Good morning.
God morning to you.
The ego prayed to God and listened for a response.
There was no response but silence.
And so the ego thought God doesn't exist.
In desperation,
The ego prayed again and listened to the silence.
And it was revealed the ego doesn't exist.
That's Pat Nolan.
Author Osborne says it's not a question of whether there is a God apart from you,
But more whether there is a you apart from God.
It has long been taken for granted that the individual exists and that God does not exist.
Eventually you realize that the individual is not real and that there is nothing but God.
That's Ramana Maharshi.
Nothing but love.
He says become conscious of being conscious.
Eventually the false I will vanish.
Leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real imminent I.
Self-consciousness itself.
Like Bala Mulya Dean said yesterday,
The lone treasure becomes the lone treasure.
I is revealed as the father.
They are one not two.
Close that body's eyes and let the silence speak to you.
Let it pray for you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says your identification of being somebody doesn't let you truly relax and it limits your domain.
Let the silence relax you.
Let it replace you.
Tell it I trust you.
Lord I trust you.
And I know you have placed me here.
But I am still finding it hard.
It's hard adjusting.
It's hard to know what to do next.
And it's hard to feel outside of my comfort zone every single day.
I ask God that you would provide what I need.
I pray that you will be my comfort when I feel alone and in pain.
I pray that you would help me look for and find the blessings and joy you are providing instead of being consumed with all that is so difficult about this.
Lord please guide me to the people,
Places,
And positions that you have prepared for me.
And help me to trust in your goodness as I wait in Jesus's name.
Amen.
That's from Proverbs 31 ministries.
As you wait you just have to hold on,
Stay strong,
And trust God.
Because grace has the ability to change anything at any time.
That's Ravi Shankar.
It's already changed you in these few minutes we've been together.
He's revealed to you what he has asked of you that you had not yet done.
That you hadn't listened to.
That you hadn't obeyed.
There's a submission that must take place.
This love that comes up from within the depths of you,
From behind you,
But also from the front,
From the sides,
Above,
Below,
This love you have to fill.
You have to relax enough to fill it.
You have to slow down enough to fill it.
You have to be bold enough to fill it in public.
It seems so minor,
So minuscule,
So unimportant.
But everything you're wanting comes from this.
The reason why you're still stuck is because you haven't stopped to fill this.
It's like stopping to smell the roses.
It's the same pleasure.
God wants you to take pleasure in him,
To delight in him,
For every breath to praise him.
Right now you're relaxed enough to fill him.
And what I'm saying is that you have to stay just like this in the next moment and in the next one.
In the car and in the parking lot and on the sidewalk and in the bank and in the church and in the store and in your bedroom and in the kitchen and in the bathroom and the shower to not be carried away by thoughts,
To not be carried away from this.
The promise.
This is the promise that everything is new even though you can't see it yet.
For now you just feel the newness even if you can only feel five percent of it.
You trust that it's carving out a niche for you,
A holy space for you.
To continue to grow and to begin to thrive in,
You just don't stop filling this love.
You just keep pausing and becoming still enough to notice the presence of God all around you and within you.
He wants us to be the tabernacle.
Let us pray.
These are Jesus's words to your soul.
I perform miracles in proportion to your full surrender to me.
To your not thinking of yourself.
I so treasure troves of graces when you are in the deepest poverty.
No person of reason,
No thinker has ever performed miracles,
Not even among the saints.
He does divine works whosoever surrenders to God.
So don't think about it anymore because your mind is dull and for you it is very hard to see evil and to trust in me and to not think of yourself.
Do this for all of your needs.
Do this all of you and you will see great continual silent miracles.
I will take care of things.
I promise this to you.
And now we pray 10 times.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
Oh Jesus,
I surrender myself to you.
Take care of everything.
And now our concluding prayer.
Mother,
I am yours now and forever.
Through you and with you,
I always want to belong completely to Jesus.
Amen.
He kept telling you to think of yourself less.
But that's all that you do.
99% of your thoughts are about yourself.
How this situation will affect you.
How this or that person can help you.
How they may hurt you.
What you should eat.
What you should wear.
Literally the things he tells you in the Bible to not worry yourself with.
Sat Chit Ananda Swami says,
Being humble means not thinking less of yourself,
But thinking of yourself less.
You have to deep dive into the power of humility.
And you have to remain in this inner posture of communion,
Of worship,
Of sacredness,
No matter what the mind or the body or the world is doing.
That's power.
That's the real meaning of humility.
That's the real you.
That's where miracles come from.
When you remember there is no you,
That's when the miracles start.
When you remember there's only him,
That's when the solutions show up,
When the healings show up.
When you know there's no one here to be healed,
No bones to be broken,
No bank account to be empty,
No internet,
No phone,
No world.
And you remain as this silence,
Stillness,
A fullness of nothingness,
Even for just a moment,
For a holy instant.
And then from that womb,
Everything comes.
So whatever it is,
Stop thinking about it.
You're perpetuating it.
Stop thinking about it.
When you're tempted to think about it,
Turn to him and say,
What do you think about it?
And he'll give you how he feels about it.
You're feeling how he feels about it right now.
See,
There's nothing to worry about.
You're covered.
It's covered.
I love you.
And we'll chat soon.
