In Lesson One, we learned that the point of studying A Course in Miracles is to take us through a process where we recognize our ego (who we are without God) and embracing the Spirit. (who we are when we invite God into our lives) The Spirit is who we really are. The ego is everything we have made up since our separation from God.
We learned that when we live as the ego, we feed all the appetites of the human side of ourselves. We are motivated by Security, Sensation and Power. Our daily lives are filled with millions of mindless thoughts each day, and busy-ness which gives us a false sense of achievment. Most of our time is spent with amusing ourselves. Underneath this false self, we experience Fear, Insecurity, Lack and Feelings that we are a fraud. We strive without ever arriving. We know that there is something more and we search endlessly outside of ourselves to find it. We call living in this ego energy, "below the waist" energy.
We learned that we have a belief system in place that may or may not be serving our higher good. By answering the questionaires, we discovered what some of our belief's are and identified if they were inherited beliefs from our "tribe" or if we came to the belief by our own experience.
We identified how the ego is different from the Spirit. The Spirit's thought system is based only on LOVE. The Spirit's energy vibrates at a must faster pace. A pace more in alignment with the vibration of God. At the ego level the veil is very thick, the energy very slow and dense and learning is very slow. The longing to heal our separation from God is inside each of us. No matter which path we choose. Learning will take place and we will find our way back to God.
We have no choice about learning. That is why we were born; to learn and become more like God. The choice we do have is whether we are going to learn through Joy or through Pain. When we choose the path of the ego, though it won't always be painful, we will experience pain. The Spirit cannot be injured, it cannot experience pain, because it knows that everything the ego made up is not real. It looks at what is happening in your life objectively as an experience which is happening for learning purposes. With God Co-creating your life, the solutions come easily and the lesson learned the first time.
The Spirit knows that guilt is not a productive emotion. It knows that sin has been misinterpreted by the ego. "Sin" defined by the way the term was coined in ancient times, is an archery term. It means "you missed the bullseye" When we interpret it as it was written, "sin' does not mean we did something wrong or bad. It means we just missed the mark this time. Draw back your arrow and aim again. No judgment is necessary. Just try until you get it right, until you hit the bullseye.
We are Spirits having a human experience. We think the opposite, that we are human and every once in a while we have a Spiritual experience. All of us who have experienced a Spiritual moment know this feeling of bliss. It is possible to stay longer and longer in this state of bliss.
There are block which keep us from experiencing Spiritual energy. They are the following:
Resistance: We want to just amuse ourselves with gadgets, television, movies or other things outside of ourselves that block our emptiness. Our interest span is very short and we move from one thing or thought to the next. Our busy-ness gives us a false sense of achievement.
Casualness: We think that if things are going well now, we can handle our life on our own. We only need to go to God when we experience a crisis. It is Heaven "etiquette" that God must be invited in before he enters our lives. The good times of our life can be enhanced and even greater with the presence of God in our life. It is possible that crisis occurs for us because God wants us to connect. Perhaps we could eliminate the crisises completely if we invited God in to stay.
Un-Willingness: We must offer an inner space for God and his voice, the Holy Spirit, to unfold. We must stop our activities, silence the inner dialogue, and listen for God's direction. For most of us to be alone in a quiet room is excruciating. We are undisciplined. We must truly desire to do what is necessary to hear the Holy Spirit. Most of our lives are too full of activity to stop long enough to have a two way conversation with God. We use God as sounding board, and then go on about our daily lives. What if we actually listened to what he had to say to us in return?
Commit to yourself
1. I will take time to find stillness in my life.
2. I will recognize my resistance and break it down little by little
3. I will remember that even the good times will be enhanced when God is invited to the party.
4. I will not wait for crisis to enter my life to call upon God.
Storms will continue in your life, Serenity will no longer be defined as freedom from storms, but will be known as peach during the wild weather. We can fly above the storm.
Deepak Chopra
Steps to becoming Peaceful and Purposeful
1. Never need to control.
2. Need to love and be loved
3. Discover your spiritual identity
4. Acquire Wisdom
5. Never need approval
6. Relinquish your need to judge.
7. Learn to shut down your inner dialogue through meditation.
8. Never fear change.
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