A Manual for Saints
A Manual for Saints
Evolution cannot be stopped,
spiritual growth is assured
Action is always noticed by God
nothing goes unheeded
There is no reliable guide to behavior outside
your own heart and mind
Reality changes at different stages of growth
At some level everyone knows the highest truth.
Everyone is doing the best they can from their own
level of consciousness
Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.
These realizations come from paying attention to the countless clues left by spirit.
Not two people see God in the same way, because not two people are at the exact stage of waking up. Yet in those moments when the five senses give way to deeper intuition, each of us gets a glimpse of reality, and as our minds process some remarkable event or insight, reality delivers a scrap of truth.
To judge by the outer show, everyone`s life moves rapidly, if chaotically, through scene after scene. Yet you might never suspect that there even was an inner journey. Saints prove that there is. Having arrived at the goal, they can look back and say that just beneath the surface, human life has a pattern, a rising arc.
The road to sainthood begins in ordinary circumstances with ordinary situations. There is no shorter path to God. Because we all have egos, we fantasize that we will simply leap to the top of the mountain where the halos are handed out, but this never happens. Inner life is too complex, too full of contradictions. In spiritual exploration the map shifts with every step you take.
Which brings us back to the same queston, “Where do I go from here?”
The rising arc of spirit isn`t always obvious. It gets obscured all the time. We don`t think about sainthood when corporate downsizing threatens our jobs or when divorce papers are served. But at dramatic moments the soul drops clues into our laps, and then we have the choice to pay attention or not.
Your soul will always be in communication with you and over time you will heed what it says.
That is why it is useful to cooperate in your own awakening – your enemy is not evil – but lack of attention. A spiritual person is a good listener for the inner voice that plays its beliefs over and over in your head until you move on to a new belief, bringing with it a new voice.
What`s the one thing you can do today to grow in spirit? STOP DEFINING YOURSELF.
Don`t accept any thought that begins “I am this or that” You are beyond definition.
To date, after many centuries of saints, sages, and seers, only a few individuals can open to a radical change in their belief system, while most cannot.
Even so, our beliefs must eventually shift to conform to reality, since in the quantum world, belief creates reality.
AS WE WILL SEE, OUR TRUE HOME IS THE LIGHT, AND OUR TRUE ROLE IS TO CREATE ENDLESSLY FROM THE INFINITE STOREHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES LOCATED AT THE VIRTUAL LEVEL.
