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#3455 - Friday, February 27,
2009 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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In this issue a brief review and excerpts from Seeds for the Soul, by Chuck Hillig, the audio version. You'll find a link for an audio sample of Chuck reading from the text.
Audiobook (Available Now!)
Written and narrated by Chuck Hillig
Details and ordering information:
http://www.wetwaremedia.com/seeds.html
Listen to an excerpt:
http://www.wetwaremedia.com/audio/seedsexcerpt.mp3
"Justice is whatever happens."
"If you deny your truth, then you're stuck with only being able to defend your lie."
Seeds for the Soul, by Chuck Hillig, is one of the most often quoted texts in the Nonduality Highlights. It has been quoted in over 20 issues.
I've listened to the audio version of Seeds for the Soul, read by Chuck. Like his persona, Chucks voice is friendly and down home. His pacing, along with pauses in reading, make this audio book easy and pleasant to listen to. The reading and the audio quality are professional. Listen to an excerpt: http://www.wetwaremedia.com/audio/seedsexcerpt.mp3
This would be an extraordinary book to listen to during a long flight, on drives, other trips, at home, or wherever you enjoy audio books. Listening to even a portion of this book will leave you standing taller in the rain and walking unblown in hurricane winds. You receive not only the words of the book, the messages, but the vibrational impact of Chuck through his voice.
While Chuck comes across as warm and accessible, what he says is direct and sharp. You may find yourself surprised or even shocked to hear what Chuck says to you:
"If you're not willing to really feel your emotional pain, then you're not going to be feeling much of anything else, either. When you're deeply sad, become willing to cry tearfully on your cheeks. Even if you try keeping your pain hidden inside, sooner or later, you'll still have to cry it all out. Only this time, your tears will be on your soul."
"Inner peace is possible only in your willingness to become completely comfortable with every possible outcome. Yes, even the most painful ones."
"Can you get to a place in your heart where there is no more forward momentum?"
More excerpts from Seeds for the Soul:
Your life’s journey is a pilgrimage that’s
always going from one sacred space to yet another sacred space.
And the very road that you’re
traveling on between these sacred spaces is also
sacred, too.
No matter what
your life looks like right now, you’re always standing in
the
Your own Heart is truly the
Holy-of-Holies.
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Just because you feel like
doing something evil, it doesn’t mean that you absolutely have
to do it.
Deeply hidden within our
souls, we all have these secret pockets of
pathology.
All of them,
however, must be fully acknowledged, respected, honored and
embraced.
Notice your own craziness…and
then move on.
Most of our problems with
other human beings usually start with our own problems
with just being human.
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Your feelings don’t really hassle you.
What hassles you are your beliefs
about what you think you should be feeling instead of
what you actually are feeling.
In other words, you’re
“should-ing” all over yourself !!!
Your hassles only increase
when you feel:
angry…about
your anger,
sad…about your sadness,
fearful…about your fear,
distressed…about your distress
guilty…about your guilt
ashamed…about your shame
etc. etc. etc.
Give yourself 100%
permission to feel whatever is showing up for you.
You don’t have to feel
lousy about feeling lousy.
Just feel lousy.
You are the true
source of all of your own experiences in life.
Since it’s all your
drama, you’re even the true source of whatever it is that
you’re feeling victimized by.
In other words, no one else
is making you think or feel anything. They’re
just inviting you to create some experience for yourself,
and then you are taking them up on their offer.
You can change your feelings by
learning how to change your focus.
Your experiences in life
are ultimately determined by where you’re putting
your full awareness.
In the end, your heart will
always walk towards whatever it is that your mind
is paying attention to.
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Can you become so much at peace that, if you stopped
right now and took no further action whatsoever, your entire life
would still be perfectly whole and complete?
In other words, can you get to a
place in your heart where there’s no more forward
momentum?
A place where you don’t
need to move away from in order to feel “satisfied” or
“improved?”
A peaceful place where each
and every moment …no matter what is happening…is
a separate and unique destination in and of itself and, as such,
is completely worthy of joyous celebration?
