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NOTE: This
answer was given on January 18, 2007, after the NEW
DIRECTION was implemented.
Answer from Jesus:
An excellent question that
touches upon several issues that are important for all spiritual seekers.
So let me comment on them in turn.
Thought 1
As Mother
Mary explains, everything is created from an interplay of two forces,
namely the expanding and the contracting force. In their pure forms,
these forces are complementary and when they come together in harmony
and balance, something new is created, and it is MORE than what was
there before. This is the abundant life. If the two forces become unbalanced,
they no longer complement but work against each other. Thus, they create
an imbalance that tears down what exists, making it less than it was
before. This is what most people on Earth currently call “Life.”
The challenge for any spiritual seeker is to learn how to balance the
two basic forces so they complement each other and make every situation
MORE, whereby you have the abundant life that – as I said –
it is the father’s good pleasure to give you. In attaining this,
you are up against the ego – both the personal and collective
ego – that always seeks to pull you into one of two dualistic
extremes, as I explain in my ego
discourses.
My point is that many people think that being a spiritual person
means taking a very black-and-white stand and avoiding people or situations
that don’t live up to the standards defined by their religion
or belief system. There are actually many people who think that by doing
this,. they are being spiritual people, but they are simply trapped
in black-and-white
thinking.
There are other people who think being spiritual means that you should
always be loving and kind, which they interpret to mean that you never
challenge anyone and thus tolerate everything. Again, they think they
are being very spiritual, but in reality they are simply caught in gray
thinking.
Both these forms of thinking represent stages or phases on the spiritual
path, and there isn’t anything wrong with people going through
the phases. Yet many people get stuck in one or the other, and they
use either form of thinking as an excuse for refusing to take up the
eternal challenge of Christ. What is that challenge? It is to discern
between what is of God and what is not of God, what is real and what
is simply an illusion created from the duality consciousness, the mind
of anti-christ in which everything is relative, is an illusion, is unreal.
My point is that many people think they are truly spiritual, but in
reality they have become stuck and have refused to take up the challenge
to discern and thereby step up to the level of Christhood that does
make you a truly spiritual person. Thus, it is essential for mature
spiritual seekers to realize that there is something beyond both phases.
That “something” is a form of thinking that rises above
the two dualistic extremes created by an imbalance of the two basic
forces.
What I am saying is that many people have come to think that being the
Christ means either judging everything according to a “spiritual”
standard or never judging anything. In reality, being the Christ means
rising above duality, rising above both judgment (after appearances)
and non-judgment.
Being the Christ means
realizing that in every situation there will be two polarities. If you
take an unbalanced approach to the situation, you will go into one of
the two extremes that are created by the ego. Only by staying on what
I called the strait and narrow way (Matthew 7:14) and what the Buddha
called the Middle Way can you avoid this. The key is to always strive
for balance – which is NOT a compromise between the two dualistic
extremes – and to look at any situation in a way that is beyond
duality. As I said:
The light of the
body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is
full of darkness. (Luke 11:34)
The meaning is that if you
look at the situation through the unified vision of the Christ mind,
you will take balanced action and you will make the situation MORE.
If you look at the situation through the dualistic filter of the ego,
you will take unbalanced action and the result will be to make the situation
less. This is truly what was expressed in Hamlet’s eternal question,
“To be or not to be.”
I know this can sound
abstract, so let me relate it to the actual question.
Thought
2
One of the tests of Christhood is, “To speak out or
not to speak out?”
Most spiritual seekers
did not grow up in an environment where spiritual – as compared
to religious – topics were discussed freely. So after finding
the spiritual path, most seekers face the realization that what they
now believe is far beyond what the people in their circle of influence
believe. The question now becomes whether to share and how to share
your new understanding of life.
So the first test you
face is, “Do I speak out or keep quiet?” In a way, the
answer is simple. If you have found the spiritual path it is because
you came into embodiment at this crucial transition phase in the Earth’s
history for the specific purpose of helping to awaken humankind. Thus,
you came into embodiment because you share in what I declared as my
purpose:
To
this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that
I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth
heareth my voice. (John 18:37)
In
other words, sharing your truth is an essential part of your Divine
plan and if you do not speak out, you will not fulfill your Divine plan.
So the first test you face is that you must overcome your inner resistance
toward speaking out. Often, people fear being rejected or ridiculed,
and while this is understandable, the reality behind this reaction is
that you are too focused on yourself. You feel vulnerable and take things
too seriously, which means you take the reactions of other people personally.
You feel that if they reject what you tell them, they are rejecting
YOU.
The reality is quite different. Basically, 98 percent of humanity is
so wrapped up in themselves that everything they do is an effect of
their own unresolved psychology. So when they reject what you say, they
are not rejecting you. Their response to you has nothing to
do with you or what you say; it is a product of their own unresolved
psychology. As is eloquently described in the question above, many people
simply do not want to change their lives and thus they do not want to
hear anything they feel would require them to change. They claim to
be unhappy with their lives, but they reject anything that could empower
them to rise above that unhappiness—the reason being that they
are not done with the experience of being unhappy victims. They are
actually happy in their unhappiness and don’t want to let go
of their sense that they can’t or don’t have to take responsibility
for their lives.
This raises two questions for you. The first one is that you need to
understand the reality of free will. All people have been given free
will. This means they have a right to reject a spiritual approach to
life. Yet it does NOT mean that people have a right to avoid being presented
with a spiritual approach to life. People have a right to create their
own little mental box, but they do NOT have a right to remain in it
indefinitely without being disturbed. The consequence is that you
have a right to disturb them. You have a right do do what you came
here to do. You have a right to fulfill your Divine plan and bear witness
to your truth.
However, in order to fulfill your Divine plan, you have to rise above
the condition I just described. You have to not be like the 98 percent
of humanity who are all wrapped up in themselves. You have to get beyond
your self-centeredness, which truly is what the spiritual path is all
about—getting beyond the ego-based self to find your spiritual
self. In terms of speaking out, that means you need to examine why
you have a resistance and why you feel a need for the acceptance or
approval of other people. By honestly examining yourself and healing
your own wounds (as Mother Mary describes in her book), you can get
to the point where you speak out only to help others and NOT out of
a self-centered need for their approval. Thereby, you will always feel
the joy of speaking out without any form of disappointment or rejection.
Thought 3.
In order to help you get to that stage, let me describe what typically
happens to people as they find the spiritual path. Most people become
very excited as they find the path, and they naturally want to share
it with everyone. Yet because they still have a need for approval, they
speak out in an unbalanced manner, and when other people reject them,
they become very disappointed.
This is understandable, but as long as you have any attachment to the
reactions of other people, it shows that there is something you have
not resolved in yourself. I am not saying this to make you feel bad,
but to simply point out that as a sincere spiritual seeker, you need
to make a conscious decision to depersonalize your life. You need to
make it clear that your goal is to rise to a higher state of consciousness,
and in order to do that, you are willing to leave behind anything that
holds you back.
So when you discover that in some situations you respond in a way that
takes away your inner peace, you take that as an opportunity to look
for what robs you of your peace and then rise above it. In other words,
as a sincere seeker you need to decide that you are always willing to
look for the beam in your own eye. Once you have made that decision
consciously, your ego will have far less hold on you and it cannot as
easily make you believe in its excuses for why you should NOT look in
the mirror.
You can then admit that most people who are new to the spiritual path
tend to speak out from a black-and-white perspective. They find a spiritual
teaching and think it is the only true one or the highest possible one.
They then think that everyone else should believe everything the teaching
says and follow all of its outer rules. So when they speak out, they
are seeking to force the teaching upon others. And regardless of the
fact that many people are unwilling to change, all people have a legitimate
resistance toward being forced. So when you speak out in a black-and-white
manner, you have very little chance of actually convincing people to
accept your viewpoints.
