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Question 200: About being God

Question 200:  If we are one with God, aren’t we all God?

Yes, we are, or, to put it another way, God is us. The Supreme Spirit is the only reality.  We are individual identities within the whole identity of Spirit. As self-aware beings we are co-creators within the whole as the endless creativity of the Spirit continues on forever.

As co-creators, we have an ultimate responsibility for manifesting the powers of God. As human beings with so many faults and plenty of ignorance, how can we be expected to take on our full responsibility? We are expected to do that, but not necessarily in one lifetime, or even in thousands of lifetimes. It is the journey of our souls to find our way back to the full realization of our Godhood.

From the testimony of the saints and avatars who have lived on earth, we hear that they have made the realization of being one with God. Jesus is a prime example. He said, “I and the Father are one.” Krishna is so identified with God that he gave the Bhagavad Gita talk to Arjuna while speaking as the Supreme Spirit.

Jesus and Krishna are the most well-known examples.  However, there are many other people who have testified about reaching a state of cosmic consciousness wherein they realized they are part of the Eternal Spirit.

Modern-day examples include Paramahansa Yogananda and his line of gurus, Swami Sri Yukteswar, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Babaji. Other examples from India include Swami Vivekananda and his guru Ramakrishna. Ramana Maharishi is another well-known saint from India.

These great people are the ones who made the effort to find their way back to Godhood. I say effort because there are definite ways to proceed on the path to Self-realization. The beginning step is learning how to behave with love and kindness toward all. We all know the importance of learning how to get along with others with honesty, sincerity and all good attitudes of true friendship.

After that, we need to learn how to control our inner life force and to interiorize our minds in order to focus on our true spiritual selves beyond our egos. We need to develop our inner relationship with our higher self and with our spiritual teachers and with the Supreme Spirit. It is an evolutionary journey to realize that we are expressions of God on earth.

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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God. 

Ja Rule

There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God. 

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

James Finley

Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it. 

Laozi

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. 

Charlene Spretnak

Question 199: About the Hijab and the Oneness of Life

Question 199: What does wearing a hijab have to do with the oneness of life?

Nothing. The recent protests against the wearing of a hijab and the morality police in Iran (Sept 2022) have brought this to the attention of the whole world. The rule that women need to cover their hair while in public areas is a means of control over women by the theocratic government of Iran. The rule is also meant to keep men from lusting after women if they see the beautiful hair of women. So it is also an attempt to control the lustful thoughts of men. It shows that organized religions can entirely miss the point about the purpose of a religion, which is to lead people to the realization of their oneness with our Creator.

When a religion is tied to the government, then the religion becomes a means to control people. Whether or not a woman chooses to wear a hijab has nothing to do with her relationship to the Infinite Spirit. It should be a matter of choice for style, modesty, or following a custom. Our Creator God, by whatever name you call out, Allah, Yahweh, Brahma, or Great Spirit, does not require women to wear a hijab anymore than it requires men to have beards or hats on.

Islam isn’t the only religion that discriminates against women. Almost all of them do. The protests in Iran will bring much-needed attention to the problem of how religions treat women. This is a time for the rising up of women to demand and claim their true equality with men, before the law and before our Creator God.

The Gospel of Oneness teaches us that all souls are part of the One Spirit of creation. The purpose of religion is to help people realize this. The legalistic ideas that come up such as not working on the Sabbath day, wearing certain clothes, or praying in one direction have nothing to do with the inner realization of our oneness with Spirit.

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 Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale. 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. 

Azar Nafisi

There isn’t a religion on earth that isn’t damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race – women. They are all oppressors of women. 

Susan Powter

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. 

Azar Nafisi

Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion. 

Julia Ward Howe

Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.

Okky Madasari

How women view religion’s role in society is shaped more by their own country’s culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women. 

Dalia Mogahed

Question 198: About the need for a true Guru.

Question 198: Do we need a Guru in order to realize our oneness with our Creator?

Yes, we do. A good analogy is the need for a guide to climb Mt. Everest. If the average mountain climber attempted to climb Mt. Everest on his own, he could easily get lost and bewildered by all the obstacles and difficult passages on the way to the summit.  However, the daunting climb has been accomplished by hundreds of people with guides and support teams. They prove that it can be done relatively safely with the guidance of someone who has already made it to the top.

