Ten Teachings for One World: Wisdom from Mother Mary by Gina Lake

Author:Gina Lake
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: enlightenment, personal transformation, wisdom, spiritual awakening, inner peace, love, nonduality, mother mary, happiness, unconditional love
Published: 2015-01-10T10:06:58.111331+00:00

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The Seventh Teaching

Follow Your Joy

You were given a compass, and that compass is joy. You are meant to go in the direction that brings joy, not in the direction that brings suffering. The egoic mind promises you joy but delivers only temporary satisfaction and happiness. Then the suffering that comes with feeling that you never have enough returns.

Most people do not follow their joy. Instead, they follow the sense of not having or being enough. They allow the sense of lack to drive them forward, seeking here and there for fulfillment, for what will fill the sense of lack created by the human condition, the ego.

However, nothing that the egoic mind suggests can fill that lack, because the sense of lack was created by the same thing that proposes to fix it. How can something (the ego) that creates a sense of lack also solve the problem of feeling lacking—and why would it? The solution cannot be found by chasing after the ideas presented by the very thing that created the problem. The sense of lack cannot be solved by the egoic mind, no matter how convincing the egoic mind sounds.

The sense of lack can only be solved by dropping out of the mind. When you drop out of the mind, you lose the sense that anything is lacking. That is an easy solution! There never was anything lacking, and that is all you have ever had to see to feel full and complete. Nothing was ever needed except to see the truth: Nothing is lacking in you, in others, or in life.

The sense of lack is part of the illusion created by the mind. When you know you are not your mind, then the illusion of lack disappears—no more lack! Nothing is or ever was lacking. The belief that something is lacking makes this seem true, but it is not true. Your beliefs are powerful! You create the experience of lack simply by believing that something is lacking.

The sense of lack is so ingrained that most people are unaware that it is there. They just react to it as if it were true. For most, the sense of lack is a deeply held belief. It seems absolutely and unquestionably true: “Of course I’m lacking. Of course my life is lacking! And I have to do something about it or I’ll never be happy.”

This is the lie that keeps the illusion going. So off you go trying to fix yourself and your life, when the problem is that you are focused on a sense of self and a sense of lack that is not actually real. The truth is that there is nothing to fix about yourself and your life. All is well just as it is. There is no problem with you or with life being just as it is.

The sense of yourself and the sense of lack are both manufactured by the mind. They create the human condition that is one of suffering. You not only believe you

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