I'm Marianne Williamson and we are going to be talking about the Sacred Act of Trust.
Okay,
So let's start now with the larger metaphysical construct as it were.
The universe is perfectly ordered.
The universe is the mind of God.
It is divinely intelligent.
It is a perfect environment and ecosystem.
What that means is that every single thing is perfectly ordered and it is perfectly ordered in love.
The Course in Miracles says miracles are natural and when they do not occur,
Something has gone wrong.
The universe is both self-organizing and self-correcting.
Our intention then is to align our thinking with that perfect,
Miracle-minded way of the universe because when we align ourselves with that pattern,
Then the universe opens up to us because the universe is programmed for every moment to lead to another moment of perfection and bliss and good,
The highest level of good for all living things,
To be followed by another moment of perfect good,
Perfect bliss and maximal soul growth opportunity for all living things.
The universe itself being the mind of God is intentional.
The problem is that we live in a world that is dominated by a thought system that actually works against miracle-minded thinking.
It posits that we are separate rather than that we are one.
To say that we are one,
Obviously on the level of the body we are not.
On the level of the body,
I am over here and you are over there.
The whole idea of understanding spirituality is recognizing that who we actually are is not body but spirit,
That the body itself is like a suit of clothes.
Your physical birth is not the beginning of your life.
It is the continuation of your life.
Your physical death is not the end of your life.
It is the continuation of your life.
Even though within the realm of time and space it appears that we are separate,
In the realm of ultimate reality,
Which is beyond time and space and this quantum field of infinite possibility,
There is no place where one of us stops and one of us starts because not only does the spirit dwell forever,
The spirit also dwells within all things.
Now,
We are trained to intend our own pain because we are trained to think of ourselves as separate.
We are trained to think of ourselves as limited.
We are trained by the thinking of the world to think of ourselves as isolated.
The intention of enlightenment is,
I intend to shift my thinking.
I intend to think with love,
With grace,
With mercy,
With forgiveness.
Now,
On one hand,
That's kind of common sense.
On the other hand,
We all know,
Living in this world,
That it's often much easier said than done.
It's not that the truth isn't simple.
The truth is simple,
But life on earth is complicated.
The truth is easy enough,
But life is hard.
And so the reason we do these meditations,
The reason you do meditation every day,
Every morning,
The reason that we are treating the mind like the muscle that it is,
You train your attitudinal muscles just like you train your physical muscles.
And after a certain age,
If you're not working to keep these muscles up,
They're headed down.
Well,
That's because there's physical gravity,
But there is emotional,
Psychological,
And attitudinal gravity as well.
We get lured into anger and frustration and victimization and negativity and laziness and all of those things that are the real opponents.
You know,
Most of us,
If we are really honest with ourselves,
No one has ever hurt us quite as much as we have hurt ourselves.
That's most people's experience.
Who undermined you?
Who blocked opportunities?
Who withheld from you?
How often,
If we're honest with ourselves,
We find,
Me,
I'm the one common denominator.
That sometimes,
Even if somebody did something to us,
We have to look at the ways in which we made ourselves available to that experience.
We invited them into the room,
So to speak.
So that's why we do these meditations,
In order to train the mind.
So what we're going to do today is to intend to live at a higher vibrational frequency,
Which means to live in a more consistent pattern of choosing love,
Choosing happiness.
You know,
Like people say,
You can look at the glass as half empty,
You could look at the glass as half full.
We have been trained to interpret our own experiences,
Sometimes in the way that is the most negative.
We are bringing the past into the present.
We're dragging it like baggage,
As they say.
We're dragging the shadow figures into the present.
Part of the perfection of divine intelligence is that every moment is a new beginning,
If we allow the universe to do its thing.
Like I said,
It's both self-organizing and self-correcting.
So I choose not to obsess about past or future.
I choose to know that only the love I gave in the past was real.
Only the love somebody gave me was real.
The rest was part of this gigantic hallucination of the human mind,
When we are stuck in the ways of fear.
If in this moment,
This kind of holy space,
This holy instant,
We say,
Clear my mind,
Dear God,
Universe,
Whatever,
Source,
Whatever your wording is,
Please spirit,
Clear my mind of my attraction to perceptions of guilt in myself or others.
The ego mind is like a heat-seeking missile.
It's like a scavenger dog looking for any evidence of guilt within anyone.
And it does that for a reason.
Because to the ego mind,
Your pain is its peak experience.
We want to break through all that.
And we want to surrender the future into the hands of divine intelligence,
Which already has for you,
For me,
For all of us,
The highest possibilities for maximal soul growth and joy are already planned.
Our intention is to be in alignment with that.
Our intention is to open to every moment in perfect trust that the universe knows what it's doing.
The universe knows how to hold universes together.
The universe knows how to make sure that planets revolve around the sun.
So if the divine mind of God knows how to keep planets revolving around the sun,
Certainly knows how to handle our pretty small circumstances in comparison.
So the intention,
I open myself to sacred trust in exactly what's happening,
Knowing that if in this moment,
I bless anyone standing in front of me,
I bless all sentient beings in the world.
I ask to enter this moment,
This encounter,
This experience from as high a place as possible.
I am not here to get,
I am here to give.
I am not here to strategize.
I am here to bless.
I am here hoping and wishing that whoever is in my presence or even thinking about me feels granted full permission to be their best.
I acknowledge and salute the nobility,
The love,
The God within every person I think of or meet that together we shall be lifted above and beyond the thought forms of fear,
The energies of despair,
The chaos of the world to the infinite love and peace that is the truth of who we are and the essence of this divine universe.
And we intend to so integrate this love,
This higher way of being into our own lives that we then might bring this peace and love to all the world.
And so it is.
May we exit the ways of fear.
May we embrace the ways of love as we accept that the divine universe already intends that we know joy,
That we know peace,
And that we know love.
Amen.