For climbing Mt. Everest you can find certified guides who can prove that they know the way to the top by the testimony of the people they have led to the top. In order to reach the ultimate goal of realization of our oneness with the Infinite Spirit, we must find someone who has already realized his or her oneness with our Creator. Since that is an inner journey, it is not so easy to recognize or identify someone who has already attained God-realization.

We can seek out people who have followed spiritual and religious leaders and ask their opinions. We can ask, has your spiritual guide led you to know your oneness with our Creator? You can narrow your search down for a true Guru very quickly by using online resources. You can bypass all the dogmatic and doctrinaire religious leaders who have no true realization. They may have lots of followers, but they are the blind leading the blind.

True Gurus don’t have to be in embodiment now. If they have left written instructions, either directly or through disciples’ notes and testimonies, then you have a way to follow their guidance.  Jesus is a true Guru; Krishna is a true Guru; Buddha is a true Guru. However, it requires true dedication to follow their teachings. These three spiritual guides have millions of followers, yet, if we take an objective look at the results. It doesn’t look like very many of their followers have reached God-realization so far.

My personal recommendation is to read the books, lessons, and specific meditation techniques of Paramahansa Yogananda. His teachings on how to realize our oneness with Spirit are disseminated and supported by Self-Realization Fellowship. Yogananda left this realm in 1952. His organization has faithfully continued to safeguard and publish his teaching for everyone to read.

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A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map. –Jaggi Vasude
If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness. That’s the space I entered when I met my guru. — Ram Dass

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. –Guru Nanak

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way. Guru Nanak

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda.

Question 197: About the best path to religious truth.

Question 197: What is the best path to discover religious “truth?”

The open-ended path to a higher state of consciousness is the best way to go. It is the path of asking questions, seeking answers within and without. It is the path of self-discovery of one’s own true desires, goals, personality quirks, biases and prejudices, and hidden agendas and ideas in our subconscious minds.  It is the path to find our highest identity in the universal Spirit while overcoming our egos which can often block our way to higher states of consciousness. It is the path of meditation, contemplation, introspection, and sincere seeking for the truth. It is the path of recognizing scientific discoveries about nature and considering them in the whole picture of reality. It is also the path of learning to love unconditionally.

If a religion teaches you to follow an external savior or doctrine to save your soul, it is a false path. No one is saved or reaches enlightenment by believing some outer doctrines, which may be supported by bold claims to absolute authority and showy trappings of power and influence, but they are nothing more than empty posturing to uphold traditional doctrines that have never been proven to be true such as Jesus is the only son of God or that Mohammed was the last prophet and that the Quran and the Bible are literally the words of God.

The ones who preach and teach these dead doctrines are the false teachers and false prophets, the blind leading the blind into the ditch of delusion. Question them about everything they teach. If they teach about love and goodwill to all, that is good, but if they overlay it with the necessity to believe in some absolute doctrine of salvation, beware. If they talk about going to hell if you don’t believe in the right way, beware. If they say their religion is the only true one, beware.

No one had to die for you to be saved. No prophet or saint is above criticism. No one is the one and only perfect example for mankind. The Universal Spirit of Oneness loves everyone equally, no one is a favorite child of the Infinite One. We can find our way to Self-realization of our oneness with Spirit by always raising our consciousness higher and higher, expanding our sense of our divine Selves without limit.

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“Calmness, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and purity: these are the disciplines of the mind.” – Bhagavad Gita

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Question 196: About Christian and Islamic and other religious governments

Question 196: What is the Gospel of Oneness view on governments that favor one religion as the truth?

First, the Gospel of Oneness says no one religion has the absolute truth. The discovery of eternal truth is an ongoing process. To set up one religion as the supreme belief system for all people in the country to follow has many deleterious results. It leads to persecution and intolerance against people who have different beliefs. It leads to stagnation of further explorations of truth.

In the United States, the separation of church and state is written into the constitution. However, Christians are in the majority and there is a movement among some of them who are called “Christian nationalists.” They want to impose the Christian religion on everyone else. Such an idea is and will be resisted by many people for good reasons.

