Bodhicitta777 on Nostr: Found this, gave me goosebumps. I am just an instrument for life to live its will ...
Found this, gave me goosebumps. I am just an instrument for life to live its will through, this guy said it incredibly well.
"WHEN THE MASTER, Christ Jesus(Aka Buddha, Atman or Krishna) says, “I can of my own self do nothing, the Father within me doeth the works,” when Paul says, “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me”—they are revealing the Fourth Dimension of life in which you do not live “by bread alone,” nor by personal will, effort or even personal wisdom.
There comes a point in your experience when you are not solely you— but in which you are conscious of a Presence within. This point of transition comes when the Presence becomes real within you and takes over your life. From the moment of this transitional experience you do not again take any anxious thought for your life because there is always this IT—this Christ—
or divine Presence, and IT brings to you the harmonies of your daily experience.
In this transitional experience you pass from being merely a human being, thinking your own thoughts, planning your own life, arranging your own affairs to a place in Consciousness where you really and truly “feel” this inner Presence, and you then live as if you had stepped aside a little— say two or three inches to the side of yourself—and are watching your life
being lived for you.
If you, at that moment, are in the business world, you will find business coming to you that you were not personally responsible for—that is, you had made no personal effort to secure. If you are an author or composer, you will find ideas flowing, such ideas as you have never dreamed of, flowing to you from within—and you will know that you are not creating
them, but they are given you by an inner Grace.
If you are in Spiritual Work, the Healing or Teaching Ministry, you will find patients and students being led to you, and all will be spiritually healed and led by the Spirit. Thereby you would understand that “I live—yet not I, but Christ liveth my life. The Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” At this point you become the instrument for the operation and activity of divine Consciousness. When the Master says, “The Father within doeth the works” you will understand that He means that He—of His own powers, His own knowledge, wisdom or strength—does nothing, but rather that the activity of Truth in His Consciousness performs the miracles of healing, comforting and feeding the multitudes.
You, therefore, become the vehicle through which Life lives itself. You become the Messenger carrying the divine Message. You will know that you are now no longer living your life but that the Presence and Power is living it and you are its instrument, mode of expression or avenue of Its activity and of course you will now understand why the Master could say, “I and the Father are one but the Father is greater than I.” This is not duality or separation. This is not going back to the belief of God and man, since we have learned that God manifests Itself as individual you and me, but rather this reveals that I, God, being the infinite universal divine Principle in Life, appear as individual you and me so that truly, “I and the Father are one.” The Inner manifests and expresses Itself as the outer individual."
The Fourth Dimension of Life
Collected Essays of Joel S. Goldsmith
"WHEN THE MASTER, Christ Jesus(Aka Buddha, Atman or Krishna) says, “I can of my own self do nothing, the Father within me doeth the works,” when Paul says, “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me”—they are revealing the Fourth Dimension of life in which you do not live “by bread alone,” nor by personal will, effort or even personal wisdom.
There comes a point in your experience when you are not solely you— but in which you are conscious of a Presence within. This point of transition comes when the Presence becomes real within you and takes over your life. From the moment of this transitional experience you do not again take any anxious thought for your life because there is always this IT—this Christ—
or divine Presence, and IT brings to you the harmonies of your daily experience.
In this transitional experience you pass from being merely a human being, thinking your own thoughts, planning your own life, arranging your own affairs to a place in Consciousness where you really and truly “feel” this inner Presence, and you then live as if you had stepped aside a little— say two or three inches to the side of yourself—and are watching your life
being lived for you.
If you, at that moment, are in the business world, you will find business coming to you that you were not personally responsible for—that is, you had made no personal effort to secure. If you are an author or composer, you will find ideas flowing, such ideas as you have never dreamed of, flowing to you from within—and you will know that you are not creating
them, but they are given you by an inner Grace.
If you are in Spiritual Work, the Healing or Teaching Ministry, you will find patients and students being led to you, and all will be spiritually healed and led by the Spirit. Thereby you would understand that “I live—yet not I, but Christ liveth my life. The Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” At this point you become the instrument for the operation and activity of divine Consciousness. When the Master says, “The Father within doeth the works” you will understand that He means that He—of His own powers, His own knowledge, wisdom or strength—does nothing, but rather that the activity of Truth in His Consciousness performs the miracles of healing, comforting and feeding the multitudes.
You, therefore, become the vehicle through which Life lives itself. You become the Messenger carrying the divine Message. You will know that you are now no longer living your life but that the Presence and Power is living it and you are its instrument, mode of expression or avenue of Its activity and of course you will now understand why the Master could say, “I and the Father are one but the Father is greater than I.” This is not duality or separation. This is not going back to the belief of God and man, since we have learned that God manifests Itself as individual you and me, but rather this reveals that I, God, being the infinite universal divine Principle in Life, appear as individual you and me so that truly, “I and the Father are one.” The Inner manifests and expresses Itself as the outer individual."
The Fourth Dimension of Life
Collected Essays of Joel S. Goldsmith