” I N T H E W O R K “
When you’re ‘in the work’
(completely committed) as we are,
the flesh mind starts getting scared:
its days are nearly over!
If we turn on this false ‘mind’ immediately
with protestations of glorious Truth
again and again and again and again,
it will quit, and major victory is ours!
Then we can just repeat
what we’ve already proven
… every day … forever!
DrRobinStarbuck
AWAKENING FROM AN ILLUSION
Ît is such a h-u-u-u-u-ge temptation to want to tell people the details of our distress.
It’s almost as if – even for a moment – the torment lifts.
Unfortunately for us and everyone else we have just confirmed and magnified the discord,
If we are so sure there’s a power greater than God, we need to be honest with ourself and quit pretending.
But if we know we’re under an hypnotic spell from which we want to awaken, the last thing we’d want is to have anyone join us in our illusion.
Awakening from illusion is what the hypnotized needs to do, no matter what fantastic details the dream may entail.
The choice doesn’t belong to anyone else but the one who is bound by fear and doubt.
Awakening doesn’t happen on a trial, or temporary, basis.
Spirit, God, really is All and it’s to YOUR credit, not mine, for you to choose to wake up.
Here’s a question for you to consider after you’ve completely awakened: aren’t you glad the illusion wasn’t any more tempting than it was?
Now that you’ve awakened can you attest to having wanted part(s) of the illusion removed while you clung to other parts?
Thank God you were finally ready to let go of the last vestiges of the cherished illusion!
drrobinstarbuck
HEALING TOOK OVER
I can’t tell you how many times – between 1,000 and 1,000,000 times would be accurate – I’ve looked away from a discordant claim (physical, emotional, etc) with such complete absorption in Spirit that I completely forgot the formerly overwhelming problem and healing swooped in and took over! 😀
DrRobinStarbuck
OBSERVE YOURSELF FROM OUTSIDE
This morning I wanted
To be fully tuned in
Transitioned is the word
I wanted it more than
I’ve ever wanted it before.
Or so I thought.
It was revealed to me
That I wasn’t quite honest
with myself.
That the problem was really
With how much I wanted it.
It was then that a light dawned
And the realization that I
Didn’t really want it
As much as I thought I did
Became overwhelmingly clear.
“Help thou mine unbelief”
I wailed.
The answer I desperately needed
Then flooded my consciousness:
“Observe yourself from outside
And relate what you see.”
I took a look and saw her
Struggling there.
Trying so hard to ‘get it’
In what might be dubbed
A permanent transition.
“Now observe the observer.
Which one is really you?”
That’s me! I am the observer!
Absolutely right.
And what do you think
The observer still needs to do?
Absolutely nothing!
Nothing at all!
The observer is my real Self.
That’s with a capital S.
It’s all that ever was or is.
That’s Awareness Itself
Without an object to see.
DrRobinStarbuck
WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU LEMONS
If you really want to get OUT of that mindset it’s time to realize you’ve never fully tried self-investigation. Add to that a decision to utterly dispense with Attachment.
It wasn’t you but that nasty little mortal mind claiming its hold on you which kept you chasing after things that appear to be doing you in.
For starters all your ATTACHMENTS – each and every one of them – need to be summarily dismissed. They are your unyielding link to a realm you want to see through.
What would life be like if you simply gave up ALL your material attachments including physical wealth, health, popularity – – just gave them all up and surrendered to spiritual awareness instead?
After the initial shock of so much weightiness dropping off you’d begin to rest for the first time ever – rest in a free-breathing trust that clings to nothing at all.
You must, absolutely must, RE-PRIORITIZE. Step out courageously, REFOCUS, and leave your ENTIRE human life behind.
Don’t beat yourself up – you never knew you had a choice to let everything go. Just breathe nice and easy ….. AND NEVER LOOK BACK.
You’ve been so attached to so many “things” that gave you status and applause. Let them go like yesterday’s garbage.
What could you possibly want more than perfect spiritual awareness? For how long? FOREVER !!!
DrRobinStarbuck
F O R – Y O U R – E D I F I C A T I O N
ORDINARY ENGLISH: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
MPOMBO: Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Twinkle, twinkle, little star
MPOMBO: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: All that glitters is not gold.
MPOMBO: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beggars are not choosers
MPOMBO: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Dead men tell no tales
MPOMBO: Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beginner’s luck
MPOMBO: Neophyte’s serendipity.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: A rolling stone gathers no moss
MPOMBO: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Birds of a feather flock together
MPOMBO: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beauty is only skin deep
MPOMBO: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Cleanliness is next to godliness
MPOMBO: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
Source unknown
DrRobinStarbuck
There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:
By Megan Delgleize
Who you are is not what you did.
It’s about healing and is very much in keeping with Joel. Also Rupert’s be aware of being aware came from this talk of Nisargadatta. It’s absolutely critical that we stop the thinking thinking thinking thinking! This impedes our being aware of the fact that we are not that person who we are aware of. we are not Flesh and blood material mortals. We are the only self that there is. This self is God. This wasn’t quoting him per se but it was alluded to very strongly and wonderfully! We can get the mind to quiet down and stop the thinking by observing the thoughts without any interest in them whatsoever. After a while they will give up and we will be free. Remember the world including the body can’t give us any pain suffering or even good things, that is, anything at all. The world can’t deliver that to us if we are not there. That is the key – to not be there!!!
“I Am is in the world but it is the key that can open the door out of the world.”
CHAP 41-50 Nothing can appear to you, no sickness no disease, no good, no bad, no nothing, if you are not there to receive it. In other words if you were so tuned in to your real self this stuff couldn’t appear to you – good or bad. A lot like JSG. Also like Rupert he says “be aware of being aware”.
I know that it is in the nature of awareness to set things right. let consciousness do its thing. I am not strange I’m normal I see things the way they are.