Detachment and Awareness - Deborah Nelson: transcript

so photos and steroids are on the spirit the topic of spiritual leadership for me it could have gone either way on the collective or the individual I thought about taking the turn on the individual because at the end of the day one by one each one of us will need to take that path to our spiritual Evolution so in the next 30 minutes or so I will share with you um content on Detachment and awareness as it relates to our spiritual Evolution and our will I'll also share with you information uh words of wisdom from the philosopher and Ruby Clarkson so without further Ado let's Jump Right In I'll begin with uh the words from Louis Claude said Martin which I believe encapsulate the content and the spirit of what this

topic and presentation is all about the humankind applying itself to outward things the human understanding by applying itself so exclusively to outward things of which it cannot even yet give a satisfactory account no less of the nature of One's Own being even then of the visible object around us I repeat that to attain this end every argument taken from this world and nature is unsatisfactory unstable we suppose things of the world to arrive at a fixed beam in whom everything is true relent to the world abstract and

figurative verities to prove a being who is altogether real and positive we take things without intelligence to prove a being who is intelligence itself things Without Love to demonstrate the one who is only love things circumscribed within limits to make known the one who is free and things that die to explain the one who is life and this is from divorce the Christian Digest on the topic of watching his lessons so spiritual leadership Detachment and

awareness and the word attachment sometimes invoke whether or not we should be emotional but this is about the inner work and as mentioned before the focus here will be on awareness and us being awake with us looking into the mirror onto self and doing the work on ourselves take back my will collectively our misidentity with form so I have a quote here it is not what you get or achieve in life it's a person we become in the process so as we take our Journeys and we accumulate we acquire we do all these wonderful things in the material world we have to remember who we are and be true to ourselves so identifying with form means limitation because all forms all structures are

unstable in nature they're transitory and impermanent as long as we are consumed and identified with things material things as long as we try to hold on and remain attached to form we will inevitably experience limitation loss suffering discomfort in this dance of form what we call life that we are experiencing fathers and Star Wars forget the rules that you play we all play roles in our daily lives forget your story we all have a story forget your name and remember who you really are why are we here and what happened in the

scheme of things so it's a spiritual Amnesia and the cycle of bondage the question is what is the goal of mysticism we all Affiliated during the work what are we looking for and what is the end Bowl mysticism is a direct experience of God when all is said and done the direct experience of God is what we are seeking from the moment of our first breath that is our emergence from the infinite into this world of appearance human beings are conditioned to identify with form alter worldly experiences

things with limitation and the most powerful conditioning of them all who we think we are in other words as Divine Eternal beings everything we are truly not we're not always we are not our nationality we are not our religion our gender or what we do these things all have their importance and play a role on this plane the material plane but it's not who we truly are we are human beings not human doings great words from the Dalai Lama

and so I have these questions who am I why am I here and does who you are begin with birth does it depend on form or does it end with death or as we say in those Christian teachings transition great questions our responses to these questions will vary based on our religion our background our culture our spiritual awareness but over time our response will also evolve as we ourselves our own Consciousness evolves the most important question here is who am I and only when only when your answer concerns being an uppercase B

and not doing purpose played around with this word and its definition I thought about the nature what is the purpose of a rose a rose is only concerned or it's to fulfill its potential as a rose so purpose as it relates to the individual and the collective is dynamic it's not static and by this I mean we all in the outer world you know experiences we all have different purposes but what happens at age 25 for example when you have realized your purpose life continues so it's not static the ultimate goal of the order or the purpose of the order is to elevate

consciousness and our outer purpose is what we do anything that we do in the material that's our purpose as we defined it and it could be collectively or individually but the inner and primary purpose of life is to know ourselves and that's why we're here and you'll hear this over and over we've heard it all week know ourselves brothers and source to know thyself as written above the portal of the Temple of Apollo mentioned by the articles to know thyself is the most direct route to the illumination we seek we have all these symbols and teachings and things that we do to remind ourselves of what's already deep within us that we just forgot but to know thyself working on ourselves

is our direct route to the illumination we seek a shift in Consciousness so this is spend some time talking about form and sometimes how we're distracted with form so here circumstances while important they do not matter what matters is our state of consciousness so amidst the noise and distractions that flood our physical senses and the haste in the world many people may feel overwhelmed by the routines of daily living that seem to deprive their life of significance some may feel this is life passing them by or has passed them by already others may feel restricted by the responsibilities of daily living the

demands on their jobs their financial situation or the quality of their living situation some may be consumed by stress others may be consumed by boredom some people are seemingly lost in frantic doing and can we relate to that others are lost in stagnation and some yearn for the freedom that Prosperity promises While others already enjoying the relative Freedom that comes with prosperity discover that Prosperity alone is not enough to endow their lives with meaning now we will take a step forward go a bit

deeper and speak to awareness the shift in our consciousness so Carl Jung says one who looks outside dreams one who looks inside awakes what is awareness awareness is a conscious connection with the universal intelligence presence the more we do our inner work the more the light of our soul is reflected through us and all around us when we are better on the inside we live and lead a better life on the outside so again it goes back to working on

ourselves working through issues and items and blockages and we know that when we feel better even emotionally but we're talking spiritually here when we're better on the inside we will live and live a better life on the outside and those in our presence will sensitive awareness as it relates to spiritual leadership so fathers and steroy's Friends by diligently studying our inner nature we will Attain self-menstery even during the most mundane task let us remember the I am and our Eternal Souls our soul is eternal so that means we are

eternal can we take a moment to reflect on them we are Eternal traveling through eternity let us strive to express our higher self in our relationships with each other and with all life forms let us surrender our smaller self and allow the wisdom of the universe to speak to and through us sometimes in going about my daily lives I would have to say I Give Myself Away get out of my own way let us petition the Divine for inner

strength and for guidance to do our work in its Glory life happens I'm keeping it real life is not always roses and puppies the things that happen that will distress us in some cases cause suffering but when we are a two when we are in Attunement that the god of our homes and when our intentions are aligned daily living will be more fulfilling and what is deemed as suffering will not only be less aggressive but it will be short-lived so I say this here photos and Sorrows

friends things happen we have our moments give yourself permission to experience it but do not live and be caught in that Loop in your thoughts on the situation the thing is no longer happening but with our thoughts and our emotions we relive it day in day out sometimes even years for years in those moments remember our teachings remember our principles and try to be connected with the god of our hearts to comfort us to hold on to us and to guide us the cosmic always takes care of the details from the beginning to the end he's thinking the God who created miracles The God Who created nature mountains the universe the Stars the

galaxies is taking care of us we just have to remember that we look at nature we see the beauty the order the intelligence expression in nature it's within us we don't always expressing but this is why we are here we're working progress so I've said all of that to say it comes back to our will so I have here not my will be done so I'll say this spiders and Source can you imagine a world eight billion of us and Counting can you imagine a world where everyone knows what they're living for would that be the paradise on Earth

as mentioned in our prosecution New Year ritual I said the only thing for us to do is to know ourselves to know our creator and to glorify the god of our hearts in all our doings anything else is a distraction take back my will this is also taken from Louis Claude cassette Martin's back to pray one of his prayers take back my will or source of all take back my will for if I can suspend it one instant before you

deterrence of your life and light having nothing to resist them shall pour impetuously Within Me help me help me to break down the woeful barriers that defied me from you arm me against myself Triumph within me over all your enemies and mine by subduing my will all Eternal principle of all joy and of all truth When shall I be so renewed as no longer to be conscious of myself save in the permanent affection of your

exclusive and vivifying will When shall every kind of privation occur to me a profit and advantage by preserving me from all bondage and leaving me employees to bind myself to this freedom of your spirit and wisdom medicine stores friends you could for a moment Unite with me in this closing prayer take a few deep cleansing breaths and mentally stay with me as I read

these words it's a prayer from Saint Martin from the Rosa Christian Digest foreign which is you who send spirits of error and of Darkness to the untruthful which cut them off from your love do you send unto one who seeks you a spirit of Truth uniting him forever with you May the fire of this spirit consume in me all the traces of the old person and

having consumed them may it produce from those ashes a new person on whom your sacred hand shall not disdain to pour a holy prison be this the end of penitence and its long toils and may your life which is one everywhere transform my whole being in the unity of your image my heart in the unity of Your Love my activity

in the unity of the works of Justice and my thoughts my thought in the unity of all lights photos and sorors Friends each day may we find a new reason to love I will leave you with these words on the Temple of your friends remember the name that is higher and greater than any other name remember who you really are and in all your doings

think higher think higher and feel deeper thank you for your kind time and peace profound thank you