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1 Detach from all things. Detach from everything, because everything you hold on to generates a new thought, one after another.
2 Live life moving forward, thinking positively. Do not hold on to anything. Do not store what is no longer needed. Do not hold on to (*)dreams, do not hold on to what was and no longer is. Do not hold on to anything.
3 No thoughts equate to no worries—except, of course, for the responsibilities you must meet. Those are your biddings. Those are the things you must do: to work and to release the attachments you no longer recognize as such.
4 Begin enjoying life as it is. For example, as difficult as it may seem to many, do not even take (*)pictures of what you see—because in doing so, you miss the moment. You miss the splendor of things. You save them to remember. Save only what serves your growth, not what creates attachment.
5 FV—For instance, (*)I am voice recording because I want to analyze, remember, and return to it repeatedly until understanding arises.
6 CFKW—That is what memory is useful for: to help you understand how things work and to help you “re-live” the moment so you do not have to repeat the thought process. It allows you to revisit the same process in order to let it go.
7 But that same memory bank can also be used to preserve what does not need to be preserved. It can be used to hold on to things that bind you to your thoughts.
8 Can you see the pattern here? You can see what we call the good and the bad. We call things bad because we assign labels. We know something is bad because it takes us farther from where we belong. That expression is simply a way of identifying a process.
9 Holding on to memories of what we have done in the past and reliving them mentally—believing the past was better than the present—takes us nowhere.
10 Regretting what you have done, or desiring to relive the past because it felt better than the present, allows thoughts to drift into negativity.
11 Reliving past experiences is a creation in thought form, arising from attachment. They are gone; they no longer exist. When a thought carries you into the past, it replaces your present.
12 Holding on to the past brings the past into the present. That is neither learning nor growth—it leads nowhere.
13 The process is simple: use memory only for what is beneficial—to understand the process. Do not use it as storage for days that were and no longer are, because they lead nowhere.
14 For example, when watching television, observe the details necessary for learning within your journey. Do not become involved in meanings that do not reflect a lived reality or a reality you wish to live.
15 Do not identify with it. Observe the core meaning of life within any programming and acknowledge how far behind or how advanced we are, while maintaining positive thinking amid negative influences.
16 Transform them. Use them. Absorb negativity and turn it into positive thoughts that reinforce positive behavior.
17 But be careful—do not spend your entire life thinking. The thought process itself is what has kept us on the treadmill.
18 Use thought positively for growth, and give the mind rest by remembering that thought must be regulated. Control the thought process. Take a daily dose of non-thinking. Simply do not think, and learn the process.
19 Learn it fully, because either way, it must be learned. There is no escape.
20 Everything unfolds. Everything moves. Nothing stops. Wanting it to stop only makes it harder, because resistance itself becomes habitual.
21 One negative thought leads to another. One positive thought leads to another. That is how it works. Now decide which direction you choose: positive or negative thought.
22 The negative is not inherently bad—though it does not lead where you need to go. It is not bad in essence; it is simply a thought. A thought is just a thought.
23 There is no need to complicate this. Return to union with the One Force: the original Source, the original Thought. It has always been—(*)no beginning and no end. It simply is.
24 There will come a time when thoughts become calm and subtle, yet they will always move. It will always move because the essence (*) is one, and that essence is everlasting.
25 Having thought after a thought after a thought—indefinitely—the human mind may believe this leads nowhere, but the opposite is true.
26 When you realize you are a thought, and that you are part of that thought, and that simply being part of it is enough, you become free—because in essence, you are a thought.
27 Freedom comes from acknowledging that you are thought. You need not go anywhere, because a thought has nowhere to go. You are the doer. It is only a thought—and a thought is Life itself.
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Annotations:
Article 2—This does not refer to the dreaming process itself, but to the aspect of dreaming as imagining—specifically, the act of wanting or desiring something.
Article 4— By “pictures,” this refers to missing the present moment through the act of taking photographs, as commonly occurs with the use of mobile devices.
Article 5—“I am” is used because I am describing what I am perceiving and explaining it in my own words, based on the intent being received.
Article 23—The concept of no beginning and no end refers to the Source. It bears no relation to the creation of Life, which does have a beginning and an uncertain future as it unfolds through the evolution of the soul.
Article 24—This essence, being one, is the original Source—beyond human comprehension, particularly in relation to its perpetuity, which exceeds the limits of human understanding.