I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Three and the concept of discipline:
Now, each of you has undoubtedly noted throughout your experience that bits and pieces of this personality shell will fall away, sometimes for clear reasons, sometimes for no apparent reason, at a certain point within the incarnational experience. This instrument has called this the subtraction process, and many have thought of it as the refining fire that tempers the self. One could see the action of catalyst and experience on this personality shell as that of the sculptor who skillfully or awkwardly is attempting to create a new shape out of the block of stone that is the personality shell.
There is a far more vital and authentic being resting within this relatively non-vital shell. Consequently, the spiritual being within the worldly incarnation is as the mine of precious stones which has been overlaid with dirt. It is a wise and protective measure, given the circumstances of incarnation. This mining, then, can be seen as the discipline of the personality. The careful, slow, almost scientific excavation of the authentic self from the jagged edges and roughness of the personality shell is the goal of the worker in consciousness who is attempting the discipline of the personality.[1]
The above statue analogy is inspiring because it gives us the idea of creating something beautiful and intentional out of rough, raw materials. In this process an entity is balanced and refined in order to become the highest and best expression of itself that is possible in the present moment. Whereas self-control involves curbing one’s desires in the moment in order to adhere to one’s values or intensions, the concept of self-discipline involves developing the self so that one’s surface desires and impulses may reflect one’s deepest desire for positive service.
This is a process that definitely takes discipline upon a daily basis. If we interact with others on any level of our being there will usually be areas of doubt, disharmony, and distortion that will require our processing in a manner that eventually balances our personality. Sometimes these changes in ourselves seem to happen of their own accord, and we find ourselves becoming a new person in the same manner that all the cells in our body are replaced with new cells every seven years or so. In this next quote Q’uo goes into great detail to describe how we all can use the concept of discipline to realize our highest potentials as spiritual seekers of truth:
First you must do your work with your own self, finding your joy, finding your passion. You have chosen faith, you have chosen to believe that there is a reality beyond this illusion. You have done the hardest work. The rest is learning. The rest is the discipline of the personality that began in the chaos of unlearning into which you were born. As we have spoken, each of you has examined the energies, has opened the heart, has begun to feel each other’s presence as seekers, the unity of this group with all who seek, with those such as we who seek to help, and are ourselves seeking further to refine evermore the discipline of the personality. All this must be done before you can begin to discipline your personality. You must first find joy. You must first allow your faith to show forth in a love of life and living. Sometimes you do most, most beautifully at this, at other times there is a woeful lack of work because the self does not feel worthy of such fundamental work, wishing only to serve others. Nay, my friends, prepare the self first for service.
Now we speak of mindfulness itself, a mindfulness of your choice, a mindfulness of your faith that there is indeed within you the passion that created the universe and all that is in it. In meditation roads are built that create a pathway to an immediate experience of this love. This is work done in discipline. When the energy of living within you is good, and the desire to learn is strong, there is only joy in this work. It can also be the most difficult work you can imagine. A great deal depends upon the preparation of your self to be a person of joy and lover of life. Be mindful of who you are. You are love, you are a co-creator with the original Thought of your own experience and your own creation. There is not one creation, there are as many creations as there are perceptors of creation. Each personal truth is absolute. One cannot give to another faith, but only the desire to find that faith and the realization that such a thing is possible.
We come to speak to you as those who have learned mindfulness. We find in this instrument’s mind the phrase “to pray without ceasing.” This is a good phrase to express that which we mean by being mindful. In meditation you tabernacle with the infinite One, you listen to the silence that speaks deeply, without words, and gives the information that will give you the energy, the joy, and the faith to move ahead. Without the meditation it is very difficult to remain in a state of unity with your greater Self, with the Creator within. This is the heart of the discipline of personality.
