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by being still. Quiet the outer world, so that the inner world might bring
you sight. This in-sight is what you seek, yet you cannot have it
while you are so deeply concerned with your outer reality. Seek,
therefore, to go within as much as possible. And when you are not going
within, come from within as you deal with the outside world.
Remember this axiom: If
you do not go within, you go without. Put it in the first person as you
repeat it, to make it more personal: If
I do not You
have been going without all your life. Yet you do not have to, and never
did. There
is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing
you cannot have. That sounds like a
pie-in-the-sky promise. What
other kind of promise would you have God make? Would you believe Me if I
promised you less? For
thousands of years people have disbelieved the promises of God for the
most extraordinary reason: they were too good to be true. So you have
chosen a lesser promise- a lesser love. For the highest promise of God
proceeds from the highest love. Yet you cannot conceive of a perfect love,
and so a perfect promise is also inconceivable. As is a perfect person.
Therefore you cannot believe even in your Self. Failing
to believe in any of this means failure to believe in God. For belief in
God produces belief in God's greatest gift- unconditional love- and God's
greatest promise- unlimited potential. May I interrupt you
here? I hate to interrupt God when He's on a roll... but I'vge heard this
talk of unlimited potential before, and it doesn't square with the human
experience. Forget the difficulties encountered by the average person-
what about the challenges of those born with mental of physical
limitations? Is their potential unlimited? You
have written so in your own Scripture- in many ways and in many
places. Give me one reference.
Look
to see what you have written in Genesis, chapter 11, verse 6, of your
Bible. It says, "And the Lord
said, 'Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language; and
this is only the beginning of what they will do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.' "
Yes.
Now, can you trust that? That does not answer
the question of the feeble, the infirm, the handicapped, those who are
limited. Do
you think they are limited, as you put it, not of their choice? Do you
imagine that a human soul encounters life challenges- whatever they
may be- by accident? Is this your imagining? Do you mean a soul
chooses what kind of life it will experience ahead of time?
No,
that would defeat the purpose of the encounter. The purpose is to
create your experience- and thus, create your Self- in the glorious
moment of Now. You do not, therefore, choose the life you will experience
ahead of time. You
may,
however, select the persons, places, and events- the conditions and
circumstances, the challenges and obstacles, the opportunities and
options- with which to create your experience. You may select the
colors for your palette, the tools for your chest, the machinery for your
shop. What you create with these is your business. That is the
business of life. Your
potential is unlimited in all that you've chosen to do. Do not
assume that a soul which has incarnated in a body which you call limited
has not reached its full potential, for you do not know what that soul was
trying to do. You do not understand its agenda. You are
unclear as to its intent. Therefore
bless every person and condition, and give thanks. Thus you affirm
the perfection of God's creation- and show your faith in it. For nothing
happens by accident in God's world, and there is no such thing as
coincidence. Nor is the world buffeted by random choice, or something you
call fate. If
a snowflake is utterly perfect in its design, do you not think the same
could be said about something as magnificent as your life?
But even Jesus healed
the sick. Why would he heal them if their condition was so "perfect"?
Jesus
did not heal those he healed because he saw their condition as imperfect.
He healed those he healed because he saw those souls asking for healing as
part of their process. He saw the perfection of the process. He recognized
and understood the soul's intention. Had Jesus felt that all illness,
mental or physical, represented imperfection, would he not have simply
healed everyone on the planet, all at once? Do you doubt that he could do
this? No. I believe he could
have Good.
