Teach me

I have felt guided each morning to quiet my thinking and make a request of two simple words: "teach me." Truly, the more we are able to turn our thoughts within, and yeild in the presence of stillness, the more we are able to access peace of mind. A Course in Miracles asks us to remember that: "God speaks to me all through the day." This lesson is entirely transformational if we dared our minds to accept it. "God speaks to me??!!" we doubt. However, yes, God loves and sends an assurance of joy and peace to all of His Creations. Only the forgetting mind, with its dreams of separation and specialness, make this truth a delusion. If we were to simply step away from the blaring doubts filled with disquieted agendas, we would easily feel completely supported and absorbed into a Love-filled stillness. The time we spend in stillness does not have to be extreme. The thoughts that follow emerged from barely five minutes of intention. Yet, no matter the span of time, the smallest bit of willingness allows us to receive fully. Always when I ask, the Voice of Guidance arrives, clear and clean. The following is a collection of guidance from these early mornings. Each is definitely a gem that can take us on a profound inner journey. I am blessed to share them with you, and continue to add more onto the collection daily.

In Love...

~ Pamela

You cannot withhold joy without judgment. Your natural state is one of endless joy. Recognize the resistance within your mind as you experience unhappiness. Watch as you say, "this is wrong" or "I should be different.” Now, breathe through this noticing, accepting instead "I am as I am.” Only here does peace wait.

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Fear cannot rewrite Who You Are. Fear can only dismiss it. "No," fear says with its voice trembling. "No, I am not strong, able and surrounded by loving support.” However, this voice is merely a voice of confusion and lies. Do not listen and know your Self.

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Love is Who You Are. Do not allow the mind to go astray in this one True fact. To know your Self as Love is to reveal love in all thoughts, words, and actions (as well as amend with Love when you overlook it). Do not feel pressured by this calling. Simply accept this awareness, so that you may remember peace in all things.

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Love is with you now despite you may feel unworthy or in the darkness. Only fear and resistance can hide the Light of God from you. Fear and resistance DO NOT hide God, for you are the only one covering your eyes. Play not this game of Hide and Seek. Truth need not be dis-covered. Truth is... now see.

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Spirit's Essence, which is God's Life-Giving Force -- His Holiness -- lives within you now. This Essence is uncontainable, nor is it to be feared. To fear God is to fear your Self. It is foolish to think that this Essence is vulnerable to harm or can be one who is able to harm. This is why there is no sin. You remain as free and perfect as the moment God spoke Your name.

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Forgiveness is seeing clearly. Forgiveness accepts ONLY the indestructible as true. Here you do not align yourself with whims of fancy. Here only do you accept Who You Are within and do not harbor an alternate image. Forgiveness is resting in eternal Holiness instead of your own will.

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Knowledge cannot hide from You. The wholeness of Who You Are exists and never remits. However, you can deny this existence through pretending and valuing an alternate experience. Do not worry about ridding yourself of this belief. Choose instead, like the innocent child, who knows he or she does not know. Ask and I will teach you. Here, as I take your hand, do your real eyes open.

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The mind of peace never desires confusion. Confusion can only arise from doubt, which is a preference for limitation and fear over peace of mind. Here you perceive destruction as a more logical conclusion. However, can the destructible ever make a decision that does not contain fear, if it perceives itself as temporal? Surely not. Therefore, give your doubt to peace and let only the indestructible be your guide.

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Love is your True Self. Love exists whole and complete beyond the limits and hidden corners of your own understanding. Intellect cannot bring you love. Intellect merely balances interactions with others such as in “give and take.” Love is outside of patterns of behavior and has no real requirement. Love does not expect return, nor does Love give only to be an acceptable example. To rest in Love is to give as a knowing (revealing) of One’s True Self. Rest in Love and simply be now without any expected ways of being. Here you live without judgment and choose simply being.

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Peace arises from releasing resistance. Only resistance to the current situation brings stress or suffering. Accept the moment and accept your awareness of peace.

