Au Revoir 2012

Predictions for Your Life in 2013.

1. You will be as happy as you decide to be. You will be as happy as your realization that you have all the happiness in the universe right inside of you right now, and that happiness does not exist out there in some person or some thing.

2. You will have Love to the extent you decide to Love Yourself.  You will Love Yourself to the extent you realize that Love is not out there in some other person waiting for you to find it.  You will Love Yourself to the extent that you realize you are Love and have all the Love in the universe right inside you right now. 

3. You will be as Positive to the extent you decide to be Positive no matter what comes your way.

4. You will live in having your wishes and goals to the extent you let go of wanting, to the extent you see that wanting and having are opposite energies, and in order to have it's necessary to let go of wanting.

5. You will have success and achieve your goals to the extent that you hold in mind only what you want and let go of any thoughts to the contrary.

6. You will have satisfaction to the extent you hold in mind and talk about what you have rather than what you don't have, to the extent that you hold in mind and talk about what's good, rather than what's bad, to the extent that you hold in mind and talk about what's right, rather than what's wrong.

7. You will live in the energy of "I can" to the extent you let go of the falsehood of "I can't."

8. You will be unlimited to the extent you let go of pretending you are limited.

9. You will have joy to the extent you take all your joy from the infinite wellspring within you.

10. You will be in charge of your life to the extent that you take full responsibility for all that you have in your experience every day.

11. You will receive to the extent you open yourself to more gifts by an attitude receptivity and constant gratitude.

12. Your gains will blossom and grow to the extent you notice, acknowledge and reinforce your gains by writing them down.

13. You will have peace of mind to the extent that you refuse to unconsiously listen to and obey the content of your thoughts; to the extent that you decide not to be run by the noise machine mind.

14. You will grow to the extent you decide to be giving rather than consumed with getting.

15. You will realize your Mastership by releasing constantly, letting go of the negative feelings the instant they appear in your life.

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

"...the thing that everyone of us is looking for in this world is exactly the same thing. Every being even the animals are looking for it. And what is it that we're all looking for? Happiness with no sorrow. A continuous happiness with no taint whatsoever of sorrow. All right, this being the goal, why is this the goal? The reason why this is the goal is because unlimited happiness is our very basic nature. This is the real natural state before we encumber it with limitations. Now why is it that most of us don't have this continuous happiness with no sorrow?  There's only one reason. Being this infinite being with infinite happiness, we do away with this joy, this happiness, by saying, first, I am an individual. Then, I have a mind. Then, with this mind, which is nothing but thoughts, we start accumulating thoughts of limitation.  I have a limited mind, body, with all sorts of troubles. In this manner we take our unlimited beingness and we limit it to the extreme. Now the only real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn or re-remember our original natural state of no limitation. Once we are led to seeing that this is our natural state then we proceed to let go of all the limitations. The prime number one limitation is, I am an individual separate from the all. Eliminate that and you eliminate all trouble, all limitation, all sickness, all poverty."

Q: How can I control the mind? 

M: The mind is intangible. In fact, it does not exist. The surest way is to seek it, then its activities will cease. 

Seek the mind. On being sought, it will disappear. The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is a thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will vanish automatically. The ego and the mind are the same. The ego is the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise. Dive within. You are now aware that the mind rises from within. So sink within and seek. You need not eliminate the wrong "I." How can "I" eliminate itself? All that you need do is to find its origin and abide there. That is as far as your efforts can extend. Then the Beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless there; no effort can reveal it. 

"Suppose you were given a one-man airplane to use in any way

you like. But you did not understand the powers of an airplane;

you were unaware that it could carry you across the sky. But

still, wanting to make some use of it, you hitched it to a

horse and drove it around. Because of your limited awareness

of its use, your actual use was also limited. But after studying

the machine for a while you discover its motor, propeller and

other items of power. So you unhitch the horse and drive the

airplane around on the ground with its own power. This is an

advanced use, but still far from making the most of its intended

purpose. So you study some more and you discover that the air-

plane has wings for a practical purpose; you see the possibilities

of rising above the earth to soar aloft. With this new knowledge

you go into action. Finally, you fly. By discovering the full

capacities of that airplane, it carries you to whatever destina-

tions you desire. [Mental Picture 58]

A man's mind is like that. The power is there all right, blocked

only by lack of awareness that it is there. Persistent self-study

reveals power that _is_ already there. Your very awareness is your

power for full flight."

                         Psycho-Pictography, p. 187

"Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your self realization. You are not to expect an explosion. The explosion has already happened---at the moment you were born, when you realized yourself as a being-knowing feeling. There is only one mistake you are making... You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no explosion will set it right. 

...You are always seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, always after happiness and peace. Don't you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes you feel miserable? Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither asking or refusing, give all your attention to the level on which I am is present. Soon you will  realize that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels, that disturbs...To seek there is no need; you would not seek what you already have. 

Pay no attention ( to thoughts ). Don't fight them. Just do nothing about them, let them be, whatever they are. Your very fighting them gives them life. Just disregard. Look through...You need not stop thinking. Just cease being interested. It is the disinterestedness that liberates. Don't hold on. That is all. The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make straight the hooks and nothing can hold you. Give up your addictions. There is nothing else to give up.
Stop your routine of acquistiveness, your habit of looking for results, and the freedom of the universe is yours. Be effortless.

"Exactly as in a night dream...first you see it as a dream 

and then you see it as this dream never was."

"While you are in a night dream and you think you are a limited body in that night dream, it persists so long as you don't wake up. It's the same thing with this waking state. We're dreaming we're limited bodies. We have to wake up to the fact that we are infinite. We have to stop thinking we're limited bodies, that's all. Stop thinking. Let go. Let be. Surrender is the word. If we would surrender this moment, that would be it. Not I but Thou. Not my will but Thy will. This is surrender. We could do that right now, and that would be it. But no. We've got to be a busy ego-body, doing something."

May all beings be happy, content and fulfilled.
May all beings be healed and whole.
May all beings have all that they want and need.
May all beings be protected, safe and fearless.
May all beings be awakened, liberated and free.
May all beings have peace in their world and in their universe.