This is a blog post from last winter, but yesterday one of my readers found it in the Past Blogs section (where every post I’ve written since January 1st can be found) and she had a tremendously great experience with it, so she sent it to me, thanking me profusely for helping her get active and bringing her out of a coma, and I read it this morning and it’s classic & timeless & simple & beautiful so I am posting it here again for you and for me:
So last night at 11pm, I came out of a coma. It felt like coming out of winter hibernation. I started cleaning out my fridge and cupboards and starting chucking all sorts of junk into garbage bags. Then I decided to take it out to the garbage, right then and there, which required me to get dressed, and once I was outside I decided: I might as well take my neighbor’s dog (who I am taking care of for a week) for a walk. The dog was thrilled. We started running.
That’s right. Running!
Me!
At 11pm in the dark. I live out on a quiet country road. No paparazzi. We just kept running and running. I had my winter coat on because it’s still freezing cold here in Wisconsin but it was one of those moments where you think: I’m going to remember this forever.
Then I came home and scrubbed my bathroom like it’s never been scrubbed before. What the heck??? I had out the Clorox, the mops, and the sponges. I was down on my hands and knees scrubbing like my life depended on it. haha. Resurrection. Thank you God. Then I slept like a baby.
Maybe coma is not the best word for it. Or maybe it is the perfect word. I feel like I just woke up from a long nap. I don’t know if words can describe it, but I’m gonna try. It’s like you live within a certain energy frequency, and it feels comfortable & safe: you have your routine, you do what you do, but suddenly it’s not comfortable anymore. You start to feel like you want things to be different. I have the experience that before the energy shifts, everything feels stale and old, like life is just a routine and you are simply going through the motions.
Suddenly what was once comfortable and safe becomes uncomfortable and intolerable.
You suddenly realize you need to make some changes.
So for example, I used to drink and smoke. That was a particular frequency of energy that I lived in. But then it started to get uncomfortable and I wanted to move into a new frequency – to have a new life – and then the energy shifts, and that world of drinking and smoking was left behind.
Here’s the cool part: you keep moving higher and higher and higher.
It never ends!
This is the reason I never say that I know something definitely as if it is written in stone, because then I would be stuck in that particular frame of time & space, when really I always want to be going into brand new territory, to keep releasing the past, releasing my habits, releasing my ideas, keeping an open mind, and letting myself be brand new every moment.
So, today’s review lessons:
My grievances hide the light of the world in me
Exciting news!
I’ve been invited to be a guest on The Leading Edge with Mindy Audlin this coming Monday, August 25th from 3-4PM EST.
You can listen live.
Monday, August 25th from 3-4pm EST
I’ll be talking about my book Gorgeous for God
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I give my life to God to guide today.
Okay, here is a great practice. For one day – today! – give your life to God to guide. Give him all your thoughts today. Give him all your acts as well … that you may do His Will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings.
What have you got to lose? It’s only for one day. See what God does through you. See where God takes you. Just for one day. For fun. For practice. Even if you think nothing happens, that’s still a good starting point because at least then you’ll be asking yourself the question “How can something invisible guide me?”
Another emotion that often comes up is doubt – you will think you cannot hear God’s Voice guiding you, or you will question whether it is God or the ego.
This is good!
At a minimum, there will have been A MOVEMENT in your mind from observer to participant. The first step is the most important … where you shift your focus from the world to focus on listening to yourself, which is what God is.
Then you just follow instruction. You go where God would have you go. You do what God would have you do.
It is super important that you start to know how your mind works, and to watch the thoughts that it contains. Move away from outside voices and start listening to God who is in you.
I encourage you to start testing these ideas out in your daily life because that’s the only way you will know they are true.
God is in you. He is you. He will guide you if you let Him.
Most people – sincere honest people – never step into the actual practice, preferring instead to keep reading A Course in Miracles every day as if they were nice ideas on a page, in a pretty blue book.
Most people keep thinking a miracle or transformation will happen in the future … but here’s the thing … there is no future! There is only now. Today’s the day.
It’s time to get off the bench and get into the game.
Today, God comes to you. Step back and merely follow. He’s the Guide. You’re the follower.
Just as a baby learns to walk on his own two feet, you must learn as a beginner how to walk with God.
Today, we have one Guide to lead us on. And as we walk together, we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day.
THIS IS HIS DAY!
And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us.
And when the day is done, I would love a report from you. Please write to me at lisanatoli2@gmail to let me know what it was like having God guide your life, your thoughts and your acts.
Even if you think nothing happened, please still write to me. I want you to be aware all day long that you are allowing God to guide your life.
I want you to witness this new way of living. You will be astonished.
Okay. Fun story.
I received an email tonight from one of my readers – Wendy – and she sent me a Word document from a book called The Way of Mastery which she said she felt guided to send me.
I read the document and lightbulbs were popping in my head, like, Whoa, What is this??? So I did a search to see if i could read more of this book online – and I found 3 excerpts – and I’m reading the material (in total absolute amazement) and suddenly I had the most massive deja vu moment from months ago. I already read this website in a dream, sitting in exactly this room I am in now, in this very chair. Wild. I remember the words against the brown, and then in my dream I turned a corner (?) and my mind just now went WHOA!!! I did this already. I dreamed this in my dream at night months ago. I already did this. I saw this already. I remember this paragraph in a dream. I remember this moment.
