The Only Thing That Matters (19 page)

The pursuit of love looks like The Path.

The pursuit of security looks like The Path.

The pursuit of success looks like The Path.

The pursuit of power looks like The Path.

The pursuit of money looks like The Path.

The pursuit of happiness looks like The Path.

The pursuit of sex looks like The Path.

The pursuit of popularity looks like The Path.

The pursuit of peace looks like The Path.

The pursuit of social justice looks like The Path.

None of these trails are The Path, but all of these can look, from time to time,
exactly like The Path
, appearing to be the walkway that will take you where you want to go—especially if you aren't entirely
clear
about where you want to go (much less the fastest way to get there).

If the first step toward the actual path is what you believe about God, the purpose of your Life, and about your Soul, the second step is moving into clarity about where you want to go. You have to want to go where the Soul is going, and not where the Body or the Mind sometimes wish to go—or think they
should
be going.

The Soul is going to a place called Completion, and that goal can be reached on a moment-to-moment basis, step-by-step, stage-by-stage, in one's life.

If you've jumped ahead to this Conversation without reading all of Part Two, you have missed the deeper explanation of that. You may think, then, that Life is about some longer-range goal. Or some loftier aspiration. Or about some more particular or more easily articulated and generally agreed-with outcomes, such as those listed above.

You can be excused for holding such notions, because some of these, at least, are exceedingly worthwhile objectives. Who can argue with the creating of Love, Peace, or Social Justice as the goal of one's life?

Only if we are spiritually awakened—or if we have spent a lifetime working for those other things and, having achieved those goals at least in part, found that
this is not it
, and we are still not fulfilled—could we know that the Path of the Soul must be going
somewhere else
.

Further, only if we
take
the Path of the Soul to that Somewhere Else Place could we know that
in
that place will be found all the things we were looking for and struggling to create by
leaving
The Path—including everything on the list above.

You can, as was said earlier here, trust that if the whole of humanity paid attention to the Soul's Agenda and to what it takes to complete it, the items on the above list, and the many other things that all humans hope for, would then “show up” in our world automatically. It is already occurring that way in individual lives all over the planet.

So what does it “look like” to take the Path of the Soul, to express and experience What One Desires?

It will change everything.

It will change how you think, how you feel, how you speak, how you act, how you
inter
act, how you love, how you work, how you play, how you eat, and yes, even how you sleep.

You will sleep better than you have ever slept before, because your Mind will be more rested than it has ever been before, because your Heart will be more open than it has ever been before, because your Soul will be more heard than it has ever been before.

You will still do many of the same things you did before, but you will do them for a different reason, in a different way, with a different purpose, seeking a different outcome, and producing a different result.

You will suddenly seem very clear about the “why” behind every “what” that is occurring in your life, and when you are clear about the “why” you will intuitively know “what” to do about “what” is occurring—and it will not “occur” to you to do anything else.

“Doingness” will not be absent from your life, but it will henceforth be a reflection, a demonstration, and an announcement of where you are, rather than an attempt to get somewhere.

Abruptly, everything will seem perfectly “okay” in your life just the way everything
is
—even if yesterday you would have called the way things are “not okay.”

You will feel this sudden shift not because you will have become apathetic about the way things are, but precisely the opposite—because you have become fully
responsive
to how things are. You will be
fully
responding­—that is, from The Totality of You; from your Body, your Mind,
and your Soul
, rather than from your Body and your Mind alone, which is how most people on Earth have been responding to most occurrences most of the time. Which, in
turn
, is why 98% of the people have spent 98% of their time on things that don't matter.

21
A Look At What One Desires and
What One Does on The Path

W
HILE THE WAY
to
know
What One Desires is to bring your Soul into your Mind, combining the two into One, the way to
express What One Desires
is to then bring the Body into this process. This is called Integration. It brings the Whole of You into Integrity. Now the Holy Trinity is completely realized­—made
real
—in you. This is what spiritual mastery is all about.

When, in any Moment, the
three
aspects of The Totality of You are fully integrated, in that Moment The Only Thing That Matters is
What One Desires
.

You have reached Completion.

You have Mastered The Moment.