Each of you has read many, many texts which attempt to aid in the process of accelerating the evolution of mind, body and spirit. The catalyst for the discipline of personality is joyful remembering of who you are. As you remember who you are, more and more of that which you may willfully seem to be, but which you are not, is no longer needed and falls away. The effort is not in pushing away the things of this world, as this instrument would say. The effort is in creating within the self a joyful remembrance of love as the nature of the true self, which creates an atmosphere in which gradually, and in a rhythmic, appropriate time, one after another, those things which are hindrances to joy fall away. Anger is not overcome, it is simply no longer needed to express the passion of the self. Distress, despair, all negative emotion is distorted love. It is passion turned and bent and unrecognizable. But as love is all there is, so with your free will you may create ponderous illusion upon illusion, finding perverse comfort in negative emotion, for it is familiar, and that which is familiar is safe, and that which is unfamiliar is not. When one is mindful one finds oneself slowly able to release the fear that has caused the distortion that has created for the self an armor against that which is perceived as a threat. To one continuously aware of the self as love there are no threats, there is only remembrance of the truth of love. Q’uo, February 25, 1990.
Q’uo suggested that before we begin to exercise discipline in our lives that we need to do some preliminary work that will support our efforts of discipline, and that work is to find our passion for life, our joy of being which would be realized as we are successful in opening our hearts in unconditional love for ourselves and for others. This is the basic work of third density, and if it is the only work we ever do in our lives we will have fulfilled the most important goal of our incarnations, or as Q’uo said: “preparing the self for service.”
The next step Q’uo suggested that we could take to eventually discipline ourselves was to become mindful that we have the Creator within our being that created the universe. Q’uo recommended meditation as the best way for us to discover this primal creative force within ourselves. When we can discover this basic truth, that we have this creative power within us, then we can create our own unique universe of being through which we perceive the world around us. When done on a daily basis through meditation, or what Q’uo referred to as “praying without ceasing”, we then can feel our lives changing through the “listening to the silence” and feeling the joy and faith necessary to move ahead on our spiritual journeys of unity with the One Creator. Q’uo suggested that meditation is the heart of the discipline of the personality.
Through the constant use of the discipline of meditation we are then able to become more aware of who we are, the One Creator, and those qualities of ourselves which have been hindrances to our spiritual evolution such as anger, distress, and despair begin to fall away as we become purified by the truth and power of love that is the true nature of our being.
When the many changes we create in our being by using discipline are consciously manifested, our personality more and more resembles a balanced being, a jewel with many facets that reveals our open hearts full of unconditional love for our natural selves and for all others around us. We are more and more skillful Players on the Enhanced Game Board of Life who wish to be of service to others above all else.
This morning I used my big mower to cut the grass for the second time this year. Then I ran a few errands with my first stop being at Feeder’s Supply where I bought some cat food and some bird seed. My second stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought another tray of flowers to supplement the Marigolds in the Moss Garden that are looking a little wilted. My last stop was at the vet’s where I picked up some meds for Bosco.
This afternoon I used my trimmer to trim the grass where the mower could not go this morning. Then I used my backpack blower to blow all the walkways clean.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
May 11
The Details Of Daily Life
I am of the principality of heaven and of the nature of love. I greet you in that consciousness which is the love of Christ.
We find within this instrument the experience of wrestling with the dark angel of desire. For as the instrument’s brighter angel desires to tend towards the living Christ, yet the busy-bee mind engages wholeheartedly and insistently in wrestling the attention towards smaller and smaller details of the daily life, so that all feeling of continuity and wholeness is lost and the earthen vessel which is the body seems in place for no reason except to attend to a myriad of details.
Yet it is truly said that great treasure may lie within and be reflected from and through just these earthen vessels. And so the struggle is well continued.
Indeed, the simple knowledge that there is an alternative to a life without a unifying spirit enlivens and beautifies the intentions and thus the deeper desires of the pilgrim. The Holy Spirit of the living God wishes never to intrude but to invite the strength of love to enliven the drab details of daily life. And so shall it be done. The struggle shall give way again and again to victory.
We leave you in the peace of the spirit’s continuing struggle to seek the full consciousness of love, for that is only the surface appearance. What one seeks, one shall surely find. Peace to you, now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
[1] Q’uo, March 19, 2000.
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