Take note that I am not saying you should not speak out. You have a
right to speak out with your present level of awareness. You do not
have to be perfect in order to speak out, but you should be willing
to look at it as an experiment that can teach you a lesson. So when
you get a negative response from others, you look for the beam in your
own eye and make an effort to go beyond black-and-white thinking. In
other words, the first test is that you must be willing to speak out.
The second test is that you must be willing to learn from the response
and refine your ability to speak out.
Many spiritual people have gone through the black-and-white phase I
just described and have reasoned that there is no point in confronting
people all the time or that speaking out in a black-and-white manner
is non-constructive. And this leads them to a crucial point. Some reason
that they should never speak out in a way that provokes or disturbs
people, so they think being a spiritual person means beings soft-spoken
and gentle. This is the gray
thinking, which often becomes the next phase, during which people
either say very little or only say what they think people want to hear.
It is understandable
that people go into this phase, but it truly is going from one extreme
to the other, namely from speaking out in order to force people to not
wanting to disturb them at all. As I said, you have a right to disturb
other people – and they have a right to be disturbed –
and you cannot fulfill your Divine plan by remaining silent.
Thought 4
Not all people go into gray thinking. They move beyond being
concerned about being rejected, so they dare to speak out without being
concerned about other people’s reactions. And at this point,
people will face the second test. The first test is to speak out and
the second test is to NOT speak out. Or one might say the first test
is about overcoming your self-centered focus on other people’s
rejection of you. The second test is to learn how to present your message
in such a way that it has the maximum potential for helping the other
person.
In other words, you no longer speak from a self-centered need to be
right or to convince others. You speak from a pure desire to help others,
so the attention is not on you but on them. It is not a matter of what
you feel you have to say but a matter of what has the best chance of
helping a specific person rise to the next level of his or her individual
path.
In order to learn this, you must deal with the temptation to become
attached to “saving” or “converting” other
people. Instead of being concerned about people rejecting them, many
people become concerned about people rejecting the message, feeling
that various calamities will happen to people if they don’t accept
the message. This causes people to present the message in a way that
is called “over-selling,” where you give people so much
information or present it in such a dire manner that they simply shut
down and shut out both you and your message.
And although it is understandable that people become concerned about
helping others, it is non-constructive in that it rarely convinces other
people and usually ruins your relationship with them, preventing you
from ever saying anything again. We might say that there is somewhat
of a catch-22. If you were not concerned about helping other people,
you wouldn’t say anything at all. So you need something that
drives you to speak out, but if your concern is unbalanced, it will
prevent you from actually helping others, so you have to find the Middle
Way. In order to do this, you need to understand that being overly concerned
is a remnant of black-and-white thinking, and it can be overcome by
understanding free will.
Let me make this as clear as possible: You are NOT responsible for the
salvation of other people! God has made YOU responsible ONLY for your
own salvation. So when you approach other people, you should never do
so with the attitude that you have to save them. Instead, you must make
it very clear in your mind that your ONLY job is to present them with
the best possible opportunity to make a better choice. You do NOT choose
for people, you give them the best possible opportunity to choose for
themselves.
By setting people free – in your own mind – you can avoid
overselling, and you can generally avoid the reaction that people subconsciously
shut down and shut out your message. Thus, you have a far better chance
at reaching them, but you still need to be aware of their situation.
In other words, feeling compelled to save other people is truly a self-centered
drive. And when you rise above it – when you set both yourself
and others free – you can approach people without feeling compelled.
Thus, you are free to look at their situation in a neutral manner and
consider how you can best help them. You can also overcome the temptation
to think you have to take them to some ultimate point of being saved.
Instead, you can see that you need to look at each person as an individual
and help them follow a gradual path. It is not a matter of taking a
person to some ultimate state of being saved but a matter of helping
that person take the very next step on his or her path. Let me give
a few examples.
