Lesson 84 from A Course in Miracles says:
Love created me like itself.
Love holds no grievances.
There is a powerful lesson I have learned over the years, and it will transform your life 100%.
Here it is:
If you want to activate the light in your brother (or in yourself) you must respond to the light in him (or yourself) in order to ignite it.
It’s the only way!!!
What this means is that if you are trying to get your brother to change, bring out the good in him. Search for the light in him and bring that light alive. Remind him of the truth of himself. Remember, you are all powerful! You have the power to ignite a flame in every single person you see and think of. Give him a compliment. Show him his strengths. Tell him what he is doing right.
And this goes for yourself.
I was reminded of this by my good friend Tanja Seely who has an ACIM website The Light Has Come. She is an extraordinary Teacher of God – clear, practical and beautiful. Always giving. She is on facebook and now that facebook has a new set-up, you can see everyone’s comments. It’s like an open book over there – you can what everyone is writing. I started to notice how active Tanja is with spreading joy everywhere. She is lighting magnificent fires everywhere! People get happy around her. She is lighting up the world with love!
A lot of people falsely believe that criticism or correction is the best way to bring about change. But let’s look at this logically.
First of all: think about how you react when someone criticizes you. Do you expand in joy or do you shut down thinking what a failure you are?
When you point out someone’s faults (or your own), you are speaking to the darkness in them (or yourself). And the darkness responds. Light does not respond while you are speaking to darkness. The darkness simply grows deeper and darker.
You must speak to the light (in yourself and in your brother) to get the light to respond.
If you want love, give love.
If you peace, give peace.
If you want appreciation, give appreciation.
If you want Heaven, give Heaven.
If your life is hell, then you must be giving hell.
If your life is dark, you must be giving darkness.
A Course in Miracles is a mathematical certainty. 2+2=4.
When you give love, you get love.
When you give criticism, you get criticism.
When you attack, you get attack.
Someone on facebook the other day wrote “Anger is like a boomer-rang. So much so that it should be called BOOMER-ANGER.”
Knowing this, I don’t send anger out. It’s just gonna fly straight back at me and hit me square between the eyes.
Love is also a boomer-rang. You send it out and it comes right back atcha ya! And it doubles and picks up energy as it’s flying out there so that by the time it comes back to you, it’s double!! it’s triple! You send out a drop of love to your brother, and you get an ocean back.
Try this like a Science Experiment. Test it out in your life.
Love created me like itself. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am not a body. I would recognize my reality.
You’re all light. You are love.
I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.
Two review lessons:
The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness
Let me not forget my function.
Here’s the thing: you are awake.
Let me repeat that. You are awake. So why do you keep falling back asleep in fear? That’s the big question. The practice is NOT “how to wake up” (because you are already awake) but how to “consistently remember” that you are awake, to remember your Identity in God.
Consistency. Constancy.
Which is today’s lesson: Let me not forget my function.
It takes practice to stay in the high frequencies where there is only love. It takes determination and dedication to stay in Heaven without slipping back into hell. You will keep sliding back down into problems and doubt … until there comes a moment when you realize THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE DOING and then you’ll stop it.
Anger = sleeping
Doubt = sleeping
Fear = sleeping
Problems = sleeping
As soon as you see that you have a choice (between Heaven and hell, love and fear) you will automatically remember that there is ALWAYS another way of looking at things. You will choose for the light. You will snap out of it. It literally is like being jolted awake. You come to your senses.
Have you ever had an experience where you keep dozing off in the middle of the day? You try to stay awake, you’re sitting at your desk at the office or at the dinner table with your family, and you keep falling asleep, your eyes shut, your head falls down, and then you snap awake realizing you shouldn’t be dozing at your desk or at the dinner table with mashed potatoes in your mouth. Have you ever had this happen? And everyone is looking at you kinda funny, with compassion that you can’t stay awake.
Mostly they are laughing at you. Have you ever had this happen?
Well, this is exactly what it is like when you are in anger, depression, loneliness, sadness and beset with problems. You dozed off. You fell asleep at the dinner table. You were awake and then your eyes shut, your head fell down, and you start snoring. Except this is just an analogy. What sleeping looks like is uncertainty, fear, jealousy, and grievances.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sound asleep.
And everyone who’s awake is laughing at you. They don’t take your problems seriously, because to them it simply looks like you fell asleep at the dinner table with mashed potatoes in your mouth. It’s funny! It’s not serious, it’s hilarious.
If you keep dozing off, it would be a good time to ask yourself WHY.
You might want to take an honest look at that. Why do you keep slipping back down into routines and habits and problems? Why can’t you stay awake?
It’s good to ask yourself these questions if you find yourself flip-flopping back and forth between joy and depression, certainty and uncertainty, strength and weakness.
You are all light. You are the light of the world. Forgiveness is your function as the light of the world.
Let me not forget my function.
The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.
My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me.
!!!
That’s amazing. If you can remember that enough to do it, you’ll stay awake.
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD FINDS EXPRESSION THROUGH ME.
My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me.
Let peace extend from my mind to yours.
I share the light of the world with you.
Through my forgiveness I can see this as it is.
Love, lisa
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3 stages from Humanness to Happiness are Victimization, Responsibility and Purpose.
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Lesson 66
My happiness and my function are one.
I remember when I first started reading A Course in Miracles back in 1992, I was filled with HOPE. I was hopeful that transformation was possible for me. Back then my life was anything but happy. Back then life was all about keeping up appearances and rushing from one event to the next event. Back then I was filled with fear. I was fearful that my boyfriend would get bored with me and leave me (which he did eventually 4 years later), that I would lose my job (which I did eventually 8 years later), that I would lose my apartment (which I did eventually, with the breakup of my boyfriend). Etc.