Then the mind begs to know: Why did he not do it? Why would the Christ
choose to have some suffer, and others be healed? For that matter, why
does God allow any suffering at anytime? This question has been asked
before, and the answer remains the same. There is perfection in the
process- and all life arises out of choice. It is not appropriate
to interfere with choice, nor to question it. It is particularly
inappropriate to condemn it. What
is appropriate is to observe it, and then to do whatever might be
done to assist the soul in seeking and making a higher choice. Be
watchful, therefore, of the choices of others, but not judgmental. Know
that their choice is perfect for them in this moment now- yet stand ready
to assist them should the moment come when they seek a newer choice, a
different choice- a higher choice. Move
into communion with the souls of others, and their purpose, their
intention, will be clear to you. This is what Jesus did with those he
healed- and with all those whose lives he touched. Jesus healed all
those who came to him, or who sent others to him supplicating for them. He
did not perform a random healing. To have done so would have been to
violate a sacred Law of the Universe: Allow
each soul to walk its path. But does that mean we
must not help anyone without being asked? Surely not, or we would never be
able to help the starving children of India, or the tortured masses of
Africa, or the poor, or the downtrodden anywhere. All humanitarian effort
would be lost, all charity forbidden. Must we wait for an individual to
cry out to us in desperation, or for a nation of people to plead for help,
before we are allowed to do what is obviously right?
You
see, the question answers itself. If a thing is obviously right, do it.
But remember to exercise extreme judgment regarding what you call "right"
and "wrong." A
thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right
or wrong intrinsically. It
isn't? "Rightness"
or "wrongness" is not an intrinsic condition, it is a subjective judgment
in a personal value system. By your subjective judgments do you create
your Self- by your personal values do you determine and demonstrate Who
You Are. The
world exists exactly as it is so that you may make these judgments. If the
world existed in perfect condition, your life process of Self creation
would be terminated. It would end. A lawyer's career would end tomorrow
were there no more litigation. A doctor's career would end tomorrow were
there no more illness. A philosopher's career would end tomorrow were
there no more questions. And God's career
would end tomorrow were there no more problems!
Precisely.
You have put it perfectly. We, all of us, would be through creating were
there nothing more to create. We, all of us, have a vested interest in
keeping the game going. Much as we all say we would like to solve
all the problems, we dare not solve all the problems, or there will
be nothing left for us to do. Your
industrial-military complex understands this very well. That is why it
opposes mightily any attempt to install a war-no-more government-
anywhere. Your
medical establishment understands this, too. That is why it staunchly
opposes- it must, it has to for its own survival- any new
miracle drug or cure- to say nothing of the possibility of miracles
themselves. Your
religious community also holds this clarity. That is why it attacks
uniformly any definition of God which does not include fear, judgment and
retribution, and any
definition of Self which does not include their own idea of the only
path to God. If
I say to you, you are God- where does that leave religion? If I say
to you, you are healed, where does that leave science, and
medicine? If I say to you, you shall live in peace, where does that leave
the peacemakers? If I say to you, the world is fixed- where does that
leave the world? What,
now, of plumbers? The
world is filled with essentially two kinds of people: those who give you
things you want, and those who fix things. In a sense, even those who
simply give you things you want- the butchers, the bakers, the,
candlestick makers- are also fixers. For to have a desire for something is
often to have a need for it. That is why addicts are said to need a
fix. Be careful, therefore, that desire not become addiction.
Are you saying the
world will always have problems? Are you saying that you actually want
it that way? I am
saying that the world exists the way it exists- just as a snowflake exists
the way it exists- quite by
design. You have created it that way- just as you have created your
life exactly as it is. l
want what you want.The day you really want an end to hunger, there
will be no more hunger. I have given you all the resources with which to
do that. You have all the tools with which to make that choice. You have
not made it. Not because you cannot make it. The world could end
world hunger tomorrow. You choose not to make it.
You
claim that there are good reasons that 40,000 people a day must die of
hunger. There are no good reasons. Yet at a time when you say you can do
nothing to stop 40,000 people a day from dying of hunger, you bring 50,000
people a day into your world to begin a new life. And this you call love.
