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===Topic: ''Be Embodiment of God's Love''===

Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

 

 

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      (Be the Embodiment of God’s Love)

      (An Irony: Detachment Leads to Greater Experience)

 

Prayer: Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, We welcome You, our dear parents, our close friends. So tonight our prayer is very simple: we invite You to share our lives with us. And we ask that You help us be aware of Your presence. We pray for the strength and the courage to realize as best we can Your spiritual viewpoint on our human reality. Amen.

Prayer: Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, We welcome You, our dear parents, our close friends. So tonight our prayer is very simple: we invite You to share our lives with us. And we ask that You help us be aware of Your presence. We pray for the strength and the courage to realize as best we can Your spiritual viewpoint on our human reality. Amen.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, My dear sons, this is your mother, Nebadonia.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, My dear sons, this is your mother, Nebadonia.

 

Like Michael, I too treasure the moments when you realize what a dear friend I long to be with you. This is Our treasure, and if We have anything approximating the good aspects of human pride—the pure delight that something is—We delight that We can be close to you this way. This is the glory of being the Mother Spirit and Creator Son of a Local Universe. This is the essence of Our divinity, that We are able to share Ourselves with our children, and enjoy our children’s lives as the richest part of Our own. In this We represent, We actually are, We enjoy the connection of love that you prize so highly. We are literally the embodiment of God’s love for all of us, and We encourage you to do your best to feel yourselves to be that embodiment as well. No pun intended, but you do have the bodies for it. OK, maybe that was a pun. But your physical existence, while beset with certain limitations of time and space, does have its equally marvelous compensations. Your bodies give you contact with a reality governed by natural law, the cause and effect that, as you have so recently discovered, is in its own way both bottomless into the infinitesimal, and infinite in its extension.

Like Michael, I too treasure the moments when you realize what a dear friend I long to be with you. This is Our treasure, and if We have anything approximating the good aspects of human pride—the pure delight that something is—We delight that We can be close to you this way. This is the glory of being the Mother Spirit and Creator Son of a Local Universe. This is the essence of Our divinity, that We are able to share Ourselves with our children, and enjoy our children’s lives as the richest part of Our own. In this We represent, We actually are, We enjoy the connection of love that you prize so highly. We are literally the embodiment of God’s love for all of us, and We encourage you to do your best to feel yourselves to be that embodiment as well. No pun intended, but you do have the bodies for it. OK, maybe that was a pun. But your physical existence, while beset with certain limitations of time and space, does have its equally marvelous compensations. Your bodies give you contact with a reality governed by natural law, the cause and effect that, as you have so recently discovered, is in its own way both bottomless into the infinitesimal, and infinite in its extension.

Our delight in God’s imagination, His creativity, that He could come up with a reality that is at one and the same time so absolutely reliable, so perfectly continuous right down to each single electron’s bouncing around in its little nano-second of events, yet at the same time, ever new--in a way not repeating itself, but capable of being unique each moment, on and on forever.

Our delight in God’s imagination, His creativity, that He could come up with a reality that is at one and the same time so absolutely reliable, so perfectly continuous right down to each single electron’s bouncing around in its little nano-second of events, yet at the same time, ever new--in a way not repeating itself, but capable of being unique each moment, on and on forever.

So We offer you the notion of the spirituality within physical reality. The physical world both without you and right within you as your physical bodies is not only continuous and reliable, but also ever new. That leaf you see falling from a tree outside never fell before, nor will it ever fall again. This is the spirit--if you will, the value within the world you see, for this is its very nature. Your own bodies, though persisting day to day, year to year, are also continuously changing. As you have paid more attention and learned more about these changes, you have to a large degree transcended some of the inevitabilities of past generations in terms of aging—what old age means. You’ve even come to the point where in your more modern societies by far the greater proportion of disease and accidents that befall you physically are within your realm of freedom, are a matter of your own choices or negligence.

So We offer you the notion of the spirituality within physical reality. The physical world both without you and right within you as your physical bodies is not only continuous and reliable, but also ever new. That leaf you see falling from a tree outside never fell before, nor will it ever fall again. This is the spirit--if you will, the value within the world you see, for this is its very nature. Your own bodies, though persisting day to day, year to year, are also continuously changing. As you have paid more attention and learned more about these changes, you have to a large degree transcended some of the inevitabilities of past generations in terms of aging—what old age means. You’ve even come to the point where in your more modern societies by far the greater proportion of disease and accidents that befall you physically are within your realm of freedom, are a matter of your own choices or negligence.

