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Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how you’re feeling about it.
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.
You make it sound so easy, and yet in the moment of decision fear wins more often than not. Why is that?
And so you strive to be the fittest, the strongest, the cleverest—in one way or another—and if you see yourself as something less than this in any situation, you fear loss, for you have been told that to be less is to lose.
when you choose the action love sponsors, then will you do more than survive, then will you do more than win, then will you do more than succeed. Then will you experience the full glory of Who You Really Are, and who you can be.
And so All That Is divided Itself—becoming, in one glorious moment, that which is this, and that which is that. For the first time, this and that existed, quite apart from each other. And still, both existed simultaneously. As did all that was neither.
You came into this life with nothing to learn—you have only to demonstrate what you already know. In the demonstration of it will you function it out, and create yourself anew, through your experience. Thus do you justify life, and give it purpose. Thus do you render it holy.
You are always in the process of creating. Every moment. Every minute. Every day. How you can create we’ll go into later. For now, just take my word for it—you are a big creation machine, and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think.
It would not be accurate to say—not in the way you mean it—that you are choosing these consequences. You are not choosing them anymore than I am choosing them. Like Me, you are observing them. And deciding Who You Are with regard to them.
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For it is only when they can accept responsibility for all of it that they can achieve the power to change part of it.
Only when you say “I did this” can you find the power to change it.
There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.
all the “bad” things that happen are of your choosing. The mistake is not in choosing them, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, you call your Self bad, since you created them. This label you cannot accept, so rather than label your Self bad, you disown your own creations.
If you had to accept—or even felt a deep inner sense of—personal responsibility for the world, it would be a far different place.
What is created by you is the degree to which these events touch your life.
Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.
Original sin is when your first thought about a thing is in error. That error is compounded many times over when you have a second or third thought about a thing. It is the job of the Holy Spirit to inspire you to new understandings, which can free you from your mistakes.
your greatest gift—the opportunity to do as you please, and experience the results of that; the chance to create yourself anew in the image and likeness of Who You Really Are;
When will my life finally take off? What does it take to “get it together,” and achieve even a modicum of success? Can the struggle ever end?
why are all fun things either “immoral, illegal, or fattening”?
Laws in the universe that make it possible for you to have—to create—exactly what you choose. These Laws cannot be violated, nor can they be ignored.
My promise to you is to always give you what you ask. Your promise is to ask; to understand the process of the asking and the answering.
This is the Holy Trinity, and it has been called by many names.
Your soul (subconscious, id, spirit, past, etc.) is the sum total of every feeling you’ve ever had (created). Your awareness of some of these is called your memory.
Thought is the first level of creation. Next comes the word.
Next comes action.
You have denied for so long Who You Are that you have forgotten Who You Are.
It was necessary first for you to release (deny, forget) your connection to Me in order to fully experience it by fully creating it—by calling it forth.
You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment.
You have not so chosen as yet. You have procrastinated, prolonged, protracted, protested.
You can accept “His son,” “offspring,” “likeness,” but you recoil at being called “His equal.” It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment—too much responsibility.
There can be no more victims and no more villains—only outcomes of your thought about a thing. I tell you this: all you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.
Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others do and say.
having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change—consciously change—your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.
This will require tremendous mental and physical effort. It will entail constant, moment-to-moment monitoring of your every thought, word, and deed. It will involve continued choice-making—consciously.
you’ve spent half your life unconscious. That is to say, unaware on a conscious level of what you are choosing in the way of thoughts, words, and deeds until you experience the aftermath of them.
It is your first nature to be unconditionally loving. It is your second nature to choose to express your first nature, your true nature, consciously.
So—do you want your life to “take off”? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be—and move into that. Check every thought, word, and action that does not fall into harmony with that.
Life is a creation, not a discovery.
Here’s why that is so, and how that works.
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the process of creation must include belief, or knowing. This is absolute faith. This is beyond hoping. This is knowing of a certainty
total certainty, a complete acceptance as reality of something.
the biggest key to creation: to be grateful before, and for, the creation.
taking for granted is not only condoned, but encouraged. It is the sure sign of mastery. All Masters know in advance that the deed has been done.
You get your life to “take off” by first becoming very clear in your thinking about it. Think about what you want to be, do, and have.
Think about it often until you are very clear about this. Then, when you are very clear, think about nothing else. Imagine no other possibilities.
Discipline your mind to hold fast to the original creative thought.
Use the great command that calls forth creative power: I am. Make I-am statements to others. “I am” is the strongest creative statement in the universe.
What you resist persists. What you look at disappears.
judge not that about which you feel passionate. Simply notice it, then see if it serves you, given who and what you wish to be.
