Abraham on Enlightenment!
June 28th, 2009
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time/space reality. That’s as good as it gets!
— Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Boulder, CO on Saturday, June 7th, 2003
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
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Just A Little Joke
June 26th, 2009
A man was walking along a mountain ledge when the earth under him gave way. As he fell he grabbed onto a root that was sticking out of the mountain side. He began to yell for help, “Help, help help!” he waited….”Help, help, help!”
Finally there was a voice, “hello”.
The man was so relieved that someone answered. “Yes, please help me, I’ve fallen off the edge!”
Suddenly there was a reply from above, “Let Go!”
The poor man, hanging from the root thought about it for a minute and said, “Who are you?”
“God” said the voice.
“Oh God, please help me get out of this mess, please!”
There was a long pause and then the voice said “Let Go.”
The man thought about it for a minute, his arm was really beginning to hurt now, so he said, “Is anybody else up there?”
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Getting Clearer
June 24th, 2009
Yesterday I wrote about a new value of myself. Today I am having another new awareness. I want to write a book. I know I’ve already written a book. But now I want a book I write to be read and talked about by influential people so that many will read it. What has changed? I know why I want to write it. Before when I would think about writing and being published and well known I would have this voice saying some variation of , “you want to be famous so others will think you are valuable and you know you must think yourself valuable first.” This may seem like a harmless thought, even a true one, but it stopped me in my tracks.
As I turn the corner on a new value for myself I can see that there is much more here than I previously understood. I love, love, love to interact with others on my blog and on theirs. I love writing and others commenting and me commenting back. I love reading what others write and leaving a comment and then them commenting on what I say. I love this interaction. I really do. All the way through me.
So now I can understand a clear motive for writing a book, because I love to write and I want to interact with others. I want them to send me emails and tell me what they are thinking and I want to respond. I want to meet with my readers and commune around the ideas. It’s not about receiving value it’s about reveling in and enjoying the love.
How good it feels to allow my desire to fully come forth without any judgment, and with a pure understanding of what I want. And now……I can allow this fully allowed desire to come forth. I don’t know any details yet, and I don’t even care. I know that loving and allowing and valuing and cherishing my desire will bring it to being. I know this. I’ve experienced it too many times.
I only had this realization just a little while ago and I went into Ken’s office to tell him. (Ken is my husband and he works from home.) While I was telling him, he looked over at his computer and the clock said 11:11. I always love this number, it means alignment to me, (I got the idea from Esther Hicks). But then his eyes got big and he looked closer and right above that number was 111111, the total number of emails in his inbox. I do feel so in alignment with this awareness. I so appreciate the universe conspiring to bring my attention to this, it makes me feel so loved.
My new value is about how much I love writing and about how much I love interacting with all of you. And that I can and will take it further. Wow. Pretty good I think. xoxo Anne
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Personal Self Worth
June 23rd, 2009
Recently, the last 4 or 5 days, I’ve been having new awareness about how I value myself. There really is a less than connected voice that cries, “don’t value your life too much! It’s not spiritual/humble.” I find my attitude about this changing.
First- I know that whatever I personally believe about myself is also what I believe about the rest of me, (other people). So increasing my self value is not about comparison; as I become more valuable, we all become more valuable, in my eyes.
Second- I’ve heard from at least 3 outside sources, that I respect, that when someone becomes aligned with their nonphysical, Abraham-Hicks; enlightened, David Hawkins; enlightened, Sri Bhagavan; that they effect thousands+ other people.
Third- I can see the effect I have on others who I come into personal contact with.
Fourth- It isn’t really the small me that I’ve identified with most of my life, but the greater me, who includes the small me, that I’m understanding a new value for.
Fifth- I know that my environment is created by my attitude toward myself. Therefore I cannot look there for others to let me know I’m valuable. But that it must come first from inside me.
Sixth- I have some things to say and I want to say them. I believe enhanced value of myself is a major step toward fulfilling this desire.
Seventh- I’ve decided to see my value as the One sees my value. And allow new understanding to come. And trust, as always, that I’m following my own voice.
