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Your true nature is not lost in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of enlightenment. It was never born and can never die. – Huang Po

As God’s thought makes worlds, and peoples them with living things, so our thought makes our world and peoples it with our experiences. – The Science of Mind pg 295

Wending our way through life, operating from the awareness that we shape our destiny by the directed use of consciousness, we may at times get jumpy about why this or that happened to us, or around us, and go into a period of frantic self-interrogation. This can be avoided by seeing everything as just information. Nothing outside of us judges us. We can take that as a hint we don’t have to judge ourselves, our process, and our spiritual growth, over every snapshot of reality we take.

To drive home the point of our teaching, we’re associated some things with the “negative” (fear, resentment, lack) and others with the “positive” (love, forgiveness, prosperity). Then we’ve chosen to steer more toward the one set than the other. The difficulty in this is it puts us on guard, having to decide which is which. Taking a duality to extremes (and we have been known to take things there), unwilling to lighten up and feel safe, we might just as well there’s a “devil” who’s busy devising distractions and temptations.

What we ought to know about our own inner workings, we can ask those workings, and they’ll tell us. Meanwhile, whatever we can perceive is pure raw data. Instead of attracting ourselves to thongs with, “Oh my, how did I create that?” we’re free to think, “Isn’t that interesting?” and then see where it all leads.

Today I welcome clear perception, letting go of any limiting self-definitions.

Science of Mind