Date: TBA
Are you
completely satisfied with who, what, or where you are now?
Most of us
aspire to be or have something different than we enjoy at present. "Becoming"
is a part of this life, and that's what evolution is all about--becoming more
than you are, or appear to be, at present. At the One Seminar you learn
principles that may guide you in your quest.
Whatever you are
experiencing at this very moment is appropriate and necessary to your need to
grow or evolve.
If what's
happening to you currently is unpleasant, this can be a tough one to swallow.
This is called the "rule of appropriateness" and it is based on a
simple premise: the purpose of your life (yours, mine, everyone's) is growth.
No, happiness is a by-product. The implications of this principle are immense:
if you aren't happy where you are, you will be required to learn the lesson
involved first, before you will be able to move on.
It doesn't matter
what happened or who did it to you. The only thing that matters is what you
do about it.
This one thing you will get at One.
Another, is the fact that separateness is an illusion. We are all one. By giving to others we give to ourself.
Connectedness is
a fact, not an achievement. You can't even change it, you can only refuse
to admit it or enjoy it! Your identity, the who you think you are and being
are sustained regardless of what you do or what happens to you.
There is a
purpose, and you are part of it.
You are idea, the
creation of a Higher Principle which operates according to an invariable
purpose, of which you are an integral part. This fact is all too often obscured
by what we call random events that occur in "this" life. Which brings
us to the next point...
We live
simultaneously in multidimensional realities.
Most of the time,
we're held by our perceptions and our current state of awareness, in the
"world reality"--a material, sensory, and sometimes random complex of
events, persons, things and concepts. This reality seems real because we see
it, hear it, smell it, touch it, and taste it, but like the apparent solidity
of the human body, it ISN'T real. It's a construction of reality. Beyond this
world reality, there is a universal reality and true self that are spiritual,
perfect, and eternal--untouched by the transient events of the world reality.
There is enough.
Lack is an unnatural state.
Lack is a part of
the world reality that is based on entropy thinking which views everything as
gradually running down and dying out. Poverty is the tragic result of our acceptance
of this lack as an acceptable state. In contrast, the true state of universal
reality is abundance--infinite creation from an infinite reservoir of
"natural knowing" and energy. To overcome lack, you must reject it as
being either unacceptable or unreal. This is both an act of faith and an
essential element in the process of transformation.
All life challenges
take courage and begin with faith rather than fact.
If you're blind, you cannot experience color. You have to take it on faith. Similarly, life challenges are not always provable through perception, facts, or logic. In fact, what's required is, "a great leap of faith."
Faith is the beginning
and the end. In biblical terms, it is "the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen."
Transformation
precedes evolution.
Transformation
involves a gradual change from one state to another. Transcendence involves
letting go of everything that limits you. Transformation is improvement;
transcendence is renewal. To be transformed is to embrace both realities
effortlessly. To transcend is to relinquish the world (material) reality in
favor of the universal (laws of physics) reality. Complete transcendence seldom
occurs on this side of the death experience.
Letting go.
We are bound to
this world by our attachments. Little by little, we are forced by circumstance
and destiny to let go of worldly beliefs and ultimately, of this life itself.
The trick is to recognize that letting go doesn't need to be a sacrifice. True
letting go is a peaceful event. Only our resistance is painful.
At "One"
you can give up suffering.