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The Inner Christ...


Jesus said, "Deny your 'self', take up your cross and follow me." (the Christ, the awake one, the pure awareness, within each of you)

There is an emptiness, a 'kenosis', an emptying out, which leads to fullness. And there is a fullness, a wealth, a possessing, that is utterly empty because the one who thinks they possess it is actually a fabrication. The fullness of God can never be acquired or possessed because this implies that it can be lost, and it can never really be lost because it exists already at the core of your heart....You can't ever lose it and never have lost it, but you can certainly overlook it, and probably have, if you are anything like most of us.

"The kingdom of God is within you." So you find it by looking 'within', by coming to see that it is always here and now, and not by seeking to 'acquire' anything at all (spiritual or material) from 'without'. It is not found by seeking to 'add' something to yourself that you now feel you lack. It is not gained anew. It is discovered. And when it is discovered you wonder how you could have ever possibly missed it before.

Jesus also said, "The first shall be last and the last shall be first" and, "If you seek to save your life, you shall lose it and if you lose your life for my sake (the inner Christ, pure awareness, your true nature) and for the sake of the kingdom of God, you shall find it."

The false self that we believe can acquire various spiritual or material riches and credentials is not actually such a big sacrifice, since it was never really real to begin with!


Francis Bennett

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