Picture: American White Pelican swimming on placid Lake Cahuilla with a promise of sun.
We have returned from the open desert of Borrego Springs to placid Lake Cahuilla near Palm Springs. There has been more rain in California this winter than for many years, breaking the long drought here but also causing some problems in the north with flooding. After several days of cool, cloudy, rainy weather it shows promise this morning for the return of the sun. A morning thought came streaming through with the sun, hammering away the walls of darkness and separation; a powerful tool for breaking dualities hold on the mind.
God, being the sole power in all the three worlds, must be behind every thought, word and action we can conceive, and that which is beyond what we can comprehend. The good, the bad and the ugly must all be powered by a single source, for how can there be another when God created all there is?
“But,” you may say, “there is so much in me and in the world that is not of God, there must be two powers!” In a relative, human sense, that is true, duality is by definition bi-polar. However, in an absolute, divine reality there can be only one power, one creator. Even the power for sensual attractions, to do evil, to go against the light of God must be admitted to come from one ultimate source.
You look inside and you say, “I feel so weak, no life-energy or light at all,” and yet, that powerful feeling of weakness must come from the One. You say, “I am drawn to so many temptations, those things that take me further away from God,” and that too must come from God Himself, for there is no other.
On a human level we definitely experience being on the battleground between good and evil. Each day is a test of our attraction and love for God, versus our mind’s tendency for being seduced into a world of separation from the One. And here is a great secret, once you trace the power for separation back to God, really trace it (not just a half-hearted weak thought), you break the power of separateness–all that which is negative in every thought, word or action. Darkness hates the light, and cannot co-exist with it. Once you bring the light of God into the picture as the one, true source of all, darkness must depart.
Keep your mind on God means just that, keep your attention focused on Him no matter the content of your thoughts or feelings. There is only one power, keep affirming this fact, feeling that all comes from Him; you purify the mind even as you practice this and cure its addiction for separateness. God is the power behind every thought, word and action, this is the absolute truth; it cannot not be! Never let go of it and you will be brought into His holy Presence, where no darkness or evil abides. All is He, all is He; blessed Spirit, all is He!