I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from October 13, 2007:
Jim: Our question tonight, Q’uo, has to do with how we, as seekers, can deal with adversity. Our third-density illusion has the purpose, it seems, of providing us catalyst, and by using this catalyst we hopefully can grow into greater understanding of our place in the universe and of how to be of service. Sometimes, though, the catalyst is either too much, or we feel like we’re getting burned out, or it’s boringly repetitive, and we’re getting tired of doing the work, or for some reason, we just feel discouraged and could use some words of inspiration, something perhaps other than, “Well, remember that you’re all one,” or “Persevere, persevere.” Is there some way that you could recommend that we could look at the concept of catalyst that seems to be a bit much and overwhelming as we deal with it in our daily round of activities?
(Carla channeling)
We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this day. It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be called to your circle of seeking, and we thank you for the honor. We are glad to speak to you on the subject of difficult times and attempt to share inspiration with you. But first, as always, we would ask that each of you be discriminating in that which you choose to take away from our conversation, for we are not authorities over you and would not wish to influence you unduly. Please follow the path of resonance in your own thoughts and trust your judgment. If you may do this for us, then we may share our thoughts much more freely, being unhindered by the concern that we may have for infringement upon your free will otherwise. We thank you for this consideration, my friends. It makes us smile that you ask us to offer words of inspiration. The concept is somewhat foreign to us in that our experience of life in every breath is inspirational, if you would call it that. We are in the fortunate position of having no veil that hides from us the infinite inspiration of the moment.
We find in the mind of this instrument the story of the disciples of Jesus the Christ. It is a story told about him and the disciples at a time after he had gone through the crucifixion and had arisen. The disciples had seen him several times before, but it was while they were still in Jerusalem. Now, sad and weary but wanting to go on with the great work which He had left them to do, the disciples decided to travel about and offer the information that Jesus had left with them and also to offer themselves as healers in the name of Jesus the Christ.
They were walking along the dusty road to a town called Emmaus. Part way through the day they were joined by a stranger who joined their conversation. Soon the stranger was offering them thoughts upon the scriptures which they were discussing that seemed most inspiring. It was not until later, when they had stopped for the evening, prepared a fire, and were cooking fish to eat for their supper, that they became aware that this stranger was the risen Lord, Jesus the Christ, among them and speaking with them as if He were still alive, earthly and with them in flesh as well as spirit. To us, this is a perfect example of inspiration in that the inspiration was with them and unrecognized for a considerable length of time. It was only in the relaxation and perhaps the weariness that heralded their evening meal and the end of the day that their rational minds let go and released them from the limitations of logical thought. In that state alone did they finally recognize their beloved teacher and savior.
Inspiration walks with you, just as the one known as Jesus, the Christ, on the road to Emmaus. Like the disciples and the apostles, it is quite common for you not to recognize or in any way be aware of this Companion of your every thought, word and action. The one known as Jesus said also, “I am with you until the end of the age.” The Holy Spirit and tongues of fire leapt upon the disciples’ heads and the message was the same: “I am with you.” “Send forth your Spirit, says the prayer, and I shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.”
The group question for this session was: “Is there some way that you could recommend that we could look at the concept of catalyst that seems to be a bit much and overwhelming as we deal with it in our daily round of activities?” Q’uo began by saying we find in the mind of Carla the story of the disciples of Jesus the Christ, and it is a story told about Him and the disciples at a time after He had gone through the crucifixion and had arisen, and the disciples had seen Him several times before, but it was while they were still in Jerusalem, but now, sad and weary but wanting to go on with the great work which He had left them to do, the disciples decided to travel about and offer the information that Jesus had left with them and also to offer themselves as healers in the name of Jesus the Christ. Q’uo went on to say they were walking along the road to a town called Emmaus, and part way through the day they were joined by a stranger who joined their conversation, and the stranger was offering them thoughts upon the scriptures which they were discussing that seemed inspiring, but it was not until later, when they had stopped for the evening, and were cooking fish to eat for their supper, that they became aware that this stranger was the risen Lord, Jesus the Christ, among them and speaking with them as if He were still alive, earthly, and with them in flesh as well as spirit, and this is an example of inspiration in that was with them and unrecognized for a considerable length of time, and it was only in the relaxation and the weariness that began their evening meal, and the end of the day that their rational minds let go and released them from the limitations of logical thought that it was in that state that they finally recognized their beloved teacher and savior. Now Q’uo said inspiration walks with you, just as Jesus, the Christ, on the road to Emmaus, and like the disciples, it is common for you not to be aware of this Companion of your every thought, word, and action, so Jesus said: “I am with you until the end of the age.” And then the Holy Spirit and tongues of fire leapt upon the disciples’ heads and the message was the same: “I am with you.” “Send forth your Spirit, says the prayer, and I shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.” On April 3, 2005, Q’uo spoke of how the tongues of fire can descend upon us:
