7. It is said we create our own lives.
HOW do we do this?
Your consciousness is the fabric out of which you make your lives. (L6)
This consciousness fabric is the ground of your every response to every single thing which happens in your mental, emotional and physical lives. (L6)
Your consciousness is your reality. (L6)
This statement may be expressed in two ways, both of which are the truth of your existence. (L6)
Your consciousness creates your reality, irrespective of what the actual facts of your earthly life may be. (L6)
When people believed the earth was flat, they were afraid to venture too far over the ocean lest the ship should fall over the edge. The people who believed in a flat earth, lived according to that belief. (L6)
When Galileo said the earth was round, he was considered a heretic but his perception of the ‘roundness of the earth’ enabled sailors to take a new look at the world and set out to discover what lay the other side of the ocean. It required a change in their belief to make this possible. (L6)
You are in a similar position in regard to these Letters. Those people who discount and ridicule them are like the people who believed in a flat earth and were afraid of falling over the edge if they sailed too far to the west or east of their known environment. Their horizons were severely limited by their false beliefs. So are the horizons of those people who believe the world to be solid, also severely restricted. (L6)
Day after day, they lament and grieve over the misfortunes which have befallen the world, believing there is no escape from them. (L6)
But the people who can grasp and welcome the Truth of Consciousness I am presently giving the world, are like those who perceived that travel on the oceans could be limitlessly undertaken in all directions, providing they had the will to set out on such a journey. (L6)
Therefore, your state of consciousness is the most important consideration in your life ... not your relationships or possessions or your position in life. (L6)
Tend to your consciousness and the blessedness in all aspects of your life will follow. (L6)
By your consciousness you feed yourself with inner love and harmony, joy and beauty, even in the backstreets of a slum. (L6)
With such a consciousness, you will find yourself being removed from the streets of the slum into an environment in keeping with your inner self. So do you climb out of unpleasant circumstances. (L6)
From the foregoing, you should now be able to see that only you create the ‘quality’ of your internal world, whether you find yourself externally in prison or in command of a battleship! (L6)
And you can enhance your surroundings by radiating to them the life force which animates your thinking. (L6)
Your external life only impinges on your consciousness. It does not ⎯ cannot ⎯ create or determine your conscious responses. (L6)
You are the ‘creator’ of your responses. (L6)
Your type of creation depends entirely on your deepest perceptions and beliefs regarding existence. (L6)
Your convictions and strongly-held beliefs may be completely illusory but if you fully believe in them in your subconscious, they become absolutely real for you. (L6)
This consciousness fabric is the ground of your every response to every single thing which happens in your mental, emotional and physical lives. (L6)
Your consciousness is your reality. (L6)
This statement may be expressed in two ways, both of which are the truth of your existence. (L6)
Your consciousness creates your reality, irrespective of what the actual facts of your earthly life may be. (L6)
When people believed the earth was flat, they were afraid to venture too far over the ocean lest the ship should fall over the edge. The people who believed in a flat earth, lived according to that belief. (L6)
When Galileo said the earth was round, he was considered a heretic but his perception of the ‘roundness of the earth’ enabled sailors to take a new look at the world and set out to discover what lay the other side of the ocean. It required a change in their belief to make this possible. (L6)
You are in a similar position in regard to these Letters. Those people who discount and ridicule them are like the people who believed in a flat earth and were afraid of falling over the edge if they sailed too far to the west or east of their known environment. Their horizons were severely limited by their false beliefs. So are the horizons of those people who believe the world to be solid, also severely restricted. (L6)
Day after day, they lament and grieve over the misfortunes which have befallen the world, believing there is no escape from them. (L6)
But the people who can grasp and welcome the Truth of Consciousness I am presently giving the world, are like those who perceived that travel on the oceans could be limitlessly undertaken in all directions, providing they had the will to set out on such a journey. (L6)
Therefore, your state of consciousness is the most important consideration in your life ... not your relationships or possessions or your position in life. (L6)
Tend to your consciousness and the blessedness in all aspects of your life will follow. (L6)
By your consciousness you feed yourself with inner love and harmony, joy and beauty, even in the backstreets of a slum. (L6)
With such a consciousness, you will find yourself being removed from the streets of the slum into an environment in keeping with your inner self. So do you climb out of unpleasant circumstances. (L6)
From the foregoing, you should now be able to see that only you create the ‘quality’ of your internal world, whether you find yourself externally in prison or in command of a battleship! (L6)
And you can enhance your surroundings by radiating to them the life force which animates your thinking. (L6)
Your external life only impinges on your consciousness. It does not ⎯ cannot ⎯ create or determine your conscious responses. (L6)
You are the ‘creator’ of your responses. (L6)
Your type of creation depends entirely on your deepest perceptions and beliefs regarding existence. (L6)
Your convictions and strongly-held beliefs may be completely illusory but if you fully believe in them in your subconscious, they become absolutely real for you. (L6)