There are some countries where the religion of Islam and the governments are intertwined. If you take an objective look, you can see it has many problems. They discriminate against people who have different religious beliefs. The search for truth is shut down because the Islamic clerics and scholars think they already have the only truth worth knowing. The government is on their side, and they enforce the religious views of Islam. If people don’t have freedom to explore any religious ideas they want to, then creativity is shut down. The fear of reprisals weighs heavily upon those people who are freethinkers. The penalty may be death or banishment The society and country as a whole lose creative thinkers.

The Gospel of Oneness says that the search for truth is an individual quest for each one of us. We all have the self-responsibility to seek and know the truth in our hearts and minds.  If we merely follow the external doctrines of a religion and think that will be sufficient for our ultimate salvation and enlightenment, we will be sadly mistaken when we receive our life review during the transition to the next realm

The ideal way is to have a complete separation between government and religion. The government can promote common ideals and values that lead to a healthy, prosperous and happy society, but without enforcing any one religion on the citizens.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, ’tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

Benjamin Franklin

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that’s not of your choosing simply because you’re out-voted.

Ira Glasser

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion Flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

James Madison

Question 195: About politics and values

Question 195: Why are values more important than political views in the Gospel of Oneness?

Politics is all about the desire to gain the power to implement social, economic, and governmental policies for the citizens to follow. In a democracy, there are debates and discussions about policies. In a dictatorship, the policies are implemented by the authoritarians in power and are enforced with police and military power. Free speech and critical dissent are discouraged and may be punished with imprisonment for dissenters.

The main values of the Gospel of oneness are respect for the dignity and worth of everyone, respect for the free will of everyone, and a commitment to truth, justice, and nonviolence.

Politics, even in a democracy, is notorious for dirty dealings, smear campaigns, lying, manipulations of all kinds, lobbying, and money power. People take their political views seriously and many will put their political views above their values. This can lead to extreme words and actions. In fact, it can lead to dictatorships. We have the historical examples of Nazi Germany and Communist USSR and Communist China. The leaders of those countries considered that their political views should be enforced on everyone. They trampled upon the main values of the Gospel of Oneness. Their ends justified their means and millions of people were killed in all those countries just mentioned. All of it was done because they thought their political views were supreme.

The Gospel of Oneness is obviously in favor of democracy and free speech. However, in order to curb the abuses of free speech, it advocates for all people with political opinions to value truth, fairness, respect, civility, nonviolence, and having open minds to hear other opinions. It also advocates for the study of issues, critical thinking abilities, and a knowledge of logic and logical fallacies. It also advocates for extending kindness and respect to people with different opinions on how best to govern in local and national contexts.

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Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Paul Krugman

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Thomas Sowell

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Plato

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that’s why we have two parties

Bob Hope

Question 194: About religion and values

Question 194: Why are values more important than religion in the Gospel of Oneness?

Let’s consider the values first. Respecting and upholding the worth and dignity of all life, especially human life is a major value. A religion may claim to be bringing the truth of God or the words of God’s almighty Spirit to bless and guide humankind, but what if that religion starts saying that its view of truth is absolute, and everyone must believe it? Then the trouble begins. The true believers in that religion may want to force their views on others and maybe even kill people who refuse to accept the doctrines of their religion. So the value of human life is trampled upon in the name of religion.

What about the value of mutual friendship? Two people may become friends with each other upon their first meeting. They may have basically the same religion but follow different denominations or sects of that religion. Then they discover their different beliefs within their same religion. The result may be that it prevents them from becoming deeper friends or even a worse result. Consider the recent news (August 2022) about a Sunni Muslim killing four Shia Muslims in New Mexico. After that, we hear more reports about how Shias are discriminated against by the majority Sunnis. Then, even more recently, the famous author Salman Rushdie is attacked because of a dispute over religion. So the value of mutual friendship is trampled upon. This happens in all religions, including Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. People could be friends if they put the value of friendship above religious doctrine.

What about the value of family love? How many families have been torn apart by religious disagreements? Suppose one family member decides to leave their religion and follow another one or become an atheist. It usually does not go well. Especially if the rest of the family believes in hell or some kind of dire punishment for leaving their religion. Once again a cherished value will be trampled upon.

