Die Before you Die

In time, all things of earth will pass away,
Your person, your possessions, and your pride,
All things will be stripped from you,
And yet one thing will remain.
Who or What is that one?
To die before you die
Means to seek devotedly
The answer to that question
Any way that suits you best.
For some, it is a formal practice
For others, a more informal way of living
No path should be judged as higher or lower
The important thing is that they are helpful
To the individual, and lead to the Truth
The curriculum is universal, and Holy Spirit
Will correct all errors in everyone’s minds
That taint the Practice
With self-seeking motives
The goal is to tame the roaring lion of ego
Into a gently purring housecat
This would be a great miracle, would it not?
It’s tamed by the Truth, and you must command it.
Although the correction is not of you,
It nevertheless must come through you
To prove that it is in you and that you have been transformed by it.
Bring Light unto darkness, speak Truth to lies
And what is Truth?
Truth is the One
The One you must find
Within your Self
Within your Neighbor
But understand, your neighbor is a universal thing
Because it symbolizes the Sonship
Which is Universal; the Body of Christ

The One has been waiting for you
To become aware of It since the day you were born
It isn’t patient or impatient, isn’t partial at all
It is neither good nor bad, holy or unholy
It isn’t male or female, but has characteristics of both
It is everything and nothing, the alpha and the omega
The beginning and end; but is birthless and deathless
Is not bound by attributes or by non-attribution
Has form, then again has none,
And something beyond these two altogether
No one can say with certainty what It is like.
Best to seek It within the quiet of your Heart
It will reveal Itself to you.
It is revealed in surrender.
It is the ability and act of surrender,
The Object of surrender, and the one who surrenders.
It is also the Voice that brings you to surrender,
As a mother cat carries her Kitten someplace.
So metaphors and parables have been used
Suggestive stories and symbols for what
Is the root of all existence dwelling within you
The ground of all being Is the One I speak of
Find It, and leave all concepts behind you
Drop the word God if it doesn’t resonate
In total self-surrender, let yourself
Be reborn into a newfound Self
By surrendering to It.
A phoenix rising from the ashes
Of a bitter dream of death.
The ego doesn’t perish in the process.
It merely seems to return to the nothingness whence it came.

One can only be confused amid all the opinions
Don’t seek answers to questions unanswerable
To ask how the impossible came to be
Must be to question meaninglessly
Seek only the Answers that come from deep within,
Your Self, Your Christ Mind, from that reservoir of wisdom
Or which resonates with your wisdom that you find in the world
In the Holy texts of the world, for they all
Have many high credits, and all of them profit,
As they are all capable of lifting your mind to loftier heights
And help to make firm the depth of your resolve
That you will keep choosing the better way every day
If you approach them contemplatively
Without a calculating mind
Just surrender
Let go
Everything will be okay