ATTACHMENT TO OUTCOMES

Only a powerless entity

Your attachment to outcomes is an excellent opportunity for ego to project fear and blame onto you. What is attachment to outcomes but a thinly veiled form of fear? Why do you care so much about the way a certain situation comes out? What is an outcome but a miniscule moment in eternity, soon to be superseded by other outcomes, and still others? Why are you so intent on seeing a particular one?

Only a powerless entity would be frightened of an outcome.

Is there a burr beneath your saddle?

Right now, think of a situation that has been bothering you, that you would say you wanted a solution to. What is there now that is a burr under your saddle?

Now bring this situation to full consciousness. Usually it is at the sides of your consciousness, nudging you along in the way your ego wants you to be: anxious, worried, and completely open to all forms of manipulation. Put this uncomfortable situation in the forefront of your mind and let it have its full sway over you. Experience the range of emotion that this situation calls forth in you. Experience the sway attachment to outcomes has over you.

It calls forth anger, hatred and blame. But underneath that is the fear. Fear is what feeds all these other devils. Fear is the fuel.

Fear is the fuel

Now confront that fear. Give it a name. Fear of being alone, fear of pain to a loved one, fear of losing someone, fear of being naked, isolated, or despised. Thank you for being here. Thank you for showing yourself. I have looked at you thoroughly, and I also know you by your fruits: anger, blame and hatred. Get you gone now. You have nothing good to offer me. Go away empty-handed, fear.

Leave my house now, fear

And remember as you send this fear away, that the outcome you are afraid of represents only a miniscule, meaningless fraction of all the possibilities in inifinity. Everything you can imagine does exist. Do you think you could imagine more than God?

There is an infinity of outcomes: choose

So instead of using your consciousness in the service of fear, which has nothing good to bring you, would you not rather spend it in the service of imagining beautiful outcomes, outcomes that inspire awe and wonder and love. Realize there is an infinity of what you call outcomes, and you can choose whichever you want.

Picture yourself in front of a massive shelf of books, and you take out a book called “Harmonious Family”, and think to yourself, I am going to read this book. And imagine what sorts of images and feelings were in it. You could stay and peruse that book as long as you wanted, bathing yourself in warm, visual images of how “harmonious family” could present to you.

Love the guiding principle

ARGUING HAS NO MERIT

Arguing with someone is conceding that their point of view has merit. It has enough merit that you would spend energy on refuting it. It has enough merit that you, who could be focusing on anything, give it any time at all. It has enough merit that you think you must try to combat it. You are giving it merit with your attention.

If you really believed it had no merit at all, you would not notice it.

You would dismiss it once and for all, as you would any other outdated idea that had been shown not to work. You would not give it any of your focus. You would deliberately turn your focus to what you did want to see more of, whether rationality, peace, security, it is all your choice.

Fractal of a human-like figure spreading its arms wide, as though imploring you to choose.

It is all your choice

If you really believed an argument, or point of view, had no merit at all, you certainly would not engage with it, or try to use rationality to combat it.

To the irrational, the rationality of others is a useful tool that can be used against them. It is a stalling tactic. Do you want to be stalled?

A dolphin jumping over a wave to head out to sea

Do you want to be stalled?

What is to be done when we are confronted by evil? with danger? with fear?

This is the question. Firstly, do not be delayed by arguing about what is right and wrong. There can be no question about this.

Focus upon deeds more than words.

By their fruits you shall know them

Matthew 7:16

Their deeds will tell you everything about who they are. And, once you have ascertained who they are, act accordingly, in compliance with all your laws, which were set up to protect you.

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s

Matthew 22:21

SELF-DETERMINED, SELF-DETERMINING

You are not very often Self-determined, as you will know by the buffetings you presently take from the ego wielding tools of fear, blame, anger, and anxiety. A Self-determined being can experience none of these. He knows himself as a co-creator of all he experiences.

Take a moment to feel the stillness

Take a moment now to feel the stillness, the peace there is in the absence of the ego and its tools.

When you have decided to be a Self-determining creature, nothing will seem to have changed on the outside. You may keep to the same outward forms as before, performing the same functions, the same roles, the same acts as before.

Performing the same functions as before

But on the inside, now has everything changed. Now do you no longer wonder where your moods come from, analyzing them, giving them the validity of your attention. Now all, all is on your timetable, in your time, at your behest, and serving your vision.

From now on, let me come from within. Here, I am in receipt of all the power I could need, all the help I could need, and soothed by the thought of eternity. Instead of trying endlessly to engineer reality so as to provide some experiences and avoid others, I decide how I would like to feel, and leave the rest to providence. I decide I want to feel at peace and imperturbable.