How the heart opens, given such an opportunity! And when you have formed the intention of becoming part of a circle of seeking, something happens to the way in which you listen to each other. It is as if, like a shaggy dog, you have shaken yourself off and all of the thoughts and feelings that have been clogging the system have been released. Your energy system clears. Your mind sharpens. And your heart feels at home at last within you. Light begins to gather. It is not Light from without you, it is Light from within you. The power within you, that has been slumbering, awakens, and you minister to each other. Love that is beyond words flows from every fiber of your being as you listen to each other. Even if you cannot say one word, your heart is radiating the infinite Love and Light that lies within you. Tongues of fire, as this instrument would describe the action of Spirit, pour down upon you as your heart goes out, literally, to each other’s spoken and unspoken feelings and thoughts. And within this potentiated space and time, peace descends, that peace which, indeed, passeth all understanding, and power flows, and sparkles, and dances as each cares for each.
Can you move away from this Companion of every moment? No, my friends, you cannot. Physically speaking, you can climb the highest mountain or plunge into the depths of the sea, and your Companion, unconditional Love, shall still be with you. In a metaphysical sense, can any toxic emotion drive away the beloved from your side? No. The beloved presence is with you always in every hour and every moment, day and night, relentlessly, eternally, loving, loving, loving. There is, as the one known as R would say, a glitch, a catch, to this infinite supply of unconditional Love, and that is the veil of forgetting that divides your mind, so that it becomes preoccupied with that which you can see with your senses, hear, feel, taste, and touch. You cannot smell the infinite One as He walks beside you. He is intangible, invisible and usually unheard. Yet unconditional Love is your Companion, has been your Companion, and shall be your Companion.
Love is an inextricable part of your nature. It is your founding father and your nursing mother. It is the child at your knee. Any way that speaks to you personally of perfect companionship, that is the nature of your Companion. You may think of this Companion as Jesus, the Christ. You may think of this Companion, as does this instrument, as the Holy Spirit. You may think of this Companion in a structure which we have given you many times before, which is that of a guidance system. You may think of this Companion as your unseen guru, whose love and affection for you outlasts death, so that even if your teacher is no longer incarnate in flesh, yet still he is the angel on your shoulder and the Companion of every move, every thought, and every word.
Then Q’uo said physically speaking, we can climb the highest mountain or plunge into the depths of the sea, and our Companion, unconditional Love, shall still be with us, and in a metaphysical sense, the beloved presence is with us always in every moment, day and night, eternally, loving, so there is a catch to this infinite supply of unconditional Love, and that is the veil of forgetting that divides our mind so that it becomes preoccupied with that which we can see with our senses, but we cannot smell the infinite One as He walks beside us, and He is intangible, invisible, and usually unheard, yet unconditional Love is our Companion, has been our Companion, and shall be our Companion. Q’uo continued by saying Love is an inseprable part of our nature, our founding father, our nursing mother, and it is the child at our knee, and any way that speaks to us of companionship is the nature of our Companion, so we may think of this Companion as Jesus the Christ, as the Holy Spirit, or we may think of this Companion in a structure which Q’uo has given us many times before, which is that of a guidance system, or we may think of this Companion as our unseen guru, whose Love for us outlasts death, so that even if our teacher is no longer incarnate in flesh, he is the angel on our shoulder and the Companion of every move, every thought, and every word. Q’uo went on to say how to remember that we are companioned by Love is often a challenge in this atmosphere of veiled experience, but the rays of sunshine on a beautiful day may give us that hint that reminds us that we are in contact with Love, and the sound of rain when all has been dust offers us that chance to recall that we are not alone, but we cannot depend upon a sunny day or a blessed rainfall, so our mate, our friend, or our teacher reminds us that Love walks with us in every step, but we cannot depend upon the presence of a particular person, and in some ways the mechanics of helping our self to remember that we are practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator seems so mechanical that it does not seem possible that such mechanical actions could possibly have the results for which we hope. On January 15, 1995, Hatonn shared the importance of practicing the presence of the Creator:
We do encourage each student to muse often within that sacred tabernacle within, to sit mentally and emotionally down within that holy ground of being, where lies truth and eternal things; to sit with bare attention, knowing that silence which speaks of the mighty presence that is both Creator and creation. For these are moments out of time, out of space, and rather eternal and infinite. These moments of practicing the presence of the Creator may be keyed according to your individual needs and circumstances. This instrument has often used the ringing of the telephone or the sounding of a bell, heard from a neighboring church, to remind the self to turn to offering thanksgiving and praise. This reminder aids and in each life experience there is a structure of habitual use of time, wherein there are predictable moments, which might be best laid aside for a quick visit to eternity. This does not have to be formal or long. Indeed, it can be, if you choose, most frequent.
