Everything Is Only God

Yesterday a very dear friend on facebook sent me a photo representing abject poverty and asked me what I thought about it.  He meant well.  I believe he is disturbed deeply by the sight of such starvation and deprivation in "third world" countries as many are.  He obviously was asking for my spiritual view.  I thought a lot about it since then - not of the situation, but how to answer a question about a world situation that seems so 'real' to all of us on this earth plane. I am happy to talk about this because it gives me a wonderful opportunity to share my own experience on how I am able to make inroads into my mind to think differently, to think as Spirit would have us know and believe.  I have no clear answers.  I just have guiding lights that are helping me on this journey of self discovery of the web of connection and oneness in and with All That Is.  I'm overjoyed to share with other Seekers of Truth.

"Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened." 

I have held on to this thought as the key to unlock all my unending questions about Life and my place in it.  I continue to ask, knock and seek because that is all I know in order to touch the core of my existence.  Not surprisingly, the answers come flowing effortlessly because that is the promise Jesus left behind for us.  I have  to just  recognize and be aware constantly to all the messages that come in as answers through various means. So, when I first heard some ten years ago that this world is not real, naturally that has become THE  beginning and end of all other smaller, peripheral issues of the world including mundane living.  It appears that is the only purpose we are here on earth: to discover our True Identity and See the Oneness of all of Life.  There is only The ONE.  There is NO other.  But this, "no other" business always poses a challenge because we firmly believe in the concept of "other" as in "evil" that is ingrained  into our psyche which is the root cause of our illusions and ignorance. To unwrap ourselves from this deeply ignorant thinking, is our only mission.

So, do I 'see' poverty in this world? Unfortunately, yes!! I'm afraid I'm not that enlightened, awakened and aware, but those ideas are very much in the forefront of my mind. There are many 'aha','wow', 'I got it' moments, but these are opening up the mind for a true reality. I am learning to detach from the unreality of evil, suffering and pain.  I AM  practicing everyday to SEE differently, to think different and feel differently.   I remind myself through affirmations, meditations, contemplations, reading, etc. that these do not exist in the world of God.  It exists only in the mind of illusion.  There is only ONE Divine Mind. To think that we have separate minds is an illusion.

Nisargadatta Maharaj said "There is no chaos in the world, except the chaos which your mind creates. It is self-created in the sense that at its very center is the false idea of oneself as a thing different and separate from other things. In reality you are not a thing, nor separate."   So, then, do I ignore the so-called pain and suffering in the world that I still see?  The answer is NO.  But I detach from the illusion of suffering.  I just imagine that I am seeing a movie, which indeed we are.  I tell myself this is not true, but I accept everything the way it is presenting itself at this moment.  I don't argue it.  I resist many times, but its not long before I come back on track.  We have no option but to wake up.  As long as we see pain, we are seeing with our body's eyes.  And when we see through the body's eyes, we suffer physical pain as well.  So, that in itself should be a reason to wake up fully and NOW!

PEARLS OF WISDOM

Nisargadatta Maharaj says 
"It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other that blinds you." 

"There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. (…) The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot."

"Please understand that there is only one thing to be understood, and that is that you are the formless, timeless unborn." 

"It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other that blinds you." 

Jesus says 
"You believe that "being afraid" is involuntary, something beyond your control. Yet I have told you several times that only constructive acts should be involuntary.  We have said that Christ-control can take over everything that does not matter while Christ -guidance can direct everything that does if you so choose.  Fear CANNOT BE CHRIST-CONTROLLED, but it can be self-controlled.  It prevents Me from controlling. The correction is therefore a matter of your will, because its presence shows that you have raised the unimportant to a higher level than it warrants.  You have thus brought it under your will, where it does not belong.  This means that you feel responsible for it.  The level of confusion here is obvious.

The reason I cannot control fear for you is that you are attempting to raise to the mind level the proper content of lower order reality.  I do not foster level confusion, but you can choose to correct it.  You would not tolerate insane behavior on your part and would hardly advance the excuse that you could not help it.  Why should you tolerate insane thinking?  There is a confusion here which you would do well to look at clearly.  You believe that you are responsible for what you do but not for what  you think.  The truth is you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.

What you do comes from what you think.  You cannot separate yourself from the truth by "giving" autonomy to behavior. This is controlled by Me automatically as soon as you place what you think under my guidance.  Whenever you are afraid, it is a sure sign that you have allowed your mind to miscreate or have not allowed me to guide it.  It is pointless to believe that controlling the outcome of misthought can result in healing.  When you are afraid you have willed wrongly.  This is why you feel responsible for it.  You must change your mind, not your behaviour and this is a matter of will." ~ A Course In Miracles ~

And finally ... 

Nothing real can be threatened

Nothing unreal exists
~ A Course In Miracles ~