You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
- The ever-present I Am
- It is consciousness in its pure state prior to identification with form.
- It is the state that has been called the peace of God.
From Mind energy to Spiritual energy
- Jesus referred to this energy with the statement in the Sermon on the Mount; “Blessed are the gentle; they shall have the earth for their possession.”
- It is a silent but intense presence that dissolves the unconscious patters of the mind.
- “The created universe is waiting with eager expectation for god’s sons to be revealed. Up to the present…the whole created universe in all its parts groans as if in the pangs of childbirth.”
- According to St. Paul, the whole of creation is waiting for humans to become enlightened.
- In Taoism, there is a term called we wei, which is usually translated as “actionless activity” or “sitting quietly doing nothing.”
The ego believes that in your resistance lies your strength, whereas in truth resistance cuts you off from Being, the only place of true power.
- At this stage, you don’t need to be concerned with surrender anymore. It has happened already.
- How? Full attention is full acceptance, is surrender.
By giving full attention, you use the power of Now, which is the power of you presence.
- No hidden pocket of resistance can survive in it.
- Presence removes time. Without time, no suffering and no negativity, can survive.
Re-source: Reversal
an adverse change of fortune : a change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action
The way of the cross means that the worst thing in your life (your cross), turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into “death.”
- Forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God – because God, too, is no-thing.
- Enlightenment through suffering means to be forced into the kingdom of heaven kicking and screaming.
- You finally surrender because you can’t stand the pain anymore, but the pain could go on for a long time until this happens.
Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the now the main focus of your life.
- It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time.
- It means saying yes to what is.
- You then don’t need pain anymore.
- How much more time do you think you will need before you are able to say, “I will create no more pain, no more suffering”?
- How much more pain do you need before you can make that choice?
- If you think you need more time, you will get more time – and more pain.
- Time and pain are inseparable.
The down cycle is essential for spiritual realization.
- You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.
- Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure.
- Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle