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Home in the Haven

November 1 , 2009

Dr. Harry Morgan Moses

Haven by the dictionary definition simply means a place of refuge. The other dictionary definition that we would be familiar of is a haven where favorable opportunities or conditions arise. So you have heard an artist haven it’s a favorable place for the artists to hang out and do there work. So we know a haven is a place where favorable conditions arise. Now here is the interesting place where were going to turn on this something a little different than you have known in your spiritual practices because we are going to say that the haven that your really seeking is the haven of your desires. The haven that you’re really seeking is the haven of your desires. So lets look at that a second and I personally believe in the kingdom of heaven. What the kingdom of heaven I don’t believe is some place that you have to go to, I believe that the kingdom of heaven is a state of consciousness and that when you’re fully in the kingdom of heaven everything is just right. Now in your human experience regardless of where you are now or where you were yesterday you have probably had moments in your life where everything was just right. You did not need a different set of people, you didn’t need different circumstances, you didn’t need different food you didn’t need different clothes, you didn’t need different weather, everything was just right. Now can you imagine living your life where you had a tolerance for so much bliss that your life could be a continual state of everything being just right? And that would in fact be heaven. Well how are you going to know if you’re in heaven? Well have you had a desire for something and then you got the thing? Well do you notice that as soon as you get the thing you don’t have that desire anymore because you got it? Well imagine if you had all of your desires filled, if all of your desires were fulfilled you would not want anything else. Hence the haven that you’re seeking is the haven of your desires. And in fact when you start to look at it this way having desires is not a bad thing it’s the focal point of what we call divine discontent. Well what is divine discontent? Well it means I could be all the way present in the kingdom of heaven but and you know the line from Richard Bach forget everything you heard before the word but. I highly recommend that you practice that in your regular secular life. When your listening to business associates or people or friends and they telling you about things and then they say but, what is highly relevant is what they said after but not what they said before that! So what we see when we have a divine discontent it’s because something within us knows that there is something more that needs to happen, that were not quite in the kingdom. And that divine discontent is saying you belong in the kingdom, you’re emerged from the kingdom and what you really are is the kingdom you are an incarnation of the living spirit itself set free to discover the glory of your own life. And if you then look at your life and say my life is not a glory I would say congratulations because you can now become conscious of where you are in your soul’s journey. Up until that moment you have no idea what’s going on. You’re being tossed around by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. We talked about that a couple of weeks ago which is to have a surfboard just tossed and flying wherever it goes and your constantly chasing your surfboard instead of tethering yourself to your own desires and seeing that you have a right to fulfill that thing. You have a right to fulfill whatever that desire is because it’s emerging from you as a discontent. Now here is where the difference is. The difference is if I get everything that I want then doesn’t that become kind of selfish? The answer is absolutely yes because or teaching we talk about two key practices, we talk about the key practices of prayer and meditation and we also talk about the importance of forgiveness and forgiveness simple means to cancel the demands and expectations that are blocking my attitude of love. And when you think about it in your own life how many places do you withhold love because of demands and expectations that are not met? I would give you my attention “but” the same thing everything before the word “but” you did something you have something you did something that I didn’t like I have an expectation or demand that you didn’t met so I’m going to withhold. So here we know the power of the universe is love, what the difference is in our teaching is that we agree with all great religions that say the power of the universe is love but we go a step further we say the universe is governed by a perfect law and that law is coexistent and co-eternal with God. That you can’t have love without law because that’s how the system works. You can’t have male without female, that’s how the system works. You can’t have seed without soil that’s how the system works, you cannot separate the law of God from the love of God but the law is empowered by the love. So when we know ourselves as consciousness we will be home. So let’s think about that. Ernest Holmes says this spirit makes things out of itself through some enter act upon itself. Can we see that is what God is doing? Ok so your born in the image and likeness of God so spirit makes things out of your through some interact in you and here is where he goes on to say. This interact must of course be an act of consciousness. Spirit thinking upon itself creates the things that it thinks about. I thinking upon myself create the things that I think about. Well doesn’t that sound liberating and free? Now how many times this week and you might want to practice it this week as you go forward how many times in this last week did you notice that your gave your attention to fear? And fear has an interesting domino effect as soon as you get one thing of fear it immediately attaches to another thing of fear which immediately attaches to another thing of fear. So you think well I didn’t really have any fearful thoughts but that one fearful moment took you twenty five minutes into a fear brigade do you follow? Well spirit makes things out of itself through some inner act upon itself so what we don’t have and unfortunately the law doesn’t work this way. The law doesn’t come back and say careful do you really want to create that? It’s doesn’t say that it doesn’t say I read your goal list and it doesn’t match it? But spirit is conscious so you can read your goal list and you can see that what you just put your attention on doesn’t match