You Can Say No

GARY: If you cannot say no to the requests of others, you have not yet overcome ego-centricity.

PURSAH: Yes, Gary, because if you can’t say no then you’re making it real. You’re saying this is a real person with a real problem that you really have to do something about. Now, that doesn’t mean you don’t ever say yes and help people. What it means is that you don’t have to.

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You Have to Do It

A common mistake people make is they think if they know something intellectually, then they know it. But they don’t! It’s not enough to know something as a piece of information. You have to do it. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo 

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Getting Annoyed

GARY: You know most of the time, I’ve been getting better and better at practicing forgiveness. It’s like when I was a guitar player I’d keep finding better ways to play, just by doing it. It’s the same with forgiveness. The more you do it the better you get at it. But one thing that bothers me is that even though I’ve been doing it for a long time, once in a while forgiveness is still really hard. Some things still push my buttons. And I heard Ken say that even he got annoyed once in a while. Does that ever end?

ARTEN: The time comes when, yes, it does end. It did for Ken. It takes much dedication and practice, and you’ll have the frustration you just mentioned. You’ll wonder if you’ll ever get to the point when nothing bothers you. When that happens, remember you can’t always see the results of your forgiveness and the healing results, and you can’t judge what you can’t see. The Course says, “It is not the function of God’s teachers to evaluate the outcome of their gifts. It is merely their function to give them.”23 Have faith, and the time will come when peace is totally restored to your mind, no matter what appears to happen. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Using Consciousness

In order to have consciousness you have to have something else to be conscious of. So it’s not the oneness of spirit. You think the world is outside of you and it’s real, period. The new age crowd thinks consciousness is very important and then they try to spiritualize it, but it’s not spirit. Real spirit is perfect oneness. However, you can learn how to train the mind and use consciousness to make your choices with the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
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Reality of Eternity

When the process of undoing the ego is complete, because all of your forgiveness lessons are complete, and with no guilt left in the mind, the time comes when you lay the body aside for the final time, and you are awake and at home in God for the timeless reality of eternity.  ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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A Big Teaching

The Course is a very BIG teaching, not the little one portrayed by most of its teachers. The Holy Spirit is Guiding us to awaken, not to be a better individual, but to be ALL of it; nothing less than One with God. And that doesn’t happen overnight. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Don't Expect Agreement

People don’t know they’re projecting. If they did they wouldn’t do it. So don’t expect people to agree with you. And if it’s really a dream, and if you understand it’s really a dream, then why would you have to have their agreement in it?   ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other

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Getting Shot in the Head

Say somebody gets shot in the head. Anybody who sees it or hears about it, especially those closest to the person, are horrified. But what they don’t understand is that the person goes immediately into an experience that is fantastic. As the Song of Prayer section of the Course says, “We call it death, but it is liberty.” ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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What the Holy Spirit Does

When we say the Holy Spirit plays an active role, we’re not kidding. Keep in mind, however, the Holy Spirit does not make things happen in the world. That would be making the world real. The Holy Spirit does not manipulate the level of form. But the Holy Spirit does guide you through your mind. Everything the Holy Spirit does and everything the Course teaches is always at the level of the mind. Anyone who remembers that will save themselves a lot of time, which is a major goal of the Course. In fact, you won’t find the time saving feature of the Course anyplace else. Forgiveness, done from a place of cause and not effect, really is a miracle. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Strain of Constant Judgment

When it comes to judgment or forgiveness, the Course teaches that judging is what makes people so tired. What they really are, spirit, can’t be tired. But, as J says, “You are not really capable of being tired, but you are very capable of wearying yourself. The strain of constant judgment is virtually intolerable. It is curious that an ability so debilitating would be so deeply cherished.” ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo