“My kingdom is not of this world.”

“It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

In contemporary language:

My happiness and security is not in circumstances.

Happiness, the quiet joy of being, is our true nature;
not the fleeting excitement of the person.

Identified as “me” we are unaware of Awareness [Christ]; we erroneously attribute happiness to objects.

Neither voodoo nor rocket-science 😇

“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”

Life/Reality is benevolent; I am not a personal doer.

Life gave us the gift of mind and speech,
but somehow we got lost in it.

Through the transmission of ignorance we developed the sense of “me” as a separate entity, defined and confined by thoughts and feelings.

…but now there is resistance in seeing that “me” is only a belief and not our true identity.

“Truth is simple, but the seeker is complex.”

What do I really want?
What am I?

Thinking can prepare us, but the answer itself is not conceptual.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ [Awareness], s/he is a new creation.
The old things have passed away;
behold, the new has come into being.

The most precious gift [Awareness] is hidden in plain sight.

The working mind is a powerful tool in this world of names and forms.

The psychological thinking mind creates separation, suffering, unhappiness.

Discerning is crucial in understanding the nature of mind, the nature of reality.

“Truth is simple, the seeker is complex.”

On my own I was stuck in my head for decades,
but together with like-hearted friends
it is a natural unfolding:

GardenOfFriends.com

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone for five minutes.”

Blaise Pascal

It is not about belief, hope or wishful thinking, but to learn to ask freedom-questions. Not intimidated, even by our own thoughts and feelings, but to be the change we want to see in the world.

Yes, suffering is a misunderstanding!