Yet obviously this can lead to impatience, even intolerance toward others you feel may be holding you back, or intolerance toward yourself by indulging in self-anger or guilt because you are not keeping up with some imagined program. Counterbalancing this hunger for perfection, this need to keep growing, is a kind of conservation of energies, a conservation of a status-quo—simply continuing as you are. My point tonight is that neither of these drives should be disrespected or slighted, but rather it does you well to see a fulfilled life as a balance between them. Obviously too much conservatism, too much emphasis upon maintaining a status-quo can actually lead to regression, a kind of back-sliding into laziness where an illusion of clinging to the same, secure thing day after day, that you’ve already known, causes you to miss the changes that are happening to you, and the opportunities possible. Some of you think of this as an animal tendency--with some validity, because both animals and very primitive men generally only think when they’re hungry. As soon as their bellies are full they sleep until they get hungry again.

Yet obviously this can lead to impatience, even intolerance toward others you feel may be holding you back, or intolerance toward yourself by indulging in self-anger or guilt because you are not keeping up with some imagined program. Counterbalancing this hunger for perfection, this need to keep growing, is a kind of conservation of energies, a conservation of a status-quo—simply continuing as you are. My point tonight is that neither of these drives should be disrespected or slighted, but rather it does you well to see a fulfilled life as a balance between them. Obviously too much conservatism, too much emphasis upon maintaining a status-quo can actually lead to regression, a kind of back-sliding into laziness where an illusion of clinging to the same, secure thing day after day, that you’ve already known, causes you to miss the changes that are happening to you, and the opportunities possible. Some of you think of this as an animal tendency--with some validity, because both animals and very primitive men generally only think when they’re hungry. As soon as their bellies are full they sleep until they get hungry again.

I ask you to see if you can feel these two drives within you, so you can recognize them, and have some conscious choice of what you need. Sometimes after a long, hard week of work you have so many things planned for the weekend, and then are dismayed when Sunday arrives you have no energy for them. This is not only being physically tired, but being mentally or spiritually exhausted. You can feel very desperate within yourself, rather than realizing you need to take a break from a linear/planned kind of time to feel your organic life. The best thing for you might be to tinker around, take it easy, have fun doing nothing, enjoy being lazy for a day. In this case, welcome some variety in your life. You all know examples of those who are driving themselves into an early grave trying to do two or three things at once every day of the week.

I ask you to see if you can feel these two drives within you, so you can recognize them, and have some conscious choice of what you need. Sometimes after a long, hard week of work you have so many things planned for the weekend, and then are dismayed when Sunday arrives you have no energy for them. This is not only being physically tired, but being mentally or spiritually exhausted. You can feel very desperate within yourself, rather than realizing you need to take a break from a linear/planned kind of time to feel your organic life. The best thing for you might be to tinker around, take it easy, have fun doing nothing, enjoy being lazy for a day. In this case, welcome some variety in your life. You all know examples of those who are driving themselves into an early grave trying to do two or three things at once every day of the week.

Let everything stop so you can rediscover your home base, for it too is changing. Settle into where you are. Perceive the spiritual presence of the present moment, then linger awhile. Even though all the good ideas that come to you in your stillness tend to make you jump up and get going again, just stay awhile. Be still. Feel your breathing and your heartbeat. Enjoy your absolute existence. Then rise up refreshed. Look around in mild surprise at your human reality, and wonder anew how our Father does it. And away you go again, off to try your next experiment in being you.

Let everything stop so you can rediscover your home base, for it too is changing. Settle into where you are. Perceive the spiritual presence of the present moment, then linger awhile. Even though all the good ideas that come to you in your stillness tend to make you jump up and get going again, just stay awhile. Be still. Feel your breathing and your heartbeat. Enjoy your absolute existence. Then rise up refreshed. Look around in mild surprise at your human reality, and wonder anew how our Father does it. And away you go again, off to try your next experiment in being you.

Oh!—by the way—don’t forget to take Michael and I with you. If you have any questions or comments this evening, I do believe that’s the next step.

Oh!—by the way—don’t forget to take Michael and I with you. If you have any questions or comments this evening, I do believe that’s the next step.