your goal. Where is the spirit of God everyone touch yourself and say I AM I am the spirit of God, where else are you going to find it? Where else can you find the spirit of God? Can you go to Rome and find it in the basiliscus can you go to Greece and find it in the ancient temples? Can you go somewhere and find the spirit of God? Where are you going to find the spirit of god in anything that has the spirit of god but what is it going to take the find the spirit of God? What is the only thing that you can see the spirit of God with? It is consciousness or ie the spirit of God. The only thing you can see the spirit of god with is the spirit of god so for example we have someone who loves their dog so they see the spirit of god in the dog but what is she looking with? See is looking with the spirit of god, without the spirit of god you cannot see the spirit of god and the only place to see the spirit of god is within yourself. So Mary Baker Eddy at the turn of the century created something called Christian Science now the ideas were quite good in that except for one thing it didn’t include the intelligence of the human being. So we say no the law uses all intelligence it uses the intelligence of man, uses the intelligence of the universe, uses the intelligence of nature it uses all intelligence so Mary Baker Eddy said stand porter to the door of thought. On that she was absolutely correct because what’s going through your consciousness is always being acted upon. What’s going through your consciousness is always being acted upon and so if were not standing porter to the door of thought what are we creating and how easy to get into the polarities of this side is right and this side is wrong, this is good and this is bad and as long as we are working in that field of polarities were going to swing from one side to the other. We will be in ecstasy and then we will be in pain. We will be in pain and then we will be in ecstasy and of course the middle course way is balance. For God is neither any extreme god is all potentialities but no extremes for God is that which is birth less deathless and changeless. If god was an extreme it couldn’t survive, God is that which is whole complete and perfect, that which is in the center and so it comes to this. If the haven is my desires then how do I fulfill my desires? Well remember let me remind you the haven of your desires is not about your desires. The haven of your desires is about discovering yourself in the kingdom, discovering yourself in heaven. I was seeking to get a car and I now have a car I am not seeking that anymore, what are you seeking now? I am seeking newer and deeper levels of love, I am seeking newer and deeper levels of creative expression, and I’m seeking new and deeper levels of ways to bring income that brings benefit to the world. You see every desire once it’s fulfilled will take you to the next place; it will take you to the next place. But every desire in the physical world doesn’t stay and no matter how much you have you cannot take it with you, it’s not about holding on to anything. And when you see that every desire fulfilled is only a stepping stone we become much less attached to the desires. So here we are talking about important things love is what empowers the law, the law is everywhere present. It’s receiving the direct impress of your consciousness and acting upon it. I want to read you a quote and this was a paragraph and it says this not only can we create the lives we dream of this is our purpose and reason for being. We are children of God and we have been invested with the gift of free will. Our thoughts and feelings are creative, whatever we focus our thoughts words and actions and feelings on we bring into physical form. Let me say that again whatever we focus our thoughts our words, our actions and feelings on we bring into physical form. Now when you think about that imagine the things that cause you to be afraid? And when you start dwelling on the things that cause you to be afraid you see how much feeling that you bring into that. You bring lots of feeling it’s just not good feeling but the law doesn’t care what kind of feeling you bring it just cares about the velocity or the force of that feeling, do you se it? So a lot of the times we are creating things out of fears without even noticing that were dwelling there. So the key is don’t dwell there anymore. Remember this divine truth and for us to consciously choose to create the lives we want instead of inadvertently manifesting through our fears the experiences that we do not want. So can you see that your fears are creating things that you don’t want so where is the God part of this? How do I get God to help me if I am this expression of spirit and whatever I think about comes about how do I get a higher idea? Here is our two core practices spiritual mind treatment and meditation. Meditation is simple the average human being has sixty thousand thoughts a day and that 98% of those sixty thousand thoughts are repetitive thoughts so if were in the habit of having fear based thoughts they are liable to keep coming back till we finally decide to change it. So mediation is simple taking the time to still your mind because your mind is working through an instrument called the brain and the brain has chemistry and the brain gets stuck literally. Those channels through which information flows are called neuron synapses and they create physical matter which your brain processes information through. So what we recognize is that it takes thirty days in physical reality to change one of those Nero synapses. So what we know for a fact is and yet the Bible has talked about forty days and forty nights and forty has been in the Bible and why because they figured it takes a certain amount of time and they did not know how many times so they just said we will call it forty and that will work. It turns out that it is thirty but they were close in intuition in grabbing those numbers. It literally takes that long to change the Nero synapses in your brain ok now what do we want to change it to? We are wanting to change out of inadvertently creating what we don’t want through our fears into consciously creating what we do want. So do you see how important it is to find out what your dreams are to find out what your desires are? What are you desires not what they were last week or two weeks ago not two years ago but what are your desires now. What is it that you want now because that new self is what you are creating? Now I know there is a law and I’m still in my mind and now I’m going to use spiritual mind treatment and spiritual mind treatment is just a fancy