Steven Liebowitz's Blog, page 113
November 1, 2013
True Guidance
Devorah smiled. “I close my eyes to see,” she said. “Then am I truly guided. Our lack of faith can be a way of accepting the status quo, a failure to move beyond what is comfortable and familiar. We cling to what is, rather than seeing what could be. The spiritual path is a process with no final destination. It is one long opportunity to learn and grow. In difficult times… our faith can transport us to new levels. We emerge on the other side of problems transformed and renewed.”
October 31, 2013
Belonging
“Transcending is also about belonging. We all have a deep yearning, a sensual need, to be part of – belong to – something greater than ourselves; to lose our pathetic smallness and fear and be swept away, to feel the sweep, joy and glory of the greatness, beauty and perfection we know is there, waiting. And it is there, the Kingdom of Heaven is there. Not in a political party, a new house, a better job, a more loving relationship, but there, where it has always been, within us, calling softly but constantly, singing, “I am yours and your are mine. You belong to me and I belong to you. We are one. Seek me not outside, not in political parties, new houses, better jobs, or more loving relationships. Those are external manifestations of our inner oneness. Honor our relationship with loving kindness, inclusion, respect and compassion. Release judgment, anger and blame. They keep you from me. Get your bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits.”
October 30, 2013
Still More Transcendence
A crowd had gathered around Devorah. “The transcending I’m talking about is quite literal. For it to work we have to be willing to die to the lesser in order to experience the greater. We have to use our divine nature more generously; giving everything – heart, soul and mind, holding nothing back, we shall receive everything. Letting go of ignorance we will gain knowledge. Trusting spirit we will walk in Its glorious light instead of the ego’s pathetic darkness.”
October 29, 2013
More Transcendence
“’Turning away and transcending’ is easier said than done,” Devorah explained. “It does not happen because we think we are turning away and transcending, it happens because our thoughts and feelings are in fact turning away and transcending. A person might imagine herself to be very clever while remaining quite dull, but if her thoughts are brilliant, the person will also be brilliant. So it is with turning away and transcending.”
October 28, 2013
Transcend
Lappodoth, Devorah’s husband, was struggling with an annoying cough. None of the usual remedies helped. “We have to remember, husband,” Devorah said. “That Spirit has no opposites. Right now, you, being of Spirit are also perfect and right where that cough is, perfection is. We can avail ourselves of that perfection to such degree as we become conscious of it, claim it and accept it.” Lappodoth nodded. “Health overcomes disease and good overcomes evil, not by struggling or combating it but by turning away from it and transcending it.”
October 25, 2013
Please hear
“Beloveds, let us be glad we can walk the world, and find so many chances (especially those given by the T Party) to perceive another situation where God’s gift can once again be recognized as ours! Thus will all vestiges of hell, the secret sins and hidden hates be gone. And all the loveliness which they concealed appear to lift us high above the thorny roads we travelled before. Please hear me, my brothers and sisters,” Devorah said softly. “I cannot call in vain. I rest in God’s certainty. I know you will hear and you will choose again. Amen!”
October 24, 2013
A different world
More people gathered ‘round her and Devorah said: “Beloveds, Spirit asks for nothing but your release, and in fact knows that in the real world you are already released and realize your oneness with It. There is no place for hell within a world whose loveliness can yet be so intense and so inclusive it is but a step from here to Heaven.” She smiled and stretched out her arms in an inclusive gesture. “Through me, and through you too if you will allow it, comes a vision of a different world, so new and clean and fresh you will forget the pain and sorrow that you saw before.”
October 23, 2013
Just do it
“The need to constantly claim ourSelves, is like having to wash your hands and brush your teeth,” Devorah continued. “It’s not because you are especially dirty, it’s just the way life is. It’s not personal; it’s not that you are a bad person or a failure. It’s just something you do, like washing your hands and brushing your teeth.”
October 22, 2013
The Happy Habit
Devorah continued. “What appears to hide yourSelf, is powerless before Its majesty and disappears the moment you turn to it. Hallelujah!” Then she shook her head sadly. “But we must turn to It constantly – every moment, all the time. We can’t seem to do it once or twice and have it stick. Though we are Spirit, we think we are bodies and so must constantly remind ourselves of our Reality.” She smiled. “Learn then the happy habit of responding to all temptation to see yourself as weak, miserable and victimized by saying: ‘I am as God created me. Its child can suffer nothing and I am Its child!’”
October 21, 2013
Comfort
A small group of convalescing soldiers and their families were waiting for Devorah when she emerged from the hospital tent. “Speak to us, Devorah,” a woman said, stepping forward smiling. “Comfort us.”
“The comfort is within you, beloved,” Devorah said. “I only awaken you to it. Know that the images you make cannot prevail against what God Itself would have you be. Spirit would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. It would remove all misery and perplexity. Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again and let the strength of yourSelf flow through you and into the world.”