So with these points in mind, I’m moving to a greater value of my life and my experiences and myself.
I think value and love go hand in hand. Unconditional means seeing the value instead of the conditions. And so I open to love myself more and more. Remembering just who I am.
I write words I need to hear.
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I Am A Human Being
June 17th, 2009
I live in a body, or with it, I don’t really know.
I am part of a large group of human beings
and part of a larger group of all beings
and part of an even larger One.
I eat and sleep and think and feel and Am.
These are gifts I give myself.
I am created from and am also part of a greater being.
My essence is that of my creator.
I love and enjoy and Am.
I am free to choose all that I desire,
my connection to my essence makes this possible.
Mostly I choose my connection, really.
I love being this human.
I live in a place of wonderment and beauty called earth,
my home sits in a greater place with bodies called stars and planets,
again I don’t know much about this.
I can feel myself and I can feel my immediate environment.
I feel whole and complete and yet I know I am becoming.
I feel individual and also connected.
I Am.
I experience myself in many ways.
Peaceful, joyful, appreciative, loving, friendly,
helpful, knowing, waiting, allowing, trusting, wondering.
Sometimes afraid or angry,
but not often and not for long, not any more.
But most of all, I love being—here—now—a human being.
Just me, all, pure, untangled.
This is what I came here for.
To be me, to experience me, to love me, all of me.
To see through these eyes and hear through these ears.
And live and love and enjoy.
Distinct and connected.
Alive and limited, alive and unlimited. All and nothing.
A human being, my very own creation.
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Stillness
June 11th, 2009
Within the last month or so I’ve come to a new experience in myself. There is a pervading stillness, not something I work to hold on to or meditate to bring about. Just a stillness that is there anytime I notice it. I still talk to others and watch movies, and give my attention to cleaning house or working on one of my projects. But while I am occupied and when I am done, there it is, a stillness and quietness.
I do know how I got here. I spent almost two years in personal inquiry, kind of like what Byron Katie does, kind of like the work of the Western Mystery Schools. But for sure my own private personal work of asking the hard questions and listening for the answers. Some days during the past two years I have spent 4 or more hours a day on this work. Every day, and I mean every day, at least 2 hours. Early morning, quiet hours with my journal and my tarot cards and my green tea. Writing and feeling and asking and being met by mySelf who knows. I journal this in my book and my blog. Then as abruptly as I started I knew I was finished with that work, that I had used my mind to understand and realized and know and that coupled with my desire and determination had brought me to completion. I went through my parents each of them and my children each of them and I found the projections and the forgotten decisions and I rewired myself with new ideas about my world and myself. And I cried and laughed and brought myself to anger and let go of everything you can imagine. It was my own path, a beautiful path and all the while I knew I would come to what I wanted.
And I have…… I have come to see the joy and love and beauty in everything, everything, and I have come to really love myself and I’ve become faithful to myself. And I’ve come to feel the most wonderful love flowing from me to others. But the most astonishing and wonderful and beautiful thing is this peace and stillness.
When I came to the end of my personal work, I knew it was time to let go of what I called “figuring things out”. So when I would find myself figuring I would stop and wait for the answer. This waiting for the answer is something I have done here and there over the last 30 years. But now it became something I applied to everything. Then came a knowing that i was never really doing anything, that it was always I who was at the helm of my life. So I gave up all worry and concern, and began to let go very deeply about anything that was lingering. And then this most wonderful peace came. The silence and the stillness.
I am still human, of course, and I still have some emotion, but it is nothing like it used to be and it is mostly tears of thankfulness for where I’ve come from to where I am. And I know that every day of my life has been valuable and wonderful. Even if I didn’t know it then, I know it now.
I’ve tried not to write too much about my success so that I wouldn’t engage in anything that isn’t humble and gentle. But this is the post that comes to me and I won’t be afraid to write as I know and trust that I, the One me, writes and lives and is.
Many loving thoughts of you, the greater part of me; from me, a small part of you.
