From "A Guide To Awareness And Tranquillity" pages 150- 152

THE HEIGHTENED SENSE OF ALIVENESS

QUESTION: Mr. Samuel, now that I am engaged in this study I seem to be more acutely aware than I have ever been. Why?

ANSWER: The rose illustration spoken of earlier shows that as one commences and sticks to the NOW, conscious Awareness is less cluttered with the fears and frustrations of personal thinking. Consciousness (Awareness) is the activity of Isness, the Divine Mind, whereas personal thought taking is the action of the intellect, the would be possessor of the consciousness. As long as we consider ourselves the be the intellect, we are not identifying ourselves as Awareness and are not as acutely aware of that which Awareness includes. Sticking to the NOW we are consciously being Awareness, letting the intellect go hang. This is one of the "reasons" everyone engaged in this activity enjoys a heightened sense of aliveness---Awareness and Life being synonymous terms.

Even though it seems otherwise, Awareness has never been less than perfectly aware, because it is the activity of Isness itself. These apparent differences of degree are mere intellectual opinions of the personality me. Nothing more. Isness does not begin to see itself more clearly!

QUESTION: Why am I enjoying so many more thoughts now than ever before?

ANSWER: This is like asking, "Why do I hear so much more music now that I've stopped eating potato chips?" God is being "thoughts" as well as "things." The Awareness Isness entertains of itself includes the thought. Letting go the intellect, the possessor-ego we are not, the Awareness we are is found overflowing with thoughts that come from (and are) the Deific Mind. These thoughts appear to rush in and take the place of the great glut of comparative judgments and evaluations which were the fearful thinking of the intellect.

What wonder and awe is ours when we find Deific thought---angels, as some call them---effortlessly included within the very Identity we are: perfect thoughts, serene and peaceful thoughts, "arriving" to maintain the integrity of the NOW-"moment," arriving that we may know whatever appears necessary at the moment.

Now you see, "thinking no thought" is not to stop thinking or to empty consciousness. The cluttered thinking to "stop" is the foolish business of judging sights and sounds. Of giving values to the images and thoughts of Awareness, of planning and calculating to bring about a more perfect perfection. Those are the foolish things we do when identified as the personality-ego-intellect who believes he is the possessor of Awareness. Identified as Awareness, we find the Identity-we-are filled with every tangible and intangible thing that ever appears necessary.

ISNESS is the thinker, the thinking and the thought. What has this Thinking-I-am to do but sit back and enjoy the Thought of the Thinker?....like a mighty mountain watching the wonders of the seasons as they paint their pictures of perfection on my face!

"The time for the thinker has come." Bosh! The time has come to reckon God to be the only mind in all existence, and God, the only thinker. The time has come to stop playing at being an opinion-thinker, to be the listening for a change! Awareness listens; it doesn't think! Awareness hears the incoming music of Supernal Being which personal thinking only covers over with a veneer of erudite sheep dip.

We do not stop thinking, as such--we stop thinking ourselves, to become consciously aware of the Godhead thinking as this identity-as "us"

EFFORTLESS THOUGHTS

"Splendor beyond words!
….sweet sounds bathed in gossamer beams from an expanded heaven…
The immaculately; conceived now so effortlessly perceived: Incommunicable language of gentle words;
Intimate symphony without sound.
"Questions no longer!
…..a simple basking in the soft new sound of the NOW that ALL is…
The 'has been' and 'shall be' passed away."

From The Melody of the Woodcutter and the King

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