Many spiritual people have taken years or decades to reach their current
level of understanding, meaning that they have gone through a gradual
process. Yet in talking to other people, they often want these people
to go through the process in five minutes and step up to their own level
of understanding in one giant leap. This simply isn’t realistic,
and you must give people time to gradually expand their understanding
as they are able. Otherwise they simply shut down and you can no longer
reach them.
You should also make it clear in your mind that your goal should be
to help other people—not to convert them to a particular belief
system. For example, it is NOT my goal to get everyone to accept this
website. Not everyone is ready to accept that the real Jesus could direct
a person to create a website. So you do not need to seek to make people
accept this website in order to give them an idea from the site that
might benefit them. If you sense people are not ready, simply give them
the ideas they need without mentioning the site. In other words, your
primary goal should be to help people, NOT to promote this website.
In too many cases, people push a spiritual teaching on others in order
to give their words an aura of authority. Yet this is a self-centered
need that springs from fear of rejection or a compulsive desire to save
others.
Let us look at the situation described in the question above. It is
NOT your role to save your friend from her homosexuality. As I explain
in my teachings on homosexuality,
she has made her choices in past lives and she is the only one who can
undo them. In her specific situation, her immediate problem is that
she is in an abusive relationship, so I recommend focusing on helping
her overcome that. That means to not talk about homosexuality if that
would end your friendship and your opportunity to help her.
Obviously, you need to be aware that you can sometimes enable people
to stay in a bad situation, so you need to seek to help your friend
move forward. This entails helping her see that she has a codependent
personality which makes it difficult for her to break free of the abusive
relationship. This comes from an inner emptiness that makes her prefer
an abusive relationship over no relationship. If you can help her heal
this psychological wound, she will become more self-sufficient and perhaps
this will eventually take her to a point where she is ready to reconsider
her homosexuality. At that point, you might be able to present her with
the teachings on it, but you will know when the time comes.
Thought 5
The bottom line is this. The essence of the ego is that it
resists the flow of life, but this can manifest in various ways. As
mentioned above, some people are afraid to speak out, and the reason
is resistance from the ego. In the opposite extreme, some people feel
compelled to speak out, but this is also resistance from the ego, only
reversed as a compulsion. My point is that the compulsion to speak out
and the compulsion NOT to speak out both come from the ego’s
resistance.
To overcome the compulsion NOT to speak out, you need to make a decision
to speak out despite the resistance. To overcome the compulsion to speak
out, you need to make a decision to remain silent when you feel the
compulsion. In other words, you need to strive for a state of innocence
where you simply speak out spontaneously and speak from the heart. When
you still face the fear of speaking out, you often speak from fear,
which is in the solar plexus. When you face the compulsion to save others,
you often speak from the head and go over in your head what you should
say and how.
As long as you feel
a compulsion and an intellectual "obsession" with the issue –
going over it again and again in your mind – simply remain silent.
Work on setting yourself free from the compulsion until you become neutral
and have no attachments to either speaking out or not speaking out.
Strive to become the open door that no man can shut, meaning that neither
the fear of other people’s reactions or the compulsion to save
others will make it impossible for your higher self to speak through
you. When you become a clear pane of glass, your higher self will indeed
start to speak through you and it will happen spontaneously. You can
then “speak from the heart” and this has the maximum chance
of reaching beyond the other person’s defenses and actually helping
him or see beyond the dualistic illusions that keep the person trapped.
In relation to the actual question, the very fact that you feel compelled
to speak out but don't feel at peace about it shows that you have not
yet attained balance and non-attachment. So don't speak out now but
work on yourself. When you overcome the compulsion, concern and doubt
and feel completely at peace about the situation, an opportunity to
speak out will effortlessly present itself. In your patience possess
ye your soul.
This
is what I expressed in these sayings:
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and
my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will
of the Father which hath sent me. (John 5:30)
Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth
in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:10)
But
Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
(John 5:17)
The
point is that you need to strive for reaching the state of Christhood
where you are above the dualistic compulsions to speak or not speak.
You are open and non-attached enough to be an instrument for your higher
self, and when you reach that stage, your higher self WILL indeed speak
through you.
