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A Course in Creation
The following series of weekly
messages were received from New Year's Day, 2005 through July 10th, 2005. They are meant to help you create a life
of love, peace and joy.
The most important thing
that you can do for yourself this year is learn to love yourself
deeply. Learn to accept yourself as you are in this moment, this
moment right now.
Today, be very aware of what you have within
you. Be aware of your mind, of your ego, of your thoughts. Be very
aware of your body and how it feels as well. Turn your awareness to
the inside, and be one with how you are, how you have taught
yourself to be in all of these years of your life. Heighten your
awareness of what is, and then gently begin to change it, begin to
nudge yourself toward new ways of being.
Forgiveness is a
gift you give to yourself, a release that sets you free. If you are
blaming someone else for your life, if you are saying that they are
responsible for the way you are, then you cannot change it, you
cannot make it better. The only way you can make your life better
is to take your life back, to take back what you have given over to
others, release them from responsibility and claim it for yourself.
What you wish to learn is how things work, how things are and,
importantly, how you can form a system of understanding for yourself, a way
to look at the world, which leads you to peace, joy and love.
Being
psychic or intuitive is absolutely, completely normal. It is something you
are using every day all the time, if you realize it or not. In the areas in
which you are most successful, you are using your intuition all the time.
It is the basis for most of your decisions about people. It is the source
of your very best creative ideas
You will find that the path to
manifestation will demand much of you. It will demand that you
overcome great obstacles and grow inside; it will demand that you
show great courage by stepping out in faith. It will ask you to pursue apparently meaningless paths
just because they feel right. It will ask you to go against the
advice all your friends and family. It will ask you to take great
risks, based only on that feeling inside that it is what you are
supposed to do, even though you could not possibly justify it
rationally. The path of manifestation is one of growth and learning
and evolution toward your higher self.
You can achieve anything and everything if you will but ask for and
summon help and combine it with an unwavering intention to see it
through. Yes, you know there will be obstacles. You are prepared to
face them and overcome them. Yes, you know it may take years,
perhaps many years. But you are prepared to go forward with great
patience. And yes, you know that it will require that you make
choices, that you forego some pleasures of the moment in favor of
certain disciplines which will take you where you wish to go. But
then, that is the glory of it, the wonder of it.
Today, there is a
special meditation I wish for you to practice, to begin to open
wider the portals to universal love. It is also a wonderful
exercise for setting aside the past and future and centering into
now, this moment and this moment only.
And the faith I
wish you to have is this: your higher self has already created your
dream for you. It already exists. Remember, your higher self, your
soul self, exists outside time and space. And the dream is already
fully realized and waiting for you to step into it. It is waiting
for you to set aside your plans and your manipulations, your
attempts to control your life, your attempts to make everything safe
and secure and known. It is there waiting for you, this big dream,
this seemingly impossible dream, it is there already manifest. And
so, when you manifest something, it is not an act of control. It is
an act of faith. An act of stepping into the world of being and
intention which already exists for you.
You
are being given an opportunity to listen to what people want and need and to
respond in kind. If no one walked by and no one said anything to you,
you might say that your intention and visioning were a failure. But that is
not the case. If you will but pull yourself out of your rigid
expectations, out of your dream of selling licorice ice cream and instead
open to what is around you, you will see that the angels have sent many,
many people your way, and they are there, asking you for chocolate and
vanilla.
This week, your
assignment is very simple. You are to learn to feel joy. You are
to teach yourself that you are capable of filling yourself with joy
no matter what is happening in your life. You are to learn that joy
is something you create inside, not something which is imposed from
outside by circumstances and other people. This week, learn that
you are truly the creator of your life, and learn it by creating joy
in every moment.
Today our topic
is romantic love. I wish to relieve you of some of the pressure
which your society has put upon you and guide you instead to a more
relaxed view of life and the role of romantic love within it.
You are
surrounded by beauty. If you will but allow yourself, you will see
beauty everywhere. Instead of problems, instead of personal dramas,
see beauty. This week, bring beauty to your consciousness; let it
lie in your mind.
I wish for you to
realize that criticizing others hurts you even more than it hurts
them. It is as if each arrow you shoot is really a boomerang which
circles around and hits you in the head. You harm yourself deeply
with each criticism you aim at another.
And gradually, you begin to see that
your true purpose in life is this, to be who you are, expressed
in every moment through the rightness of your thoughts, emotions
and actions. And the rest, what career you have, whether
you married or did not, whether you had children or did not,
whether you were a leader or a follower, rich or not so rich,
successful or not so successful, famous or private, all of this
does not matter. All that matters is that you reached the
rightness within you, the feeling of peace and centeredness
which says: I am.
This
week, this is your challenge, your assignment. Awaken in gratitude.
Before you even get out of bed, just lie there for a moment breathing deeply
and filling yourself with gratitude for everything in your life.
Everything. And most of all, for just being you, exactly as you are.
Your desires are like wild animals in the forest. You must lay out
the treats which will attract them and wait for them to come to you.
And
what treats are these animals looking
for? The greatest among these is readiness. If you will spend your energies
in readiness, but without pushing, then this will attract the wild
animals of your dreams.
Life is not
exactly what you might wish. It is often more glorious than that.
It is often more challenging than that. But it is not a duplication
of your mental images. It is what it is. Accept it. Surrender to
it.
This one moment is
unique, this one person that is you is unique, but you are also one with all
that is, at a higher level. You are the unique snowflake and you are
also a part of the bank of snow, blending with it, being one with it, a part
of all that is, inseparable at a higher level.
I am going to ask you to
believe whatever it is you wish to believe and not to be swayed by what
anyone else tells you is true... You own your own view of life.
You create it. And if there are things for which you have no
explanation, questions you cannot answer, then good. That is the sign
of spiritual growth and enlightenment.
I AM without
desire. I AM without fear. This is the vibration of peace. This
is the vibration of true universal love. This is the lifting of
energies which allows you to pass through the wall and enter the
field of the infinite.
Do not think that
your truth and your path will necessarily be writ large, in blazing
colors across the sky or even in a deep feeling inside. Do not look
for emotional highs when you seek truth. Look for a feeling of
objectivity, of clearness, of lack of emotion.
It is a delicate
thing to keep your balance in the world of creation and
intention. It must all be done with a light hand and an elevated
spirit. This state of
lightness is also referred to as detachment in some belief systems.
And here it enters into the area of paradox, for in order to create
an outcome, you must detach from it. Attachment is wedded to fear
and to control. Detachment is part of the lightness which is
necessary.
You are a jewel.
And
if you are not shining, if your beauty is not visible, then it is
not because you are not a jewel, it is because you have not yet
completed the work of polishing yourself up, of cutting the right
facets which will let your brilliance shine, of removing the baser
rock, of taking all of your God-given abilities and polishing them,
using them, letting them shine out for yourself and everyone else.
And amidst all of the struggles, there will be beautiful
little moments, moments in which it is all clear and it all makes
sense, moments of grace in which the love of the universe shines
down upon you clear and unsullied. And in these moments you will
know what it is to be like some day, after you have learned more,
learned enough that your wisdom flows as one with the wisdom of the
universe. These moments are glimpses into a future you will someday
attain.
You
must recognize that you are both the spider and the fly. You have
created this web... and you can free yourself... You are free to
simply dissolve the web which surrounds you. The important key is
this: you must dissolve the emotional connection between yourself and
this so-called problem.
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