The Teachings of Spirit

Question: How can I learn trust?

Answer: Trust can come from identifying with the strength or the power within. The difficulty in identifying with this power is that it has no form, and you are much too attached to form. Yet it is form that cannot be trusted. It is form that does not last and is not consistent. If you continue to look to form for trust, you will not find it, and you will only continue to learn lack of trust.

Shift your focus from the outside…from the self…to the inside, the Strength. Know and feel this Strength within. Do not look to form. Know and feel this Strength within that overlooks form.

That Which is Constant

When you are able to watch form move in and out of experience without looking to it as an attachment for trust, you will be able to feel the constancy of Strength, which is trust. Then you will be able to trust no matter what seems to be happening in form. And this includes that which seems to be happening around you, but most importantly, it also includes that which seems to be happening in the aspect of form that you call mind.

The Strength is constant. Place your trust there, with the formless. Then your trust will not waver with form.

Holy Spirit: Your will is everything. This is a lesson I have sent you to learn. This is the lesson you have wanted to learn, because it is your will to learn it.

Now that the lesson has become clear within your awareness…now that there is no doubt as to what must be done if your goal within this lifetime is to awaken…now that you realize your goal is to awaken and your will is the way, I would like to talk to you about ways you can increase your will to awaken.

The most effective way to increase your will to awaken is through awareness. Whenever I speak of awareness, I am speaking of seeing or noticing or being aware of without judgment. In reality, you cannot be aware with judgment. Judgment is the tool of illusion. So by definition and through purpose, whenever you judge you are choosing illusion, and so you are also choosing not to be aware. Illusion is not seeing as it is, so illusion is also not being aware.

The most effective way to increase your will for awakening is by being aware of the ego. The ego is something you do not want, but you do not realize you do not want it when you are blinded by illusions. When you are blinded by illusions through judgment you create the illusion of ‘choose between’. Choose between is a trick, because it seems to give two options and to hold one above the other. You then feel attracted to the one that seems to be held above, and you believe you have chosen something you want. But you have not chosen something you want. You have simply been blinded by the false glimmer of the ego so you would not look at and be aware of the ego. If you were to look at and be aware of the ego with the natural unblinded heart of the Son of God, you would know that you do not want it.

Know that whenever you choose to listen to judgment…whenever you choose to believe that one option or possibility is better than another…you are also choosing to be blinded so that you do not see. When you realize that this is what ‘choose between’ is, you will begin to lose your desire for choose between. As you naturally no longer experience the desire to be blinded, through an observable awareness that this is what you have been choosing to do, you will also naturally begin to choose differently, and this is the beginning of the end of choosing judgment.

The most effective way to increase your will for awakening is to be aware of the ego without judgment. Again, judgment does not let you be aware. Remember this, and you will lose your taste for judgment.

Awareness is watching, knowing and seeing without attachment, but awareness is not lack of desire. Awareness is clear on desire without distraction and awareness watches from the purpose of desire. In this way, awareness, without effort, directs everything through desire. This is not a conscious effort, although consciousness can be enlisted in support of it. This is simply the quiet power of awareness that is aware without the blinding distraction of judgment.

Awareness is the way to increase your desire for awakening, because awareness is pure awareness of desire without distraction. In truth, as you have been told before, the Son of God has one true desire. This is the desire to know the Son of God.

Awareness, without an intellectual conception of this desire, is this desire. So awareness, not covered by the blind distraction of judgment, directs all things in the fulfillment of its only desire.

Awareness is the light of the Son of God, because awareness is His awakened desire known and unhidden by the misperceptions of judgment.

Holy Spirit: You are experiencing a feeling of emptiness or incompleteness, which you are trying to fill with some experience within the world. You go about your way of trying to fill this emptiness in many ways…through spiritual seeking, through eating, through a change in your career or through achieving better health. But always you are judging now as incomplete and always you are thinking a different now would be better.

Do you not see how this is merely a repeat of the tiny mad idea…the wish that as it is now be different?

I ask you to notice how much you desire for now to be different…for there to be some change in your current experience in order for you to be happy. And then I ask you to notice that within this wish that now be different, you make the choice not to be happy now.

Just notice at first. Notice that wanting something to be different is choosing not to be happy now.

And then, after you have noticed, continue to be willing to notice how much you wish now were different. You may come to see that this wish is much more prevalent than you were aware. And you may wish for that to be different…wish that you did not have the wish. But when you see this last thought, pause, and notice what you are looking at. The wish not to have the wish is a clear echo of the judgment of the tiny mad idea.

Now, with this realization in your mind, can you choose to look at everything differently? Can you choose to be happy with the wish in your mind? Can you notice that you want now to be different, see clearly that wanting now differently is an obstacle to feeling happy now, and then choose to be happy with that?

If you can choose to be happy with the wish to be different, you can choose to be happy with yourself. For whenever you judge your ideas, you judge the essence of you. And when you choose to judge the essence of you, you choose the experience of unhappiness.

Do not think much about what the effects of this decision may be. If you are looking to effects hoping they will be different, you are caught up in judging the moment and not seeing the judging that you do. Instead, notice you hope for different effects. Notice that is a judgment of the moment and allow yourself to be happy with your wish. Say, “Yes, I want things to be different. Yes, I wish they were different than they are. What a magnificent mind I have that I can wish for difference and experience the light of untrue.”

Question: I admit that I am feeling fear at the idea of practicing this message.

Holy Spirit: That is your feeling of being “foundationless” again. Allow that feeling in joy.

Judgment is a foundation, because it is the building block of this experience of illusion. Without the building block, the foundation and the illusion must crumble. Your judgments that keep the untrue in place are very subtle, and it is time we begin looking at these subtleties now. You notice some judgments as judgments and you choose to let them go, but others you see as right and keep them out of a belief in rightness. Judging the moment through wishing is judgment, and judging the wishing is judging more. To see this without judging is shaking the foundation of illusion, and this is why you feel fear.

Remember that fear is resistance to letting go of the false as true. Accept your resistance without judgment, then step forward into My request remembering that patience is key. We are going very deep into the mind now, and this is the answer to the questions that you ask. We will continue to step into the mind by going in one little bit at a time, but we are going in at the core, so the effects of the going shall be great.