What One Desires
manifests through you, in you, as you. The Body, the Mind, and the Soul out-picture in the Physical Realm that which is known in the Spiritual Realm. Divinity is then
experienced.
And this experience is created through what you are
being
—not through what you are doing.

Each time you are Being Love fully, you have taken the Path of the Soul and you have achieved Completion. You are there. You have arrived. You have reached your destination.

Each time you are Being Understanding fully, you have taken the Path of the Soul and you have achieved Completion. You are there. You have arrived. You have reached your destination.

Each time you are Being Compassion fully, you have taken the Path of the Soul and you have achieved Completion. You are there. You have arrived. You have reached your destination.

Each time—in every
nanosecond
—that you are demonstrating Patience, Caring, Tenderness, Clarity, Kindness, Wisdom, Generosity, Acceptance, Goodness, or Charity
fully
, you have taken the Path of the Soul and you have achieved Completion. You are there. You have arrived. You have reached your destination.

If there is a moment when you are demonstrating all of these things simultaneously, you have, in that moment, in that nanosecond, no farther to go. You have expressed, and thus experienced, Divinity at the highest level of which your present level of Consciousness is capable.

The exciting thing is, your level of Consciousness will then immediately expand, allowing you to move farther into grander and grander experiences.

This is precisely what is happening right now.
This is exactly what is occurring
as you are reading this book
, and during these very days and times in your life. You have achieved all of these things one by one, and yes, you have even achieved these things simultaneously, already in your life. Now you are going to the next level. Now you are proceeding to the next stage in your spiritual evolution.

Since you so easily remember all of this now, the question becomes: Why don't you remember it at the moment when you are stepping to the next stage and could
use
these reminders—in the nanosecond when your choice to demonstrate and personify these aspects of Divinity at the next highest level could alter a moment dramatically and change your life (not to mention the life of another)?

As it is, there are still moments in your life when you do
not
feel loving, understanding, compassionate, patient, caring, tender, clear, kind, wise, generous, accepting, good, or charitable.
Why not?
Especially when you
know
that this is the way you
would
feel if you were your Highest Self.

Why can't you rise to that level more often? At will? And stay there?

It could be because in some of the Moments when Life conditions are inviting you to absorb more of the Awareness of your Soul, your “sponge” is full, cannot soak up any more of the “ocean,” and simply needs to be rung out.

In such Moments your Mind loses touch with your Soul, forgets some of what the Soul knows, and imagines that you are being attacked, or are about to be, and must defend yourself, because it imagines that your first priority is to survive.

Or it could be that your Mind believes that you are about to lose something, or have already lost it, or are being denied something, or have never had it, or are being made wrong about something, or are losing control of something (if not everything).

Or it could be that you feel you just don't have the time and energy right now to keep plugging away, keep plowing ahead, your face constantly to the wind. Maybe you'd just like the wind at your back for a while. For just a few blessed moments, thank you very much …

What you need are tools
.
Devices. Methods or approaches that could
place
the wind at your back, that could
give
you smooth sailing for a while, that could
clear
The Path for at least a little bit, the part just ahead, so that every … single … step did not have to be a Major Struggle, requiring a Major Effort.

Well, you've come to the right place. You've brought yourself to the right place. You
created
this place, through you own willingness to be here. You demonstrated that willingness the moment you picked up this book.

And …

… it goes deeper than that …

22
Who Are You and Who Am I?

M
Y
D
EAR
S
OUL
F
RIEND
… Are you beginning to see what is going on here?

It is your deep desire to call forth
your own
wisdom,
your own
awareness of how to solve “the unavoidable, intractable, and oppressive problems of everyday life (pocketbook issues, work stresses, relationships, etc ….),” that is projecting that wisdom and awareness outward into your exterior world, just as it always has, causing your own inner knowing to “show up” as a book or a movie or a lecture. Or the chance utterance of a friend on the street. Or the lyrics of the next song you hear on the radio.

These little incidents in life are co-created by you and many other Souls. That is why they are called
“co … incidents.”

You are constantly co-creating your reality with the Rest Of You. You begin to understand this as you begin to remember that We Are All One, and that the other people on the earth are simply the Rest Of You.