Joy and Wisdom

“You must understand: joyfulness is an integral part of everything that you do in the spirit world. Nothing in the spirit world, in terms of progress, is ever done without exceptional joy. In the spirit of you, your connectedness to one another and to God is ever joyous.

Joy is like revelation – it bursts forth upon you and engulfs you. It affects every aspect of your being. From your spirit, there comes the recognition of the at-one-ment with God. From your feeling-nature, there is the joyousness of feeling, not just knowing in the head, but feeling, with every part of you, the wonder, the love, all of the goodness that fills you, enwraps you, and with this comes wisdom.

Wisdom is the opening, one would say, of the spirit in its fullness. It is that which is known, not just known intellectually. The spirit of you has to be awakened.

You have been taught, and rightly so, that in your spirit you are already perfect; you know everything and so forth. But, the spirit is like a flower – it has its roots in God; it has its very life in God, and like a flower, it blooms.”

 08/25/2024 Blog. Ascended Master Stella, RESURRECTION AND FAITH, February 10-12, 2012, Pgs. 11-12. Copyright © 2012 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. Photo copyright SophieWalster - Dreamstime.com

JUSTICE!

“Justice actually means an equality of quality for all concerned. What is good for one should be good for all. Where there are benefits for some, there should be benefits for everyone. A true justice is all-encompassing love and the ability to look past appearances and into the truth of any situation.”

08/23/2024 Blog. Ascended Master Stella, RESURRECTION AND FAITH, February 10-12, 2012, Pg. 8. Copyright © 2012 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved.

OVERCOMING THE EGO

“So when you recognize… And I know you all can recognize when the ego has you by the hind end, you all know it. Instead of playing along with it by going deeper and deeper and down and down, which it just loves… instead of doing that, do this, ‘I know this is either the energy of inertia or the energy of control. I desire to be rid of both. I want to go up,’ and make a concerted effort to go up. Now the ego’s not going to say, ‘Oh! Alright. Good-bye!’ It’s going to grab you by the feet and pull you down. It’s going to do whatever it can do to keep you from going up. And then is when you have to use your discernment – what is the voice in your head telling you? Is it saying, ‘You go for it. You get up there.’ Or is it saying, ‘Why do you want to bother doing that? You know that’s not going to work. You won’t be up there long enough to tie your shoes. So why do you bother to go?’

You have to listen to what voice is in your head. If it’s discouraging, down-putting in any way, you’re listening to the wrong voice. If you are hearing a voice that says, ‘Come to me, my child, I love you and I will protect you,’ then you are listening to the right voice. And everything, I care not what it is, in your world that you deal with every day, the same spiritual law applies. The same one: Detach. Detach. Detach from the result. That is the only way you can beat the ego.

08/21/2024 Blog. Nq-on Kar, A Tibetan Master, TRUE DETACHMENT FROM ILLUSION, April 29-21, 2013, Pg. 8. Copyright © 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan and Donald Gilbert. All rights reserved. Photo (c) Anderswiken - Dreamstime.com