Election Theme--Morality and Ethics--Goodness Which is Empowered and Tough!

Election Theme--Morality and Ethics--Goodness Which is Empowered and Tough!

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Jesus: At the very center of your soul is the Sacred Heart. It is not the left or the right side of your being, as your mind would view it—for your mind will divide anything into two parts for comparison and examination. Rather, your heart is the burning, fired up, passionate, coordinated center of your life which looks for unity, proceeds with love, and magnifies life with honesty, respect, justice, and kindness. Through that potential is a goodness which is empowered and tough. The Sacred Heart is truly your higher intelligence and the source of an inspired life. It is the heart’s intelligence which will prevail upon the Earth as mankind moves into the fullness of self-realization. You cannot find your happiness as a divided or weakened self.

Compared with the heart, the mind’s intelligence is devoted to establishing the parameters and guidelines for comparison and control. Where the mind is concerned, the pursuit of morality is not so much a way of improving life as a way of controlling it. In the process of developing a brotherhood which is kind and supportive, guidelines of morality can be important. However hard and fast rules are often instituted not to lift people up, but to put people down. This is the work of the mind intervening and usurping the heart’s power to establish foundations for judgment rather than for living.

True comprehension of morality and ethics far exceeds the mind’s dominion, although there are aspects of ethics which govern the mind. The most important principle of ethics to bear upon the mind is that of correct priority. The mind is a servant and not a master. The second most important factor is the support and enhancement which the mind does or does not give to innocent perception. It is not the right or privilege of the mind to invent or recreate reality in order to support or confirm its own agendas. Ultimately, all guidelines for mental ethics must be governed by standards of ‘workability.’ This is the function through which any mind integrates with universal law. There is also a strong implication of obedience here, for obedience is application of life and effort to workability. For example, a bridge builder who is obedient to the principles of pragmatic engineering is a successful producer whose bridges withstand the elements and convey travelers safely from one side to the other. Everything has its patterns of workability, and it is the mind’s duty to search them out diligently and to apply them earnestly. Obedience has oppressive connotations for many people because it has been interpreted to mean compliance with authority, right or wrong. This is tragic, because obedience to the laws of God always result in personal fulfillment and empowerment. False obedience is usually held in place with force and punishment, and typically results in low self-esteem for those who are subjugated to it.”

“Ethics is the ongoing process of applying principles of higher intelligence to the problems of collective existence, and endowing life with values that support the well-being of all. Ethics is the care we show in affecting the lives of others as well as a sense for where one’s greatest value lies in relation to others. Ethics might be summarized as cause and effect in balance, and applied for the greatest good.

Morality is essentially the devotion which is shown to bring about change for the better.

Morality involves a responsibility for the situations that arise in life and the willingness to confront them honestly and deal with them directly to cause an improvement. Part of this involves the personal hygiene of the body, mind, emotions, thought, and spirit. Cleanliness is indeed next to Godliness. Morality, however, is a personal attainment. It cannot be enforced externally without weakening the “I Am’ presence of an individual.

“Ethics is imperative for social decency and a workable civilization. Morality is imperative for personal clarity, strength, and virtue. The simplicity of it all, though, is that both are rooted in love

~~excerpt from Love Without End--Jesus Speaks, by persmission of the Author, Glenda Green

