Unwanted Moments

We act every moment in our life from one thing and one thing only: that which (in us) is the knower of that moment. We act from what we know. As we are now, our actions -- based on what we know -- are predicated on a certain knowledge that appears with the reaction that tells us the meaning of the moment. And no more do we receive and are told the meaning of the moment...

You may want to think about this for the rest of your life... and I'm not kidding. The need for a lesson to be learned attracts the condition it requires to be fulfilled. Do you see how benevolent is the Creator (whatever word you want to give to it)? Because look, how many of you think to yourself, "Oh joy, here comes a lightning bolt! Here comes a lesson!" No. When lessons come..."

What many of us have yet to understand is that dark, negative reactions to unwanted events do nothing to cure them. In fact, these painful impulses have just the opposite effect. They actually "cement" things -- fixing both themselves and the false sense of self through which they then are empowered to run their unhappy course.

Topics covered: Why do we deflect unwanted moments instead of using them as a point of reflection? What is the teacher other than the moment that we don't want?; In the end, what we are looking for in all of our searching is ourselves; Everything in creations longs to touch and to be touched; It isn't life that is overwhelming us... we are overwhelmed by our unconscious resistance to life...

Topics covered: We can interact with each other on a completely different level that transforms our relationships; Relationships are the most abundant resource in the world for discovering your highest possibilities; You cannot heal anything until it stops being concealed. Negative reactions conceal hidden aspects of our consciousness; There is no intelligence in a negative reaction...

Topics covered: We're connected to everything, whether we're aware of it or not; There's no moment when All There Is isn't acting on us, and that we are its instrument; Our purpose is to be a part of the unified whole as it seeks its greater end, using us as its instrument; We are part of a greater mind, a greater heart, and a greater body, but we don't know it; Our responsibility is to answer...

Key Lesson: 
Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Key Lesson: 
We may ask the same question about unwanted moments in life a thousand times and in ten thousand different ways, but until we discover what those moments are here to reveal, we remain without an answer.

Key Lesson: Looking to any troubled, or any otherwise anxious thought for shelter is like being caught in a rainstorm and running into a house that has no roof!

Key Lesson: Most people are so afraid of dying they are unable to see that agreeing to identify with any imagined state of self is itself a form of death unfolding in slow motion.

We are only as locked out of the Kingdom of Heaven as we are locked into our many mistaken ideas about it... beginning with the false belief that we already know the true nature of (its) freedom, including what's required of us if we ever hope to win it.