Student: Yes, Mother, the word thirst came to mind, and how I seem to be always thirsting to understand more of who I am and more of all that’s around me--how I thirst to be still and experience the presence of God within me. Then I was thinking about being human and what a privilege it is to be able to experience all I am in being human, and of spirit. I was listening to a beautiful piece of music on the way here, and I thought, God, this is perfect—this beautiful piece of music. The sun was setting...and it was perfect—just to be able to hear and to be moved by this piece of music. It’s what life is all about. Or to be able to have a piece of bread and cheese, and to enjoy that; and a glass of wine. To be able to hug my daughter, and my son. It’s interesting—the topic You brought up tonight, because I have been kind-of finding the balance between this thirst, this hunger for perfection, and conserving, or living in this world, and letting go of familiarity. I mentioned to Michael last week how I’d like to do other things with my life, but I also know things don’t happen so fast as I’d like. And I do notice a different quality within me, of seeing this world around me—a sense of detachment—a different texture that I feel.

Student: Yes, Mother, the word thirst came to mind, and how I seem to be always thirsting to understand more of who I am and more of all that’s around me--how I thirst to be still and experience the presence of God within me. Then I was thinking about being human and what a privilege it is to be able to experience all I am in being human, and of spirit. I was listening to a beautiful piece of music on the way here, and I thought, God, this is perfect—this beautiful piece of music. The sun was setting...and it was perfect—just to be able to hear and to be moved by this piece of music. It’s what life is all about. Or to be able to have a piece of bread and cheese, and to enjoy that; and a glass of wine. To be able to hug my daughter, and my son. It’s interesting—the topic You brought up tonight, because I have been kind-of finding the balance between this thirst, this hunger for perfection, and conserving, or living in this world, and letting go of familiarity. I mentioned to Michael last week how I’d like to do other things with my life, but I also know things don’t happen so fast as I’d like. And I do notice a different quality within me, of seeing this world around me—a sense of detachment—a different texture that I feel.

NEBADONIA: My son, there is some real irony involved in how feeling yourself to be detached this way can actually increase your perception of yourself and your connection to the world. The same applies to the degree to which you can achieve a marvelously still home base within yourself—in this sense, how detaching yourself from your activity for a certain special time enables you to refresh yourself spiritually so you can return to your activities with a greater sense of freedom. You can choose to do this or that because you now have a more conscious choice: you’ve just earned it. Michael mentioned last week how having this home base, and feeling your self-completeness within yourself, enables you to be more present for others, to be a better friend, because you now have something to give. Your detachment from your friend’s troubles is what they need.

NEBADONIA: My son, there is some real irony involved in how feeling yourself to be detached this way can actually increase your perception of yourself and your connection to the world. The same applies to the degree to which you can achieve a marvelously still home base within yourself—in this sense, how detaching yourself from your activity for a certain special time enables you to refresh yourself spiritually so you can return to your activities with a greater sense of freedom. You can choose to do this or that because you now have a more conscious choice: you’ve just earned it. Michael mentioned last week how having this home base, and feeling your self-completeness within yourself, enables you to be more present for others, to be a better friend, because you now have something to give. Your detachment from your friend’s troubles is what they need.

Student: Yeah, I get that, I mean I see that--like with my Mother. She worries so much about my future, how I’m going to have money for my future, how can I continue doing the work that I do as I get older. I don’t know what the future holds for me. As Jesus points out, just be here and now and let the future, let tomorrow take care of itself. I’m gradually embracing that.

Student: Yeah, I get that, I mean I see that--like with my Mother. She worries so much about my future, how I’m going to have money for my future, how can I continue doing the work that I do as I get older. I don’t know what the future holds for me. As Jesus points out, just be here and now and let the future, let tomorrow take care of itself. I’m gradually embracing that.

NEBADONIA: Yet even the little squirrels know to gather nuts for winter. One does need to make provision. It’s part of the conserving…

NEBADONIA: Yet even the little squirrels know to gather nuts for winter. One does need to make provision. It’s part of the conserving…

NEBADONIA: Now, My son, you are face to face with the need to create, and how much of your life is in your own hands, as well as the universe’s. The universe will provide you with a setting, both in this life and all the phases of your eternal life to come, but what you do with this is so much a part of your free will. More immediately, what your old age will be like is dependant on how you spend your time today. This too is a balance between physical, and mental, and spiritual dimensions. You are a physical/material being with a need for food and shelter and other physical things. Yet the accumulation of material wealth is of little importance if your health fails because of it. Student: But what of Jesus’ promise of: seek first the kingdom of heaven and all else will come to you? I mean, seek God within yourself. Seek love and life, and eternal life, and everything else will come to me. Love God with all your heart and soul and spirit. Isn’t that the most important thing?

