but overtime you will lose a lot of valuable things.
So, one of
the things that the ego is not, is patient. And one of the things that spirit
is, is patient. And so, when the ego looks at 365 lessons it says: ‘we could
just have a martini and feel better, we don't need to do all this’. But the
wise mind understands that that is a temporary fix, and when the effects of
that substance wear off, you will begin to suffer again.
So, the lessons of A course in miracles, as you go to bed tonight, we want you
to contemplate doing them. We want you to understand it is very much like
getting a personal trainer. If you are 200 pounds overweight and you are out of
shape, you have to understand that your beliefs and values and your decisions
have got you into that state, your mind has got your body into that state. When
you are struggling mentally and emotionally, you are having the experience of a
distorted emotional feeling self, just like the obese and unfit person has a
distortion of their physical self. What you have to do is give your mind to
spiritual personal trainer.
So just as that person who is 200 pounds overweight and very unfit, if they
hire a personal trainer, they will be asked to do things that they do not
normally do and they will resist it because it's not in their nature, given the
practices that they have been practicing, practicing donuts and Tim Horton's
and these kinds of things. But the person who is living in that unpleasant
state has become sick of that state. They do not want to experience anymore. They
have played out their beliefs in their thoughts and behaviors and now they see
the results of what is living and residing inside their mind. Now if you are
having relationship problems, health problems, you have been divorced a couple
of times, your work is not what you want, finances are not what you want, these
are the fruits of your belief system. They are the fruits of your belief system
and they are the fruits of your labors, behaviors based on the thoughts and
ideas that come from your belief system. You are not a victim of the world you
see. You are the one that is making your decisions regarding your life.
So, as you go to sleep tonight look at your life and once again give it a good
assessment. Is this how you want to spend the next 30 or 40 years of your life
or would you like to have a radical shift in your consciousness that gives you
access to new ideas, new paradigms, new beliefs? We will leave you with that
thought.
I am that
one that you know is Jesus and I'll speak to you again tomorrow.
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