This instrument is a singer and when she is producing music through her vocal instrument, her thoughts are very often on the mechanics of producing sound and tone. If she speaks the vowel, “e,” you will find her in a broad smile because that lifts that vowel into the facial mask and creates a more pure sound. She has to remember to phrase the tones that she produces so that it is not a mechanical or rote expression of praise, thanksgiving, or prayer that she offers, but rather is musical, with the rising and falling cadences of beautiful speech. Sometimes it seems that an entire performance may go by without this instrument’s experiencing the gestalt that the choir of which she is a part is producing for those who listen. And yet because of these mechanical-seeming techniques, the instrument is able to maximize her contribution to the beauty of the music sung by her choir.
It is in this wise that we encourage you to go through the mechanical rituals which are the resources of those who wish to break through the veil, as the one known as Jim said, to “break on through to the other side.” Friends, you live in two worlds simultaneously. One world is that world in which you become discouraged and feel that your work is in vain. The other world is a world of vibration, color and texture. It is a world of Light without the heavy forms of the physical illusion. You are a citizen of both worlds equally. It often seems that there is a choice to make as to whether to live in one world or the other—the world of form or the world of vibration and light. It is our humble opinion, however, that it is not necessary to choose. What is needed by the spiritual seeker who wishes to access the joy, the aliveness, and the unconditional Love of the world of Light is a dedication to the techniques involved in unifying those two worlds.
The seeker begins by realizing that there is another world, a world far more beautiful, real, and profound than the everyday world of form. That is the time of awakening, and it brings to the seeker a hunger and a thirst for Light and Love. The seeker wants to find out just how to live in that world. So, the seeker begins to meditate or to contemplate. And this is an excellent thing. At the same time, it creates within the conscious and rational mind a sense of separation between the person that you are when you are not meditating and the person that you are when you are meditating. It is often the work of many years of moving into the silence and the meditation and coming back out of it into the everyday world before the seeker becomes aware in a moment that the everyday world is permeated and imbued with the Companion. Everyday things are saturated with the Love of the Beloved. There is no nook or cranny within your mind, or your emotions, and your fears that is not drenched and marinated in Love.
Now Q’uo said Carla is a singer, and when she is producing music through her vocal instrument, her thoughts are often on the mechanics of producing tones, so if she speaks the vowel, “e,” you will find her in a smile because that lifts that vowel into the facial mask and creates a pure sound, and she has to remember to phrase the tones that she produces so that it is not a mechanical expression of praise, thanksgiving, or prayer that she offers, but it is musical with the rising and falling rhythms of speech, and sometimes it seems that an entire performance may go by without her experiencing the gestalt that the choir of which she is a part is producing for those who listen, and because of these mechanical-seeming techniques, she is able to maximize her contribution to the beauty of the music sung by her choir. Q’uo encouraged us to go through the mechanical rituals which are the resources of those who wish to break through the veil since we live in two worlds simultaneously, and one world is that world in which we become discouraged and feel that our work is in vain, and the other world is a world of vibration, and a world of Light without the heavy forms of the physical illusion, and we are a citizen of both worlds equally, so it often seems that there is a choice to make as to whether to live the world of form or the world of vibration and light, and Q’uo said in their opinion it is not necessary to choose because what is needed by the spiritual seeker who wishes to access the joy and the unconditional Love of the world of Light is a dedication to the techniques involved in unifying those two worlds. Q’uo continued by saying the seeker begins by realizing that there is another world more beautiful and profound than the everyday world of form, and that is the time of awakening, and it brings us a hunger for Light and Love, and we want to find out how to live in that world, so we begin to meditate or contemplate, and this is an excellent thing because it creates within our conscious mind a sense of separation between the person that we are when we are not meditating and the person that we are when we are meditating, and it is often the work of many years of moving into the meditation and coming back out of it into the everyday world before we become aware in a moment that the everyday world is imbued with the Companion, and everyday things are saturated with the Love of the Beloved, so there is no nook or cranny within our mind, or our emotions, and our fears that is not marinated in Love. On February 18, 1987, Q’uo spoke of the value of meditation:
The intention of the meditation we find to be the most important quality that one may bring to the meditative state. To intend to meditate and to offer the self as a receptive instrument to the instreamings of Love and Light that are possible to perceive in a meditative state and to do this upon a regular basis we find to be most helpful, indeed. It is also helpful to find a time of the day which may be utilized, a regular time and a place which is used for this purpose, and to use the place for the purpose of meditation and for no other purpose is also a manner in which a place may be invested with intentions and a practice of meditation. To choose a time which is full of the quietness is helpful as well, and it is usually recommended that the spine be kept vertical so that the instreamings of Love and Light, or the prana, as it may be called, may find an easy entry into the energy centers, or chakras, as you may call them.
