Post by Leon on Jan 18, 2007 0:06:59 GMT
You interpret what happens in your life according to your core beliefs and the emotional state that arises from them. The experience of disappointment, for example, relates directly to your guilt and feeling of inadequacy.
When your expectations are not met, you are merely receiving a correction. You are being told that you do not see the whole truth of a situation. You are being asked to expand your perceptions. Correction is not attack. It is not punishment.
The perception that you are being attacked or punished when things do not go your way is entirely guilt driven. Without that guilt, the correction would be received with gratitude, and perception would be expanded to include the new information.
All experience happens for one purpose only; to expand your awareness. Any other meaning you see in your life experience is a meaning that you made up. You may not decide at a conscious level what will happen to you, but you most definitely interpret what happens according to your beliefs.
Your primary freedom lies in learning from the experiences that come your way. Of course, you can refuse to learn from your experiences. But this choice leads to suffering. If you don't know this yet, it wont be long before you do.
You might ask: "Can I remove suffering by accepting my experience and learning from it?" That is a very good question. Not only can you remove suffering, you can experience the joy of union with God. For in the embrace of your experience, correction is received and your thoughts are brought into alignment with the Divine Mind.
Life is either resistance or surrender. These are the only choices. Resistance or surrender. These are the only choices. Resistance leads to suffering. Surrender leads to bliss. Resistance is the decision to act alone. Surrender is the decision to act with God. (or in my words and not Paul Ferrini's "Source"...which is what you and I are)
You cannot experience joy only by remaining faithful to the truth within your own heart. The real truth never rejects others, but invites them in.
Truth is a door that remains open. You cannot close this door. You can choose not to enter. You can walk in the opposite direction. But you can never say: "I tried to enter, but the door was closed." The door is never closed to you or anyone else.
If you feel that the door has been shut in your face, you have interpreted your experience in a fearful way. You believe the door is shut. It isn't, but your belief that the door is shut may very well convince yourself and others that this is the case.
You are all masters at taking truth and inverting it. You have the creative ability to make anything mean what you want it to mean. You can take yes and make it no, wrong and make it right. That is how strong your beliefs are.
But just because you have inverted truth does not mean the truth ceases to be true. It means only that you have succeeded in hiding the truth from yourself.
So how you interpret your experience is rather important. When your expectations are frustrated, will you accept the correction or will you insist that you are being unfairly treated? Are you the victim of what happens to you, or the one who uses it for learning? Are you reviving your experience as a blessing or as a punishment? That is the question you must constantly ask yourself.
Every experience is an opportunity to embrace truth and reject illusion. One experience is not better or worse than another in this respect. All experiences are equally potent. They exist only as a birthing ground for your divinity.
That is why you must never despair. You will always have another chance to change your mind. Don't listen to those who would tell you otherwise. There is no final judgement you will make about yourself when you see yourself through my eyes.
Perhaps in this moment you do not believe me. Perhaps you are convinced that you have cause the suffering of others or that you are the victim of their actions toward you. Just because you reject words now, does not mean that I will cease to offer them to you. Why should it matter to me how long it takes for you to wake up?
When everyone of you has learned what you have come to learn, this world will no longer be necessary. This physical universe which seems so permanent to you will dissolve into nothingness. For once you are awake, it will serve no purpose. That time is coming, yet there is no rush.
Don't push the river. Don't try to hold it back. It won't do you any good. The Divine Mind is at work in your mind right here now. In this you must learn to trust.
By Paul Ferrini
www.thegodlight.co.uk
When your expectations are not met, you are merely receiving a correction. You are being told that you do not see the whole truth of a situation. You are being asked to expand your perceptions. Correction is not attack. It is not punishment.
The perception that you are being attacked or punished when things do not go your way is entirely guilt driven. Without that guilt, the correction would be received with gratitude, and perception would be expanded to include the new information.
All experience happens for one purpose only; to expand your awareness. Any other meaning you see in your life experience is a meaning that you made up. You may not decide at a conscious level what will happen to you, but you most definitely interpret what happens according to your beliefs.
Your primary freedom lies in learning from the experiences that come your way. Of course, you can refuse to learn from your experiences. But this choice leads to suffering. If you don't know this yet, it wont be long before you do.
You might ask: "Can I remove suffering by accepting my experience and learning from it?" That is a very good question. Not only can you remove suffering, you can experience the joy of union with God. For in the embrace of your experience, correction is received and your thoughts are brought into alignment with the Divine Mind.
Life is either resistance or surrender. These are the only choices. Resistance or surrender. These are the only choices. Resistance leads to suffering. Surrender leads to bliss. Resistance is the decision to act alone. Surrender is the decision to act with God. (or in my words and not Paul Ferrini's "Source"...which is what you and I are)
You cannot experience joy only by remaining faithful to the truth within your own heart. The real truth never rejects others, but invites them in.
Truth is a door that remains open. You cannot close this door. You can choose not to enter. You can walk in the opposite direction. But you can never say: "I tried to enter, but the door was closed." The door is never closed to you or anyone else.
If you feel that the door has been shut in your face, you have interpreted your experience in a fearful way. You believe the door is shut. It isn't, but your belief that the door is shut may very well convince yourself and others that this is the case.
You are all masters at taking truth and inverting it. You have the creative ability to make anything mean what you want it to mean. You can take yes and make it no, wrong and make it right. That is how strong your beliefs are.
But just because you have inverted truth does not mean the truth ceases to be true. It means only that you have succeeded in hiding the truth from yourself.
So how you interpret your experience is rather important. When your expectations are frustrated, will you accept the correction or will you insist that you are being unfairly treated? Are you the victim of what happens to you, or the one who uses it for learning? Are you reviving your experience as a blessing or as a punishment? That is the question you must constantly ask yourself.
Every experience is an opportunity to embrace truth and reject illusion. One experience is not better or worse than another in this respect. All experiences are equally potent. They exist only as a birthing ground for your divinity.
That is why you must never despair. You will always have another chance to change your mind. Don't listen to those who would tell you otherwise. There is no final judgement you will make about yourself when you see yourself through my eyes.
Perhaps in this moment you do not believe me. Perhaps you are convinced that you have cause the suffering of others or that you are the victim of their actions toward you. Just because you reject words now, does not mean that I will cease to offer them to you. Why should it matter to me how long it takes for you to wake up?
When everyone of you has learned what you have come to learn, this world will no longer be necessary. This physical universe which seems so permanent to you will dissolve into nothingness. For once you are awake, it will serve no purpose. That time is coming, yet there is no rush.
Don't push the river. Don't try to hold it back. It won't do you any good. The Divine Mind is at work in your mind right here now. In this you must learn to trust.
By Paul Ferrini
www.thegodlight.co.uk
