Your Inner and Outer Purpose

As soon as you rise above mere survival, the question of meaning and purpose becomes of paramount importance in your life. Many people feel caught up in the routines of daily living that seem to deprive their life of significance. Some believe life is passing them by or has passed them by already. Others feel severly restricted by the demands of their job and supporting a family or by their financial or living situation. Some are consumed by acute stress, others by acute boredom. Some are lost in frantic doing; others lost in stagnation. Many people long for the freedom and expansion that prosperity promises. Others already enjoy the relative freedom that comes with prosperity and discover that even that is not enough to endow their lives with meaning. There is no substitutue for finding true purpose.

But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are--that is to say, your state of consciousness.

So this most important thing to realize is this: Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. inner purpose concerns Being, and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary.... (A New Earth pg 258.)

We will be discussing this further on November 20th at Bellevue Unity Church at 7:00 PM for more information check out www.meetup.com/bellevuetollegroup/

The Three Modalities of Awakenened Doing

There are three ways in which consciousness can flow into what you do and thus through you into this world, three modalities in which you can align your life with the creative power of the universe. Modality means the underlying energy-frequency that flows into what you do and connects your actions with the awakened consciousness that is emerging into this world. What you do will be dysfunctional and of the ego unless it arises out of one of these three modalities. They may change during the course of a day, although one of them may be dominant during a certain stage in your life. Each modality is appropriate to certain situations.
The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all--from the most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

Join us on Thursday October 23 at 7:00 as we open the doors to Presence and discuss the question

"How do I experience acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm in my life?"

Identification With Thought

The greater part of most people's thinking is involuntary, automatic, and repetitive. It is no more than a kind of mental static and fulfills no real purpose. Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you. The statement "I think" implies volition. It implies that you have a say in the matter, that there is choice involved on your part. For most people, this is not yet the case. "I think" is just as false as the statement "I digest" or "I circulate my blood." Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking happens.
The voice in the head has a life of its own. Most people are at he mercy of that voice; they are possessed my thought, by the mind. And since the mind is conditioned by the past, you are then forced to reenact the past again and again. The Eastern term for this is karma. When you are identified with that voice, you don't know this, of course. If you knew it, you would no longer be possessed because you are only truly possessed when you mistake the possessing entity for who you are, that is to say, when you become it.
The degree of identification with the mind differs from person to person. Some people enjoy periods of freedom from it however brief, and the peace, joy, and aliveness they experience in those moments make life worth living. These are also the moments when creativity, love, and compassion arise (A New Earth pg 130.)

Look now, are you identified with your mind and thinking? Or are you free?