Listen, That Is All
October 1st, 2018
Dear Friend,
If we hear ten thousand times that only God is, and that therefore we of our own selves are nothing, it will still not be enough to clear out all the belief we have that we are something of our own selves, that we of our own selves can experience a state of either good or bad.
How can we have a state of anything, good or bad, if we are a nothing of our own selves? How can we have health or disease if we are a nothing of our own selves? How can we have wealth or poverty if we are a nothing of our own selves? How can we have love or aversion or hate if we are a nothing of our own selves? How can we have good or poor spiritual awareness if we are a nothing of our own selves?
Do you see? It is only belief still lingering – or thriving – in us convincing us that we can experience personal good or bad, and that everyone else in the world can experience their own personal good or bad. We are nothing of personal selves. Only God is. Therefore, we do not possess a faculty of personal experience; we have only the faculty of God. We are and have all that God is and has. But hear it – all that God is and that God has. This has nothing to do with a personal self or even a personal sense of self.
Mind, body, organ, function, thing, money, business, home, family, activity, amount, condition, world – all of these are nothing in and of their own selves. They are images alone, forms alone, and even the apparent image or form they are in our experience is nothing in and of its own self. None have power. None have presence. None are a cause and none are an effect. None have consequence. None can hinder us or kill us, make us struggle or make us bankrupt, make us lack or be limited in any way.
Only God is, but here is the catch. Only God consciousness sees God imagery, God formation. Only God consciousness has God as real and practical experience. Truth does not matter because truth is truth no matter what. What matters is our experience of truth. It matters not how much we know about truth, how much reading we have done and continue to do, how many classes we attend, how much truth we have memorized (although all of these are important and necessary).
Truth is truth, but when it comes to our experience of truth we have to be the god that is our truth in order to have God that is the truth of our experience. Only God consciousness sees and has the truth of life as tangible reality.
Now, let us bring to mind our statement: Only God is, therefore only God can. Let us also bring to mind that we, because we are a nothing of personal self, cannot exercise of bring forth God power, healing, life, abundance, love, harmony, peace. We do not possess the faculty to perform such magic. The entire notion of us needing to or being able to demonstrate or manifest God or good is one of the most misleading notions in metaphysics.
God is, and God already is, and the is that God is is the one finished kingdom (see Genesis 2:1-5). God is the one finished kingdom that constitutes heaven and earth and all the host of them. God is the one presence within and without, the one reality, the one power, the one law, the one entirety of existence which is forever fully visible, tangible, manifested and demonstrated as itself.
Do you see that? God is all-of-all as itself. The infinity of God means that nothing except God exists despite our sense of it. God is the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner – the infinity of one or oneness. Oneness does not have two departments, one invisible and another visible, one intangible and another tangible, one unmanifested and another manifested, one undemonstrated and another demonstrated, one within and one without, one ethereal or incorporeal and another palpable or corporeal.
Oneness is oneness, and that one existence is what you are, and is omnipresent as you and all your universe is, all that you have, all that you experience, every formation in your universe from an atom in the deepest part of your body, to your entire body, to the farthest reaches of your consciousness and everything in between.
God is, which means that all good is – already is, not will become or can become if we pray correctly, beg God for long enough, study truth seriously enough, meditate for a sufficient number of hours each day, sit in silence long enough, be a good enough person, make amends for all the bad we’ve done not only in this life span but the infinite life spans we’ve already experienced.
No. God, which is the only existence and form, is unconditional. Think about this. God is, and is unconditional. Therefore good is and is unconditional to your experience. Health, wealth, love, harmony is and is all unconditional to your experience. Your good, in any and every form you can image or ever sense as needed, is and is unconditional to your experience this instant.
Do we need to know more than this? Once we truly know this, and therefore know that both good and bad appearance is illusion (nothingness, non-power and non-reality) all we need do is rest in is. In resting in is we experience all that God is, all the good of the infinite filling all space in our minds, our bodies and our universe.
God, good, IS and is unconditional to experience.
Listen deeply . . . Be still and listen . . . Be very, very still and quiet, and listen. God is singing its song not only all around you as every form throughout your universe, but as you.
God is singing its song throughout your universe as everything everywhere, not only as you but for your fulfillment.
Your consciousness – your very presence, your very being – is the song of God. Your consciousness is God, which is the visibility, the tangibility, the reality, and practicality of infinite and unconditional good in all its formation.
Is. . . . Can you hear is singing throughout you and as everything in your universe? Can you feel IS happening as you and as everything throughout your universe?
Ignore appearance, good or bad. Ignore experience, good or bad. See through appearance and experience to that which truly is, and then listen, that’s all. Listen. Feel the presence of God which is forever singing its glory, its life, its character, its nature, its form as you and for you.
You do not have to listen for the revelation or realization of truth, you only have to listen to it. Truth already exists. God is the finished kingdom of good. The revelation or realization is all around you freely offering itself to you every minute – freely present, visible, and tangible to your sense every minute. That which is finished and present right where you are – in fact present as the very you you are, the very consciousness you are – does not need to be sought. It is what you are, therefore you never need seek it.
If I am standing right where you are, you do not need to look for me, but you may want to listen to the beautiful story I’m telling you, especially because the story is all about you, your god truth, your perfection, your health, your abundance of all good, the fulfillment and freedom of every category of your life every hour. Indeed, do not seek Me; just listen to Me.
Do not for a minute longer believe that God is hard to find, that your truth, your good, is hard to find. It is not hard to find; it is what you are. It is standing all around you – visibly, tangibly so. Do not seek it. Simply know that it is you, and is present as everything you are and everything you experience. Then simply listen to it, feel its presence and activity. Another word for this experience is healing. The experience of knowing this truth and listening or feeling its presence and activity is the healing consciousness.
God Experience and Form Are One
Once you know that all is consciousness (God), you know that the revelation of truth is its own evidence, its own form. Consciousness and form are one and inseparable. The minute the revelation flows into our awareness, the form stands right there as our healthy or healed body, as our healthy and loving relationship, as our healthy and plentiful wealth, as our healthy and harmonious neighborhood, business, world, and every detail of these.
The revelation or the realization, the feeling, the experience of God happening within is the form of boundless and instant good. The instant you feel God happening, there stands the instant form of it in experience. The feeling and the form are one and inseparable because consciousness and form are one and inseparable. Anything happening in and as consciousness is its very form, is the image and likeness of whatever is happening in and as consciousness.
So, when God is felt happening, there stands the form of God; there the image and likeness of God is, one and inseparable. Only remember, God is incorporeal, therefore all is incorporeal. Let go of the belief that there is incorporeal God and corporeal form (which is the practical experience of life). Forget about corporeality being a real entity. Corporeality is nothing but sense; only incorporeality is real.
What appears as corporeal reality is not reality but just corporeal sense. Sense of what? Sense of the incorporeal, sense of God. So all that matters is our understanding and our listening to, feeling, and our trust in the incorporeal as being all that God is and all that God has, therefore all that we are and all that we have. Then, as we live by the incorporeal, as we listen for and feel for the incorporeal state of being happening within and throughout us, and as we never wait for something called a corporeal good, we discover that the corporeal sense takes care of itself.
We never have to mentalize truth to make it into corporeal good – corporeal health, wealth, love, harmony. If we try to, we have fallen into the trap of believing that the corporeal is real, and right there we’ve blocked God out from our experience. Only God is, therefore only the incorporeal is. As we look at and experience our seemingly corporeal bodies, we must realize that there is nothing in the slightest corporeal about them. This sensed physical body is one hundred percent spirit.
We have done this a few times, but let’s do it again because it’s so very important to our constant understanding of the truth of our being, our body, our world. Hold your hand to your chest or shoulder or leg. To sense testimony alone, you are having a physical experience. But, you see, matter does not exist, physicality does not exist. Only God is, therefore only spirit is, only the incorporeal is. Even as you sense the “physical” body nothing physical exists, therefore you cannot be having a physical experience. You are having a spiritual experience because only spirit exists.
Form is spirit, body is spirit. Your hands are spirit and your chest, shoulder and leg are spirit, therefore you are having a one hundred percent spiritual experience or sense. You are experiencing the whole of God as every “physical” sense. As you sense your body, just listen. Listen for something entirely unknown before. Do not seek anything you know or believe you know about or believe you need. Seek the unknown. Seek God itself which can never be known, never be contained or captured in understanding, but is beheld.
Seek God. Seek the unknown infinite, the unknown good that truth is.
Be still, and listen. Simply feel the presence, bear witness to the presence. Be completely open for whatever or however the experience presents itself to you.
It does not matter where the revelation of God seems to be taking place. All is one. All is you. You may sense it as a revelation about your body, your business, your finances, your home, your neighborhood, your world, your universe. It doesn’t matter. Be open and simply listen to the presence of God. Feel the presence of God.
(A few minutes of silence)
A great peace, a light, a warmth fills us now, and all is very good.
Become conscious of any person or thing in your world. Instead of knowing and judging him, her, or it to be good or bad, just listen; feel. Be entirely empty, open and still for the revelation of God that is omnipresent right here where you are, as you, and as every person, place, and thing – visibly and tangibly. All the universe requires to make its harmony visible to sense is our listening instead of telling, our beholding instead of demanding. Then we quickly see that all is very good.
I was walking early this morning while the dawn was just breaking through. The birds were beginning to sing. The rich colors of the leaves and flowers, the fragrance of the early morning filled the air, and I realized that all I had to do was listen and bear witness to the miracle that was taking place all around me. This is all that is ever required of us in experience: listening to God, the finished kingdom of good, unveiling itself as our very conscious awareness – such good that we can never capture the magnitude of it, the gift of it. It became obvious that this was to be the message of our Letter this month.
The whole walk was filled with the good of God, filled with heaven experienced as earth, with revelation, with presence, with truth, presenting itself to me with no condition involved. Indeed, there is no condition to the experience of truth when we know that truth is the finished kingdom of God within and without, and then simply open ourselves for the revelation.
Simply listen to the finished kingdom of good, good without opposite, good without condition, which is forever freely offering itself to the listener, to spiritual being, to the one that knows that I am a god, and who realizes that there is nothing incomplete about God, nothing invisible about God, nothing intangible about God, nothing separated or different about God, nothing far away about God.
I am a god. The I am is consciousness, your very consciousness and mine, and so the finished kingdom of God or good only requires listening to, feeling, in order to become visible and practical to our experience.
By knowing and being open to and expecting only the incorporeal, our awareness is filled to overflowing with the incorporeal good – the I that is, the body that is, the world that is, the business, the wealth, the family, the relationship, the harmony of all that is.
Let us look at a few statements from scripture that fill us with the realization that because only God is, only God can be experienced. When we know it, we never again attempt to make truth true, to bring truth forth into experience. Truth already is and fills experience. We are only required to listen to it, open ourselves to it, feel the is of it.
“I am with you always, even unto the end of the world [filling the entire world].” (Matthew 28:20) Does this sound as if good is hidden from us and needs to be found? That truth is separate from us, different from us? That fulfillment is ethereal and not real and practical? No, “I am with you [fulfillment is with you this instant of now, and forever] all the day to the end[s] of the world.” Simply listen to it, be open to it, let it fill your senses like sunlight fills the earth.
“Be strong all you people of the land, says the Lord, and work, for I am with you. My spirit remains among you: fear not.” (Haggai 2:4-5) “Work” refers to our staying in truth, staying in spiritual consciousness, getting on with the Father’s business rather than the world’s business; not the kind of business that gains us a measure of corporeal good in itself, but the work that builds up our treasures of heaven.
Drop everything you believe you are and have, good or bad, and lift into God consciousness – a god state of being, free, empty, impersonally open and available, without idea, without knowledge, without memory.
“Remember not the former things; neither consider the things of old.” (Isaiah 43:18) Hang onto nothing of “you,” nothing of your knowledge, nothing of your body or world or any detail of it. That which we bind on earth is bound in heaven, unavailable to our experience. But, “whatsoever ye release on earth shall be released in heaven.” (Matthew 16:19) Heaven – good without condition – is released throughout sense as we release our hold on earthly things, on human knowledge, on memory, on material reliance.
“Behold, I make all things new.” (Revelation 21:5) Does this sound as if you and I have to make effort for truth, have to somehow make truth real in experience? No, I make all things new. Lift, lift into the new spiritual awareness of who you are.
“I have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created me.” (Colossians 3:10)
When we are lifted in Christ – in God or spiritual or Buddha consciousness; in a God state of being – we are the new man. Notice it doesn’t say we will become a new man, but we have put on the new man the instant the God state of awareness has been attained, the instant the revelation is felt or heard – the feeling of the presence and activity of God within. The old things are passed away.
All becomes new – is seen with open eyes – through God, through God consciousness, through our God state of being. The God state of being or the revelation or the feeling of God within does not produce healing, health, wealth, love, harmony. Rather, our senses are opened to is. The is of truth is experienced the moment the revelation is felt flowing within, filling us.