Yet how do you get to that point? Only by experimenting and learning
from your experiments. In other words, do not take my teachings to mean
that you should remain silent until you are perfect or that you should
take everything so seriously that you hardly dare say anything. Simply
strive to become free of any compilation to speak or not to speak. Speak
out with the innocence of a child, speak from the heart. It is not so
much the actual words you say that will help other people but the fact
that you radiate a vibration of love. Seek inspiration in the words
I inspired Paul to write (partly because he truly needed them):
1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2
And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I
give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4
Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily
provoked, thinketh no evil;
6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth
all things.
8
Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall
fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there
be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
shall be done away.
11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now
I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest
of these [is] charity. (1Corinthians,
Chapter 13)
Thought 6
When I walked
the Earth, I gave some seemingly radical teachings on family and friendship.
For example:
32Whosoever
therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before
my Father which is in heaven.
33But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before
my Father which is in heaven.
34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword.
35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother
in law.
36And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me:
and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not
worthy of me.
(Matthew, Chapter 10)
Based
on a literal interpretation of these statements one could easily conclude
that friendship is not an option for spiritual people and that family
relations are likely to fall by the wayside. Yet the picture is not
that black and white.
One might say that the above statements could only have been made by
a complete ego-maniac who wants his followers to set him above anything
else. In reality, the vast majority of statements in which I used the
word “I’ were not made by or about me as a historical
person appearing on Earth. There were made from a state of oneness with
the universal Christ mind, and thus the Christ mind was speaking through
me. You can only understand these statements by looking beyond the outer
words, and this is one of the basic tests of Christhood—to not
judge after appearances (John 7:24).
For
example, take the statement, “Whosoever therefore shall confess
me before men, him will I confess also before my Father.” Now
rewrite it as follows, “Whosoever therefore shall confess the
Christ consciousness before men, him will the Christ consciousness confess
also before the Father.” Now compare this latter statement to
the following:
No
man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. (Matthew
11:27).
Then
replace Son with Christ consciousness, “No
man knoweth the Christ
consciousness , but
the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Christ consciousness,
and he to whomsoever the Christ consciousness will reveal him”
The Christ consciousness is the ONLY factor that can reconcile
you with God. It is the open door that no man can shut and you WILL
NOT be saved in any other way than by uniting with the Christ consciousness
by following the Path of Oneness that I demonstrated. So if you are
a spiritual seeker, you can play around for a long time with spiritual
teachings and techniques, but there will come a point where you need
to get serious and realize that your true goal must be to not simply
appear spiritual but to BE spiritual. Thus, your primary – even
your only – goal must be to rise above duality and become one
with the Christ mind.
When you understand this,
you see that the passages above are truly about establishing your priorities.
“ Think not
that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but
a sword” truly
means that the Christ consciousness is all about making a choice. If
you want the Christ consciousness, you must set it above anything on
Earth. For if you do not, you are a house divided against itself and
thus you will always have an inner conflict that prevents you from reaching
your goal because, “A man’s foes shall be they of his
own household.” Your own inner divisions will be your worst enemy—in
a sense your ONLY enemy.
To set you priorities straight, you must overcome the tendency to follow
the crowd, to follow the mass consciousness in both your family and
your society, even the mass consciousness of humankind. This mass consciousness
is not currently open to the path of Christhood but is focused on the
opposite, namely a definition of life and salvation that springs from
the mind of duality. It is what I called the broad way that leads to
destruction (Matthew 7:13).
Therefore, “He that loveth father or mother more than
the Christ consciousness
is not worthy of
becoming one with the Christ
consciousness.” You simply cannot become one with the Christ
consciousness as long as you see anything on Earth as being more important
than your spiritual goal.
Take note that this does NOT mean that you cannot love your family.