The Gospel of Oneness puts values above religious doctrines. It has no doctrines that people must believe in. It has beliefs such as we are all a part of the Infinite Creative Spirit of the universe. It believes in the golden rule of treating other people the way you want to be treated. It believes in the power of unconditional love to heal and bless all life. However, it does not say everyone must follow these beliefs. It does not mind if people want to be atheists. The Gospel of Oneness says we are essentially eternal Spirit manifesting in physical form for a while. There is no epic need to save the souls of everyone else. We believe in cultivating our own inner consciousness and developing our wisdom, love, and understanding of life. We value the inherent worth and free will of every person

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Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America? 

Zig Ziglar

Beliefs divide us; values unite us.” Godless – Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs. 

Jeff Rasley

Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values, and how you behave in attaining your achievements. 

Archibald Marwizi

The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings. 

Clark Moustakas

Question 193: About avoiding oneness

Question 193: How does one move further away from realizing oneness?

There are many tried and true ways to avoid realizing our oneness with the Infinite Spirit. I will provide a list for handy reference:

First, see yourself as being apart from the Infinite Spirit. See it as external and unknowable.

Second, believe that a description or intellectual idea of the Infinite Spirit is enough to satisfy you.

Third, never meditate on the reality of the Infinite Spirit.

Fourth, believe there is nothing beyond the material, physical universe.

Fifth, be fearful of life and let fear control you, and don’t believe in the power of love.

Sixth, let your ego be your guide and be absorbed in your ego’s concerns.

Seventh, believe that you already have the absolute truth and don’t need to seek any higher truth.

Eighth, believe that all the dualistic illusions of life are real.

Ninth, treat other people as if they have a separate and different ultimate source than you have.

Tenth, limit your feelings of love to only a few people.

Eleventh, spend all your time and effort promoting one religion and denounce all other religions as being of the devil.

Twelfth, don’t respect the free will of others because they must conform to your beliefs.

Thirteenth, use force to get your way, physical or psychological force.

Fourteenth, close your mind to new ideas and be satisfied with your current level of understanding.

Fifteenth, spend your life defending and elevating your ego.

Sixteenth, believe that since you can’t prove in an objective, scientific way that Spirit is real, then there is no point in taking it as real.

Seventeenth, idolize Jesus or other saints and conclude that you will never be able to attain such a high state of consciousness.

If you follow all of these ways to avoid realizing your oneness with the Infinite Spirit, or even just one or two of them, you will be successful, if that is what you want.

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Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.  –David Fontana

The purpose of both, awareness and consciousness, is to lead us toward this path of Oneness. Gian Kumar

Wherever there has been an expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realization, and the racialization of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings

~ Swami Vivekananda

Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems, is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people’s minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.

~ Mata Amritanandamayi

Aikido is love. It is the path that brings our heart into oneness with the spirit of the universe to complete our mission in life by instilling in us a love and reverence for all of nature.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

Question 192: About my novel: The Krishna Kid in North Korea

Question 192: When will your new novel, The Krishna Kid in North Korea go on sale?

It will be on sale for $1.99 beginning June 29th and then increasing to $2.99 on July 3rd until July 6th.

It has received 5-star reviews that you can read on the book’s page on Amazon. I also have an editorial review from a retired professor of English at the University of Arkansas that is not yet on the book’s page, so I will include it here:

   Philip Martin, “Style” page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, recently reviewed a new novel by Michael Landweber, which Martin categorized as a “utopian fantasy.”  Martin described Landweber’s The Damage Done as “about the end of violence, “at least the end of person-on-person physical violence” because “some mysterious force has made it impossible for us to hurt one another.  A bully goes to punch the bullied and the fist loses velocity….Bullets hang in the air.”   A dissident imprisoned for his attacks against “Dear Leader” “finds his torturers impotent”; “politicians wonder how they might continue to make war”; the Pope wonders if ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ is an obsolete commandment.”

      Martin declares such novels to be rare.  Dystopian novels “abound”; utopian novels, in which “something good happens to mankind,” are rare.  So NW Arkansas has been given a rare gift in the writer and philosopher Cliff Mikkelson, whose novel The Krishna Kid in North Korea imagines the removal of a major source of anxiety regarding nuclear war: aided by many ranging from NK army generals to a beautiful young woman, Krishna Das peacefully rids the world of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.

      While Landweber posits “some mysterious force” for the miraculous transformation of our violent world, Mikkelson offers considerable details of the preparation of Krishna Das for his mission to persuade the NK people to reject Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un.  “’The universe [Hwain, the One Spirit] has heard the desperate cries of millions of North Koreans who are suffering under the Kim family dictatorship,” and Krishna Das was “sent to show them how to rebel in a nonviolent, nondualistic manner.”   He was taught this knowledge possessed by “the ancients” of the “mighty Spirit of the universe…within all of us,” called Juche, including the truth and power of miraculous healing, mental telepathy, dreams, and intuition which he demonstrates repeatedly and through which his authority is rapidly established.   (The support of influential shamans and several army generals who secretly detest the ruling Kim family helps.).  And he has come to NK to work “quietly” “until we have a million or more people willing to stand up…and put an end to this dictatorship.”   

      The rest of the novel traces the “nonviolent and nondualistic revolution to liberate the people of North Korea.”    It is to bring comprehensive change—in agriculture, prisons, the military, the Kim’s’ “reeducation camps.”   Their dictatorship falsely claims to be teaching Juche and collective organization: the revolution will teach the genuine Juche faith and practice of Socialism, and end the present cronyism, elitism, and repression.   And from generals and army units in the major cities to the villages, work for liberation sped forward until General Lee declares a nationwide general strike for which all were prepared, for we learn that plans for the revolt began in 1998 when the population was starving, and Kim Jong Il didn’t know what to do.

       I didn’t mention the sub-plot.  The novel also reflects the romance genre.  Krishna Das meets a revolutionary young woman, Hee Jae, and they fall in love.  Their last night together reinforces the main vision of political bliss, merging two individuals and two genres, the One Spirit victorious, before Krishna Das flies off to another country “to topple every dictator, tyrant, despot, and autocrat in this world who think they have the right to control the lives of millions of people.”

References

Philip Martin.  “’The Damage Done.’ Depicts the Duality of Mankind.”  Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Section E (June 5, 2022).

Cliff Mikkelson.  The Krishna Kid in North Korea.  Self-published, 2022.  The novel is the first in a planned “Krishna Kid” series.

Reviewed by James R. Bennett, Prof. Emer. UAF; Compiler of Peace Movement Directory, Control of Information in the U.S., Control of the Media in the U.S., Political Prisoners and Trials; and Co-Founder of OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology.

The Krishna Kid in North Korea: Adventures of the Krishna Kid series – Kindle edition by Mikkelson, Clifford J. Contemporary Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Question 191: What does repentance mean in the Gospel of Oneness?

Question 191: What does “repent” mean in the Gospel of Oneness?

To repent usually means to be sorry for doing harmful actions and changing your ways to become a better person. However, in the Gospel of Oneness, it means something a little deeper. It means to turn from giving so much attention to the dualities of this world and focus on the One Infinite Spirit. It means to get out of the illusion of separation and see the underlying truth that oneness is the only reality. It means to turn from body and ego identification to our own infinite Spirit. It means to get out of the dualistic dramas of this world that drag us down to the lower levels of morality wherein we think we can hurt others without hurting ourselves, or that we need to prove something to the world.

If we keep on identifying with our bodies and egos, then we won’t be able to hear the cosmic intelligent sound emanating from all vibratory creation, nor can we see the Cosmic Light within everything that has form. Nor can we discern the true love of the universe.

So, to “repent” means a lot more than turning away from sinful actions and bad habits and becoming a good person. Every day we are faced with the temptation to fall back into dualistic thinking. To repent means to become completely identified with our true spiritual identities within the One Infinite Spirit.

“The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.”
―   Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”
―   Shannon L. Alder

“Repentance must dig the foundations, but holiness shall erect the structure, and bring forth the top-stone. Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which the Lord our God shall inherit. Repentance and desires after holiness never can be separated.”
―   Charles H. Spurgeon

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.—Henry Ward Beecher

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