This you call God's plan. It is a plan which totally lacks logic or
reason, to say nothing of compassion. I
am
showing you in stark terms that the world exists the way it exists because
you have chosen for it to. You are systematically destroying your
own environment, then pointing to so-called natural disasters as evidence
of God's cruel hoax, or Nature's harsh ways. You have played the hoax on
yourself, and it is your ways which are cruel. Nothing,
nothing is more gentle than Nature. And nothing, nothing has
been more cruel to Nature than man. Yet you step aside from all
involvement in this; deny all responsibility. It is not your fault, you
say, and in this you are right. It is not a question of fault, it
is a matter of choice. You
can choose to end the destruction of your rain forests tomorrow. You can
choose to stop depleting the protective layer hovering over your planet.
You can choose to discontinue the ongoing onslaught of your earth's
ingenious ecosystem. You can seek to put the snowflake back together- or
at least to halt its inexorable melting- but will you do
it?- You
can similarly end all war tomorrow. Simply. Easily. All it takes-
all it has ever taken- is for all of you to agree. Yet if you
cannot all agree on something as basically simple as ending the
killing of each other, how can you call upon the heavens with shaking fist
to put your life in order? I
will do nothing for you that you will not do for your Self. That is
the law and the prophets. The
world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices
you have made- or failed to make. (Not
to decide is to decide.) The
Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have
made- or failed to make. Your
own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have
made- or failed to make. But I did not choose
to get hit by that truck! I did not choose to get mugged by that robber,
or raped by that maniac. People could say that. There are people in the
world who could say that. You
are all at root cause for the conditions which exist which create
in the robber the desire, or the perceived need, to steal. You have all
created the consciousness which makes rape possible. It is when you see
in yourself that which caused the crime that you begin, at last, to
heal the condition from which it sprang. Feed
your hungry, give dignity to your poor. Grant opportunity to your less
fortunate. End the prejudice which keeps masses huddled and angry, with
little promise of a better tomorrow. Put away your pointless taboos and
restrictions upon sexual energy- rather, help others to truly understand
its wonder, and to channel it properly. Do these things and you
will go a long way toward ending robbery and rape forever.
As
for the so-called "accident"- the truck coming around the bend, the brick
failing from the sky- learn to greet each such incident as a small part of
a larger mosaic. You have come here to work out an individual plan for
your own salvation. Yet salvation does not mean saving yourself from the
snares of the devil. There is no such thing as the devil, and hell does
not exist. You are saving yourself from the oblivion of non-realization.
You
cannot lose in this battle. You cannot fail. Thus it is not a battle at
all, but simply a process. Yet if you do not know this, you will see it as
a constant struggle. You may even believe in the struggle long
enough to create a whole religion around it. This religion will teach that
struggle is the point of it all. This is a false teaching. It is in
not struggling that the process proceeds. It is in surrendering
that the victory is won. Accidents
happen because they do. Certain elements of the life process have come
together in a particular way at a particular time, with particular
results- results which you choose to call unfortunate, for your own
particular reasons. Yet they may not be unfortunate at all, given the
agenda of your soul. I
tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens
"by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self by
your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really
Are. All true Masters know this. That is why mystic Masters remain
unperturbed in the face of the worst experiences of life (as you
would define them). The
great teachers of your Christian religion understand this. They know that
Jesus was not perturbed by the crucifixion, but expected it. He could have
walked away, but he did not. He could have stopped the process at any
point. He had that power.Yet he did not. He allowed himself to be
crucified in order that he might stand as man's eternal salvation.
Look, he said, at what I can do. Look at what is true.
And know that these things, and more, shall you also do. For have I
not said, ye are gods? Yet you do not believe. If you cannot, then,
believe in yourself, believe in me. Such
was Jesus' compassion that he begged for a way- and created it- to so
impact the world that all might come to heaven (Self realization)- if in
no other way, then through him. For he defeated misery, and death.
And so might you. The
grandest teaching of Christ was not that you shall have everlasting
life- but that you do; not that you shall have brotherhood
in God, but that you do; not that you shall have whatever
you request, but that you do. All
that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your
reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which
you think it will. You
think it into being. This is the first step in creation. God the
Father is thought. Your thought is the parent which gives birth to all
things. This is one of the
laws we are to remember. Yes.