But here is what I noticed later: I LIVED IN FEAR OF ALL THOSE THINGS COMING TO PASS EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE.
I lived in fear for 8 years that I would lose my job. Losing my job was one event in time that, interestingly enough, when it finally came to pass WASN’T SCARY AT ALL! LOL. But I lived in fear for 8 years in anticipation of that moment arriving.
So, today’s most important lesson, in my opinion, is contained in the first sentence: “Surely you have noticed…”
That to me is the most important part of this lesson.
SURELY YOU HAVE NOTICED.
Most people’s problems is the fact THAT THEY HAVEN’T NOTICED. I didn’t notice that I lived in fear for 8 years of future events. I didn’t notice. It was just my “normal” state of being. I thought everyone lived in fear. I thought you were supposed to plan just in case something bad happened. I thought you were supposed to have insurance and a back-up plan just in case the current plan failed.
Today’s lesson is telling you – in black and white again – that your function is happiness.
God gives you only happiness.
He has given your function to you.
Therefore your function must be happiness.
So the question is: ARE YOU HAPPY?
ARE YOU CONSISTENTLY HAPPY?
By now, on the 66th day, these lessons should be showing you results of joy and peace. If you are still waiting for the miracle to arrive, something has gone wrong, and I want you to write to me:
lisa_natoli@yahoo.com
If you are not supremely happy, something has gone wrong. I mean it, I want you to write to me if you are still filled with grievances and depression: lisa_natoli@yahoo.com
You should be experiencing the result of consistent happiness by now, on the 66th day.
Please, I don’t want you to get lazy with these lessons. One huge tendency for people is to constantly think that the “miracle is coming. It’s on it’s way.”
NO, NO, NO. The miracle is NOT coming. It is here now. It’s all around you … Do you see it?
If you are waiting for something to happen or waiting for your life to begin, you are way out in left field while the rest of the team has already gone to go get pizza and celebrate their win. If you are still waiting for a miracle or waiting for something exciting to happen, then you missed the bus
.
It passed you by. Thankfully, there is another bus on the way, but please …. stay alert so that the next bus doesn’t drive right by you also. Don’t wander off.
There are a thousand miracles in this very moment just waiting for your recognition. You might not realize it – but you have everything now.
Today, I want you to be honest with yourself: IS A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKING FOR YOU?
Are you seeing a change in your life?
Have you relationships become more harmonious?
Are you experiencing things flowing more easily?
Do you wake up happy and excited to have a function given to you by God?
Is every day a joyous adventure?
Do you have the ability to see things differently as they occur?
A lot of times what happens is that miracles are coming at you from all directions – people inviting you to visit, an email that a friend sends, a phone call, a small child smiling at you, a dog waiting to be pet, someone asking for your help – but because you are so preoccupied waiting for “the miracle” to arrive that you miss the fact it did arrive!
A thousand miracles will come to you today, are you noticing them? A thousand miracles come to you every day, do you notice them? Or are you waiting for the sky to open, for the grand miracle to arrive? If so, you’re wasting your time and you’ll be waiting forever.
This moment, right now, right here, is what everything is. This moment contains every gift. At some point, you really must ask yourself these questions. At some point “YOU WILL HAVE SURELY NOTICED” that you spend almost all your days and hours WAITING. I want you to see this. I want you to be honest. I want you to start looking at where you are holding back.
And the next question is: Are you practicing these workbook lessons? Are you just skimming through them? Or are you setting aside time each day to really sit down with A Course in Miracles and read the lesson from start to finish, sentence by sentence, and practicing the 10-15 minute practice periods. Practicing makes a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE difference.
Your function is established by God.
Your happiness and function are one.
from Mother Meera:
“Ask for Everything. Everything! Do not stop at peace of mind or purity of heart or surrender. Ours is the Yoga of transforming human life to Divine Life in this world. It is a hard Yoga. It demands those who have the courage to demand everything, bear everything, and to ask for everything. God wants you to have everything. Have the courage to pray for the humility to accept everything.”
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From Inez:
Are you as tired as I am of hearing people complain about the economy? Sometimes it sounds to me as if “everybody” is waiting around for a “bailout”. Did it ever occur to anyone that they are and can create their own “bailout?”
It’s time and past time to take full responsibility for YOU!
Don’t be fooled by the name of the show! This show is not only about being beautiful inside and out, you will also receive practical tips that you can use immediately to start your journey of creating your own bailout.
Be sure to listen to the Inez Bracy Show: Living Smart and Well as Inez Bracy and Lisa Natoli have a candid conversation about Miracles. Lisa Natoli, Gorgeous For God, talks about her journey from an ordinary life to an extraordinary way of living.
Lisa says, “I was a food and alcohol addict and couldn’t stop no matter what I learned and no matter how much knowledge I had.” Picking up the book “A Course in Miracles”, one line resonated with Lisa, “You may complain that this course is not sufficiently specific for you to understand and use. YET PERHAPS you have not done what it specifically advocates.”
This was Lisa’s turning point and opened up her world of higher energy vibrations and attracting what she longed to have in her life. Lisa’s longing was fulfilled when she was offered the opportunity to operate a Bed & Breakfast.
Listen and learn how you can use some of Lisa’s techniques to transform your life.
Monday, March 2, 2009, 12:00 Noon, www.livingsmartandwell.com
