“When [the mind] becomes pure, one … realizes: “God alone is the Doer, and I am His instrument.”
~ Ramakrishna

“So long as the sense of being the doer remains, desire does also. Therefore the ego remains. But once this goes the Self shines forth in its purity. The sense of being the doer is the bondage, not the actions themselves.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“When you realize you’re not the doer everything gets done in a better way, for you stop identifying with the object and the subject. You become free of all attachments. As long as you believe that you’re responsible for anything that takes place in this world, you have a problem. You will have to go through that experience over and over and over again, until you realize that you have absolutely nothing to do with anything. You are pure consciousness. Your real Self is absolute reality. I tell you, you have nothing to do with this world.”
~ Robert Adams

“Carry out all the activities in the objective world, but do not claim authorship for what is being done. As you begin to realize that all the activities are happening through you and that you are not doing anything, then gradually all your desires like the attachment for husband or wife, or greed for money, etc. will dwindle. All of that will go away once the sense of ‘doership’ disappears, because at that stage there will be no personality left to take credit for anything.”
~ Nisargadatta

“You choose a course of action for the future and assume that it is you who are doing the choosing. Actually, it is the Supreme Power that is giving you the strength to choose. Don’t be foolish and think that it is you who are doing the choosing. That power is there all the time, making you do all the things that you do. Instead of trying to organise your future, look at the source of that power and be aware of how it does everything. It makes the body move; it makes the mind move. All the things that you imagine you do by yourself are done by this Supreme Power.”
~ H.W.L. Poonja, “Papaji”

“The illumined soul
Whose heart is Brahman’s heart
Thinks always: ‘I am doing nothing,’
No matter what he sees,
Hears, touches, smells, eats.”
~ Bhagavad Gita

Thanks to Glenn R Danforth

Is there anyone among you who hasn’t heard definitions and/or synonyms of God that have given you pause? Which teacher can you count on to sort through the miasma? Including the possibility of no God at all? Would that you could simply discern for yourself what’s most nearly right! Methinks you can.

Don’t let anyone deprive you of the personal development that accompanies genuine experience

TO BE CONTINUED

rjs

One important point in spiritual living which requires a tremendous transition in consciousness is that the blessing of God in our individual experience is not dependent on anything. It is not dependent on our first being good; it is not dependent on our first obeying laws or going through rites or ceremonies.

The blessings and grace of God are not dependent on any thoughts we think or on any acts we do or do not do.

The blessings and grace of God are free.

They are not a reward for studying books; they are not a reward for attending church; they are not a reward for being benevolent or for tithing.

Joel Goldsmith
Showing Forth the
Presence of God
Chapter 3

● I AM AT ONE WITH GOD.
● I AM ONE WITH GOD.
● I AM WITH GOD.
● I AM GOD.
● I AM.
● I .
□ Note well: Some mystics have gone through this progression many, many years ago while others have yet to meet it. Furthermore you who have not experienced it in its entirety have undoubtedly met many other glorious illuminations that the likes of myself have not yet seen.

DrRobinStarbuck

Everything God has, I have.
Everything God knows, I know.
Everything God feels, I feel.
Everything God sees, I see.
Everything God hears, I hear.
Everything God loves, I love.
Everything God speaks, I speak.

Everything God has NOT, I have NOT.
Everything God knows NOT, I know NOT.
Everything God feels NOT, I feel NOT.
Everything God sees NOT, I see NOT.
Everything God hears NOT, I hear NOT.
Everything God loves NOT, I love NOT.
Everything God speaks NOT, I speak NOT.

. . . BECAUSE ONLY :
Everything God has, I have.
Everything God knows, I know.
Everything God feels, I feel.
Everything God sees, I see.
Everything God hears, I hear.
Everything God loves, I love.
Everything God speaks, I speak.

Everything … means … everything!

I Am.

DrRobinStarbuck

C I R C U M S P E C T I O N

D O N’ T . G O . T O . G O D = D O N’ T . D I S C O N N E C T

The Omnipresence of God precludes the necessity of going anywhere physically, mentally or spiritually in order to know perfection. We get to call the shots by virtue of the fact that Spirit, Absolute Perfection, simply is. Joel Goldsmith firmly admonishes us:

“Do not go to God for anything, for that would be an indication that you wanted it in the future. Even if you expected it now, the fact that you are declaring that it was not there a moment ago is taking away from the instantaneity and the omnipresence of God. Instead of going to God, remember that God’s kingdom is intact: now are you the son of God, and God’s kingdom is not of this world. Then refuse to take this world to God. Refuse to take the pains of the flesh; refuse to take the lacks of the pocketbook; refuse to take the inharmonies of human relationships to God.

“In doing this, you do not have to wait to sit down and close the eyes; you do not have to wait for a time of prayer. You can “pray without ceasing.” If you happen to be busy with cooking or housekeeping or if you are a businessman out about your business, you do not have to stop for one second, not even to close your eyes or to say a prayer. You can do whatever you are called upon to do and still think, “God’s kingdom is not of this world, and I am not taking this world into God’s kingdom. Therefore, let the tares and the wheat grow together.”

“This can be done twenty times a day, thirty or forty times. No time element enters into this, and no waiting. You will not wait until next Sunday to thank God. You will thank God where you are—in the tub, in the shower, in the bus, or at business, wherever you may be—and bring instantaneity into your experience, so that your life becomes a dedication to gratitude, for gratitude is that form of love which best expresses the qualities of love. And what do you have to be grateful for, if not the truth that God is, that God is now, that God is where you are, and that all of this exists in this glorious minute when now are we the sons of God!

“As you let gratitude flow out from you for this joyous experience of realization, you then find how it is that love is a healer, that love is a way of life, that love is the Source of all life, and that this love best manifests itself through your gratitude. Your gratitude must not be because someone gave you something or because of some external condition: your gratitude must be that there is an infinite, invisible, spiritual kingdom which is intact. Once you separate this world from My kingdom, then this world starves and destroys itself. It becomes a nothingness because of its own nature.”

Joel S. Goldsmith
Living By The Word: Chapter Ten Let the Tares and the Wheat Grow Together
A New Way to Pray Without Ceasing
Kindle 182-183

When we say (notice I said “when” and not “if”) we’ll meditate or pray about something, we’ve inadvertently put it off. Joel’s term “instantaneity” comes to mind. The precise moment we think something’s awry, we must unthink it!

That split second might as well be an eternity if we’re putting off recognizing our absolute perfection Now. It signifies lack of Realization; but we only need to shut “it” down, BE who we are and never look back.

DrRobinStarbuck