With these general parameters in mind, one may then adapt one’s own desires and inclinations in a manner which feels comfortable to the instrument or to the one meditating so that the meditative state may allow the entity to be nourished in the most efficacious manner possible.
This is so in an unalterable and irresistible way because at the heart of every cell of your body is the one infinite Creator, and that Creator has a nature. That nature is Love. When your heart beats, it beats Love. When you breath in, you breath in Love. When you breathe out, you breathe out Love. I have spoken to you many times about the discipline of the personality. It is this discipline of which we speak now again, for the only barrier between your rational and conscious mind that so limits you and creates for you the deadliness of sameness and ennui is the rational mind’s basic assumption that that which it beholds is the sum of that which there is. There are as many ways to help trigger your remembrance of the Beloved that walks beside you and holds your hand and comforts you as there are entities who seek the one infinite Creator.
Wecannot create for you the perfect mnemonic. Each person’s memory will be jogged by a different mnemonic. Recently we suggested to the one known as R that he wear a bracelet with the word “remember” etched upon it so that each time in his work as a technical expert that he looked down upon his hands on the computer he would see that word and remember who he is, and why he has brought himself to this particular moment at this particular time. This instrument was speaking in the round-robin discussion that precedes the seeking through meditation of this particular group about loving everything that she does, and we would comment upon that, for the statement that this instrument made, though she is not aware of it, is not a statement that is literally true. There are many things that she does within her day which she does not, with her rational and conscious mind, love. Indeed, she must encourage herself and even goad herself into taking care of many of the details of her day.
Yet her statement was true insofar as it was her honest and sincere experience. Yet this is not because of the work. Friends, it is never because of work that you find your joy. It is because you have accessed or remembered that you walk with a beloved Companion whose name is unconditional Love. It is because you have remembered who you truly are and why you chose to be here now. We would offer each seeker the assurance that, no matter how dreary life may seem at this particular time, everything in your life is moving just as it should. For you are receiving those experiences which you carefully planned before your incarnation began. No matter how dark or seemingly difficult the moment, it comes with gifts in its hands. The writer of Ecclesiastics said long ago that there is nothing new under the sun. Did this wise entity write those words out of despair? We do not believe so. We believe that this entity wrote those words to pierce the veil. If nothing under the sun is new, then even that which is new to you at one particular time will inevitably be repeated and repeated.
