Love Reflections III

(Continued as part of Love Reflections series based on a prompt. I recommend starting with Part I.)

I am a seeker, but if you ask me if I am a serious seeker, I will have to admit I have been too casual. When will I see something as not more important than this, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God”, love? I hold hope and faith because I did have a period when I was more serious than I have been the last 15 years, and I experienced the difference. No matter how much praying and wanting of peace and love, I know it will not happen until I take peace and love seriously and give it the deep attention it requires.

I can easily get distracted. No matter how well intended a distraction may be, it is another trap that shows the insidiousness of the ego: The ego/darkness wants us to spend our time fixing this world (sounds good, doesn’t it?), while the lightness is waiting for us to overcome this world and come home like the prodigal child. Jesus lived in this world but was not of this world, he overcame the world. When we’re trying to fix things, we are distracted in the world of judgment and grievances and guilt, etc. (Note: This doesn’t mean not to take care of things that need immediate fixing or attention, this is about staying in that place or a lifetime of working on the “fixing” without realizing it never ends and the solution is beyond this.)

The pull of this world is strong, so we have to be stronger, and I know for me, to think I can do it without doing the spiritual work or going to the spiritual gym would be a mistake. This is not like physically getting in shape where we may try harder and do more, instead it is “Be still and know”. And what we’ll find is that in overcoming this world instead of trying to fix it, the world will self-correct.

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By Ben Phipps • October 9, 2024

With coffee, always coffee. In the “About” section I wrote - It has been said that there is one Truth spoken in many different ways. Whether spiritualist, scientist, atheist, “religionist” or another “ist”, I know that if we set seeking Truth as our goal, we may use different language, but will end up in a similar place.... Seeking Truth is a good place to start. The purpose of this blog is to inspire people to think differently about the world and go deep within and seek Truth, so we can live in freedom, free from inner conflict and free to be who we are, in peace and love. My starting point God or whatever term you want to use for this universal force or as Joel Goldsmith calls the Infinite Invisible is All Powerful, All Knowing, All Present and All Loving. I start this as the basis of my seeking for one simple reason – If God is not these things, then I’m not interested because how could you have a God that is not these things? But I also recognize that when I start here, it leads me to questioning, has the world done a poor job of presenting or explaining God? What is Truth? Not your everyday material world truth such as is it true that you are reading this? But Truth with a capital “T” that is not of this world. I start with, can it change? Truth is that which cannot change. Go deep within – Words can only take us so far. This Truth is in the “journey beyond words”. According to A Course In Miracles (ACIM) “Truth is eternal, unalterable, and unambiguous. It is beyond time and process, and can only be known, not learned or believed.” But do not take ACIM’s word for it, we must each experience it for ourselves. May you enjoy the journey. Ben Phipps © 2024

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