NEBADONIA: Now, My son, you are face to face with the need to create, and how much of your life is in your own hands, as well as the universe’s. The universe will provide you with a setting, both in this life and all the phases of your eternal life to come, but what you do with this is so much a part of your free will. More immediately, what your old age will be like is dependant on how you spend your time today. This too is a balance between physical, and mental, and spiritual dimensions. You are a physical/material being with a need for food and shelter and other physical things. Yet the accumulation of material wealth is of little importance if your health fails because of it. Student: But what of Jesus’ promise of: seek first the kingdom of heaven and all else will come to you? I mean, seek God within yourself. Seek love and life, and eternal life, and everything else will come to me. Love God with all your heart and soul and spirit. Isn’t that the most important thing?

NEBADONIA: By all means. But also, God gave you an intelligence with which to realize the kingdom, to be like God himself—a creative being, actually creating your own reality along with Him, in partnership with Him. In your present situation, you need food, good nutrition to maintain yourself. If you would not be a parasite on those around you, you must work in some way for the necessities of your life. God gives you the ability of foresight to see that, as you realize, you cannot do certain activities indefinitely. You have to make provision for your old age if you would not be dependant on the largess of others. These are the basic facts of human life that men and women have faced since the beginning. This is the view of society as a kind of insurance policy that is not absolute. Accidents still happen. But it does call upon all your abilities and resources to solve these problems with your own creativity.

NEBADONIA: By all means. But also, God gave you an intelligence with which to realize the kingdom, to be like God himself—a creative being, actually creating your own reality along with Him, in partnership with Him. In your present situation, you need food, good nutrition to maintain yourself. If you would not be a parasite on those around you, you must work in some way for the necessities of your life. God gives you the ability of foresight to see that, as you realize, you cannot do certain activities indefinitely. You have to make provision for your old age if you would not be dependant on the largess of others. These are the basic facts of human life that men and women have faced since the beginning. This is the view of society as a kind of insurance policy that is not absolute. Accidents still happen. But it does call upon all your abilities and resources to solve these problems with your own creativity.

NEBADONIA: That’s their choice, is it not? (True) Michael and I do grant that you are a very complex kind of being. And so We tease you into appreciating this very complexity, (laughter) and assure you that many, more purely-spiritual Beings come close to what you would think of as envy, that you have such choices to make. They are aware of the irony that for many of you, (here Mother laughed again) you consider this somewhat a curse. But this is the partnership our Father offers all personal beings; the essence of what personality means. Your very uniqueness can be somewhat scary, because no one else has ever lived your life exactly, before. All the best advise from your fellow human beings, or even Michael and I, requires you to decide what you will use, or not.

NEBADONIA: That’s their choice, is it not? (True) Michael and I do grant that you are a very complex kind of being. And so We tease you into appreciating this very complexity, (laughter) and assure you that many, more purely-spiritual Beings come close to what you would think of as envy, that you have such choices to make. They are aware of the irony that for many of you, (here Mother laughed again) you consider this somewhat a curse. But this is the partnership our Father offers all personal beings; the essence of what personality means. Your very uniqueness can be somewhat scary, because no one else has ever lived your life exactly, before. All the best advise from your fellow human beings, or even Michael and I, requires you to decide what you will use, or not.

So I must caution: your freedom is not forced upon you. You can literally choose not to choose, by default, but in doing so you are thwarting God’s intention—that you become like Him, and you generally experience this as suffering. Suffering has as its main purpose to alert you and let you know: that whatever the cost you may feel is required for your freedom--whether consternation, or worry, or more positively, thought and reason—whatever is required to make your freewill decisions, is worth it.

So I must caution: your freedom is not forced upon you. You can literally choose not to choose, by default, but in doing so you are thwarting God’s intention—that you become like Him, and you generally experience this as suffering. Suffering has as its main purpose to alert you and let you know: that whatever the cost you may feel is required for your freedom--whether consternation, or worry, or more positively, thought and reason—whatever is required to make your freewill decisions, is worth it.

 

That is the spiritual truth that forms your soul. For in choosing not to choose, you are choosing to not experience all you are capable of. As an experiential being, you are wasting time. But conversely, this is also the assurance that you have free will. You can choose to experience. You can grow your soul as an eternal possession. You can rejoice in a simple slice of bread and a piece of cheese, and know a moment of perfection in the music as you drive along, your daughter or son in your arms. That too is real. Be in My love, My dear son. Good evening.

That is the spiritual truth that forms your soul. For in choosing not to choose, you are choosing to not experience all you are capable of. As an experiential being, you are wasting time. But conversely, this is also the assurance that you have free will. You can choose to experience. You can grow your soul as an eternal possession. You can rejoice in a simple slice of bread and a piece of cheese, and know a moment of perfection in the music as you drive along, your daughter or son in your arms. That too is real. Be in My love, My dear son. Good evening.