Thoughts From A Mystic

. The 'goal' of being human, is in actualizing awareness (consciousness). It's important to continually be AWARE of what's going on, and not be tempted to live in the 'past' or the 'future'. No matter what's going on inside and outside 'you', you're living your life! It makes no difference what's happening, your job, thoughts, feelings, health... etc. LIVE. Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed (distraction in general); a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." Luke 14:33 In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. Matthew

. Society teaches us to play by it's rules. From birth we're trained to think, feel, and act according to it's guidelines; yet we're almost always told we're not good enough! In society's attempts to control our life situations, it totally destroys our ability to find wholeness within Reality. The satisfaction and peace that come from wholeness is lost. Society is certainly an anxiety 'machine'! As beings within Reality, we're never judged. No matter what we think, feel or do we're ALWAYS acceptable!! Refreshing, peaceful and satisfying. Each moment is complete and whole-some. Once you recognize society's programming, how it 'manipulates' you, you can start becoming free from it; and discover who you really are. Matthew

. Spiritual education is an odd thing. Many people believe without proper education people will be 'worse'. Without knowing 'the right way to think', or believe, we are no better than animals. Unfortunately it's education that creates angry, alienated people (most would call it 'bad' education, but it's education, nonetheless.) Education, as we normally find it, tends towards a dead-end path. It starts from a desire to get an end result, and ends with frustrated failings, and desperate searches for 'better' ways to get what you want out of life. Tools and technologies develop out of this path and they make the process of finding one's true nature more difficult, by adding complexity and diversions to the process. It's not education that 'makes' someone loving, or more spiritual (good). Education can help one learn tolerance, but tolerance isn't love. Jesus would say 'stop judging', which is what a tolerant perso...

I recently heard a recording of a sermon, which alluded to 'the sacred contract', a built in contract between a person and God. It was interesting to hear some of the points made, and I wonder if the terminology (non-traditional) might be adding more confusion to the search for truth, than it helped clarify. It's seeing clearly, that's the issue. The terminology isn't really important. During the sermon a comment was made about our need to get 'whopped up side the head', in order to live up to our end of the contract. This 'whopping' was necessary, because of the 'built in structure of the contract'. The pastor continued with a chuckle, then said, "You'll never be provided everything that you need to get it within you. This is God's little joke on you." From my experience it's fairly easy to discover that everything IS provided, without the need for a 'whopping'. The problem lies in how we see Reality, not ...