The Way Of Mastery ~ Lesson 1 ~ The Way That Calls You Home

[Jan Waldhoff]

Lesson 1 ~ The Way That Calls you Home

•      The great secret is the state of your reality. (pg 2)

•      …Your experience is always the effect of where you choose to focus the attention of your consciousness, itself being unlimited forever, embracing   all the many dimensions of creation. You abide in that which embraces in all things, in all ways, and at all times. (pg 2)

•      …”Is this an energy I wish to continue in or would I choose something else?” (pg 3)

•       As you as the soul – the individual divine spark – begin to choose to withdraw the attention and the value you have placed upon all things, as you learn to simplify the nature of your own consciousness, as you realize that you can surrender into something that seems beyond you and trust that you can entertain the insane thought of trusting the invisible, you come more and more to be less and less. (pg 3)   

•       First Axiom of truth…Nothing that you experience is caused by anything outside of you. You experience only the effects of your own choice. (pg 5)

•      …You need to come to a point where you say to yourself, “ I have done is to myself. I did it; I must correct it. No one is to take the blame. The world is innocent.“ (pg 5)

•        The Way of the Heart is not the way of the intellect. For indeed that aspect of the mid was never designed to be your master. It was designed to be the humble, and – if you will pardon the expression – very stupid servant of the awakened heart.
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•        The heart is that which feels all things, embraces all things, trusts all things, and allows all things. The heart is that in which the soul rests eternally.     The heart is that which is beyond space and time and is that spark of light in the Mind of God, which is called Christ.Only in that will you find the peace that you seek.                                                                                                                                                                                     You will discover that the pathway of awakening is not a pathway of avoidance, but a pathway of truthfulness. It is not a pathway of accomplishment and pride, but a pathway of releasing from the consciousness every hope and every wish to be special – to see yourself as having made progress – so that you can pound a fist upon the chest and spread the tail feathers. It is a transcendence of the hope of somehow getting God’s attention, so that he will look upon you and say, “Oh you have been such a good person. Yes, we will allow you into the kingdom now.”(pg 5) 

•        Not my will, but thine will be done. For myself, I do nothing. But the Father does all things through me. (pg 6) 

•        Rest assured whenever you feel frustrated and anxiety; it is because you have decided to trust the truth. And the Truth is simply this:       

                                                                     Only God’s plan for salvation can work for you. (pg 6)

•       It requires great humility to accept the first step of the path:   

 

                    I have done all this; I must undo it.

                   But I have no idea how I did this.                              

                  Therefore, I must surrender to something else. (pg 6)

 

•       It begins by accepting that of yourself, you can do nothing. (pg 7)

•       …“Ah, its my Self. I have always been there, but I forgot.” (pg 7)

•      …to awaken means to have journeyed nowhere. (pg 7) 

•         Awakening is only remembrance. (pg 7)

•      …awaken and relax into the Truth that is true always. (pg 7) 

•      …Cultivate a deep love and respect for yourself, for you are not here to “fix” the world. You are not here to “fix” your brother or your sister. It is only love that heals. And until you have loved yourself wholly by having purified the mind of every erroneous thought you have ever held – until you have loved yourself – you do not, in Truth Love anyone or anything. (pg 8)

•      …Eventually each soul must find its way in to the Way of the Heart. Each soul must… take responsibility; to learn to cultivate the ability to look upon the deep and vicious blackness of what I have called “ego,” which is nothing more than the cesspool of denial. It is that which lacks light. (pg 8)

•        Along the pathway of this course, you are going to learn how to shake hands with the devil, and do a little jig with him and recognize his face to be your own. When you can dance with the darkness that you have created, that darkness is transformed into an angel. And light abides with Light.    (pg 8)   

•        It will come to pass that you will know the perfect peace of empty-headedness, not knowingness. You will know what it means to be relieved of time and to comforted by what is eternal. Never once let yourself think that you are alone. 

             Blessings to you all

           Jan