The Holy Spirit is the only One Who knows,
Who remembers who we really are. The Holy Spirit is the only bridge back. It doesn't matter which religion
you follow, or which philosophy, which spirituality. The Holy Spirit goes by many different names in many traditions.
It can be called many different names,
but it's just one unifying Holy Spirit.
When Jesus spoke and said, "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father
but through me," it wasn't a man speaking. Who would believe a man
telling you that? or a woman? or a rabbit? If a rabbit spoke to you.
[Rabbit] "I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the father, but through me," would you believe it?
No. Not even Bugs Bunny. You would not
go for it because there is no form that is the way, the truth, and the life. The Spirit doesn't have a form.
The Spirit can use form and use words.
We know that of the Holy Spirit,
but nobody has ever seen the Holy Spirit. Nobody's ever perceived the Holy Spirit because it's a Presence.
It's a Presence of that, so
ultimately, poverty, chastity and obedience are beautiful calls back to
forgive and remember who you really are. Now once you start to get into this thing about:
can you?
can you still have - like -
cars and houses?
bank accounts, and all these things, and be a child of God? No. Because why ? Because
I said that last night. What you have is
what you are.
And to the ego, having is possessing. Under the ego's perception, you can have a body, you can have a bank account,
and you can have a husband or wife, you have a pet, you can have all these things, in the ego's system because
it's saying, what you have is what you get,
and it's very specific, and it's very much involving possessions.
So you say "do you have a million dollars?" You have to go check your bank account. Maybe you
Go to the window. Do I have a million dollars? But you see, it's very specific.
It's either some digital numbers in some bank account or it's stuffed somewhere in pillows or in paper
or coins, actually that couch should be moved. We were helping Jeff move it, a five dollar bill came out.
I said, give me that.
That's mine. It's my couch. It's my cushion, and that's my five dollar bill.
But you see everything that we talk about in terms of form is in terms of that. Now people may say, well
I don't know if the Course is really teaching that. That seems a little bit extreme.
That's getting a bit extreme there. Well it is extreme, but not to the Holy Spirit
It's like natural to the Holy Spirit, and it's extreme to the ego. And so there's a part in the Manual for Teachers
where it's talking about the characteristics of God's teachers; and you get to number seven, and it's generosity.
So what does Jesus have to say about generosity?
Generosity, sounds like that would fit in with sharing, and we want to be truly generous...
He says, the teacher of God does not want anything that he cannot give away.
What would he want it for? He could only lose because of it.
Ah, that's a very interesting
couple of sentences too. That does relate to what we're talking about, because
anything that he could keep for him or herself alone...
anything that he could possess
anything that he could say "that is mine" or could control, would be by definition
asking for loss
because you can only share the Thoughts of God. You can only share the ideas of God, so anything other than
The thought of God or the idea of God that you attempt to share is really, if we take the disguises off of it,
is really an attempt to
possess,
to own, to keep something separate from God's Will.