Sunday is Message Day on the blog. Monday through Friday we look at contemporary events and day-to-day occurrences at the intersection of Life and the New Spirituality…but on Sunday, we reserve this space for a specific teaching derived from the material in Conversations with God
This week’s message: The Three Statements of Ultimate Truth
Conversations with God begins with Three Statements of Ultimate Truth and throughout the entire CWG cosmology, covering seven books, there are no statements that are more important to the deepest understanding of life than these. The Three Statements of Ultimate Truth are:
2. There’s enough.
3. There’s nothing you have to do.
Taken together, these three statements are all that we would really need to know to live our lives joyously. The first statement, in particular, carries sufficient power to eliminate all of the humanly created problems currently faced by the human race. If we thought that this statement was really true, the behaviors that we exhibit and in which we engage on this planet would disappear from our experience forever. That is because we would never do to ourselves the kinds of things that we do at present to each other.
If we thought that we are all one, it would change the way we hold the experience of being human. We would then understand that what we do to another we do to ourselves and that what we fail to do for another we fail to do for ourselves. Most human beings are reluctant to embrace the idea that we are all one because to them it feels threatening. They imagine that they are going to lose their individuality and their sense of themselves. This fear of lost identity is what creates our lost identity.
Through fearing that we will lose our very sense of self, we, in fact, make it impossible to…
…ever have a true sense of self. We do not know who we really are and we never will know who we really are in our experience so long as we imagine ourselves to be separate from others. The idea that we are all one is salvific. Adopting such an idea in our political interactions, in our economic interactions, in our military interactions would save us from ourselves.
It would change everything in all human interactions. It would make military might virtually unnecessary. It would set our worldwide economies on their ear. It would alter the nature of politics, turning this human interaction into what it was always intended to be.
The second of the three statements of ultimate truth is the pronouncement that “There’s enough.” This statement, too, offers immediate liberation from the most violent and destructive and self-destructive behaviors of the human race.
Nearly all of our killing, almost all of our violence, and the vast majority of our self-destructive interactions with the world around us are caused by the idea that somehow there is not enough of something. There is not enough love, there is not enough time, there is not enough money, there is not enough oil, there is not enough power, there is not enough of whatever it is we think we need to be happy, to be safe, to be secure, or to be what we imagine is fully human.
The statement “There’s enough,” taken into our personal lives in a serious and meaningful way, would change everything on an individual level as well. My point here is that not only would this extraordinary insight alter human society on a macro scale, it would shift everything in our ground of being at the individual level, too. Our interactions with others, our love relationships, our encounters with life at virtually every level would be far different from the way they are now if we thought that this statement was true. The sad part about is that the statement is true, and very few people know it. Very few people have faith in it. Very few people understand or practice the Theory of Sufficiency as a part of their daily interactions with life.
When I was a child my father used to say to me as I cried at the last lick of my cotton candy, “Son, what are you crying for? There’s more where that came from.” He used to make this statement to me about everything. There’s more where that came from became a mantra that I heard over and over again throughout my young life. What my father was hoping to instill in me, and what he successfully implanted into my mind as a deep understanding, is that nothing truly ever runs out.
There is always “more where that came from.” There is always more love, there is always more time, there is always more money, there is always more oil, there is always more of whatever it is you think you need to be happy. And if you can’t find its exact duplicate, you can find some other substance or experience in the Universe which provides the same outcome. And so, for instance, if the oil truly runs out, we can use the energy from the sun. This is a simple example of what I mean.
The third statement of ultimate truth is widely misunderstood. The idea that there is nothing you have to do does not mean that there’s nothing that you will do. It simply means that there’s nothing that you have to do. It means that Doingness is not a required function of humanality. All human beings are doing something all the time. The question is not what are they doing but why are they doing it. This is the heart of the matter.
When Doingness springs from a state of being, it is a demonstration of who we imagine ourselves and create ourselves to be. When Doingness is an attempt to arrive at a state of being, its mission is distorted, its purpose is misunderstood, and the outcomes it produces are very seldom in alignment with the outcomes that we had hoped for.
I want to suggest that all of you read an extraordinary little booklet that was written through me a number of years ago. It is called Bringers of the Light. In this booklet the correct and most effective relationship between Being and Doing is described. The path to Right Livelihood is made clear. We see that there is nothing that we have to do, and that the state of Doingness into which we enter should be a voluntary and free choice, able to be shifted from moment to moment.
This is in direct contradiction to everything that I experience around me in the world today, and virtually everything that I was taught as a child. In the early years of my life I was led to understand that one prepared during the early years for one’s career, then one embarked upon that career and held onto it forever. There was pathetically little relationship between our innermost desires and our outermost experience. Especially if we were launched into a particular career path by those around us who imagined that they knew us better than we knew ourselves.
If we change careers in mid-stream, and certainly if we did this more than once, we were immediately labeled “irresponsible” or “flighty.” We were said to have no “stick-to-it-iveness.” We were charged with “lacking self-discipline.” Since nothing was worse than that, we stuck to our career choices and whatever else we were doing in life with grave courage and teeth-gritting determination, whether we liked it or not.
We apply this same understanding of life to our relationships. In earlier days, we would “hang in there” long past the time when the relationship had served any useful purpose and even into the time when it was self-damaging.
The idea that there is “something you have to do” runs rampant through human culture. It was placed there by humanity’s largest organized religions, which imagine that God has set down a series of requirements which must be met in order for us to enter heaven and receive our eternal reward. This mind-set now permeates the largest portion of human society, and translates itself into not only sacred and religious interactions, but also occupational and relational interactions as well. Indeed, nearly all of our interactions with life at whatever level we may want to consider are based upon a preconceived notion that there is something we have to do in order to be interacting in a way that is “right.”
The statement in CWG that “There is nothing you have to do” is therefore also intensely liberating. The Three Statements of Ultimate Truth are equally liberating, and, taken together, free the human soul at last to express itself in a way that has been designed by the Universe to allow humanity itself to reflect divinity in all of its creative, excited, and limitless expressions, opening the door of possibility wider than most people ever imagined possible.
Study these three statements carefully. Say them over and over again to yourself as your daily mantra. Use them as your constant companion. Allow them to form the basis of your every interaction, with yourself and with the world around you. But be careful. These statements are more powerful than they may on the surface appear to be. They can change your life forever.
Here, in the first three statements of any significance found in the Conversations with God material, at the very outset of the cosmological revelation in Book 1, we are given everything we need to know about life itself.
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