Deja vu doesn’t happen very often to me – the whole stepping into your past dreams in physical reality – so when it does happen, it trips me out a little. I’m still continually amazed.
So, I’m thinking, I HAVE TO BUY THIS BOOK. So I log back onto my email to tell Wendy that I dreamed all this months ago and that I am going to buy the book … and in my inbox is a message from her already and she’s telling me she wants to buy me the book as a gift and send me a copy and that she’s been thinking about doing this for me for months!!!! Which is when I dreamed it in a dream! Months ago.
And I was sitting in this very room, in this very chair. Far Out.
I’ve done everything already.
Here’s the link to one of the excerpts if you are interested:
Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.
There is something that I have realized as I test out various ideas in my mind and my life – that the high vibration must replace the lower vibration entirely and instantly and that there is no progression leading up to higher vibrations.
It must be a total replacement, and there can be no partiality. You cannot do this 99%. It must be 100% if you want what Jesus is offering.
At 99%, you will still feel pain, suffering and limitation.
But at 100%, the real world opens up before you, instantly.
I have learned this through trial and error.
There is a tendency to think you can take baby steps (or big steps) from darkness to light and that eventually, at the end of the journey, after all your hard work, you will reach a door and walk right through it. But it doesn’t work that way. The door is literally in front of you now.
You don’t gradually reach the higher vibration – if you test this out in your life what you will find is that you come closer and closer to your goal, YET, you never make it.
However … here is a big gift for you … you can substitute the lower vibration for the highest vibration right now. And the goal will be accomplished. There will be no journey.
Let me help you save time. I’ve spent the past 10 years testing this out in my own life, and I can assure you that I know what I am talking about. I’ve done the progression thing – IT DOESN’T WORK. You’ll come close – you’ll think you’re almost there to your goal, and yet you will never make it. It’s like the those mean experiments where someone ties a stick to a dog’s head with a treat on the end, and the dog keeps going forward thinking it will get its treat, but it is always arms reach away. Until of course the dog goes ballistic and sees the game for what it is, and shakes itself out of the the stick and gets its treat.
So, it is with you. You should go a little ballistic and get your treat today. There has been a mean dirty trick being played on you. You’ve been chasing after something your whole life, and if you’re honest you’ll begin to notice it is always just barely out of your reach. But because it’s so close – it’s right in front of your nose on a stick – you think “one more step” and I’ll have the thing that I want, it’s right there in front of me! … but when you take one more step closer to your goal, the thing you want always moves farther away.
You are always chasing!
Do you see the game now?
Go a little ballastic. Untangle yourself from the stick on your head.
What you want and have been searching for is given to you today to find.
So perfection is here for you today. It doesn’t require gradual progression. The goal of perfect peace is here for you today. It doesn’t require more days or hours or classes or workshops.
You simply have to substitute the low vibration for a high vibration – ENTIRELY! There are no such things as half measures. If you are still searching you will never arrive!!
Never!
But you can make a decision right now to be entirely changed (to be born again, to be happy, to be at peace, to remember how much love you have to give and receive, to remember your gratitude) and the change will occur in the same instant that you make the decision.
Here is from the ACIM Text, Chapter 6:
All good teachers realize that only fundamental change will last, but they do not begin at that level. Strengthening motivation for change is their first and foremost goal. It is also their last and final one. Increasing motivation for change in the learner is all that a teacher need do to guarantee change. Change in motivation is a change of mind, and this will inevitably produce fundamental change because the mind is fundamental.
Did you know that there are two worlds simultaneously occurring right now, this very minute? TODAY IS THE DAY! You can substitute the vibration of truth for the vibration of the false and the false will disappear.
You step into the light and the darkness disappears entirely.
I don’t know how much longer I am going to be here. My time is up. This blog could end any second. The goal has been accomplished. I’m going to the Father and I’m thrilled. There is no death. There is an instantaneous explosion into the light and it happens right now. I’m here only that Christ may work through me and when His job is complete, the body is laid aside. Maybe it will be today. Maybe it will be 50 years from now. It absolutely doesn’t matter. Every day is my last day. It’s very exciting. I don’t have to worry about anything.
Father God, let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly gratitude that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me.
THIS IS AS EVERY DAY SHOULD BE.
We are almost at the end of this year. By now you should be sufficiently changed.
I’ve got some new readers who only just recently heard of A Course in Miracles and Gorgeous for God – they purchased both books and have begun practicing – and in the first week they are already experiencing dramatic transformations and feelings of intense peace and joy.
This doesn’t take time. It doesn’t take 365 days. It takes YOU making a decision to substitute the low vibration for the high vibration today. It takes you to make a slight movement in your mind and find yourself in Heaven. The light cancels out the darkness immediately and effectively, forever.
Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because You are His Son.
Father, I will but to remember You.
What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love.
Everything that I have been searching for is right here, today. Amazing. It’s the end of the journey. I’ve found the pot of gold. It’s me.
This is your will. To remember God is Heaven. And only this is what it will be given us to find.
There is a deep abiding peace in me – like a sigh of relief – every time I remember there is nothing going on here, nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing but the simplicity of remembering that all I want has already been given to me. All I need is here for me to find today.