It means you must not allow them to take you away from the path to Christhood,
for if you let anything on Earth take you away from that path, you obviously
cannot complete the path and put on your Christhood. You will be stopped
before you reach your goal. That is why “he that taketh not his
cross, and followeth after the
Christ consciousness ,
is not worthy of oneness
with the Christ consciousness.” The cross symbolizes the blocks
in your four
lower bodies that
prevent you from rising above duality. And currently the mass consciousness
is not on this path but denies the need to follow in my footsteps, even
denying that anyone can do the works that I did (John 14:12).
As long as you have not set your priorities straight, your family
and friends will pull you away from the path to Christhood and this
will create a conflict in your mind. Once you do set your priorities
straight, you will no longer be vulnerable to this pull. And this will
set both you and your family and friends free to establish a new relationship
that is based on the fact that you will not be deterred from the path.
Some of them will not be willing to acknowledge that you have changed,
so you will lose them. Yet others will sense that you have changed,
will accept it and will actually be happy to relate to you in a new
way. Yet for this to happen, you must be undivided in yourself, whereby
you become non-attached to their reactions.
In terms of family, I recommend striving to maintain a relationship
with them so that you can at least communicate. Some people say you
don’t choose your family, but it is not true. Most people do
choose their family before coming into embodiment because interacting
with them is part of your Divine plan. You often have karma to balance,
and you often have something you can teach them. Both tasks require
communication, so you should go out of your way to maintain communication
and strive to make it as open as possible. Sometimes you need only give
a person one key insight in a lifetime, but if you have lost communication,
how can you do so?
In terms of friends, you will have friendships that are on a superficial
level, and some of them will fall by the wayside as you climb the path.
You cannot make serious progress if you are into the party lifestyle
and go to bars or discotheques. So the kind of friends that only want
to do that will simply have to do so without you. Yet there are some
friends that you have a deeper connection with – such as the
person described in the letter above – and those you need to
maintain communication with as with family.
As you climb the spiritual path, you will find new friends that are
at your spiritual level. Sometimes you have to make an effort to find
them, and in many cases such people are found only within spiritual
organizations. Many of them might be in organizations that you are not
attracted to or that you think are not the highest possible, but that
should not keep you from making friends with people. By getting to know
them, you can eventually impart to them a more universal understanding
of the spiritual path.
My point here is that
I have no desire to see people who study this website adopt and exclusivist
approach and think they can only associate with people who accept this
website. I do not want this website to divide people but to unite
them in a non-dualistic approach to spirituality. That is why I am open
to letting people from many spiritual backgrounds or organizations use
the teachings I give here without conditions. I do not want you to use
this website to set yourself apart from other people. I desire to see
you become better at relating to other people and helping them see through
the veil of duality.
Thought 7
Let me comment on the following remarks from the question:
I
look at myself from the outside and think 'if I was so and so, would
I want to be friends with someone as challenging as me?' and I think
the answer is probably no. I don't mean I challenge in a confrontational
way, I seem to challenge people just by knowing things that other
people know I know and don't want to hear. … I suppose the
very existence of me is a threat to his view that his depression is
other people's fault, and that is the root of it. People have always
called me 'difficult' but it's not because I am hard to get along
with, quite the opposite - I am open and friendly and a good laugh
- but maybe something about me doesn't allow people to be ambivalent.
I am too forthright.
These
remarks are quite typical for what many mature spiritual seekers experience
in their relationships. Part of the reason is, as I have explained above,
that people can be a bit unbalanced toward black-and-white thinking.
So there is good reason to heed my remarks and become more balanced.
Yet you must also acknowledge that this phenomenon is not only created
by your own imbalance but very much by other people’s unwillingness
to change.
You see, as a sincere spiritual seeker, you have moved toward the point
of depersonalizing your life and being willing to change your life when
you see what needs to change. In other words, you are willing to look
for the beam in your own eye and pull it when you see it. Yet the majority
of human beings are not willing to look for the beam, let alone pull
it. Instead, they have enveloped themselves in a veil of dualistic excuses
for why they don’t have to look in the mirror. So when they are
around you, they sense that because you do not make up excuses for yourself,
you can either see through theirs or you don’t accept them.