Can you tell me
others? I
have
told you others. I've told you them all, since the beginning of time. Over
and over have I told you them. Teacher after teacher have I sent you. You
do not listen to my teachers. You kill them. But why? Why do
we kill the holiest among us? We kill them or dishonor them, which is the
same thing. Why? Because
they stand against every thought you have that would deny Me. And deny Me
you must if you are to deny your Self. Why would I want to
deny You, or me? Because
you are afraid. And because My promises are too good to be true. Because
you cannot accept the grandest Truth. And so you must reduce yourself to a
spirituality which teaches fear and dependence and intolerance, rather
than love and power and acceptance. You
are filled with fear- and your biggest fear is that My biggest
promise might be life's biggest lie. And so you create the biggest fantasy
you can to defend yourself against this: You claim that any promise which
gives you the power, and guarantees you the love, of God must be the
false promise of the devil. God would never make such a promise,
you tell yourself, only the devil would- to tempt you into denying God's
true identity as the fearsome, judgmental, jealous, vengeful, and
punishing entity of entities. Even
though this description better fits the definition of a devil (if there
were one), you have assigned devilish characteristics to
God in order to convince yourself not to accept the God-like
promises of your Creator, or the God-like qualities of the Self.
Such
is the power of fear. I am trying to let go
of my fear. Will You tell me- again- more of the
laws? The
First Law is that you can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. The
Second Law is that you attract what you fear. Why is that?
None
of this is by coincidence. There is no coincidence in the universe- only a
grand design; an incredible "snowflake."
All
thoughts congeal; all thoughts meet other thoughts, criss-crossing in an
incredible maze of energy, forming an ever-changing pattern of unspeakable
beauty and unbelievable complexity. Like
energy attracts like energy- forming (to use simple words) "clumps" of
energy of like kind. When enough similar "clumps" criss-cross each other-
run into each other- they "stick to" each other (to use another
simple term). It takes an incomprehensibly huge amount of similar energy
"sticking together," thusly, to form matter. But matter will form
out of pure energy. In fact, that is the only way it can form. Once
energy becomes matter, it remains matter for a very long time- unless its
construction is disrupted by an opposing, or dissimilar, form of
energy. This dissimilar energy, acting upon matter, actually dismembers
the matter, releasing the raw energy of which it was composed.
This
is, in elementary terms, the theory behind your atomic bomb. Einstein came
closer than any other human- before or since- to discovering, explaining,
and functionalizing the creative secret of the universe.
You
should now better understand how people of like mind can work
together to create a favored reality. The phrase "Wherever two or more are
gathered in My name" becomes much more meaningful. Of
course, "when entire
societies think a certain way, very often astonishing things
happen-not all of them necessarily desirable. For instance, a society
living in fear, very often- actually, inevitably- produces in form
that which it fears most. Similarly,
large communities or congregations often find miracle-producing power in
combined thinking (or what some people call common prayer).
And
it must be made clear that even individuals- if their thought (prayer,
hope, wish, dream, fear) is amazingly strong- can, in and of themselves,
produce such results. Jesus did this regularly. He understood how to
manipulate energy and matter, how to rearrange it, how to redistribute it,
how to utterly control it. Many Masters have known this. Many know it now.
You
can know it- Right now. This
is the knowledge of good and evil of which Adam and Eve partook. Until
they understood this, there could be no life as you know it. Adam
and Eve- the mythical names you have given to represent First Man and
First Woman- were the Father and Mother of the human experience.
What
has been described as the fall of Adam was actually his upliftment- the
greatest single event in the history of humankind. For without it, the
world of relativity would not exist. The act of Adam and Eve was not
original sin, but, in truth, first blessing. You should thank them from
the bottom of your hearts- for in being the first to make a "wrong"
choice, Adam and Eve produced the possibility of making any
choice at all. In
your mythology you have made Eve the "bad" one here- the temptress who ate
of the fruit, the knowledge of good and evil- and coyly invited Adam to
join her. This mythological set-up has allowed you to make woman man's
"downfall" ever since, resulting in all manner of warped realities- not to
mention distorted sexual views and confusions. (How can you feel so
good about something so bad?) What
you most fear is what will most plague you. Fear will draw it to
you like a magnet. All your holy scriptures- of every religious persuasion
and tradition which you have created-contain the clear admonition: fear
not. Do you think this is by accident? The
Laws are very simple. 1.