word for affirmative prayer. Spiritual mind treatment always says this you cannot pray for anything that you would not want for everybody else, that what’s shifts spiritual mind treatment from selfish prayer to cosmic action. This is a classic example that she has written a book and she is going on line and it is being published but where was your prayer ten months ago and that was to get a publisher and the upward forward spiral of life has already one victory and where does the fear want to go instead of up it wants to go down well how much good can I tolerate. How much good can I actually accept and how many miracles are in our lives that we don’t make room to see them as miracles and to allow them to empower us to move forward. So in your spiritual mind treatment for that thing you would say I am so happy and grateful that my book is published and these events are all unfolding and I know that the power of love that has made all of these things happen will take it for the next level. Why and the question is will your book do anyone any good of course and the book will make people feel good about learning about American history and so this success that she is seeking is not just for her, it’s for all of the nation and for all of the people who can be touched by the symbolism of this man’s life. So you take your faith in that it is for the greater good, not that it’s just for you. When you begin to pray with your desires always knowing that your desires are not just for you but they are for the greater good and so you can take a look at your prayers and see are you praying for things whatever they are even if they are specifically in your life, is it for the greater good? And is that thing that your praying for is that something that you would wish for everyone to have if that’s what they were seeking? There is room in my house for all there is room in my prayer for all. That which I would claim for myself I claim for all that’s the difference because prayer not including the allness of God would be an isolated separate event which would be the law working without God and the law does not work without god the law always work the presence of love. So the presence of love is always expanding. Spirit makes things out of itself through some inner act upon itself so how do I keep finding the higher thought? Well we say through meditation and prayer. If you don’t know what the higher thought is you can ask for it. If you don’t know what your next level of good is you can ask for it. You can actually pray for guidance and then you can pray for the ability to see the guidance and accept the guidance. If this was for you wouldn’t you be willing to pray for that for everybody else that they were in tune with that guidance? You see there is a loving presence that works through a perfect law. You don’t just want to know about the law because that is cold and it doesn’t go anywhere except cause and effect or fields of probability into manifestation. What when we understand the law is working through the presence of love we put our attention on the greater love then we bring our desire to the greater love and that energy shines through to bring that into manifestation. The greater love with our desire shines through to bring forth the manifestation. But the desire without the greater love is cold and empty and unfulfilling and all it does is bring you to the next desire without any fulfillment. So to be home in the haven is first of all to be clear, to be clear about what your desires are because if you’re not clear how are you going to know if you have them? To be home in the haven of your desires, how do I know I’m in the kingdom because everything that I prayed for became so? How do I know I’m in the kingdom because everywhere I look I see the eyes of love? How do I know that all the greater good is coming my way because everywhere that I look I can see the greater abundance of the universe and its not withheld anywhere. And if it’s been withheld anywhere it was only through my consciousness because it was only that I kept the valve too closed and I can open it up. You mean I want to know about the love of the divine? Don’t you want to know about the love of the divine? Is that a fair prayer so say it out loud? I want to know about the love of the divine. Now you see if you pray that prayer everyday this week you’ll see extraordinary things happen in your life. You will say oh my goodness the love of the divine showed up at the seven eleven store. Oh my goodness the love of the divine showed up in my uncle my friend my aunt my lover who knows. When you call forth the love of the divine the love of the divine says I have been waiting for you to call. And without your call it cannot answer, why because you are that. You’re the instrument you’re the inlet and the outlet of the love of the divine. And it’s the love of the divine with my focused desires that will cause manifestation. So we ask you if you have your card, I’m so happy and grateful and I appreciate that. Do you have the five things that you’re happy and grateful for that there unfolding in your lives? If you have made your card you can look at it and say is this I mean? If it is then you know you’re on the path to manifesting it because if you know what your desires are all you need now is the greater love. If you know what your desires are all you need now is the greater love. So it takes time to get really clearly focused about what it we mean is our lives fulfilled. It takes time to meditate and pray and to think about the love of the divine and yet that path is the only path that will fulfill your soul. Because it is the only path that can bring forth your desires. And your desires are a haven a safe place where you create your good. So for all of us just as we have seen in the case of some of our script writers and in the case of some of our actors, in the case of some of our business people we have seen people come through here and thought they were at the end of their rope and only found it to be a new knot and the beginning place from which to climb. To higher and more blissful states of awareness. The principle is there for all of us, it will not respond to you until you give it something to respond to. So invite yourself to be clear about your desires, invite yourself to be clear that God wants you to have your desires, invite yourself to be an inlet to divine love for through that inlet all of your dreams will be fulfilled. My friends it is my honor and privilege to speak with you this morning and I invite you to think on these things and together let us explore the possibilities. Namaste.............................