This makes them uncomfortable, for if you can change, then they can
too. As the old saying goes, “Misery wants company,” and
the reason is that people reinforce each other's beliefs that they can’t
or don’t have to change, that they don’t need to take
full responsibility for their lives. When they see that you have taken
responsibility for your growth, they realize – often without
being consciously aware of it or able to verbalize it – that
their own excuses are hollow. If everyone around them was in the same
state of consciousness, they could feel comfortable, but you disturb
their comfortability by challenging status quo.
Another aspect of this is that many spiritual seekers have more spiritual
light than most non-spiritual people. Because you have purified your
energy field, you radiate this light, and it can make other people uncomfortable.
Some are simply disturbed by it while others are so provoked that they
become angry. Others are jealous and want light, but they are not willing
to make the life changes necessary, so they either want to steal it
from you or they want you to go away so they can forget about the need
to change.
Again, it is an integral part of your divine plan to let other people
feel that you have light so they can see that it is possible for everyone
to rise higher in consciousness. That is indeed why I said:
Let
your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)
As
I said, your job is to present people with a choice, and one way to
do this is to show them that you have spiritual light that comes from
God. By experiencing your light they can at least see that it is possible
for a person like them to rise higher and this gives them a choice they
did not have before.
Once you are aware of the fact that your light can disturb other people,
you can avoid being disturbed by it yourself. If some people do not
want to change – like the person described above – simply
let them go. Yet if you are completely balanced, you will begin to find
that your light often will have the effect of inspiring people –
at least some people – instead of disturbing them. They will
sense that you have light and they will be curious. You can then help
them understand their own potential so they can find it in themselves.
As I say throughout this website, I did not come to Earth to be put
on a pedestal as being above all other people. I came to demonstrate
the age-old truth that what one has done, all can do—if they
are willing to transcend their current level of consciousness.
Comment
from Mother Mary:
My
beloved, consider my teachings in my
book about holding the immaculate concept for other people. We so
often see people who awaken to the spiritual path become judgmental
and think that if other people do not accept your new beliefs, they
are not spiritual and you should not waste your time on them. Yet consider
that each person has a conscious self that is simply trapped in a mortal,
dualistic, limited sense of identity. Thus, instead of putting a permanent
label on people, you see that the conscious self has the potential to
awaken and find the spiritual path.
Your outer mind simply cannot know how close or far away a particular
person is to the awakening point. And if you attempt to force another
person to awaken before he or she is ready for it, you will not help
the person but will likely ruin the relationship. So you do not want
to set up an all-or-nothing situation in which you force people to either
accept what you say or lose your friendship. You want to maintain a
relationship with them so that in the future you might be used as an
instrument for imparting to them the insight they need when they are
ready for it.
Obviously, I recognize that you only have so much time and attention,
so you need to be realistic and not spend time just maintaining a superficial
relationship. What I am saying is to not cut off your relationship with
other people. If they cut off the relationship, then accept their choice
but remain open to them if their attitude changes.
I realize you can look at Jesus and see that he was sometimes very confrontational
and did demand that people make a choice to accept or reject him and
his teachings. There are indeed times when the best way you can help
another person is to help them face a choice and come up higher on the
path. Yet what I am saying here is that Jesus had overcome all self-centeredness
and did not demand that other people accept or reject him personally.
Therefore, I encourage you to not seek out such situations and to not
decide with the mind to confront others.
Strive for the non-attachment that Jesus describes and then let it come
spontaneously. When you neither resist confronting others nor feel compelled
to do you, things will unfold by what seems to human beings like magic,
but which is truly Divine direction that knows when a person is ready
to be awakened.
Your task is to always
be ready to serve as an instrument for the awakening of others. To do
that, let go of all resistance by holding the immaculate concept for
yourself, thereby becoming one of the pure in heart who shall see God.
When you see God in yourself, you will be able to see God in others,
and that is when you can serve to awaken them to see God in themselves—which
is our desire for all.
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