On my drive home today I was realizing how much I love my own company because my mind is forever active. I’m never bored. I’m always happy to be with me. What an amazing gift – I’m my own best company which is a tremendous gift when you think about it – your own best friend is you.
You have a best friend/partner who will never leave you. Christ … who lives in you and is you.
To most people this is a shocking statement – to be your own best friend – because most people think of themselves as their own worst enemy. A lot of people I know can’t stand themselves. They think they are despicable, ugly, limited and guilty.
What a horrible way to go through life! Hating yourself!
It’s time to change your mind and look at yourself differently.
This is accomplished as you will to remember God. When you remember God, you will remember that it is Christ Who abides in you, and you will fall deeply, head-over-heels in love with yourself!
You all passionately in love with the truth of yourself. You fall in love with God’s perfect creation – you. God created a Masterpiece, and when you realize His Masterpiece is what you are – initially, it will might take your breath away and leave you speechless.
A Course in Miracles says you have an Appointed Friend who goes with you wherever you go, and Who will never leave you.
It’s You!
“Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so. Not because it has power to hurt, but just because you have denied it is but illusion and made it real.”
“Lead not your little life in solitude, with one illusion as your only friend. This is no friendship worthy of God’s Son, nor one with which he could remain content. Yet God has given him a better Friend, in Whom all power in earth and Heaven rests.”
“Seek not another friend to take His place. There is no other friend. What God appointed has no substitute, for what illusion can replace the truth?
Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last.
It is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus is lets illusions go. By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. And what they hid is now revealed.
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I love that. All you are really doing here – on this journey, this path to God – is allowing all the accumulation of ideas, beliefs, rituals and routines to be undone. Like Spring Cleaning. You’re just clearing away the debris and the heavy boxes to reveal a bright clean space, which remains as perfect as it was created in the beginning.
Have you ever moved all your stuff out of your house and on moving day when everything has been finally removed and the place has been cleaned spotless – you stand in the middle of the room and you’re amazed. You can’t believe how much space there is. You wonder (usually aloud) “How come I didn’t clean this stuff out earlier? This room is great without all the clutter.”
That’s how you’ll feel when you move old heavy ideas out of your mind.
You’ll feel a new lightness, a new freedom, and that is what salvation is.
Now will I seek and find the peace of God.
I have moved into a new little room here in Wisconsin. I like it. It’s peaceful and it’s bright. Enzo is with me – he sprung to life last week and he didn’t die as expected. First we were going to put him to sleep but then we couldn’t do it and decided to let him die naturally (which I figured would be within 24 hours) and the crazy cat resurrected. Now he’s with me and he’s eating, pooping, peeing, sleeping, purring, walking around, wagging his tail, and happy.
Crazy nut.
I’m laughing because I have inadvertently stumbed upon how healing is accomplished: Let go. Don’t try to heal anything … just let go. I had said my final goodbyes, cried me a river, and thought I would never see the cat again. I had given up all hope and yet, I felt at peace with it.
And the cat sprung to life. I’m laughing.
I choose to be present, here and now, and let Christ work through me.
I let go of all my past ideas. I let go of all of my goals. Now will I seek and find the peace of God. I don’t know what is in store for me (in the specific details of my life) but I choose to get out of the way and have Christ take over entirely. My life belongs to God.
How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. Love. And this cannot be denied when it is forever true.
The other day I was thinking how I love to communicate. I love expressing new ideas. I love teaching, inspiring, writing, and helping people. I’ve been writing for as long as I could hold a pencil. I have a Bachelors degree in Communication/Journalism. I was the Opinions Editor for my college newspaper and it was my idea that I would CHANGE THE WORLD. I was going to make a difference. I was going to use my voice and life to bring clarity to the world, to help people see things differently.
I could never have anticipated (as that little 19-year old college student) that my life would take as many twists and turns as it has, but through it all one thing has remained consistent: my desire to communicate.
The reason I keep thinking I want to go to New York is because in my mind it is the communication center of the world (magazine editors, publishers, tv producers, radio hosts) … but here’s the thing … all communication that we see now is old and outdated. It’s still in the old frame. If we know about it, then it’s already over and gone. The most sophisticated systems we know of today will be clunky in a couple hours, months or years.
There is a NEW COMMUNICATION coming and no one knows what it is yet. I don’t know about it. The angels don’t know about it. No one knows about it.
But I have a vague memory of something future (that is already past) that has not yet arrived.
Think about before the advent of the automobile or the advent of the lightbulb … no one could have anticipated that there would come a time we’d get around on wheels (instead of by horse) or that you’d be able to switch a light to illuminate a room (rather than by lighting a candle).
There was a time before telephones, radio, television, internet, airplanes when all of these ideas seemed preposterous (to fly in the air, to talk on a piece of plastic, to watch images on a screen, to hear voices through a box), but now we take them all for granted. Now these things are just part of life. We don’t even consider them mysteries or miracles.
So … there must be more that I don’t know about.
As long as I am convinced that current modes of communication (blogs, websites, videos on youtube, myspace, television, magazines, books, radio, movies) is all there is, then the new modes of communication cannot present themselves. But the more I keep my mind open to something brand new (letting the past go, letting my goals go), then something new will introduce itself. It could be anything: teleporting, communicating with minds, shape shifting. Who knows what is next?
I have no idea but it is a privilege to be here doing God’s Will.
My job in the meantime is to stay very close to the door, to stay as close to Heaven as I possibly can – to stay in the peace of God – to keep an open mind, and to keep clearing away cobwebs of human emotions – and to simply be present and alert.
Then the new will present itself easy and effortlessly.
THY WILL BE DONE, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
We were created to create.
We were not created to teach. We were not created to heal. We were not created to be teachers of A Course in Miracles. We were not created to be teachers of God. We were not created for miracles. We were not created to manifest. We certainly were not created to suffer.
We were created to create.
O Child of God, you were created to create the beautiful, the good and the holy.
So this is always my dedication – to stand in this place and open my mind to the possibilities of what I do not yet know. At a minimum, to stop being a limited human being. To put my toys of fear, judgment and guilt away. To let myself be led by Christ. He’s taking the steps for me, and I’m going along for the ride.
Jesus says to you and me: “Greater works will you do than I did.”
From John 14:12: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Amazing, right? We will do greater works than Jesus because Jesus has gone to the Father and now he is with us.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I am curious to see what these greater works are. I want to know. If he was healing the sick and raising the dead and he says that I will do greater works, well, I am excited to know what this is.
Aren’t you a little bit excited and curious to know what Jesus has in store for you??
It’s thrilling to me to be in the expectation and anticipation of every new day.
And all that is asked is a little willingness to let go of your ideas. To seek and find the peace of God. To have an open mind to new possibilities.
And you’ll have the best day ever.
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Love, which created me, is what I am.
This is all I need to know. It is this sentence I have been searching my whole life for. Love, which created me, is what I am.
Love is what I am.
That’s amazing.
I’m not a body. I’m love.
I am what love is.
“Now I need seek no more. Love has prevailed.”
Many people seek for love, trying to find it in other people, when the whole time it is closer than your heart and closer than your hand. Love is what you are. It’s like a fish in water trying to find water. It’s swims in water, searching frantically for water, and never finding it. And yet water is everywhere.
Love is what you are and Love is all around you. It’s everywhere. You live in it. It’s what you are. You can’t find it while you seek for it because if you are seeking for love it means you are blind. You’ll never find it. But when you STOP, really stop, stand still, stop searching, stop seeking, you’ll remember that love is what you are. Your eyes will open and you will see clearly. It can be a shocking moment.
All this time you were searching for a love relationship – you tried dating, groups, therapy, books – and you were that fish in water searching for water.
You’ve been swimming in it all along.
It’s everywhere. You cannot be separate from it.
God, thank you for what I am. Thank you for creating me as love. Thank you for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all my thoughts of limitation and mistakes. Thank you for never leaving me. Thank you for being my constant companion.
Love, lisa
God has condemned me not. No more do I.
My Father knows my holiness.
If God knows my holiness, then I should know my holiness also. It is there for me to see.
This is a great lesson. It’s a reminder that I was mistaken in who I thought I was. I thought I was limited, guilty, sinful. But this lesson reminds me that I was mistaken! I was wrong! I am whole and perfect! I am still the little innocent child I was before the rules of the world began clouding my vision.
I am still that child!
I never lost my innocence. I never lost my holiness. My mistakes did not affect my holiness. I am forgiven.
My mistakes about myself are dreams. I let them go today.
I stand ready to receive God’s Word alone for what I really am.
I got a great letter yesterday from someone who PRACTICED & APPLIED yesterday’s idea. I love it. There is a world of difference between thinking something is a good idea when you read it versus actually practicing it in your daily life. Check it out:
Lisa,
For the first time ever, I lived my life as if it was my last day on earth. And I felt in my heart what is meant by dedicating one’s life to God.
That phrase did not really make sense to me until I lived a day as if there would be no other.
Because I found that when I did that — all I want to do is LOVE. BE LOVE.
I finally felt what you mean about how extending yourself becomes the most natural thing in the world.
I have never felt that like I did today
You know when you said: Everyone will love you — you will love everyone.
And it was like that in the grocery store — everyone was laughing and smiling and I loved them all!
I even called the mortgage company again and told them about how I am going to earn more money and I got this really nice guy on the phone and I felt his happiness for me when I told him what I am going to do.
It was just like that everywhere.
I want to stay here in this space.
Can you share somewhere — anywhere — how you “Stayed.” About the practice of staying in the light.
Yes, it’s easy. Let every day be the FIRST and LAST DAY. Staying in the light is easy since light is what you are. The sun doesn’t have a problem staying bright because bright is what it is. Just be yourself: all light. Forget the past and forget the future. Live every day to the fullest. Make sure there is nothing left unfinished. Whatever needs to be done, do it today. Don’t wait. A Course in Miracles says “You will only be happy fulfilling a function for God.” Love, lisa
This is my holy instant of release.
Be not content with future happiness. It has no meaning.”
Right now is all there is. If you honestly look at all the ways you look to the future for your happiness, you will be shocked to the floor.
