New Freedom

When you can love Truth more than you love yourself, then you are free.

The Origin of all Things (19th Century Philosopher)

In that deep force, the last fact, behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.

The Higher Road (journal entry)

The higher road is often not the higher road at all. In fact, the moment that I think that I am taking the higher road, I am making a judgment that I am the better person and I have made no progress at all.

I need to remember that “being good” happens much higher than that, above the petty world of comparison.

Light at the End of the Tunnel (frm Meeting 11/26)

There is no light at the end of the tunnel. The light is here right now.

The only thing blocking it is you and your ideas about it.

A Lower Plane (journal enry)

Whenever I find myself balking at life, citing my rights and demanding fairness, I know I have been dragged down to a lower plane of being. The only reason to become incensed by anything is that I think I deserve more than I have. That also indicates that I have given false value to what ever it is that I want more of.

While above all of that I can see that I have been given everything I would ever need to achieve True Happiness. How ridiculous it would be to demand more of that.

Wanting to Know the Truth (journal entry)

Wanting to know the Truth is a prerequisite to searching for it. It is not something I can first seek out and later decide whether or not I will live it. In that frame of mind, I cannot even see it.

Knowing the Truth (journal entry)

Knowing the truth is always a good thing; it is never a bad thing. It only appears bad to me when it compares unfavorably to my personal preference, which is only an image or illusion.

I can do nothing with an illusion, because it is not real and doesn’t actually exist. With the truth however I can do anything, because it is real and lasting.

Provoking the World (Essay)

The world never attacks your True Self; it only attacks your Ego.

This is because your Ego is constantly provoking the world. Your True Self, on the other hand, has no interest in the world, much less in provoking it.

Doing (part of essay)

You no longer need to do in order to be.

Outer Knowledge (journal entry)

I must continue to remind myself that nothing spiritual is learned from outer sources- not books or lectures or discussions. Every bit of real learning comes through my own awareness and true understanding of what I see.

The outer sources can only serve to produce a jolt to my unconsciousness that leads me to the inner source of all Real Knowledge.

Forgiveness

True forgiveness happpens without words.

The Ego is Defenseless (from Meeting 11/4/08)

The Ego is defenseless against the awareness of the moment. It can only survive in the unconscious states of recalling the past or imagining the future.

What to do

Where all practical matters are concerned, the advice should be to do if you choose to do or do NOT if you choose not, but don't concern yourself with it after that. These things do not matter to your True Essence in any way.

Instead concern yourself with seeing these these things as they happen, that is where real progress is made.