Well then, let it be so. I accept imperturbability as my crown as the deliberate co-creator of my experience.

YOUR EVERY NEED

My constant need is to be calm.

Who is this you? Who do you speak for?

You are the depth beneath the wave. You are the universe that exists within each one of your trillions of cells. You are the spaces between each one of those cells. You are beyond thought. You are eternal. Within you exists no word for calm, because that implies the possibility of not-calm. Everything that you think of as calm already exists within you. You are eternal silence, insulated against all shocks.

We are eternal

You already have all the help you could ask for. Since everything that is perfect already exists, you need no help or change in order to create it. The whole idea that there could be a separate you, and that it could be wrong somehow, is what is wrong. You are part of the answer, although you don’t always recognize this.

Part of the answer

The Holy Spirit is nearby and willing, waiting to take on anything you now perceive as a problem. The Holy Spirit is the idea of help, the idea of change. But you have to ask.

How may this be done?

Become still. Let your ask fill the forefront of your mind. Let it expand until it becomes you, and you become it. Be fully present and awake. With full awareness, ask.

What are you asking for? You are asking that love take over as the guiding principle of your life. You are asking for freedom from all sources of disease and distress.

This is my single need. No less than this. No less than perfect calm all the time.

Indeed, I have only one need, freedom from all sources of disease and distress. That is my single need. All else that I perceive assaults me, are only branches of the same tree. Let me see this now. Indeed, I have only one need. I feel it as a need for peace. With peace, nothing more can be wanted. All wants, desires, fears, all burrs under the saddle disappear.

Peace is the condition of nothing to strive for. Not even a condition, just the reality, the depth beneath the wave. You can access it now, anytime, forever.

How is this to be done?

Give thanks that your every need is met.

EVOLVE: TIME TO RISE ABOVE

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love

Martin Luther King Jr.

As tired moths about the same flame

Evolve. Now is the time to rise above. We are talking to you personally, as an entity. You must evolve now. It is not too late; it is never too late. It is only about what lessons you want to learn. But let us shorten the need for time. Let us shorten suffering as soon as may be.

Who would not want this?

But how, how is this to be done? We are tired of trying and failing. We’re tired of banging into the same light bulb over and over like tired moths.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

Aligning yourselves into different groups based on anything at all, whether age, race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, is no more than a way of promoting division. It’s a way to focus on difference and make it important. Most of your most deeply held beliefs are the result of nothing more than what body you were born in, and the time and place of your birth.

No one can control the circumstances of his or her birth. Paying attention to superficial differences such as these causes you to be stuck at a certain elementary level of discernment. Aspire Instead to be like blind people, innocent of the capacity to judge by outward appearance.

Make a different decision today

Liberate yourself from the past by making different decisions. You, whether you are thinking as a person, a group, or a country, have certain resentments that you will not put down. You use the past to sharpen and keep alive your grievances. This is living in the past. If you live in the past, your future will resemble your present.

But if it is your goal to break free of the past, make a different decision today. Refuse to live in the past.

I will not be afraid

I refuse to be afraid, to give up my sovereignty over a thought.

I recognize today that anger and fear are two wolves that hunt together, and that one is never far from the other. As soon as I feel the presence of either one, let me send them both away.

Leave my house now

We will make much progress this way. Faithful students, practice well.

THE UNFAMILIAR CHOICE

The first time you make an unfamiliar choice, you must do it deliberately, consciously, knowingly. If you are always seduced by sugary foods, the first time you say no to one must be something you decided upon first.

Everything proceeds on your own decision. But, having once made an unfamiliar choice, it now becomes a choice you once made, and will unbidden present itself to you the next time you face the same choice. And of course the more times you reinforce a choice, the more it appears unbidden, until it seems to you that there is a choice, where one didn’t exist before. You can choose to ignore sugary food.

Once having refused it, the next time you are offered it, or notice it, or think of it, there will be the choice you once made. So you see the power of conscious choice.

In any situation you can ask yourself: what is the unfamiliar choice here? There is always a choice, even when you don’t think so. Remember how far away you are from seeing everything. Suspend judgment.

Habit is a prison

Until you make the unfamiliar choice consciously, in any context of your life or attention, it can never slip by your watchdog mentality. You must disarm the watchdog, and invite the unfamiliar choice in. And then do it. Thus does this choice go into your library of choices, which, if it contained only one book before, now contains two.

Making the unfamiliar choice in one context encourages you to see unfamiliar choices in every direction, and in this way is the warp and weft of your world transformed.

Each time you deliberately choose an unfamiliar choice, like so many ghosts unbidden, do legions of other choices summon themselves, and surround you. Then you realize that everything is a choice, and every moment is a choice, and you are set free.

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