Cut the Strings of Thought (And You Rise, Not Fall)

A woman moved with her husband when he was transferred back to the East Coast. She was happy about it because she had a dear friend who helped her husband pick out a house for them to live in. When she met her friend for lunch she was visible upset. She told her friend, "Our house is horrible and in a bad neighborhood". Her friend told her, "You have the wrong address!" The house, the life we think is our life is not our life. We're not supposed to live our lives not wanting to go through them, thinking that they are a burden.

We believe the way we feel at any given moment is because of what is happening to us. But we really experience life through what we are connected to interiorly. It is really a case of mistaken identity. There are two natures. The first nature is -- we are compelled to understand and control everything that goes on in our lives. The 2nd nature wants to transcend the natural confines inherent in trying to understand life from the limitations of the body of our experiences. We call on thought to tell us what to do about the conditions in our lives. It is this reservoir of past experiences that interprets the feelings we are experiencing.

There is another nature that wants to transcend the knower. This knower is driven to think about what happened and wants to identify the source of the problem by consulting its past experiences. The knower can't transcend the known. Every time it tries to define itself it confines itself. Spirit doesn't want to be confined. The thought nature is an after nature. When we feel bad something rushes in and tries to figure out what happened. We then become absorbed in thinking about the moment instead of letting the present moment reveal itself to us. The energy, the event comes in as a completely innocent force with nothing connected to it if left along can produce change. The 2nd these energies land this after nature pops up. These energies come into a human being, they reverberate, and the self produces an image that sustains the moment and the pain it is in.

This is the wrong house -- the one that continues the sensation of self. We sit in incessant judgement of our lives. Pinocchio was held up by strings. He wanted to be a real boy, not moved by strings. Every time we turn to thought to explain our state we are pulled by strings. The strings that held Pinocchio up held him down as well. One wants to fashion their life from thought so they won't have to fear and builds their life from thought and then is held captive by it. We have inside of us a spirit, it doesn't think, it is, it knows. We think it is intelligent to tell ourselves why we feel bad.

These energies have their own purpose; they are emanations of God's will. We take these energies, who have their own direction and purpose and if left alone will actually change us and thought interferes with them to create a self. When thought gets a hold of one of these forces it corrupts the energy and pollutes the pool of light in order to stop it. These beautiful emanations are intended to change what they touch and self steps up and says "I know what this is" and turns this bright light into dark negativity. We are afraid not to think. We need to stop trying to change everything that is coming into us. Life is continually pouring a feast into us.

We have to learn what it means to sit with conscious scissors and cut thought. The reason for the pain did not occur until after the pain. Stop limiting yourself by your understanding of what is happening. We're not supposed to be captive of our own consciousness. A state comes, we come up with reasons for it by associative thought and we go further and further down by building a case why we feel bad. Stop allowing thought to define what passes through you. Cut it by being at once aware of the emotional state and the mind that is trying to tell you what it is. Then there is a 3rd force present - awareness which allows one to see what is actually going on. We must recognize that we were not created to know what the next moment holds for us. It is the unknown. Allow Gods will to act on you. Thought puts a plug in the stream of Gods every flowing life in you. Live without the knower. Cut the strings of thought. You won't fall without rising. Thought steals from you in order to gain a sense of self. Enter into the house God intends you to have.