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This activity has been extracted from p. 184 of You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey from Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy by James Blanchard Cisneros. The present moment is perfect. If you see anything other than perfection in the moment or in your brother or sister, it is because you have veiled the present with past judgments. When enough veils are placed on top of each other, they become as thick as a wall and obscure the light of truth. You might add or subtract a veil and thus change your perception of reality, but it is still just that, a perception of reality. The truth is simple, but it can be as complicated as you wish to make it. As long as you bring any judgment into the present, you will color the present with the past and thus change the present’s true color. This will create confusion, and ultimate peace cannot be experienced as long as you are confused. Allow the simplicity and truth of the moment to manifest itself, or choose to replace it with the complexity and confusion of what you think you wish to see. This is the one choice you make in every moment. The present moment simply is. It is freed from past judgments or future imaginings. You will find peace by allowing the present moment to be what it is. You will experience peace by simply doing two things: 1 - Having faith that the moment is perfect 2 - Being thankful for however the moment chooses to manifest itself in your mind The present moment is perfect and your simple recognition is all that is asked of you in order for you to experience its perfection. It is in allowing the present moment to be what it is that you will find peace. And as you recognize the present as God’s gift, you will replace your judgment of it with gratitude. If you do not experience peace in the present moment, it is because you have substituted the ego’s illusions for the present moment. The ego will invite you to believe in a thousand different ways in which you can lose your peace of mind. The ego will also offer you a thousand different solutions. Yet, if one of the ego’s illusions or solutions is unreal, then all the ego’s illusions and solutions are unreal. For the ego’s illusions and solutions in and of themselves are nothing. And regardless of how many times you multiply nothing, you will still get nothing. You might ask for an example to clarify this point. The manifestation of that example might clarify a small number of similar illusions. This is exactly what the ego would offer, because it gives more than enough wiggle room to offer you a thousand different illusions and a thousand solutions to those illusions. And as long as you have use for the ego, it can remain alive, well and in control of your perceptions. And so I offer no specific examples to cloud your thoughts. I do offer that all illusions, regardless of their manifestations, will result in a loss of peace. There is really only one illusion, one problem, which is that you are experiencing the illusion as real. Call it your spouse’s impatience, your boss’ ruthlessness, traffic or your job. Call it what you will. If it takes away your peace, it is because you have seen the illusion as real. In their essence, all illusions are the same because all illusions are not real. React as you will to illusions. Defend yourself against illusions if that rocks your boat. Hate, fear and punish that figment of your imagination that does not exist if you wish to. Anytime that you relate to the present moment with anything but peace and gratitude, you have had a misperception brought on by a past judgment you thought had once served your purpose. In
order to live in the present moment, let go of past patterns that are
inconsistent with the truth within you. Offer God the judgment of your
brother or sister, the judgment that has brought you nothing but sadness,
pain and regret, and in turn He will offer you eternal peace of mind and
joy. Offer Him all your past perceptions and He will offer you the eternal
present moment. If you put aside the unfruitfulness of judgment, you could
easily lift the many veils you use to cover the present moment. Beneath
the veils, you would rediscover the simplicity of faith, faith that the
present moment is perfect. This rediscovery, that you need not add nor
subtract or judge the present moment, will offer you total freedom and
peace. And gratitude will become your only sane response to the offering
of total freedom and peace. Lay aside all judgment, and feel yourself lifted into another world, a world that you have not seen or experienced for a long time but one that has always been and will always be available to you. If you offer God a little willingness to put your judgments aside, he will in turn, offer you eternal peace of mind and joy. Do this for one moment in time and you will rediscover that this is all you desire. As you rediscover this, you will also find that this truth is available to everyone, at any time, and that a simple decision is all that separates those who have rediscovered their truth from those who are in the process of rediscovering their truth. Knowledge that the perfection of the present moment is available to everyone all the time will fill your heart with an overflowing sense of gratitude and joy that even the most blind will see. Your heart will burst with rainbow-colored love that will touch everyone, and the judgment of your brother and sister will all but dissolve in its light. Your simple willingness to put judgment aside will result in the complete love of God flowing through your soul and not one cell in your body will be left untouched by His gratitude and love. You have dammed a free flowing river, and as a result, you have not felt God’s complete gratitude and love flowing through you. But by trusting the present moment, you are once again putting your trust in God. Once you have done so, thousands of illusionary bricks will fall, again letting the river flow free. The river will overflow its banks, and you too will overflow with God’s gratitude and love. As the banks of a flooding river cannot contain its waters, your ego-self will not be able to prevent your Godself from extending and offering all that has been extended and offered to you. As you extend this love to your brothers and sisters, your gratitude and love toward them will grow, for as you extend love so too will you experience it, its fullness, beauty and purity. Simply put judgment aside and allow the present moment to be. If you do this, all your brother or sister’s colors, races, religions, beliefs, actions and reactions will melt into a pot of gratitude and love so fulfilling that peace of mind and joy will forever overwhelm your heart and life. You will live in gratitude, and others will be grateful to have you in their lives. Your brothers and sisters are also engaged in a search. They may not realize that they are searching, but they are also on a journey. It is the realization that they are not where they want to be that will awaken the memory of their own journey. You will be there as an example to them that the place they are looking for is within reach. And you will remind them that it is not so much a physical journey but a simple realization. It is a simple shift from coloring the present with past judgments, to one of being grateful and allowing what is to be.
Read the entire section
of the book that this activity comes from: Chapter
Eight Overview: Being in the Now.
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