Everyone keeps thinking something will happen later. It’s the human condition to look to the future for something to be different. But right now is everything you need to be happy. This is your holy instant of release. You have everything. I know this seems impossible to you, but that’s because your mind is focused in the PAST and in the FUTURE and so you have created a situation of lack.
In a very real sense, you’re blind.
When you bring your mind back into this moment, really come into the fullness of now, you will be happy.
You’ll be able to see clearly.
And if you are not happy when you bring yourself into the present, it is because your mind is still attached to past and future.
If you are not happy then you are still sequencing time while you say you are being present. You’re not being present. Start realizing how much of your thinking is looking to the future.
Lots of people have the ability to bring themselves into the present moment and then they say “okay, now what?”
That’s future thinking!!!! They are already waiting for the next moment! Look at it!
LOL.
Watch yourself today. Observe yourself. Watch how much of your thinking is based on something you want to happen later.
This is your holy instant of release.
Every day should be your last day. Today should be your very last day. You should live it like you are going to die tonight at 8pm, and there is no tomorrow. Death is a great friend to keep by your side at all times.
Everything you do should be your final act on earth. This will sharpen your mind and bring clarity to you. It will bring precision to your actions. Think of guys at the front line of the battle. They are not thinking of anything else except what is directly in front of them.
You’re most alive when death is chasing you (unless of course you succumb to your death, and that’s the worst defeat of all).
Lay down your dreams. This will not make you lazy, it will make you come alive. Most people live in dreams – they think goals keep them striving and focused – but most people never realize their dreams because dreams are future thinking. Most people keep waiting for circumstances to change or for motivation, and all that results is procrastination and nothing happens. But when you come into today and do what needs to be done – to live today like it is your last day – you will accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible.
This is your holy instant of release.
Father, it is today I am free, because my Will is Yours.
My home awaits me. I will hasten there.
“If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. It is not death which makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me. For I have not sought illusions to replace the truth.”
This is a great lesson. You can depart this world entirely. Most people are afraid of this lesson because they think departing this world means death. But remember the recent lessons: You are not a body. You’re a mind. Death is impossible. So it would be good to have a look at this lesson from a new perspective.
While you are in time and space, there are two ways of looking at the world: right-mindedness and wrong-mindedness.
At the very bottom of the scale, in the lower frequencies of time and space are:
anger
blame
jealousy
justification
fear
disease
sickness
attack
defense
judgment
worry
doubt
confusion
These emotions are the bottom. If you are live in a world where you participate in these emotions, you are in a very low frequency and quite literally: are living in hell. This is wrong-mindedness.
But a change of mind can you raise you into a higher frequency. When you make a decision to shift your mind to see things differently, you will find yourself in another world where there is:
Miracles
Gratitude
Forgiveness
Healing
Helpfulness
Spiritual
Goodness/Kindness
Generosity
You’re still in time & space, but now it’s a happy dream. Everyone likes you, miracles occur, your body functions perfectly, you’re peaceful and all is well. This is the real world. This is right-mindedness. It is still a dream, and it is still within time and space, but you are so close to Heaven that you can actually see the gates.
In the Clarification of Terms in A Course in Miracles under Mind-Spirit Jesus describes it perfectly:
“The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through Christ’s vision sees the real world. This is the final vision, the last perception, the condition in which God takes the final step Himself. Here time and illusions end.”
Amazing, right? At your most advanced spiritual state, where you are listening to the Holy Spirit’s voice, forgiving everyone and everything, being totally helpful, you are still in time and illusions. Although the real world is a great place to be because “it is the final vision, the last perception, the condition in which God takes the final step Himself. Here time and illusions end.”
The real world is a good place to be – better than the dungeon/hell that you previously lived in, but even at the highest most advanced spiritual state where all is good, you will begin to realize that condition is still limited.
O Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy. Do not forget this.
All must learn to live in a world of gratitude and forgiveness first, AND PERFECT IT in order for God to take the final step … and this final step will catapult you into Heaven and creation.
Emmet Fox says: “In my Father’s House are many mansions, but you cannot go to the next mansion till you perfect the one you are in.”
The majority of people – while still in a human condition – fluctuate between the lower and higher frequencies of time and space on a daily basis. They go from anger to forgiveness. They go from confusion to gratitude. They go from low to high then back down to low again then back up to high again, then back down to low.
You know what I am talking about.
You are making GREAT progress if you can get yourself out of the lower frequencies, into a space of constant forgiveness, gratitude, miracles and healing. AND STAY THERE. You have made TREMENDOUS STRIDES when you leave the lower frequencies (of anger, judgment, blame, guilt, fear, jealousy, attack) behind forever.
For most, this step, this movement of mind seems utterly impossible. Most have zero idea what it means to live in a world where there are no worries and no cares. But I’m gonna tell you something: ALL POWER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU IN HEAVEN AND EARTH. You can absolutely start being consciously aware, and you can stop yourself when you start participating in fear, anger, judgment, guilt.
“Wrong mindedness listens to the ego and makes illusions, perceiving sin and justifying anger, and seeing guilt, disease and death as real. Both this world and the real world are illusions because right-mindedness merely overlooks or forgives, what never happened. Therefore it is not the One-mindedness of the Christ Mind, Whose Will is one with God’s.”
Do you see? You have the ability and power to be in whatever world you want to live in, and after you have lived in the Real World for a while, where it’s a beautiful dream and absolutely everything goes right for you and miracles are happening every day, you will start to get bored with that space.
You will be like, oh whatever ho-hum, I can manifest whatever I want. Look at me, I think something and it appears. Whatever. I ask and receive. Big Deal. Who cares?
And the reason you will eventually become bored with miracles, manifestation and money is because your mind is designed to CREATE.
In you is a memory that you do not belong in an environment of separation. This world is not your home.
And then you will be ready to have God take the final step, which takes you to your home, and here is One-mindedness.
Here there is only Creation. Here there is only love. There is only action. Constant joy becomes your natural condition. There are no more questions. Here you are no longer a body, and no longer asking the Holy Spirit what to do because now TOTAL TRANSFER has been accomplished. At this place, Christ takes over.
Then your life is God’s.
Christ needs your form that He might appear to men and save them from their illusions.
This is the adventure. Here there are no needs. Here there are no plans, no goals, no wishes. At this level, there is only Christ working through you.
It is given you to shift your thinking to think with God. Your home awaits you. Hasten there.
Here is creation. Here is God.
“Christ lives in you. The Christ in your inhabits not a body. yet He is in you. And thus it must be that you are not within a body. What is within you cannot be outside. And it is certain that you cannot be apart from what is at the very center of your life.”
I love you. Thanks for showing up.
God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.
All that is really asked of me is to remember God in every circumstance, in every moment, in every event, in every person, in every situation.
To see God everywhere.
This is easy when you are conscious and aware.
It is difficult when you are unconsciously blazing (or sleepwalking) through life, but it’s the most natural thing in the world once you have trained your mind to think with God. At a certain point, everything – every single detail, the good and the bad, the big and the small – begins to remind you of God automatically, without any effort.
So, there has been a small glitch in my NYC plans. This reminds me of God. My friend, whose house I was going to live in CT, lost his job yesterday. He’s in shock because he had a really great secure high-paying job where they loved him, but the company is cutting back employees and restructuring. He has a gigantic mortgage and he thinks it would be best if I held off moving to his house till he finds another job.
This reminds me of God. There are no accidents and God is here in the situation because God is with me, and with my friend, and with everyone.
God is my life. God is all.
My friend in CT says as long as he has a roof over his head I am free to come live with him (so I am still free to go as planned and live there) but he is letting me know that it is a shaky situation, and that I will need to get a job immediately.
We’re going to talk again today.
He has great faith in God, along with a tremendous amount of energy and motivation so it is quite possible that he finds a job immediately. He’s just one of those kind of guys – miracle-minded. I’ve known him for years and when one thing falls apart there is always something even better waiting for him.
And so it is with this path to God. You roll with the punches and go with the flow. This is the adventure. When one door closes, another door always opens. It’s been my experience that when I pay attention, I’m led exactly to where I need to go and it’s always good.
Every day gives you a new sign-post that tells you where to go and what to do. You are getting signs all day long that point out the direction to go …. and … the speed at which to go there. Some signs make you wait and be still. Sometimes it’s green lights the whole way.
What I love is that when you are open-eyed in present (where there is no past and no future, and you have a willingness to let go of your tight control of your plans), often you are led down an unexpected road to an entirely new destination. All you have to do is follow the signs. Don’t forge ahead when the sign says Slow Down. Don’t go Left when the sign says: Go Right.
This is the journey – to follow the signs.
You start heading off in a new direction, you put an idea in motion (I’ve told everyone I am going to New York, sent off resumes for jobs in Manhattan, and I have given away everything I own away except that which can fit in the back seat/trunk of my car) and then you simply follow the signs.
So the ROAD TRIP has, in actuality, already begun. I’m going somewhere and I’m just not entirely sure of the specific location at this particular time. There are signs everywhere. Thankfully, Christ is driving and I’m in the passenger. I’m going somewhere.
When you start paying close attention, you will realize your whole life has been a series of LIFE GIVING YOU SIGNS, TELLING YOU WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO.
It’s really amazing.
God is my Father, and I love Him.
I’m in perfectly good care. The way is open. Now we follow it in peace together.
My friend and brother, you have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you. We are one, and it but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun.
We’re on the Highway to Heaven:
God is my Father, and He loves His Son.
There is a simple solution to every problem. I know this can seem like an impossible statement when you are standing in a black cloud, up to your waist in quicksand in what appears to be a hopeless situation – but you have the power to shift your thoughts … and this small movement of your mind will shift your world entirely.
When you change your mind, the world around you changes.
The quicksand disappears instantly. The black cloud disappears automatically.
Of course, you have to see this with your own eyes to know it as true. Don’t trust me. Try it for yourself.
All the ideas I write about should not be believed at all, until you know them for yourself. Do not believe anything I say until you have witnessed it first-hand in your own life. Test these ideas, practice them, and apply them to every problem.
Today it is given to you to be free from all all worries and doubt. Why? Because you live in God. Because God is with you and He is all powerful, and He shares his power with you.
The difficulty that most people have is that they operate from their own limited ideas of themselves (as separate) and this is the reason why nothing ever seems to work. When you cut yourself off from Source, the power does not have the ability to flow through you.