Q’uo went on to say this is so in an unalterable way because at the heart of every cell of our body is the one infinite Creator that has the nature of Love, and when our heart beats, it beats Love, and when we breathe in, we breath in Love, and when we breathe out, we breathe out Love, so Q’uo said they have spoken to us about the discipline of the personality, for the only barrier between our rational and conscious mind that limits us and creates the deadliness of sameness and fatigue is our rational mind’s basic assumption that that which it beholds is the sum of that which there is, but there are as many ways to help trigger our remembrance of the Beloved that walks beside us and comforts us as there are entities who seek the one infinite Creator. Then Q’uo said they cannot create for us the perfect aid for our memory because each person’s memory will be jogged by a different aid, and they suggested that R wear a bracelet with the word “remember” etched upon it so that each time in his work as a technical expert that he looked down upon his hands on the computer he would see that word and remember who he is, and why he has brought himself to this particular moment at this particular time, and when Carla was speaking in the round-robin discussion that precedes the meditation of this particular group about loving everything that she does, Q’uo said this is not a statement that is literally true because there are many things that she does within her day which she does not love, so she must encourage herself to take care of many of the details of her day. Q’uo continued by saying her statement was true insofar as it was her honest experience, yet this is not because of her work because it is never because of work that we find our joy, but it is because we have accessed that we walk with a beloved Companion whose name is unconditional Love, and it is because we have remembered who we are and why we chose to be here now, and no matter how dreary life may seem at this time, everything in our life is moving just as it should, for we are receiving those experiences which we planned before our incarnation, so no matter how dark the moment, it comes with gifts in its hands, and the writer of Ecclesiastics said that there is nothing new under the sun, and he wrote those words to pierce the veil since if nothing under the sun is new, then even that which is new to us at one time will be repeated. On September 25, 2010, Q’uo spoke of the value of piercing the veil:
The challenge, you see, of third density is moving from chaos into mystery; from the scrabbling to know, to own, to have, to be, into the relaxation of allowing yourself to be who you are; to move beyond the surface of life.
You, my friends are deep-sea divers. You are not satisfied to skitter across the ocean of life like a dragonfly. You dive deep, and you seek the highest and best truth you can find. And eventually you pierce the veil of otherness and begin to feel the threads of the commonality about which the one known as F was speaking, that lie behind the shapes of judgment.
This unity is for all of you. And yet it does not keep you from being an individual. Every choice you have made in every incarnation goes into the personality you chose for this incarnation.
Were you to leave the type of work that you do in order to receive the money that pays your bills, as this instrument would say, and were you to find something that is exciting and new to you, within a matter of days or weeks, months at the very most, your new occupation would seem repetitive and wearisome, and you would think fondly of the possibility of lifting away from these responsibilities and of, as the one known as R said, having just two days in which nothing whatsoever was related to that which this entity does in order to earn his daily bread.
One cannot change things around in the world of form and thereby come into one’s joy. One cannot change one’s circumstances and thereby arrive at a sense of peace and contentment. In seeking otherness, one ultimately finds that every gift one has opened becomes old; every wine, once tasted, becomes stale; every luxury, once repeated sufficiently, pales to nothing. In the world of form there is no escape from weariness and ennui, and this, the writer of Ecclesiastes knew. When you seek for inspiration, do not seek far, for the inspiration is walking beside you. It is filling your heart. It is the air breathing in and the air breathing out of your lungs. It is the pounding of your blood. It is the rustling of every dry leaf and the song of every bird.
Itis not because all is one that these voices speak to you. It is because you are a larger self than you can possibly be aware until you ask for that awareness to become open to you. There in your workplace is that which speaks to you of the Companion. Would it interest you to know that in every key of the computer there is a spirit sitting upon it, laughing and sharing with you the joy of being used, of serving, and of being a part of that dance which you and your computer keys are doing? Would it make a difference if you could see the angel that is sitting on the edge of your wastebasket or resting, literally, upon your shoulder or placing its head upon your knee, so happy is it to be in your presence?
We speak to you of consciousness that has so many facets and so many levels that there is nothing that is not inspirited. Who lives your life? Who sees through your eyes? Who hears through your ears? Who is it that is you? The request for inspiration when looking at mundane things comes down to the heart of who you are. Perhaps mechanics are involved in allowing consciousness itself to live your life instead of your personality shell. Yet, my friends, those seemingly mechanical actions and rituals of remembrance and recall yield fruit as you begin to be aware that you truly are practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator in every mood, in every situation, in every moment. There is glory all around you and within you. Open to it, and let joy become your experience.