Responsibility, Ethics and Morality

Jesus: At the very center of your soul is the Sacred Heart. It is not the left or the right side of your being, as your mind would view it—for your mind will divide anything into two parts for comparison and examination. Rather, your heart is the burning, fired up, passionate, coordinated center of your life which looks for unity, proceeds with love, and magnifies life with honesty, respect, justice, and kindness. Through that potential is a goodness which is empowered and tough. The Sacred Heart is truly your higher intelligence and the source of an inspired life. It is the heart’s intelligence which will prevail upon the Earth as mankind moves into the fullness of self-realization. You cannot find your happiness as a divided or weakened self. Compared with the heart, the mind’s intelligence is devoted to establishing the parameters and guidelines for comparison and control. Where the mind is concerned, the pursuit of morality is not so much a way of improving life as a way of controlling it. In the process of developing a brotherhood which is kind and supportive, guidelines of morality can be important. However hard and fast rules are often instituted not to lift people up, but to put people down. This is the work of the mind intervening and usurping the heart’s power to establish foundations for judgment rather than for living. True comprehension of morality and ethics far exceeds the mind’s dominion, although there are aspects of ethics which govern the mind. The most important principle of ethics to bear upon the mind is that of correct priority. The mind is a servant and not a master. The second most important factor is the support and enhancement which the mind does or does not give to innocent perception. It is not the right or privilege of the mind to invent or recreate reality in order to support or confirm its own agendas. Ultimately, all guidelines for mental ethics must be governed by standards of ‘workability.’ This is the function through which any mind integrates with universal law. There is also a strong implication of obedience here, for obedience is application of life and effort to workability. For example, a bridge builder who is obedient to the principles of pragmatic engineering is a successful producer whose bridges withstand the elements and convey travelers safely from one side to the other. Everything has its patterns of workability, and it is the mind’s duty to search them out diligently and to apply them earnestly. Obedience has oppressive connotations for many people because it has been interpreted to mean compliance with authority, right or wrong. This is tragic, because obedience to the laws of God always result in personal fulfillment and empowerment. False obedience is usually held in place with force and punishment, and typically results in low self-esteem for those who are subjugated to it.” “Ethics is the ongoing process of applying principles of higher intelligence to the problems of collective existence, and endowing life with values that support the well-being of all. Ethics is the care we show in affecting the lives of others as well as a sense for where one’s greatest value lies in relation to others. Ethics might be summarized as cause and effect in balance, and applied for the greatest good. Morality is essentially the devotion which is shown to bring about change for the better. Morality involves a responsibility for the situations that arise in life and the willingness to confront them honestly and deal with them directly to cause an improvement. Part of this involves the personal hygiene of the body, mind, emotions, thought, and spirit. Cleanliness is indeed next to Godliness. Morality, however, is a personal attainment. It cannot be enforced externally without weakening the “I Am’ presence of an individual. “Ethics is imperative for social decency and a workable civilization. Morality is imperative for personal clarity, strength, and virtue. The simplicity of it all, though, is that both are rooted in love ~~excerpt from Love Without End--Jesus Speaks, by persmission of the Author, Glenda Green

Forgiveness is the fourth principle of success

“Forgiveness is the fourth principle of success”

Jesus: “One of the miracles about forgiving is that you cut away anything from the past that did not work for you. Most people are stuck with the dead and the dying, because they won’t forgive. People hang onto grudges as if they were sacred treasures. The tragedy of a grudge, however, is that it keeps you connected to something that did not work for you, failed you, betrayed you, or let you down. Grudges weigh upon you, and distract you from focusing toward success. Resentments make life into a cluttered disarray that never makes sense. If souls were compared to moving vehicles, a unforgiving soul could be seen as a dump truck with tin cans dragging off the back side. Clatter, clatter, clang, clang!! If you listen, you can hear them coming!

“Such a person is preoccupied with making up his damages in the stock market or other businesses that failed for him. He may be consulting an attorney every few months for one thing or another until accumulations of stress require medical attention. He does not get along with the neighbors because of his argument over their dogs. This is a typical situation for many people. This man's life is so consumed with regret and difficulty, there is no longer a focus toward the future. Then he wonders, ‘Why can I never come up with a good idea anymore? When I was twenty years old I had the world in front of me and more ideas than I could use.’

“It would be easier for a person to move through such difficulties and to forgive the accumulating offenses and disappointments of life if one crucial aspect of forgiveness were better understood—that is the harmony between intelligence and forgiveness. Forgiveness is made complete not by forgetting, but rather by understanding what went wrong and how it happened. Usually things go wrong because an understanding, ability, capacity or readiness for an opportunity was incomplete in the first place. You will not make it right by forgetting, and then doing the same thing again. Besides you cannot fully release your grievances against others until you understand your own participation in them.

“Though I ask you to forgive without ceasing, there is focus and intelligence to that also. The act of forgiving should not be a sacrifice of consciousness in which a person submits passively to repeated abuse. The purpose of forgiveness is to release negative attachments so that true enlightenment may be attained and constructive justice may be applied to a situation. For instance, repeated forgiveness of a destructive child without corrective intercession, would imply consent or permission for him to continue in the same way. The reason to forgive is to restore love, not to continue an unworkable or unconstructive situation. Forgiveness is eminently practical. You will benefit more from forgiving a neighbor who has accidentally blocked your driveway than to forgive an act of terrorism on the other side of the Earth. [The closer an offender is to your life, the more important it is to forgive.] By this same measure of truth, [I hope you realize that the most crucial person to forgive is yourself.] If everyone forgave himself and those close to him, the world would take care of itself!

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~~Excerpt (by permission from the author) from “Love Without End” by Glenda Green

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