How can you know whether you chose the stairs to Heaven (HS) or the way to hell (the ego)? Quite easily. How do you feel? Is peace in your awareness? A Course in Miracles
On the journey of Self-Realization (restoring Pure Conscious Awareness in the "I" of Christ) we seem to have two distinct thought systems available to us & "A Course in Miracles" tells us these are ego (the made-up personal identity having accepted the illusion of separation) & the Holy Spirit which represents the untouched & untouchable Consciousness of Oneness.
It's vital that we master discernment between these seeming diametrically opposed thoughts systems (fear & Love - BUT what is real can have no opposites, one of these is an impossible imposter) if True Peace is the goal, so let's explore the quote above to open the inner 'ear' to Love's Voice & start dismissing the directives from the voice that seems to speak first & loudest, leading me further into the wilderness of trying to 'get' my way to 'settles-ville'. Beloved you are 'here' for MORE most certainly, cast your eye to Greatness & Magnitude, not the tragic game of separation where even the best 'stuff' is empty!
Ego is a thought of compromise & can offer nothing but compromise. We delay leaving the 'land' of compromise because we've settled for hits of comfort. Let the 'still small voice' lead you all the way to the TOP! Restoring True "I"dentity in Love.
When we do learn to distinguish between them, we can shut the door on the imaginary character & open the door fully to the Wisdom that guarantees we live our Highest Happiness, the established Reality of Heaven.
Inspiration, such as the musings above, will pour forth freely & liberally when we are tuned in to this Wise Teacher & the voice for separation, hate, anger, fear, guilt, shame, worry is no longer heard.
The answer is given in the quote above. How you 'feel' is your clue. You see feelings aren't meant to be believed, they're the obvious clue about projection/perception. Our feelings directly & precisely point to the thought system we've aligned with.
At first we simply begin to notice the more obvious upsets (detours from peace) which are no longer a mystery, the cause is no longer something in the world. We begin to see with greater awareness that every time there is a lack of peace you can be sure that behind it is the imaginary person, the acceptance of ego. Remember that ego doesn't exist. There is no objective world & all that appears as objective is observed by the observer.
The direct path of Awakening & Enlightenment takes the focus of what is observed, instead using the content (experience) of the form (phenomena that appears in the objective world) as a clue as to the state of mind. Just as A Course in Miracles tells us very early on in the workbook, "I am never upset for the reason I think."
The Law of Cause & Effect is so helpful to work with on this journey. There is only One True Cause & Effect: Life & its creation - the Supreme Being & the Child of Creation. We also know that there is no cause in effect because they are ordered. Despite being indivisible, cause always comes first but the effect is always right there. Which means that the cause of any upset doesn't exist in the objective world. Examples of this include:
anxiety isn't caused by past or imagined future events
anger isn't a product of things not going your way
grief isn't inherent in death
a sense of limitation isn't because of where you grew up
the experience of lack has nothing to do with less material things than you'd like
Whilst cause & effect are inseparable, the cause is always in mind & never leaves the mind. This is a bit tricky to 'get' at first glance because we've habituated the lie that keeps us perpetually deluded, which is that there is an inside & an outside, & there isn't.
So back to the point of this conversation, how you feel is only & always a clue about the thought system you've joined with. The details are the form & are the 'decoy', the messenger, & irrelevant. If you don't like how you feel (the content) it is simply because you've invested belief in an impossible condition; ie, you believe that separation happened.
Our task in Awakening is to continue to increase in awareness & sensitivity to our feelings, NOT to believe the lie any longer, but to choose again in alignment with Truth. I call this "Self-Transcendence Alchemy", the way to master discernment by sifting through that which is false to reveal the Truth, what's left after purifying the mind of ego's nothingness. Ego isn't a 'thing', it's an idea that you hold onto or let go of.
When you look elsewhere for guidance, deeper than the personal agenda, the Light of your Essential Being (Holy Spirit) can begin to shine through & it will communicate the Truth, leaving you filled with Peace.
The Stillness is What you are, the Silence is What you are. Your very own nature will 'speak' to you in Perfect ways for you to 'hear', raising you up & up & UP until you can see above the battleground that has had you captivated.
The Stillness of Being speaks. "Be still & know THAT I Am God" can be known, eclipsing & replacing the dreamed personal character fight machine that relentlessly pursues misery & ultimately death. Forever keeping what is REALLY wanted just out of reach, gone or conditional on circumstances.
Ego is just a thought system, a distraction built on assumptions, ideas, concepts, labels, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, sensations, language. This is all the lesser phenomenal realm & is no equal or match for Truth, because it doesn't exist in Reality.
As you begin to step back, to watch the activity of the mind, you will see for yourself how it carries on & has an assumed foundation of person-hood which can be questioned & seen entirely through. In fact the mind needs an audience to be 'watching' & you've been unknowingly hooked, like your very own never ending sitcom/drama/horror. All the while your attention is on the fake news show, Love's Reality a little deeper goes nowhere & remains untouched, as well as unseen to the point that we just 'think' it's missing. An assumption that keeps us searching in the wrong place.
You can now use the world as your diagnostic tool for Awakening to Love, to the Life you've been craving & unable to 'make-believe'. Every single feeling can be used as a barometer pointing to the acceptance of an imagined personal identity (ie ego's thought system of fear), OR, the Truth of Love's Oneness.
This takes epic persistence & radical willingness to see differently, with the goal of Peace/Truth held out in front always. Ego is a sneaky 'player' that has had you fooled & the extent to which you see a world of separation & experience upset is case in point.
It's not necessarily but it really is simple. Notice the 'pain', ie the lack of Love. Anyone can do this, realize the 'pain' comes from an un-real idea (I'm separate from Love) & apply Quantum Forgiveness.
At first not only could I NOT hear the voice of Love, I didn't even believe it was possible, I didn't believe anything 'else' could be real. As I persistently questioned the reality of the world I thought I was looking at, the veil began to dissolve & sure enough, Reality remained when illusions were seen through. The world is then off the hook, I need nothing from anything or anyone to stay immovable in the Divine depths of Fulfilled Being. The world is an illusion, your inherent Divine worthiness has already been established in Creation, you can quit your job as a person, the role is actually redundant & in doing so you can finally know the Grand Prize.
Our only task is to let go/let be, recognizing with increasing mastery that everything that seems to 'trigger' you is a decoy, a distraction, designed to keep you mindless. Well NOT anymore! Upsetting feelings are your clue to the greatest escape (from nothingness) there has ever been. ALL the way to the laughter at the great cosmic joke - you believing yourself to be something you're not.
A Course in Miracles says that the projection of the world ends with laughter, in Truth it already has. That's you laughing at having chosen to listen to a thought system that leads nowhere as the nowhere man making plans for nobody, just as the Beatles sang.
Regardless of 'where' you think you are in the journey of Life, KNOW that Perfect Peace, True Fulfilment, Divine Abundance & Love are Reality, settle for nothing less!
What would you rather 'hear' & know? An impossible dream where you & those you love seem to suffer? Or the One Reality of Life in all its richness, Glory & Grace 'burbling' up & pouring over?
The discovery of Truth begins right where you are because it is What You Are right now. Joyous Liberated Living has no conditions. Which is really the point, ALL conditions have been imposed by the imposter, the misidentification of ego's personal reality & you've got all you need to restore the memory of Divine Oneness.
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