COMMITMENT
by MSI
“For every thousand striking at the leaves of evil, there is one
striking at the root.”
—Henry David Thoreau
The
simplest lessons on Earth often prove the hardest. This is not true
because the lessons are inherently difficult; it is true because of the
human tendency in the waking state to undermine that which serves growth
and expansion. The ego does not want to go silent into that dark night,
or at least not until the soul chooses firmly for alignment with the
Truth.
This
is a desire world. Actions quickly create results here. Whatever you
want, what ever you desire to become, Nature acts to create that for
you. How does your life transform? By your consistently and with
dedication working toward a goal. This is true regardless what your
particular goal happens to be. Having you ever wanted something in the
physical? A new car, a new boyfriend, a new house, a better job? How did
it come to you? Did you work hard to create the means to make it happen?
Or did it effortlessly flow to you?
When
one is aligned with the invincible forces of Natural Law, desired goals
materialize extremely quickly. But if there are contradictory desire
streams — desires for two opposing things at the same time — it
becomes much more difficult for Nature to fulfill the desires. For
example, you might think that you desire an ideal relationship, but if
part of your brain is thinking, “Hah, you don’t deserve that. It’s
never worked before. No one else has an ideal relationship. How could
you possibly be so lucky? Or some other such noise picked up from
painful past experience of limitation — then there are split desire
streams; fulfilling the desire for an ideal relationship becomes
difficult or impossible. If the past was painful, if the parents were
toxic or the childhood environment abusive, if there were no role models
of a Holy Relationship, then the task of structuring a healthy, evolving
relationship probably seems much more difficult, may perhaps appear
impossible. So the war continues within the desirer.
Similarly
with the desire for health. Everyone has within the inherent capability
of being perfectly aligned with perfect health. From excessive abusive
habits of thought and body, the native intelligence of the body is
overwhelmed. It is not necessary to actively work to be healthy; it is
only necessary to stop undermining the body’s natural ability to be
healed. Perfect health is our birthright. Disease is a hallucination
born from the ego’s sad dreams of failure and fear.
The
effect of our thoughts is easily seen in the body. Every thought, every
feeling produces biochemical responses throughout the immune system. If
we are happy or in love, the body responds by making us healthy. If we
are sad or angry, the body responds by making us sick. If we alternate
between joy and sadness, the body responds by making us sometimes
healthy and sometimes sick. Life can be very long or very short — this
is determined by the quality of our thought much more than the quality
of the food, air or water that our bodies ingest.
Similarly
with the desire for enlightenment. Some say they wish to be enlightened
but don’t really believe it is possible. Others attempt for a while to
move ahead but are not willing to break the attachments to their beliefs
that cripple their expansion into the Infinite One. Still others desire
enlightenment for the wrong reasons — to control others, perhaps, or
to gain wealth or power. All such will never succeed — God is
perfectly willing to outwait the ego. Even if it takes all of Eternity,
the Holy Spirit will patiently wait for a soul to desire reunification
with the One. It is not possible to serve two masters. When one realizes
that there is a reason for human existence and aligns with that purpose,
life becomes supremely simple. Until that day, life is divided between
the world and the spirit. And God patiently waits. And waits. And waits.
. . .
Human
consciousness is sufficiently subtle to impact the Natural Laws that
uphold the progression of the Universe. Human desire stirs the waters of
the Cosmic Sea; they rise in waves to fulfill our every impulse of
thought. This is not commonly observed in the waking state because
desires are often opposed — Nature tries to fulfill them but cannot
because opposite things are desired — or the desires are so numerous
that Nature does not have sufficient time to fulfill them. On the other
hand, when we learn to entertain one desire at a time, the time required
to fulfill the desire shrinks — and the more consistently one desire
is entertained without introducing opposing thoughts, the more quickly
it can be fulfilled. One-pointed faith can accomplish anything here on
Earth, One purpose of Ascension is to teach the mind the art of desiring
one thing at a time.
The
most evolved individuals on the Earth today realize that the human race
needs to be healed. The Earth cries out in pain from abusive actions by
ignorant and controlling people; the invincible forces of Natural Law
move to heal the living organism we call Gaia but are seemingly
overwhelmed by the excessive destructive desires and actions of our six
billion fellow humans. What to do?
Enlighten
the human race, of course. All the seemingly insurmountable problems of
Earth will be healed effortlessly when the human race matures.
