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53. If sickness is real then God must be sick

Sunday, Apr 16, 2017 658 words 2 mins 55 secs

If sickness is real, and given that God is the author of Reality, it would have to mean that God created the sickness. And since God is Reality, this would mean that God Himself IS the sickness.

The belief that sickness...

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52. Not believing in God is not wanting to be responsible

Friday, Apr 07, 2017 253 words 1 mins 7 secs

If I am not fully responsible for who I am, I will perceive and find people outside of me and try to make them responsible for who I am.

Another way to describe this mechanism is to realize that you are...

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51. You tried to separate from God on purpose

Thursday, Apr 06, 2017 1983 words 8 mins 48 secs

I's very important to realize that when you separated from God, it was completely deliberate. There wasn't any victimhood involved prior to this. It was a very clear choice. And no matter how it was experienced as unwanted after that...

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50. How the physical universe obscures the omnipresence of God

Friday, Mar 24, 2017 1591 words 7 mins 4 secs

The physical universe is a grand illusion. It was designed on purpose to make it seem like God does not exist. You might think it exists for some other reason or as a natural phenomenon or as creation or whatever,...

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49. Trying to be separate from God is being the anti-christ

Sunday, Mar 19, 2017 566 words 2 mins 30 secs

If you are trying to be separate from God, you are trying to be the antichrist.

If you believe in separation to any degree, this is the same thing as believing that you are in darkness, and therefore that you are...

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48. The physical world was designed to cover up God

Monday, Jan 16, 2017 1088 words 4 mins 50 secs

The physical world we live in was deliberately designed by the ego mind to create the ILLUSION that separation is real. It is meant to, on purpose, deceive your awareness so that you believe how it APPEARS to be. Taking...

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47. Why we invented a vicious God of wrath

Saturday, Jan 07, 2017 842 words 3 mins 44 secs

When we separated from God, believing we had sinned, we projected the idea of this sin onto God, blaming Him for abandoning us and forcing us to be separate.

When we then entered into guilt, we projected this guilt onto God,...

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46. You're supposed to be provided for by God

Thursday, Jan 05, 2017 463 words 2 mins 3 secs

The way existence is set up, you're supposed to be completely provided for by God, you're supposed to be connected to His Mind, you're supposed to receive unlimited Power and Love from Him which you extend all the time, and...

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45. The son of God invented the ego

Wednesday, Jan 04, 2017 280 words 1 mins 14 secs

The ego was His idea of exploring what it might be like to be separate from God - to end Life.

The ego has since done a pretty good job of ending life, or at least, pretending to.

The ego is thus...

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44. I'm getting to know God

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016 436 words 1 mins 56 secs

God is not like anything else. God is constant. God doesn't change. God is unwavering. God isn't variable. God isn't partial. God doesn't have favorites.

God is always the same. God is always coming from the same place. He doesn't have...

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43. Just stop trying to find God and be still

Monday, Nov 07, 2016 212 words 0 mins 56 secs

Experientially, this is very simple. Try this:

Sit calmly.

Stop seeking for God outside of you. Stop trying to find Him. Stop going out of yourself. Stop looking for Him. Stay still.

That's all.

You might notice, if you stop seeking.... God shows up....

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42. Learning to receive God's love

Sunday, Nov 06, 2016 768 words 3 mins 24 secs

Once again, last evening, I asked God what he wanted me to 'do', thinking that there were actions or things to 'do', and His reply to me was:

"Receive."

I realize that my ego mind is SO used to 'seeking', which is...

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41. What about what God wants?

Wednesday, Nov 02, 2016 177 words 0 mins 47 secs

A lot of spirituality is about 'what I want'.... I want peace, I want healing, I want awakening, etc....

Who is this 'I' that is doing the wanting?

It's the ego. The ego loves to seek, because that indirectly means (and...

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40. God simply is already

Monday, Oct 31, 2016 535 words 2 mins 22 secs

Which means, everything about God exists already, is complete already, is in perfect divine order, free of needs and problems, in divine health at all times, and absolutely always the same.

So when we're having a relationship with God, we might...

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39. Is it possible to co-create with God?

Monday, Oct 31, 2016 253 words 1 mins 7 secs

If you think of this in terms of ... God contributes some of the decisions, and you contribute other parts.... then no, this is not how you co-create with God. This is co-creation based in separation/ego.

It is not that...

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38. You can't go further unless you're willing to do the Will of God

Saturday, Oct 29, 2016 309 words 1 mins 22 secs

At some point, in order to progress further in awakening, we have to realize that we're going to have to willingly do the will of God, rather than our separate will.

We can only go so far holding onto individuality and...

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37. The ego is an idea of darkness, God is the light

Tuesday, Oct 25, 2016 305 words 1 mins 21 secs

When you try to go into the light, while still holding onto ego in any way, you are trying to bring darkness into the light.

What that means is, you believe the darkness can 'stay dark' while you enter the light....

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36. Receiving from God requires believing that you have received

Thursday, Oct 20, 2016 621 words 2 mins 45 secs

It's not that God isn't sending, giving or sharing. God is automatically doing that all the time.

But are you receiving it?

In order to receive it you need to get yourself to where you deeply BELIEVE that you HAVE RECEIVED. Right...

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35. There are two truths. God's truth, and ego's truth

Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016 287 words 1 mins 16 secs

Know this. It is not possible to objectively and neutrally try to determine what the truth is, using the ego, without avoiding the truth.

There is no 'innocently seeking for the answer'. There is no mode that you can be in...

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34. God's nature is not like this world

Monday, Oct 17, 2016 354 words 1 mins 34 secs

God's nature is not alluded to by the nature of things in this world. We are incredibly used to this world, conditioned in believing that everything does and must change all the time. Even time and space possess properties of...

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