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Genuine happiness knows one Self. To know one's Self is to reveal all that You are in Truth and see. Here, happiness is the only experience, but yet a happiness far beyond your mind's comprehension. Sit with happiness and know Who You Are without limit. Exist wholly in deLight.

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Giving requires us to recognize first all that we own. We give a more genuine Love and as we accept the Love and joy now existing within our mind.

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Trust that you are never alone. A witness to Your inherent Holiness, peace, happiness, love and strength is always available. Stand and see the grandeur by your side. Holiness cannot be forgotten, even by a mind pretending to be lost in games of fear.

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Trust that I am with you. You, meaning your Essence and Mind are never alone. All of God’s children are joined. Companionship does not mean judgment. I do not sit with you and measure your worth through your actions. The actions of the body mean nothing. They are mere representations of your current state of thinking and thinking itself does not ever wholly reflect Truth. Only the ego mind in its fearful imaginings is suspicious. The mind of emptiness perceives its own guilt (separation from Love) and thus projects the possibility of others (apart from itself) extending judgment. However, none of these perceptions is Truth. You only attack yourself in a misperception of Who You Are. Choose rest instead of resistance. I stand with You now, fully confident and aware of your endless magnificence. I am a witness to the Holiness so often forgotten. To accept my point of view is accepting a remembrance of strength, peace, and joy that has never gone astray.

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To judge your self by any image is incorrect. That is to say, to attach your Self to any image is a mere mistake. Your Self is uncontainable and indefinable. This Self has no required measurements to be perfect. Perfection exists now, as always. Your body does not exhibit this perfection because it is an experience of limitation. Therefore, your body’s appearance or actions do not align with Truth. Accept any weight, height, behavior, thought system or representation. They are all the same in their inequity to your True Self. Accept them to see beyond them and choose peace instead.

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Judgment is not consistent with Truth. Separation is required for any judgment to be useful. The mind judges only in comparison. Right versus wrong, acceptable versus unacceptable, purposeful versus unhelpful – all of these are conclusions rooted in dualism. As you value judgment about yourself or others, you agree that God is variable or inconsistent. To say that God needs to change is to say that He is instable and imperfect. I know, you say, “I do not judge God, but man.” Beloved, to judge man is to judge God for God extended man from His own Essence. Surely, it is one's Essence that remains unchangeable; however, to desire change of either body or mind, is still to judge and deem yourself unworthy as God Creates. This belief in unworthiness then espouses a significant amount of additional judgments and needs. Can you at least see how not one of these thoughts results in peace? Truth is all loving and unchanging. Whether that Truth pretends to be different, you remain as God Creates. Eons of wisdom have made this claim before, however the perversion of the mind has difficulty accepting this one simple Truth because it does not accept its Self. See this resistance and change your mind.

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Knowledge is always available to you. That is, you are always able to remember the True Self. Reality cannot hide, yet you can pretend to bury your head. Lift your face up into the Light and see all that has always been beside you.

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Listen. You are Love. There is a no more simpler statement. Accepting and applying this one pure Truth to all aspects of your living will result in a greater peace than your current intellect can perceive. Love of all words, deeds, thoughts and relationships is living in wholeness now.

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Hush love. Close your eyes. Wisdom is always with and within you. See this wisdom as your strength. One cannot be fearful and wise in the same moment. Surely, you can know your wisdom, yet refute it. Therefore, as you recognize strength, all weakness must fade away.

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To see sin within any other person is to see emptiness within yourself. Seeing with these eyes only reaffirms every mistaken belief in your weakness, vulnerability and God's abandonment of his Holiness. However, these stories are not but lies. As you see another make mistakes, remind yourself that this mistake cannot define you. Remind yourself that only acts of love stand as a witness to your Truth.

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All that is You cannot meet the eye. Limited sight can never speak clearly enough for you to hear the Song of Spirit. Imagining that you can accurately conclude facts based on these images, is using a pin-prick of vision as your sight. For this reason, let go. Do not attach to the images of the world or thoughts of the mind. Truth knows there is immeasureably more to see.

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A person cannot "be used" by another person unless the use and user saw themselves in the very same dance of mistaken Self-perception. Victim and victimizer share the same story. One brother cannot stand guilty alone -- for the entirety of Truth would have to be renounced for this possibility. Not one can stand outside of Heaven, without Heaven's angels perceiving gates. These beliefs in separation are not real. The gates of Heaven are merely obstacles within your own mind that say you are not worthy. Come to these gates and see God reach His Hand right through them and place His Love around you. See this very same Love and Acceptance for all others you seem to encounter. He or she is always an invitation for you to know your own peace.

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Living seems to be all about choices. The choice to focus on happiness over sadness. The choice to forgive anger, rather than allow it to linger. The choice to move beyond ghosts of the past or have them sit beside you. All of these choices say you are in control. However, what if I said that peace is beyond choice? What if I said it was not-determined by you, but was and always is right now. It is.

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Although you may see yourself as worn and wearied by the winds of change; Love does not perceive change, apart from Love, as possible. Love does not want change. Love accepts and sees reality solid beneath transient surface images. The waves of the ocean may shift. However, the Essence remains as water always does exist. You are the same. Do not judge yourself by surface conditions. Tumultuous hurricanes and whirlpools do not make you. Feel the eternal flow beneath the turmoil and know peace once again.

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Rest arises through release. To release is to no longer attach or define yourself by distortions of thought, word or experience. Here you reclaim your peace and lift above the illusory prison of the mind.

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Rest your mind now. Do not be concerned with additional thoughts. Worrying about the inability to rest is choosing tossed seas over stillness. Tumultuous winds cannot calm tropical breezes. Breathe and watch as each wisp of awareness passes through you. Remember the safe roots of Love embracing you with endless security.

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Notice the mind in judgment. Feel the constriction. This inner tightness (although called anger / fear) is resistance to peace It is a refusal of You. See how you argue with Love, denying God's Knowledge of His Holiness. To choose sin through the world's justification, is merely pausing for a lie over Truth. Breathe. Forgive. Let go. Here, all You are shines brilliantly beyond poorly constructed barriers.

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It has been spoken before that "love is blind." However, you remain blind as long as you do not see Love. Love's blindness only arises from its inability to see any aspect that is not of God. Therefore, Love cannot exchange lies for Truth. Love does not see sin, because it would rather see Holiness instead. Love knows Holiness is the only clear Vision. Why choose darkness over Light? God's pleasing approval of His Holiness lives in you now. He can only acknowledge you as perfect and strong, without hinderance. All judgment is a refusal of this powerful force of Love. It is plucking out your True eyes. Denying your Self cannot make you or God's knowledge of You disappear. All exists as is. You are in Love now. Feel your way.

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As you choose to ask Love, "What should I say?," and "What should I do?" the most powerful yet still thoughts emerge from within. Inside this space you cannot worry because the evidence of Peaceful being is overwhelming. Too often this area of the healed mind is merely entertained, rather than absorbed. "Thanks Spirit, I'll consider that idea" should be replaced by "I am as You know me to be always."

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Hear this clearly, the ego always tells lies. The ideas may appear reasonable, but the concepts are always based on mistaken ideas of who You are. Only Love is True. Therefore, any part of the mind perceiving a lack of love (no matter how "reasonable") must be a lie. Consider this teaching the next moment you choose to listen to ego as your teacher. Do you desire Truth of Love or lies?

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"I need," "I want," "Defense is necessary," "Pain is real," "God has abandoned me," "He or she must change," "I must take this situation into my own hands." "I am powerless," "I am lost," "I am a victim." All these thoughts and all thoughts attending to them are lies. Any idea speaking loudly in anger or fear, confirming a loss or need, is a messenger of false knowing. Any idea that is without peace does not know its Self. This voice's words can never teach you Truth. Love always and all ways waits patiently. Love waits in knowledge, never asking questions or considering other options. Love does not need to "take control," "prove a point," or "clarify a situation." Love knows quietly and sees only this direct and complete experience of knowledge.
Be now with Love and you choose only the strength of stillness to be your Guide. Here we rest together beyond the cackling or jarring discontent. Here, in Truth, we see the false ideas simply fade into murmurs of mistaken ideas, only laughable from where we know ourselves to thrive.

