How to stop thinking (8)

You are not the thoughts in your head. Not even remotely. You are the awareness of the thoughts in your head. Awareness is the great power, the universal intelligence. That’s who you are!

Perpendicularity

When we are doing what we are meant to do, we release into the world some aspect of our deepest self. To be educated is to be “drawn out.” We are wells, straight up and down, molecular encasements for what Jesus called “living water.”

And neither shall we

“When you pray for something, believe that you have already received it.” This is not a paean to optimism. It points to the inexhaustible fullness of I AM. Jesus never asked for anything.

How old am I?

Not to indulge in pettifoggery but I AM is ageless. In other words, never born, never died. And the body? Well, that’s another story. A bit of a blip, really. Rounded upward, it’s 100.

To thine own self

The first loyalty—loyalty to one’s innermost self—obviates all other loyalties.