This is easier said than done. Perhaps it needs a lifetime of mindful practice to master our consciousness. Even then it is ever so easy to forget who we are and slip into old patterns of thought that distract us from the truth of our being.
Our wonderful teaching provides us with a way of learning to look at the school of life we are already in, and points the way to new paradigms. We discover ways of opening doors that appear to have been closed before. We learn about a Power for good greater than we are and how to use it. We master ways of weeding out thoughts that block our natural divine inheritance.
Ultimately we figure out that all we ever experience is our self and so all our work has to be done WITHIN. When we get healed, so does our world. Could we be constant in our practice of turning to the I AM within? Could we turn away from our mind games, loosing interest in those old agreements that hold us bondage, and surrender our weaknesses to the Strength of God?
"Aye, There's the rub?" We must surrender our mind-set, or is it our set-mind? We resist change, especially if it is our deeply held opinion or judgement. In a sad way we would rather be right than be happy. So we suffer in the prison of our mind. STOP IT ALREADY.
Wouldn't it be fun if we could take a big erasure and just wipe out all those old deeply held beliefs that hold us rigid. Push the erase button on those tapes we play over and over again that exhaust us and our friends with "our story".
A mind that is empty is a mind that is open. Who could I look to for guidance and instantly I look at my kids, Zoe, Effie Mae and Pitty Pot. Their minds are free of thoughts that hold you and I hostage to judgment patterns. They enthusiastically live for the moment and their world is alive with joy.
"Two different worlds, we live in two different worlds" the lyric goes. They are free and we are bound. Ah, but we get to take that awesome journey, the eighteen inches from our head to our heart, and that is the great adventure of life.
Once we have begun that spiritual journey home it is simply a matter of showing up for the moment, ob-serving our thoughts and then choosing a greater idea. Paul admonished us, "Whatsoever things are lovely and of good report, think on these things." Peter Pan told us that we could fly if only we would "Think lovely thoughts." All the while, the world and its candy store of distractions will try to pull us off our center, but with practice we too can conquer our mind.
Together we are learning how to fly high in the sky of mind.

Namasté

David