True peace has no inner
momentum.
True peace is not “going”
anywhere.
True peace forms the
context in which both happiness and
unhappiness show up in.
True peace is always
at peace…even when it’s unhappy.
In fact, it’s at peace
even when it’s at war.
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Anyone can hear the noise in their mind that’s
hiding within the silence.
But can you also hear the
silence in your heart that’s hiding within the noise?
Only in stillness will you
discover the quiet in the middle of the chaos.
Only in stillness will you
discover the hush in the middle of the rush.
Crucifixion perfectly
symbolizes the ongoing dilemma of the ego.
One hand of your ego is,
seemingly, nailed to your memories about the past while your
other hand is, seemingly, nailed to your imaginings about the
future.
Although your body feels
pain in the present moment, your ego only adds to its own
suffering by blindly worshiping at the altars of memory and
imagination.
Until you fully
surrender to the present moment, you’ll always feel that you’re
being crucified.
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The people around you and the life events that you’re
experiencing are the answers that your Soul has created as a
response to your Heart’s deepest longing for healing,
freedom and true awakening.
Your personal life’s drama…no matter how traumatic it is or was…is the path that you, yourself, have chosen to bring you into full awakening.
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Everyone has only one real
mission in life: to awaken from the delusion that they’re
separate from everything else.
In fact, this persistent
delusion is the root cause of most of your emotional and physical
problems.
Your present life’s
condition at this very moment is your Soul’s current answer
to its #1 question:
“What has to happen
right now in order for me to wake up to who I am?”
The answer is always
“Whatever is happening right now.”
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Is it possible that we
unconsciously hurt ourselves because we inwardly know that our
deepest pain can often trigger Grace?
Do we, perhaps,
deliberately seek out pain and pleasure in order to more fully
participate in the extremes of experience that are available in
this human incarnation?
So, no matter what shows up
for it, Conscious-ness is always saying “Yes” to
absolutely everything …no matter how radical
or off-the-wall it might be.
Consciousness is an “Experience
Junkie!”
Consciousness is a single
party of One…trying to have a wild party…as “Two.”
It only wants to feast on
the Feast.
The world is not the illusion.
It’s you
who are the illusion.
Who you are is the context
that the entire world is happening in.
As long as you are in the
body, however, you won’t be waking up from the
illusion.
You’ll only be waking
up to the illusion.
Even after you’ve
discovered that it’s only illusory, the mirage of a desert
lake still looks just like a real lake.
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When you’re asleep and truly know that
you’re dreaming, it’s called lucid dreaming.
However, when you’re
awake and still know that you’re dreaming, then it’s
called enlightenment.
Right now, you’re not
really awake.
You’re only dreaming
that you’re awake.
And, ironically, a big part
of that dream is that, someday, you will eventually awaken.
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Give up waiting for the
proverbial “Enlightenment Bus” to come along for you.
It’s never going to show up.
Not ever!
Who you really
are will never…and can never …get
enlightened.
Getting enlightened is not
a big task for who you are.
Getting enlightened is only
a big task for who you are not.
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Don’t ask the Saints about
enlightenment. One question only leads to
another.
And, after all, not even
God can explain God.
Besides, a saint isn’t
any closer to enlightenment than is a sinner.
The only difference between
them is that a saint knows this while the
sinner is still pretending that he doesn’t.
The Heart of Enlightenment
lies in discovering that we’re all living in the very
heart center…of each other!
You are not “a” Divine
Being.
You are actually the
Divine…BE-ing.”
When you wake up, you can’t
simply substitute one dream called “Once-I-was-asleep”
for a newer dream called “But-now-I-am-awake.”
The dreaming god must first
awaken to his own dreaming.
But there are not two
different gods here; one who is so-called “sleeping”
and another one who is so-called “awake.”
Paradoxically, the god
who says that he is asleep is also the very same
god who is now saying that he is awake.
Audiobook (Available Now!)
Written and narrated by Chuck Hillig
Details and ordering information:
http://www.wetwaremedia.com/seeds.html
Listen to an excerpt: