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Beloved One,
The Holy Spirit offers this 10 step Guide to Enlightenment that can
be used as a Guideline for spiritual practice. Awakening Mind is a
symbol that expresses Divine Principle in action:
1. Volunteers- Awakening Mind does not involve the concept of
membership and therefore relies entirely upon volunteers for every
aspect of the ministry. Volunteers receive no financial
compensation and no perks or tangible rewards for their devotion to
Awakening. The benefits given & received are entirely Spiritual &
always purely and simply a State of Mind.
2. Non-profit- Awakening Mind is completely non-profit. The
Purpose for the ministry is experiencing Present Inner Peace through
forgiveness and thus there is no incentive to grow larger or attain
money or power or possessions or property. Present peace is content
with the Present Moment and therefore unconcerned with the past or
future.
3. Intuitive- Awakening Mind encourages everyone to develop
intuitive listening to their Inner Guide and to trust and depend
upon this Guidance for decisions in everyday living. How one feels
is a barometer for discerning that which is intuitively helpful, and
peace is its own reward.
4. Divine Providence- Awakening Mind nurtures the awareness and
experience that trust would settle every problem now. Trust in the
Holy Spirit & Christ is the means Given by God to Answer every
seeming problem that arises in perception. Participants in the
ministry are always referred and directed to the Voice for God
within and toward the recognition that God is the Creator & Source &
Provider.
5. Non-judgment- All comparisons & opinions & assumptions
naturally give way to Intuitive Guidance as a practical Alternative
to conflict. Guidance is always respected and following Inner
Guidance is always encouraged. The outcome of listening to and
following the Holy Spirit & Christ is always peace, love, happiness,
freedom, & joy. There need not be any exceptions to trusting Inner
Guidance and living a life of integrity and honesty and harmony.
6. Generosity- To give is to receive. Awakening Mind honors
the Divine Law of Love. Freely you have received, now freely give.
Giving is an attitude that extends Love and continuously receives
and experiences Love extending. Love knows no lack or scarcity or
deprivation. Love is an Abundant State of Mind that is whole and
completely Shared.
7. No private thoughts- Awakening Mind is the experience of
Union, a Unified Mind in which there is no secret kept apart from
Spirit. Everything is openly revealed in the Light of Truth. Love
has nothing to hide and is forever openly revealed exactly As It
Is. Only the Thoughts of God can be shared, and there is nothing
else to share.
8. No people pleasing- Awakening Mind advocates always
following Inner Guidance and accepting complete responsibility for
one's state of mind. Conformity to `external authority' or
unconscious beliefs is never authentic or helpful on the spiritual
journey. The laws of the land need not be broken if one follows the
Inner Guidance of the Holy Spirit, and impeccable integrity is the
certain outcome of yielding to the Holy Spirit for all
decisions. `Holy Spirit decide for God for me' is our constant
prayer of gratitude, and it is very practical. This yielding to the
Spirit offers immediate results.
9. No control over the world- With total responsibility for
one's state of mind also comes the realization that there is nothing
to control in this world. The Observer is One with everything and
now all things are perfect exactly As Is. Atonement is a state of
perfect Acceptance. Such is the happy dream of forgiveness, the
forgiven world.
10. Peaceful Experience- Awakening Mind is an experience that
transcends all specific concepts. Divine Silence simply Is. Simply
do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and
what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all
images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it
thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it
judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto
nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor
one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this
world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto
your God.
Love Always,
David
Foundation for the Awakening Mind
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