The more you go into authentic spirituallity and the more your trust level climbs,
you start to realize that you are responsible for your state of mind.
Always, every moment, every day, everything.
But, you aren't responsible for the script, so to speak.
That we have taken on a responsibility that is not really ours.
How does it play out?
Some people know that twelve step programs are very helpful for a lot of people.
There's a prayer that came along called ' The Serenity Prayer.'
And basically, you've got three components in the serenity prayer.
I always tell people, oh, A Course in Miracles is a big thick book, twelve hundred and some pages and everything,
but, it's just the serenity prayer, don't get too bent out of shape about how thick it is.
It's just the serenity prayer, that's all it is, it's a clarification of the serenity prayer.
Three components to the serenity prayer.
What you can change, what you cannot change, or two, and the wisdom to know the difference is the third.
The Holy Spirit, or this Spirit that is within all of us, is the Wisdom to know the difference.
What we can change is, we can change our mind.
We can change our perspective, our outlook on the world.
What we can't change is the world itself.
And that's probably the hardest pill to swallow.
Like, you've gotta be kidding me.
After ten years of university, after countless workshops, seminars to improve myself.
To give myself a better life, after joining in psychology, studying psychology,
humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, to make the world a better place,
and now you're telling me I can't make the world a better place.
OHH, I just watched Evan Almighty, the movie and it's like change, change the world,
change the world and I'm like, ohh no, you can't, you can't even change the world.
You can't even make the world a better place.
Now, that is humbleness, when you actually start to realize that you can't change the world.
Then, you have all this energy and commitment and devotion,
and, OK, what do you want me to do?
And, it's like, change your perspective, just one tiny little tweek is where all the burdens are lifted.
Where all the, where the blind can see, the lame can walk, where the dead are born again and resurrected.
One little tweek of mind, that's one shift in perspective from the egoic perspective,
the personal, the linear perspective to the vertical.
To alignment to the Source, to the Holy Spirit or whatever you choose to call it or whatever.
That tweek is the one that brings an end to all suffering.
And people have said, well can you give me kinda like a metaphor?
Or something in a , it was like a little string of spaghetti.
You hold the spaghetti and it looks like a line, and then when you turn it, and turn it, turn it, turn it,
and you look at it in just the right way, it turns into a point.
Linear time versus the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle, the Power of Now.
How many saints and mystics have been telling us this for how many centuries?
Live in the present.
Live in the now. Let go of the past and the future.
So, for me that is THE most practical thing.
And then, as you give your mind over to that, EVERYTHING is taken care of.
So, in your case, let me give you an example from two thousand years ago.
There's this guy walking around with this long hair and he's like very calm.
And, he used to be a carpenter, but he got to a certain point to where he like, no,
that's not it either.
And, all of a sudden, this word started coming out of his mouth.
You know, "Before Abraham was, I am." "I and the Father are one."
"I am the Way, the Truth and the Light." and , "no one comes to the Father, but through me." and all these kind of things.
At the time, his biological mother, Mary is like, oh, loco means this, Oh my God! I can't believe it.
Something's gone insane. He was a good Jewish boy there for a while,
OH, my God, this, I and the Father are one, it was shocking!
It was shocking to the whole world, it was shocking to the apostles,
And even the apostles, imagine you're going along and you got your same human conditions,
you're daily struggles and everything and you're trying to make a living fishing,
and this guy comes along and looks in your eyes and says, "follow me."
And, you go, oh my God, there's something inside you that says, I gotta say yes.
And another part of you is going, oh hell, this is gonna over turn everything.
What am I gonna tell my wife?
And, yet Peter was married and Peter had children.
So, what you're going through, is what Peter went through.
Because, he said "yes." And nothing was the same.
His fatherhood, his family, it just touched and changed everything.
It wasn't easy, it certainly wasn't easy in that position.
In fact, Peter for three years was an apostle and basically, and then after the crucifiction and the ressurrection,
Peter was reunited with his family and the learning continued on in the context of family,
but for three years, it was just, it was a rough ride for that ego that believed it was Peter.
You know, get thee behind me satan, one time Jesus said to Peter when Peter tried to block him from going back to Jerusalum.
So, that other thing that people don't know is that the apostles, even though they lived on donations and everything,
there was one of the apostles that was assigned to all the apostles that had families.
So, that even in the time of Jesus and even when he called Peter, there was no sense of abdigating of responsibilities.
Peter was married, Peter had children and the children still needed to eat.
And the funds that came in to support Jesus and the apostles, some of those funds were channelled through one of the apostles,
and they would actually from time to time visit those families.
So, this is an important thing, because a lot of time, people feel torn between serving God and family responsibilities,
I always said, you have to give it all over to the Holy Spirit and when you do, everything is handled.
There is no abdigating, you can't just say OK, I'm walking out on responsibilities.
on mortgages, on child support payments, on things that are established.
Yes, there were those duties and obligtations that were set up by the ego,
but, they can only be undone by the Holy Spirit.