Our lives are living opportunities to explore the celestial stuff of consciousness from which we are created. We can either choose to substantiate this relationship with reality through the “process” of paying attention to its invitation, or we can refuse it.

The first (and highly recommended) action places us upon the guest list of God’s life. The latter choice, our failure to be awake and attend to the moment at hand, leads to nothing but more involvement with nothing. So the right choice is always to choose in favor of Real Life! That’s what our studies together are all about: learning to discern Truth when it knocks at our door. And practicing what we know strengthens our relationship with Truth. For instance, much as in the same way we must learn to give our attention to these impulses of consciousness appearing in the stream of our self, so we must learn to be awake to the garbage that bubbles up from the bottom of this stream that also calls for our attention. When a depressive state begins to press in, we can work to wake up and remember that a depressing thought embraced crushes the one who embraces it. We learn this lesson by loving something Higher.

Everything depends on what we really want from life. When at last wisdom is recognized as being needed more than winning whatever it may be, then we’re willing to begin risking what we think we know for the sake of discovering the truth of ourselves. These actions alone not only purify us and our understanding, but lead to a new kind of faith in the process.