{"id":201,"date":"2010-06-19T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-06-07T15:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T22:17:25","slug":"priority-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/201-priority-number-one","title":{"rendered":"Priority Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Morton, spiritual director of MSIA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Your relationship with the Traveler is with you. That\u2019s the living dynamic of all of us.<\/p>\n

To review, God loves all of Its creation. I don\u2019t look at that like an accident or a freak incident of some kind, like God doesn\u2019t know what He or She is doing. I look at it as a direct truth, a living truth, that God loves all of the creation. There\u2019s no accident in that, there\u2019s no hesitation, there\u2019s no further determination. It\u2019s not an action because of a judgment by jury or something like that; it\u2019s the reality of the creation. Regardless of how conscious we are, if we just get a glimpse that God is also omnipotent, totally powerful, we realize that there\u2019s no hidden place that\u2019s not loved. To me, that presents a challenge because if we realize that we\u2019re missing that love, that somehow the fullness or totality of it isn\u2019t coming into our cell experience, our emotional experience, or our mental experience, then it\u2019s on us to move so that it does. And I think that\u2019s basically what we\u2019re doing: moving every single one of us to be more conscious, more aware of that reality, and to move away from any delusion, illusion, or separation that would say we\u2019re not loved or are not love. I think moving away from the separation and learning how to get to the loving is priority one.<\/p>\n

How do we manage ourselves individually so the experience is that \u201cI\u2019m in the loving, I know the loving, I\u2019m conscious of loving\u201d? That\u2019s the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. And the practical part is to do what you can internally with what you\u2019ve got internally, which is where it begins. The starting point is inside, that you do what you can to open yourself and direct yourself in the loving. Of course, one of the best ways is to find the loving inside, and if that\u2019s a challenge, that\u2019s a hint to find out, \u201cWhat do I do when I\u2019m missing the loving, when I\u2019m not conscious of the loving?\u201d One of the most obvious things to do is to relax, which is another way of letting go, so what God is catches you and moves you perfectly without any effort by you. Put another way, letting go in terms of the world (such as how the world presents itself and how it reflects) can seem like going in reverse or stopping myself, because if I\u2019m doing, I\u2019m not letting go. Instead, I\u2019m trying to grab hold, trying to push, trying to manipulate. Letting go says, \u201cStop that. Relax. You are interfering by trying to do it.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not really a doing thing; it\u2019s a being thing. That\u2019s something to discern about yourself: Are you being or are you doing? If you can, get with the being of yourself, where things already are. On the being level, it\u2019s not about what you did, if you did it right, if it was good enough. The being level doesn\u2019t care about that. It just is. So another way to relate to it is, you get with your is-ness. \u201cI\u201d is not really measured in terms of what you have accomplished or any of the other outer signs. Maybe if you\u2019re fortunate, you get some nice outer signs. That\u2019s good, but it can also be a set-up because then you may feel that you deserve them, that you\u2019re owed. So when things shift outwardly and are not so nice, you may then tend to internalize that. It\u2019s very common, but it\u2019s a mistake, an error in judgment.<\/p>\n

Your is-ness is independent, not based on outer conditions. So that\u2019s a key moment in your awakening. It\u2019s something like this: \u201cI\u2019m not what I do. I\u2019m not the outer conditions of my life. I\u2019m not even my thoughts or feelings or sensations.” If you start taking all those things away, it can seem as if there\u2019s nothing left. But there is something left, and it\u2019s you. You continue, regardless of all those conditions. It\u2019s magnificent that when we\u2019re really with our beingness, it\u2019s transcendent. It\u2019s not like an explosion, which is way too harsh. It\u2019s like a tremendous surge, way faster than the speed of light. It\u2019s been described as ecstasy, bliss, nirvana, glory\u2014the experience of being completely released in liberation.<\/p>\n

So even though you can still be aware of yourself as a personality, a body, or something on that order, you can still be aware that you are so far beyond that in immeasurable ways. There\u2019s often a sense of laughter about it. It\u2019s like being on a ride: the real thrill is not in the body because the body can\u2019t contain the thrill, but there\u2019s something about the ride that sort of sparks or stimulates it so the body gets included. So you can be in the experience of ecstasy and bliss and still be aware that you\u2019re in the world and in the body. It\u2019s a rare kind of an occurrence, but it\u2019s possible to have yourself expanded in the consciousness of who you are so that you\u2019re still in some way hanging on to the reference of being in the world, but so far, far expanded beyond it that it\u2019s almost meaningless.<\/p>\n

This is the love of all you behold and knowing the oneness of all creation is divine. Practically, this is loving whoever and whatever is present. Be kind. Be patient. The way is prepared by God, who has already done the love of all and is waiting for those who choose to make the love of all of God’s creation priority number one. Our friend, Jesus, put it another way: love one another.
\nBaruch Bashan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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