Saturday, March 13, 2010

"True Salvation is fulfillment".....

"True salvation is fulfillment".....
Most people pursue physical pleasure or various forms of psychological gratification because they believe that those things will make them happy or free them from a feeling of fear or lack. Happiness may be perceived as a heightened sense of aliveness attained through physical pleasure, or a more secure & more complete sense of self attained through some form of psychological gratification. This is the search for salvation from a state of dissatisfaction or insufficiency. Invariably, any satisfaction that they obtain is short-lived, so the condition of satisfaction or fulfillment is usually projected once again onto an imaginary point away from the here & now. "When I obtain this or am free of that, then I will be okay." This is the unconscious mind-set that creates the illusion of salvation in the future.
True salvation is fulfillment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is to be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of Being that depends on nothing outside itself. True salvation is to know yourself as an inseperable part of the timeless & formless One life from which all that exists derives its being.
Trus salvation is a state of freedom from fear, from suffering, from a perceived state of lack & insufficiency & therefore from all wanting, needing, grasping & clinging. It is freedom from compulsive thinking from negativity, and above all from past & future as a psychological need. Your mind is telling you that you can not get there from here. Something needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free & fulfilled. You see time as the means to salvation. Whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation. You think that you cant get there from where & who you are at this moment because you are not yet complete or good enough. But the truth is that here & now is the only point from where you can get there. You "get" there by realizing that you are there already.
You find God the moment you realize that you dont need to seek God.

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