Take a lamp. You have to plug it into its source (an electrical outlet or a battery) in order for it to work. Without the power of electricity or battery, it seems to do nothing. It appears broken. It seems useless. But when you plug it in, it works instantly and perfectly.
And so it is with you. If your life is not working, it’s because you’re not plugged into your Source. You work perfectly fine, but your not plugged in. That’s all.
Plug yourself in. It’s easy.
God is your Father, and He loves you.
Your true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt that Heaven looks to it to give it light.
TO GIVE IT LIGHT!
See??
When you plug a lamp into the source, it gives off light.
And you plug yourself into Source, you give off light.
It lights the world as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. This is reality, and only this. This is illusion’s end. It is the truth.
Amazing, huh?
You’ve been wondering why your life isn’t working and now you realize it’s because you weren’t plugged in. How simple! Once you plug yourself in, you’ll be working fine. There was never anything wrong with you, it’s just that the cord was sitting there on the floor, disconnected.
Plug yourself in, and shine.
You are the light of the world.
God is my life. I have no life but His.
Now I know my life is God’s. I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.
Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. We are lonely here and long for Heaven, where we are at home. Today we would return.
From Jesus in the bible (John 14:2):
“In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
God is with me. I live in move in Him.
God is with me. This has never been more evident to me than in the past 2 weeks. Everything that could possibly fall apart has fallen apart and I am totally fine. My marriage fell apart. My housing situation fell apart. My one remaining cat got totally sick this week with jaundice and has to be put down (although I think he died last night because I had a dream this morning where Sam and Enzo came to me – both! – and they were both really healthy and happy and Enzo wasn’t sick anymore).
And my hearing aid broke. This has always been my blackest fear because I am literally thrown into a world of complete and absolute silence – so even that occurred – but that turned out fine. I got a $3000 replacement yesterday to use while they repair my $3000 piece of electronic machinery.
(Modern science is amazing … but it will cost you)
I stopped praying for healing and miracles a long long time ago and I see that whatever I need is given to me. It’s amazing. With contacts and hearing aids, I am a perfect communication channel. I’ve stopped naming the forms that I think my life should look like … and everything I truly need is given to me.
God is with me.
God is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me. He is my home, wherein I live and move; the Spirit which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and guarantees my safety from all pain. He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines on Him. How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!
Amazing, right?
God is my home where I live and move.
I asked for this, and it should be noted that you only get what you asked for and so don’t be afraid that things will be taken from you … because only I asked for this. My life fell apart because I have been praying for it to fall apart for a long time now. I asked for the whole pie, not just a slice … and I was willing to undergo whatever I had to go through to experience a shift in myself and the world.
I’ve been asking for slices and slivers for years now (a miracle here, a miracle there, a baby step here, a baby step there) and finally I just thought to myself: Okay, I’m ready to see the whole thing now. I’m not afraid. I’m ready to fulfill my function for God. I am ready! I am ready to give all of me – my entire body/life from head to toe – to Christ for His Purposes. Let’s go!
And as you can see, Christ wastes no time in answering requests!
God is with me. I live and move in Him.
Which means today is going to be a great day.
Stay in the high frequencies and don’t swoop down, okay? Be vigilant for God and His Kingdom. You’ve already experienced the light. Why would go back to darkness knowing that you don’t have to go there anymore? You live in the light. Darkness is not where you belong. Why would you revert back to anger or grievances when you have been given everything?
It would be like being given a genie in a bottle who can grant all your wishes and requests – yet you still live in poverty begging for scraps on the streets. You have a power within you that rules the universe!
Once you’ve goten a glimpse of the light, it is difficult to be in the lower frequencies. It actually becomes painful and impossible to live in limitation.
How can you live in limitation when you know you have everything? How can you live darkness when you know that God is with you?
God is my home.
Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.
So, yesterday’s lesson (if you practiced it properly) was a day of silence.
Now, today, with the Introduction … “words will mean little now.”
Now we entering into a new phase of learning to let our thoughts be still.
“And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your coming. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us. We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. And we know that You will not forget us now. We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep.”
We’ve come almost a whole year together. Look at that. Some of you guys have been with me since January 1st, 221 days! That’s amazing. And now we are coming to the end of the journey.
“And so we start upon the final part of this one holy year, which we have spent together in the search for truth and God, Who is its one Creator. We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. His Hand has held up up. His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our mind. His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began.”
There’s a lot to read on this particular lesson! There is a 3-page Introduction to Part II, a description on “What is Forgiveness?” and then Lesson 221 “Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.”
Let all my thoughts be still.
This can SEEM difficult in the midst of all your doings. It can SEEM like things are calling your attention and making you forget about your purpose and goal of remembering God, and quieting your thoughts.
You will be constantly tempted to think people, places and events require your attention. YOU WILL BE TEMPTED! But do not be fooled. Remember what one of the earlier lessons in A Course in Miracles says, that when you think about anything besides God, your mind is actually blank!
Blank!
So, the practice is NOT to empty your mind because that is impossible because you are forever an effect of God, pure creation, so your mind is very active and is constantly thinking thoughts all the time. It is impossible to empty your mind so that it is not thinking at all. It’s impossible! So don’t waste your time and energy. However, it is possible to change your thoughts to think with God.