Q’uo continued by saying if we were to leave the work that we do in order to receive the money that pays our bills, and were we to find something that is exciting and new, within a matter of time our new occupation would seem repetitive, and we would think of the possibility of leaving these responsibilities and of having just two days in which nothing whatsoever was related to earn our daily bread. Then Q’uo said we cannot change things around in the world of form and come into our joy or arrive at a sense of peace, and in seeking otherness, we find that every gift we have opened becomes old, and every luxury, once repeated, pales to nothing because in the world of form there is no escape from weariness, and when we seek for inspiration–do not seek far–for the inspiration is walking beside us, filling our heart, and it is the air breathing in and the air breathing out of our lungs, and it is the rustling of every dry leaf and the song of every bird. Q’uo went on to say it is not because all is one that these voices speak to us, but it is because we are a larger self than we can possibly be aware of until we ask for that awareness to become open to us, so there in our workplace is that which speaks to us of the Companion, and in every key of the computer there is a spirit sitting upon it, laughing and sharing with us the joy of serving, and of being a part of that dance which we and our computer keys are doing, and there is an angel sitting on the edge of our wastebasket or resting upon our shoulder because it is happy to be in our presence. Then Q’uo said that they speak to us of consciousness that has so many levels that there is nothing that is not inspirited, and we ask: “Who lives our life? Who sees through our eyes? Who hears through our ears? Who is it that we are?” Now Q’uo said the request for inspiration when looking at mundane things comes down to the heart of who we are, and perhaps mechanics are involved in allowing consciousness to live our life instead of our personality shell, but those mechanical rituals of remembrance yield fruit as we begin to be aware that we are practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator in every mood, in every situation, in every moment, and there is glory all around us and within us, so we can open to it, and let joy become our experience. On February 6, 2006, Q’uo described the nature of our personality shell:
When we use the phrase, personality shell, the attempt to measure the personality is not present in our use of that word. To us, the term, personality shell, is indicative of a loose collection of items that have been selected from the 360 degrees of your infinite or eternal soul or spirit. You have experienced many things through many incarnations. You have gained in life experiences and in the long list of deeds well-done and those deeds which upon reflection after incarnation you have decided to revisit in future incarnations. These make up the whole of what we have before called that suitcase full of gifts and limitations which you have chosen as your garments, shall we say, for the dressing of your personality in this incarnation.
We are aware that a good deal of the angst which entities feel occurs when they are in a position of working at work that seems to them to be of no great service to others. Then this question truly intrudes and becomes almost an obsession, because there is that enormous desire to serve others. That desire is also spiked and pushed by one’s own observation of others who seem to be of more service than you, because of having been born with or having developed more gifts of the spirit, more ways to serve. Yet if your work here upon your sphere of Earth was intended to have to do with outer gifts, then you should have received them. If you do not perceive within yourself the outer gifts that are so obvious in musicians and poets, then your gift here, your purpose here, your mission at this time, is not to sing, or to write, but to be.
That which shall assist you most in cleansing yourself of that feeling of sameness is the ability to release the mind. Certainly, many among your people have done this by artificial means. Perhaps they drink an intoxicating beverage. Perhaps they ingest the smoke of some mind-altering substance, or they ingest food that creates an alternate reality. We are not suggesting outer substances as a solution for one who chafes under the sameness of the work-a-day world. We are suggesting that that very work-a-day world is full of angels and spirits and guidance and the Beloved.
Q’uo continued by saying they are aware that a good deal of the angst which we feel occurs when we are in a position of working at work that seems to us to be not of service to others, and then this question becomes an obsession because there is that desire to serve others, and that desire is pushed by our observation of others who seem to be of more service than we are because of having been born with more ways to serve, yet if our work here upon our Earth was intended to have to do with outer gifts, then we should have received them, but if we do not perceive within our self the outer gifts that are so in musicians and poets, then our purpose here is not to sing, or to write, but to be. Q’uo went on to say that which shall assist us in cleansing our self of that feeling of sameness is the ability to release our mind, and many among our people have done this by artificial means of drinking an intoxicating beverage, or they ingest food that creates an alternate reality, but Q’uo was not suggesting outer substances as a solution for one who chafes under the sameness of the work-a-day world, but they are suggesting that that very work-a-day world is full of angels and the Beloved. Q’uo completed their reply by saying it is the peculiar nature of those who live with that veil of forgetting that the last thing that is thought of is faith because faith is the spiritual breath of life, and sometimes we need resuscitation, spiritually speaking, so the great thing about faith as a resource for the seeker is that we do not have to do it well, and we have only to claim it and say, “I have faith,” and suddenly our eyes open, and we can see that the comrade beside us on the road to Emmaus is none other than Love itself. On September 10, 2000, Q’uo described the nature of faith:
The trust of which you speak in relation to faith is not only in one’s feelings but the feeling that despite that which one sees and experiences that one knows that all is well, that one knows that all will be well, that what is occurring at any moment is appropriate and may be learned from in an effective manner which enhances the evolutionary journey. Each entity along this journey will have those times of doubt, of trial, of confusion, of feeling lost, of feeling alone. All of these and many more experiences are those which test one’s character, which offer one kind of lesson or another. There are as many kinds of learning as there are entities to learn. However, in each experience and for each entity, if one can uncover that feeling of faith within and let it be the north star, the Polaris of the self, then one may move without fear and accept whatever is the daily round of activities as they come to one. For an entity that is filled with faith, there is no challenge too great. For any entity without faith, all challenges feel too great. Faith is that which one develops by wishing to develop faith. If one feels faith is lacking in the life pattern, begin to investigate the qualities of faith, the nature of faith, and begin to act as though you have faith, and faith will come to you. Moreover, faith will come through you, for faith is like love. It is a basic quality of this and all creations. If one can begin to exercise the quality of faith it is much like your physical muscle. It will grow in strength and ability.