When
anyone rises to full human consciousness, the only desire remaining is
that of the One — to heal humanity, to heal the Earth, to help all
living beings learn that the omnipresence of the Ascendant includes
everyone. There are no exceptions. Regardless how stressed the past,
regardless how self-destructive the behavior patterns or abusive habits,
there is not one person that cannot realize the One Ascendant Truth.
However deep the hole dug by the past painful beliefs and actions, the
One is deeper and bigger. There is nothing that the Ishayas’ Ascension
cannot cure. There is no disease, no infirmity of body, mind, heart or
soul that cannot be turned to health, joy, clarity and wisdom. There is
nothing that can stand in the path of the growth of consciousness,
nothing that can even much slow it except human stubbornness.
Whenever
a human being chooses for the old self-destructive behavior and thought
patterns — the old grooves of limitation and lack — the evolution of
life into perfection is slowed. Whenever a human chooses for the
Ascending currents of Praise, Gratitude or Love, life progresses with
lightning speed into the indescribable beauty of the Divine Presence.
There is a choice in every moment for every human. Go with the ego, with
judgment, with fear — or align with the Holy Spirit, with innocence,
with love. This is the purpose of human free will — to make the one
choice that matters here, the one choice that heals, the one choice that
is capable of permanently transforming a life to perfection and joy.
This
choice is so much easier to make than is commonly believed. There is no
difficulty in being enlightened; there is no problem that is so large
the Infinite cannot heal it or solve it; there is nothing that can stand
in the way of the dawn of perfection other than refusing to make the one
choice that matters. When any human sees this choice clearly, it becomes
absurdly easy to make it. Then the human ceases to be human and becomes
divine.
Some
of the questions that assist in this transformation are these: Where
am I compromising in my life? Where am I allowing my past beliefs of
limitation to influence my life right now? Why do I believe I am a
limited being, subject to illness, suffering and death? Why do I deny my
birthright to sing with the angels and dance with the gods? Who am I?
The
simplicity of growth of consciousness revolves around the sun of
commitment. When one is committed (and the commitment could be to
anything), all of Natural Law aligns to bring fulfillment to the
commitment. Nature abhors vacillation. If Natural Law vacillated, life
would be impossible. Natural Law is forever committed and utterly
consistent. Thus life plays across the pages of Eternity.
Equally
consistent is the Teaching of the Ishayas, the ministers to humankind of
full human consciousness, perfect health, flawless wisdom and unending
joy.
If
any of you have the good fortune to see anyone who attended the 17-day
Intensive here at our Academy and is visiting home briefly before the
beginning of Teacher-training to wrap up loose ends, you might enjoy
asking about the commitment and dedication and ruthlessness that was
experienced here in North Carolina. We as Ishayas have a mission to
fulfill — we desire the human race to be fulfilled; we desire that the
entire Earth rise in full enlightenment and immortality. We have no
other purpose, no other desire, no other meaning. The eighty-one Course
participants on the 17-day Intensive here have had the opportunity to
see this firsthand. I suspect you might find their stories entertaining.
Once
one makes the transition to commitment, all of life transforms to
support. Experiences deepen and clarify, the ability to perceive and
know naturally follows. From time to time, people come to us and say,
“I will commit as soon as I experience.” Life works rather in the
opposite direction. Experiences deepen and clarify as soon as commitment
is made; the ability to perceive and know is a natural by-product of
flawless commitment to the Truth.
This
upside-down thinking is simply another version of the old story, “Show
me a miracle, then I will believe.” Reality is forever disdainful of
such approaches from the ego. Miracles follow one-pointed faith;
one-pointed faith does not follow miracles. Life is a great deal simpler
than the waking state commonly believes. It is not difficult to perform
miracles; in fact, it is perfectly easy. Commitment comes first;
everything else naturally follows.
Or,
if this concept is simply too foreign to you, take the opposite
approach: be careful, don’t commit yet, or at least not completely.
But be willing to allow at least this much leeway into your life: stay
open, watch, see what is going to happen. Bee innocent enough to see the
miraculous transformations of life occurring around you in every moment.
This entire Teaching of Ascension is nothing other than a miracle. There
is nothing that cannot be accomplished by one-pointed faith; there is
nothing we will not do in order to heal the Earth. Stay tuned and watch.
Miracles abound around this Teaching. Don’t close your heart off to
it, and see what will happen. You will be amazed.
Your holiness reverses all
the laws of the world. It is beyond every restriction of time, space,
distance and limits of any kind. — A Course In Miracles
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