See the difference?
All it takes is a slight movement of mind where you might be thinking how worried you are (frustrated, bored, angry, lonely, confused) and you, in that moment, make an active decision to STOP IT, shift your thoughts, and start thinking about God. It doesn’t take time. It doesn’t require special clothing or special positions. It doesn’t require you to go anywhere.
You simply change your mind to think with God.
How simple!
All it takes is one small movement of your mind, and you are home in Heaven.
I am standing in the middle of what seems to be “a lot going on.” I’m moving. Then yesterday my hearing aid broke (so I really had a day of silence!) and to add to all of this: there is a bat in the house I am currently living in that follows me around. Wherever I go, it follows me. At first it was freaking me out (I was continually ducking for cover and screaming) but now I am amused. At first I thought maybe I hallucinated the bat, because he followed me from room to room, flying like crazy above me, circling me, but then he just disappeared into thin air. It’s was so weird. I couldn’t find him anywhere.
Then he re-appeared again two nights ago (for the whole week I’ve been hearing super loud bat calls, practically next to my head) so my furry friend re-appeared and this time he flew around all night long. He was still flying around in the morning.
Through all of it, I was like: “Okay, I have a bat in the house. He’s following me around. He’s freaking me out, but it’s okay. I’m okay.”
And there is a stupendous, spectacular wondrous moment when you realize fear has left you. It might still grip you momentarily in it’s clenches (trust me, I was terrified), but then a few minutes later the fear was gone and I was in a state of amusement.
Greta said to me “Oh, bats are a good omen” which made me laugh out loud. We can look at everything differently, and simply not be afraid of anything anymore.
When I got home last night, the bat was still flying around, so I called a friend in to help me get it outside, but as soon as my friend walked in, the bat disappeared into thin air again. We looked everywhere for him. Nothing. He’s very sneaky.
I’m laughing. Sometimes things like this happen where you feel like you are in The Twilight Zone.
And it’s all good. There is no need to worry about anything. Fear is taken away. I’m not alone. God is good.
You actually lose your body. I know this sounds strange, but you will know when it has happened to you. You will be unaffected by everything. You literally lose your body form even though it still appears like you have a body. It’s a paradox and all I can say is that all your practicing should be directed towards this. Be 100% in your practice. Be done with forgiveness. Be done with judgment. Be done with all human emotions. The human form is what Eckhart Tolle calls the “pain body.”
It is the thing you think is you, but really it’s nothing. It will disappear with practice. Once it is gone, you will be unaffected by anything.
I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.
This lesson is literally true!!!! You are not a body.
So, the practice of A Course in Miracles is learning to let go of your body, your identity, your emotions. You must be impeccable to do this.
I love what Don Juan says about it:
Everything we say is a reflection of the world of people. You talk and act the way you do because you’re clinging to the human form.
Everything in a warrior’s world depends on personal power and personal power depends on impeccability. Part of being impeccable for a warrior is never to hinder others with his thoughts.
You indulge in not trying to change. That’s as wrong as feeling disappointed with our failures. Warriors, must be impeccable in their effort to change, in order to scare the human form and shake it away. After years of impeccability a moment will come when the form cannot stand it any longer and it leaves.
The human form is a sticky force that makes us the people we are. The human form has no form. It’s anything, but in spite of not having form, it possesses us during our lives and doesn’t leave us until we die. A warrior must drop the human form in order to change, to really change. Otherwise there is only talk about change. One cannot change one iota as long as one holds on to the human form. A warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won’t be able to. That’s the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.
The only thing that makes you think you are yourself is the form. Once it leaves, you are nothing. A warrior without form begins to see an eye. The formless warrior uses that eye to start dreaming . If you don’t have a form, you don’t have to go to sleep to do dreaming . The eye in front of you pulls you every time you want to go.
Everything has to be sifted through our human form. When we have no form, then nothing has form and yet everything is present.
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
(200) There is no peace except the peace of God.
“Let me not wander from the way of peace, for I am lost on other roads than this. But let me follow Him Who leads me home, and peace is certain as the Love of God.”
You cannot get lost, except in your own mind. The road is clear HOWEVER it is possible to wander off.
So, it’s necessary to keep the goal of God and the salvation of the world in your mind – forefront and center – at all times.
It requires vigilance, commitment and willingness to let the Holy Spirit guide your life in all your doings. It requires you to want peace, above all else. It requires constancy. It requires impeccability.
There is no peace except the peace of God. You will not find peace in people, places or things. There is no peace except the peace of God. Accept this fact and save yourself the agony or more bitter disappointments, bleak despair, and sense of icy hopelessness and doubt.
SEEK YOU NO FURTHER.
There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain.
This is the final point to which each one must come at last, to lay aside all hope of finding happiness where there is none; of being saved by what can only hurt; of making peace out of chaos; joy of pain; and Heaven out of hell.
“Come home. This world is not where you belong.”
Now is there silence. Seek no further. You have come to where the road is carpeted with leaves of false desires, fallen from the trees of hopelessness you sought before. Now are they underfoot. And you look up and toward Heaven, with the body’s eyes but serving an instant longer now. Peace is already recognized at last, and you can feel its soft embrace surround your heart and mind with comfort and with love.