“I am the Lord that heals you.” (Exodus 15:26) There it is again. God consciousness is itself what we sense as healing, of money, of loving relationship, of successful and prosperous business, of harmonious neighborhood, of family union. God felt happening within is itself truth evidenced. We of ourselves have no healing or prospering or harmonizing power or influence. Only God is; the experience of God is its own evidence in our lives.
“Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye search for me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13) We have sought and discovered that all is God, and that because all is God, God is the only power, therefore is the only power of evidenced God. We’ve discovered that God is singing the song of itself as us and for us throughout our beings and as everything everywhere in our worlds. The one remaining thing we must do is listen with all our hearts. We must not desire people, things, and amounts, but just to hear, to feel God happening in us and throughout our universe, knowing that God itself is all. The corporeal sense is nothing in and of its own self but merely a sense of that which is one hundred percent incorporeal, God. When we know this, we seek, we listen to, we feel the presence of God, we want for nothing but the experience of God, and we are satisfied with it alone.
We want nothing but the God experience because we know that the instant we have it, we have the tangible experience of good. We have all the good that God is the instant we feel or hear the presence of God. The presence experienced is our good, is the revelation, is the visibility, the tangibility, the actual manifested and already demonstrated good, now evident.
“I am the Lord, the God of all flesh [the God, the good, the truth, the image and likeness of all form]. Is there anything too hard for me?” I am. I already am. I am the is of all, so of course nothing is too hard for me. It is too late for anything to be hard. All already is.
“I will put my spirit in you, and you shall live.” (Ezekiel 37:14) The light of truth fills our senses, and we live. But we have to empty, silent, listening to the kingdom of truth, the kingdom of God, the finished kingdom. When I fills our senses we, along with the blind man healed my the Master, say, “Before I was blind, now I see.” Yes, because the so-called healing is actually the filling of our senses of the light of God which enables us to witness truthfully, to sense and to see, to have the image and likeness of God as our all-of-all.
“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.” (Jeremiah 33:6) I will reveal Myself as as the abundance of peace and truth – and we can add, of life, of love, of finances, of success, of happiness, of freedom, of fulfillment of purpose.
“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (Romans 13:1) We do not have the ability, the faculty to exercise truth, to exercise God, to bring forth God or good. We are nothing of our own selves, and we are to simply receive or listen or feel truth taking place as our all-of-all. “Be subject unto the higher powers” – the one presence, power, and law being you.
“Be still, and know that I [your very consciousness, which is your all-of-all] am God [am your good health, wealth, and harmony of all experience, of all being].” (Psalm 46: 10)
“Every person should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God. I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. God doeth it.” (Ecclesiastes 3:13-14) The God person, the God body, the God world we experience cannot be changed. God is invariable, therefore spiritual being is invariable. It cannot become sick or diseased. It cannot lack. It cannot be limited. It cannot be unhappy. It cannot die, it cannot experience opposites.
God is, and is is forever. Nothing can be added to it because all already is God. “We” cannot bring more good into our experience; “we”cannot demonstrate God, exercise some form of truth so that our experience is filled with greater good – greater health, wealth, love. God already is the infinity and omnipresence of all good.
All we are required to do is go to God as a god wanting nothing but the conscious experience of God itself. The conscious God experience is the eternal fullness of good. Nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. God is it. Seek just one thing: to listen to is; listen to the omnipresent and infinite truth of life and you discover that the presence you hear or feel is your all-of-all infinite good.
“Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.” (Ecclesiastes 5:19) Are we required to seek and to find something which is our gift? Is it hidden from us? Is it invisible? Is it something unobtainable? No, it is freely given to us.
A gift is given to us in love, in truth. A gift is whole, complete and finished and handed to us freely and unconditionally. Realize that all that you are – your very being, your mind, your body, your entire world and all it constitutes – is God and all that God is and has. Your utter fulfillment is the gift of God, not something to labor for, not something you have to struggle and experience pain for, but the gift of God.
This being the truth of life, what more do we need than to just listen to that gift, freely receive in awareness that which is already ours as the gift of Love in every tangible way, form, amount, and place?
Feel the gift of God as all that you are and experience. Simply be still and listen to or feel the omnipresence of God within and without, and realize that the very instant (and every time) you feel the presence of God – the very instant you feel the gentle fulfillment welling up within – you have the “outer” form of it because awareness and form are one, omnipresent, inseparable, and infallible.
Blessings,
Paul
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