Thought is creative. 2.
Fear attracts like energy. 3.
Love is all there is. Oops, you got me on
that third one. How can love be all there is if fear attracts like energy?
Love
is the ultimate reality. It is the only. The all. The feeling of love is
your experience of God. In
highest Truth, love is all there is, all there was, and all there ever
will be. When you move into the absolute, you move into love.
The
realm of the relative was created in order that I might experience My
Self. This has already been explained to you. This does not make the realm
of the relative real. It is a created reality you and I have
devised and continue to devise- in order that we may know ourselves
experientially. Yet
the creation can seem very real. Its purpose is to seem so real, we
accept it as truly existing. In this way, God has contrived to
create "something else" other than Itself (though in strictest terms this
is impossible, since God is- I AM- All That Is). In
creating "something else"- namely, the realm of the relative- I have
produced an environment in which you may choose to be God, rather
than simply be told that you are God; in which you may experience
Godhead as an act of creation, rather than a conceptualization; in which
the little candle in the sun- the littlest soul- can know itself as the
light. Fear
is the other end of love. It is the primal polarity.
In creating the realm of the relative, I first created the opposite of
My Self. Now, in the realm in which you live on the physical plane, there
are only two places of being: fear and love. Thoughts rooted
in fear will produce one kind of manifestation on the physical plane.
Thoughts rooted in love will produce another. The
Masters who have walked the planet are those who have discovered the
secret of the relative world- and refused to acknowledge its reality. In
short, Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every
instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were
being killed, they loved their murderers. Even as they were being
persecuted, they loved their oppressors. This
is very difficult for you to understand, much less emulate. Nevertheless,
it is what every Master has ever done. It doesn't matter what the
philosophy, it doesn't matter what the tradition, it doesn't matter what
the religion- it is what every Master has done.
This
example and this lesson has been laid out so clearly for you. Time and
time again, over and over has it been shown to you. Through all the ages
and in every place. Through all your lifetimes and in every moment. The
universe has used every contrivance to place this Truth before you. In
song and story, in poetry and dance, in words and in motion- in pictures
of motion, which you call motion pictures, and in collections of words,
which you call books. From
the highest mountain it has been shouted, in the lowest place its whisper
has been heard. Through the corridors of all human experience has this
Truth been echoed: Love is the answer. Yet you have not
listened. Now
come you to this book, asking God again what God has told you countless
times in countless ways. Yet I will tell you again- here- in the
context of this book. Will you listen now? Will you truly hear?
What
do you think brought you to this Material? How does it come to pass that
you are holding it in your hands? Do you think I know not what I am doing?
There
are no coincidences in the universe. I have heard the crying of your
heart. I have seen the searching of your soul. I know how deeply you have
desired the Truth. In pain have you called out for it, and in joy.
Unendingly have you beseeched Me. Show Myself. Explain
Myself. Reveal Myself. I
am doing so here, in terms so plain, you cannot misunderstand. In language
so simple, you cannot be confused. In vocabulary so common, you cannot get
lost in the verbiage. So
go ahead now. Ask Me anything. Anything. I will contrive to
bring you the answer. The whole universe will I use to do this. So be on
the lookout. This book is far from My only tool. You may ask a question,
then put this book down. But watch. Listen. The words to the next
song you hear. The information in the next article you read. The story
line of the next movie you watch. The chance utterance of the next person
you meet. Or the whisper of the next river, the next ocean, the next
breeze that caresses your ear- all these devices are Mine; all
these avenues are open to Me. I will speak to you if you will listen. I
will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have
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