We are those of Q’uo, and thank you for this query, my brother. May we ask if there is a follow-up to this query at this time?
Jim: Not for me.
We are those of Q’uo, and would then ask if there is another query that we may answer at this time. We are those of Q’uo.
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We are those of Q’uo, and are again with this instrument. We grasp that we have exhausted the queries in this circle of seeking at this time. We would say a word or two before we leave you, for we do perceive that there is that hunger and that thirst within this circle this evening. There is a yearning too deep for words to break through to a bright and joyful land where the beauty of life creates meaning all its own.
We would that we could share with you on a steady-state basis our perception of life itself as a miraculous and utterly incandescently beautiful thing, a treasure, precious and rare. We cannot. We can say the words and always we can share with you our Love. And you have but to ask for us mentally and we shall be with you, surrounding you and bathing you in our Love. Yet that which comes from the outside, as it were, is never the answer to a spiritual seeker. It is when that which blossoms in the heart then blooms up through all the senses and out into the world that you behold with new eyes.
Remember to relax and release your conscious, rational, fact-driven mind whenever you feel depressed and discouraged by the sameness and the repetitiveness of everyday life. Within the folds of that repetition lie infinite in newness and infinite, sharp pleasure. Open, allow, and it shall come. For it is within you, waiting for you to release the strictures of your rational mind.
This instrument was told by a friend who was a missionary that they were working terribly hard at a hospital which they had founded in a very backward and primitive area. There literally were not hours enough in a day to do that which they felt desperately needed to be done. Each evening they would fall onto their cots exhausted and wondering how they could arise the next morning and do it again. One of them, this instrument’s friend, got the idea to arise even earlier and spend the time in prayer. It was this entity’s testimony that this decision completely renewed and revitalized their lives. Suddenly the sun shown brighter, the rain smelled sweeter, the hours flew more gracefully and graciously, and everything felt different. Yet they were doing precisely the same things and meeting the same difficult challenges that they had been meeting before.
The difference was time set aside within an intense desire to see deeper; to see with the eyes of the heart; to experience as the beloved Companion experiences. We commend to you whatever you may do that will help you to combine the worlds of form and spirit, so that you are never without a keen and present awareness of the power of Love. We leave you in that Love and that Light. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.
This morning I pumped half of the water out of the fishpond, and while the water was pumping out I fertilized the water lilies and trimmed off the daffodil stalks on all side of the fishpond and put them in a garbage can. While the water was refilling I decided to use my big mower, Venus, and mow the grass between the fishpond and the pet cemetery. After the fishpond was full of water I added AquaSafe to neutralize the chlorine in the water. Then I made a trip over to the Providence Care Home in southern Indiana to visit Connie. I read her the eulogy that I wrote for Carla’s funeral, and then I showed her some pictures of the flowers and bushes in my yard that are in bloom or which I have recently planted. We finished our visit with a meditation.
This afternoon I went to Thieneman’s Nursery and bought two flats of garden impatiens, two flats of dianthus, and one flat of snapdragons. I got the snap dragons and one flat of dianthus transplanted next to the Flower Fall Mound. Then I watered all of the plants with water that contained fertilizer, and then I sprayed all of them with deer repellant.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
April 19
Be Still And Adore
I am of the consciousness of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in that full consciousness of Love.
Be still!
Be still, each soul which seeks within and without for that stranger that you would identify as mystery.
Be still, each portal of sense and every shadow of pleasure and pain.
Be still! Let all come to rest, to kneel and adore. Let the self become a zero; a heavenly nothing. For only in the zero lies the infinity which then may fill the infinite space within which has been opened to the infinity without.
It is not by striving but by still surrender that the pilgrim of Earth shall know the place where he has been all the time.
We leave you in peace, now and always. 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.
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