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Glass Half Full
June 9th, 2009
Have you ever noticed how much we talk about problems, or about what we don’t want or about helping others (which implies they need help), or how to get more money (which implies we don’t have enough), or this or that or whatever?!
Two days ago something happened to me, I don’t know what to call it, but I know what’s different. Suddenly and without warning, I am noticing what a good day people are having. Everybody I meet has plenty to be thankful for in my eye. The server, has a job. The lady at the bank knows well what she is doing and has a comfortable job. The man at the restaurant is enjoying his food. My children are having the life of their choosing and are right on track. All that I want comes easily to me. I just know this now. No more struggle, no more judgment. Just lovely people having their day. And all really is well. There is so much to enjoy and be thankful for, so much. I can see this now. And suddenly the cup is half full. And the issues people are working with aren’t problems but opportunities to move toward that which they want. It is a kind of opening. Without fear, opening.
This has come right on the heels of another beautiful awareness I have been having. And that is one of surrendering and trusting everything, one by one, to my Greater All Knowing Self. Me, trusting me. Really trusting, no more control. No more figuring anything out. But just waiting for answers to come. And clarity to come. And it comes, easily and freely.
The surrendering has come just after ending my own personal work. Well, I guess we never really end our process of maturity, but a long chapter has closed, after almost two years of intense personal searching and questioning. I talk a lot about this in my blog posts. In fact, that is the reason I am writing this here. This blog and my book document the path I’ve taken toward awakening. Not that it has any great importance, only that I want to keep the remembrance.
Life is new, it’s not what I thought it would be. It is fresh and free and really peaceful.
I know a post like this may or may not feel so good to you. And that’s ok. But, if it’s what you want, I can show you how to get here. Either by reading and applying the ideas in my free book and blog posts or by contacting me. I won’t waste your time. I’ll work with you freely in love and freshness. Or not. I am allowing my teaching to unfold in the timing and ways of my greater nonphysical Self. And I know what I need to know, as I need to know it. And I……. am really enjoying the peace and love and joy.
I can’t imagine what might come along to knock me away from my connection. But if it does, I am trusting myself to stay aware and come back to myself.
Thanks to everybody who follows along here with me. I love and appreciate you.
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Trusting and Allowing Myself
June 4th, 2009
I am coming to know that when I simply allow myself to be, whatever I am at the moment, I free myself to become who I really want to be. And after all this time of wanting and working to be me so much and wanting to grow so much I realize that I can have all that I want without giving up anything I really want, and that I can have it all.
I’ve never given up anything, I’ve really only gained. Because letting go of something was always about letting go of my perception about something and finding another, much more helpful way to see it.
When I allow me, just as I am, whether it be to sit for two or four hours to watch TV or whether it be to eat a bag of candy, I am knowing that when I do that, allow myself what I really want this moment, I am loving myself, I am not fighting with myself, I am not criticizing my self , I am not trying to make myself do something. I am just gently lovingly and allowing myself to be, this is where my freedom starts. And soon, after I let go of all judgment of myself I feel loved and cared for and I don’t want that candy, I just don’t want it right now, and I want to clean house instead of just sitting there watching TV.
And so much more importantly I stop the fight. I just stop. And I let love come back into my life. I open up to trust myself and when I do that I open up to trust Myself. Things start to move and loosen up and I get ideas about things I want, new ways of seeing come to me, Things start to drift by me that I want. I feel loved and honored and respected and cherished and then, I know that I was here all along. Me- one with all that is.
And then something really fantastic happens, I can love others in the way I’ve always wanted to, and I can feel that love flowing through me. And it is such a joyous feeling, to know that I’ve come home to myself. And that I accept and allow myself to be and the life I have been dreaming of actually begins to come to pass right before my eyes.
I am love and I open to it. That little girl that I knew so long ago who just loved openly, has come back to me. And now I know how to love her and embrace her and allow her to be.
And if I hit a snag and all I want to do is eat candy, I’m going to let myself, because I know if allowed to be I will snap right back to remembering my own energy and my own being. I trust myself and I am one.
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