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NOTE: This
answer was given on June, 27, 2008, during the Shangra-la conference
in Hawaii.
Answer from Mother Mary:
Coming from the heart IS
the Christ consciousness, not a part of it. For, in a sense, my beloved,
the tendency among humankind – even among many spiritual people,
even among ascended master students – is to want to break everything
down into parts, and thus say, “Ah, first there is that part,
and I have to fulfill that requirement, and then I can begin on the
next requirement.”
Now, my beloved, in a sense this is a necessary stage of the path, for
as we have said before, the path implies that you take one step at a
time. Nevertheless, if you have – if you see within yourself
– the tendency to be too analytical, to focus too much on the
mind, then make a conscious decision and a conscious effort to go beyond
the concept of seeing the path as steps, as parts that can be divided
into separate units.
Stop seeing Christhood as individual separated parts that must be fulfilled,
but instead, make the conscious effort to step back, to look at the
big picture, to focus on the whole. Start seeing Christhood as a process,
as an ever-flowing stream.
For my beloved, you will note, that if you contemplate a stream of water,
you cannot take it apart. Surely you can have your little bucket, my
beloved, as you did when you were children. You can dip your bucket
into the stream, and pull it up on the shore, and then you can sit there
and look at the water that has now been separated from the stream and
is now set apart from the stream.
But you see, my beloved, you have not stopped the stream. You have taken
a portion out of the stream, and you have stopped the flow in that portion.
But the stream is still moving on. The River of Life is ever flowing.
So, what I am saying, my beloved, is to no longer be the child who is
sitting next to the river looking at the stale water in the bucket.
Instead, get up, take the bucket, throw it back into the stream, and
then jump in after it, no longer setting yourself apart.
For you see, my beloved, there will always be those who stand on the
shore, maybe dipping their toe in the water. But my beloved, I have
long ago jumped in, and I can tell you: "The water is fine!"
[Laughter]
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