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How, within the perception of life and self, do you see today? Desire to choose on your own, than all experiences appear self-made and transitory. In this state, happiness is alternated with sadness; anger with serenity. The day ebbs and flows. However, choose instead to yield each moment to Guided Vision, simply stating: "Teach me," and then a greater solid wisdom rises beyond surface conditions. Peace surpasses a personal understanding.

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When the ancient gurus teach that "all disease is disease of the mind," this statement means that your True Essence nourishes far more than any bodily existence. With the changing fashions of the wind and seasons, the pedals of a flower know life cannot cease despite a loss of softness. Consequently, although the body may experience many states of physical wellness or weakness, suffering is always optional. To see your identity beyond the transcience of body, emotion or thinking is to know your Self in health (wholeness) eternally. This state of Self awareness does not guarantee the body or experiences of individual identity will not change. Pain, lack, weakness and physical limitation occur as long as the body is recognized as self. However, to know your Self beyond transcient circumstances is to see ultimate life and strength exactly where it always rests magnificently strong within God's Arms of Love. Rest here and never suffer, only simply be as God created His Holiness to be. Only the Truth is true.

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Could you imagine progressing throughout the day without stories of need or want? Can you envision moving forward in trust, innocently allowing each experience to neutrally unfold? Peace appears hidden from your eyes and heart because a story of demand and fear is chosen instead. Worry keeps you from now. Release your story. Rest in the moment without demand and watch as peace and prosperity all ways exist.

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Life within the world is not about the tasks accomplished, but is about who you see yourself becoming through each transient experience. To live is to witness. Ask yourself, "what am I witnessing now?" "What am I observing about Who I am?" It is impossible to find any state of experience, while you call attention to and perceive the opposite. Consequently, you can never find a greater state of love while claiming an unloved self is possible. Likewise, you never discover increased wealth, power or self-awareness while perceiving lack, limitation and self-denial. This is the same as asking a blind person to be your guide. Surely neither person is most capable of finding his or her way as long as limitation leads. Open your eyes. Blindness is not Who You Are and can never lead you to peace. Be a witness to all that stands closer than you currently know. Unheard of riches, power, peace of mind and unchanging love are merely just the edge of the horizon. Magnificence is the sun.

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A greater awareness cannot be known from adhering to a lesser state of mind. This is why the gurus instruct to detach from all preconceived thoughts and values. Grandeur is not known through eyes of lack. Forgiveness cannot be seen while reinforcing the existence of sin. Lesser thoughts contain and persist struggle, all the while you say to desire peace. Which state of being is True? You can have only one.

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Being the love you are is not about trying to be love. Being love is relaxing into an ever presence of strength and consistency. All trying involves struggle. Trying can waver through bouts of will, determination, failure and practice. Truly, You cannot fail at achieving love. You cannot achieve Love. Love is just as You are. now and all ways. Love has nothing to do or try and neither must you. Knowing this is Love.

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Connectedness is unavoidable. You can never completely forget Who You Are. The body and earth are perceptions of definition, made only to extend the belief in a dream of separation. Do not expect to find your Truth exclusively in physical means of the earth or body. Love, though, is the invisible thread binding these images. Each idea of Creation connects in a tapestry of pure light. As you experience one another or any form upon the earth, it is possible to see beyond your perceived limitations. Do so by surrendering beyond what the eyes can see. Stand in awe, asking only to see the love. Feel your heart expand in a song of pure gratitude. Surrender to breathing in your connectedness beyond space, time or separate images. Now, rest your eyes loosely upon all you see and look with the gentleness emitting from within you. Feel your eyes open to the grandeur of Self beyond all limitations. Breathe again and rest in this awareness. Embrace the warm sensation of gentle being washing over your heart and hearth. This is seeing the foundation of your True Self, making known the completion of all You are. Here you choose to see wholly beyond any limiting desires of the imagination. Here you fully remember and see as God does now.

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