"Positive
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February 8, 2003
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you toward the discovery and expression of your Spirituality. Jeanne Dickerman _________________________________
have been told to us by others. If we do not examine them, we are then living our lives as extensions of the sources of the things that we've been told. If one lives an unexamined life one lives it in darkness." ~ A.J. Mahari
~ Socrates "The
problems that exist... _________________________________ Try A Different View Sometimes I feel the necessity to remind myself that we come into this world with nothing and we will exit the same way. So, finding a spiritual solution to every problem involves doing the only thing I can do with my life. That is, giving it away and being simultaneously grateful for the opportunity to do so. Here is a formula that works for me: * I get back from the world precisely what I put out to the world. Which is another way of stating the proverb "As you sow, so shall you reap." * If "Gimmee! Gimmee! Gimmee!" is my message to the universe then the universe will send the very same message back to me: "Gimmee! Gimmee! Gimmee!" The result is I will never feel peaceful and I will be condemned to a life of trying to fulfill all the demands being made on me. * If my message to the universe is "What can I give?" or "How may I serve?", the message I receive from the universe will be "How may I serve you?" or "What can I give you?" Then I experience the magic of sending generous thoughts and energy out wherever I go. I recommend your spiritual practice involve being generous and grateful with your thoughts. The more you send out thoughts of "How may I serve", rather that "What's in it for me?", the more you will hear back "How may I serve you?" The Sufi poet Rumi once explained that the terms I, you, me, he, she, and they are distinctions that cannot be made in the garden of the mystics. In spiritual consciousness you view yourself as a flower in this garden and everyone else in the garden connected to you in an invisible way. Then you feel the assistance that is available to you. At the level of spiritual
consciousness we know we are connected to everyone. Our concerns and difficulties
are something we realize that we share with everyone else. Nurture your sense of connection to everyone and the Universe as well. This allows you to remove your ego from conflicts. Do not see anyone as an enemy or view anyone as an obstacle to fulfillment. This awareness of being a part of everyone allows you to suspend anger and frustration toward others and see them as partners in the resolution of problems. Know that there are people to whom you are connected who are available to help you find the right job, to solve a puzzling issue that seems irreconcilable, to help you back on your feet, and to resolve financial difficulties. Everyone becomes a compatriot rather than a competitor. This is spiritual awareness as I practice it. We are not alone. We are not what we have, what we do, what others think of us. We are divinely connected to God and to all of God's creations, and consequently each of us has an unlimited inventory of resources available for the purpose of helping us to a state of peace and problem resolution. Being connected means literally that at any given moment of your life, you can ask that the love that surrounds you and connects you to everyone and everything else please guide you right now. Then you relinquish your negative self-talk images and observe everyone and everything that you see as your loving assistant. It is in these moments that the right person or event will materialize and assist you. I try to remind myself in moments of despair of the beautiful affirmation from A Course In Miracles: "I can choose peace, rather than this." It works. Or I use this affirmation often: "I see nothing I hear nothing, I know nothing that is separate from me." * There is also another powerful line in A Course in Miracles: "It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are helpful". Great learning is an understatement! It takes great faith and courage to begin to view our lives in this way. How strongly do you desire to truly know, beyond a doubt, that every problem you experience, including the very worst thing in your life, actually contains the seeds of the best thing? We can learn to view every crisis as an opportunity, which wouldn't necessarily make life easier, but would make it more satisfying. We would never be able to view anything as a negative occurrence, because we'd see everything as useful information. Our best thinking is exactly where all our so-called problems exist. If we couldn't think about them, they would not exist. We can change our very best thinking and begin to see the error of that thinking. What we need is a change in thinking to realize that a connection to the divine good, or spirit, or God, is what heals or eradicates our problems. This power that we call God, which grows the flowers and moves the planets in perfect orbits, counts us as one of its creations. I encourage you to learn to rely on that power in times of crisis. __________________________________ I
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