Living in Awareness

What does it mean to contemplate or work toward "self-purification"? Certainly, human nature or Nefesh Behamit, our "bestial soul," seems predisposed toward anything but purity. I think self-purification starts with conscious intention toward remembrance and recognition of the Light Presence and Light Power within. This is a remembrance beyond some lofty ideal of who we think we really are when we practice and interact with others who may be walking the same or similar paths. 

Remembrance and recognition of the Light Presence and Light Power that already lives within us as an emanation or light gradation of El Elyon is something we can carry with us each and every day and in every experience or interaction with other individuals. The question is, “Do we walk and talk with an awareness of this or are we just giving it lip service?” 

And how does this come about? Do we just wake up one morning and declare for ourselves that we're going to walk with this consciousness like we do with any good habit we're going to adopt? I've found this isn't effective because this is a conscious intention born entirely in our mind with an idea of who and what we think we "should be" as we walk our path. It's ineffective because it is an intention that, more often than not, is an ordinary human endeavor.

So, how do we walk in this awareness as a natural matter of course? Well, some form of daily practice is important as is some type of daily prayer. We should also pray with conscious intention and devotion toward Our Beloved. Then we must carry or remember our experience of the practice and the love we felt in our prayers. Along with that remembrance we never forget the Presence and Power within... and then we strive to make every action and every word a reflection of this truth of our innermost existence -- so that even when we are listening to someone we realize the Christ Presence is listening and not ordinary human consciousness. 

This sounds easy enough until we realize that this awareness or response doesn't just come about through conscious intention. In fact, it's not going to come about by declaring that today is the day I develop the good habit of walking in awareness of my True Nature. That's where grace steps in and the Holy Spirit takes over -- and, my friends, this is all the difference. She seems to know when a heart is truly seeking and wanting to experience life through her. You'll know when she is moving through you because it becomes as easy as breathing to turn inward and feel this overwhelming peace surround you. "I can do all through God (or the Christ Presence) who strengthens me."

This presence of awareness can apply to both the mundane and the more profound examples of living or life experience For instance, I have a predisposition to be sensitive to noise or lots of random chatter mixed in with other background sounds. But when I turn inward and remember who I am in the Body of Christ and the Human One of Light I feel an acceptance and peace overwhelm me so that I can not only accept the noise but respond to those participating in the noise or chatter from a place that is beyond ordinary human consciousness. 

Also, there is the tendency to judge others we encounter throughout the day. But if we turn inward and remember ourselves in the Human One of Light (conscious intention) and ask Our Mother for greater acceptance and understanding then she takes over and something truly wonderful happens (grace). We can actually feel our hearts filling up with love and understanding... and judgment subsides. 

Even in the more difficult circumstances of the day -- such as encountering people or situations that seem to test us -- she is always with us. The more we live with this conscious intention and focus the more these Christ-centered responses and attitudes come about as a natural course of life experience... for it is she and not we who is thinking, feeling, and responding. 

We always have a choice. Free will was given to us for a reason. We first have to choose to live as conscious co-creators in our lives and in our thoughts. She knows when our hearts are in the right place and it's like she plugs into our own Light Power to fill us with a measure of her greater understanding and love. It is so powerfully beautiful to know that she is never removed from any of us... and waiting for the times when we are open to receive her love and grace. Our Mother wants to share that with us more than anything... and she will when we are ready. It's only a matter of time or lifetimes until we are ready to receive so we may impart her light presence and power. We are her vessel or conduit for greater love and understanding in our world. 

Praise the Holy One of Being who desires to live, love, and create through us.