The first illusion- NEED

[Erik Strasser]

hello dear group,

as is probably obvious to some by seeing the topic, i am on the communion with
god online course.
and without any attachment i would like to share a few statements from this
course together with a little story of my own.

you see.. before i really awakened from this illusion i had some major
difficulties with the science department on this group.
i felt i needed to understand what david, rod and other briljant minds knew.
that somehow if i knew what they knew i would find something important.
again.. this is the great illusion of needing something from the outside, while
everything i am and want to be is inside.
i remember lesley talking about the fear involved when we think we need to
understand something, specialy when it comes down to cutting edge science.
well.. i had the same kinda fear.
but now i know ( remember) that i dont need anything. without the illusion of
need, fear does not excist!
ofcourse i can use the illusion of need, the very essence of this illusion, in
order the understand who i really am.
with this now rooted in my mind, next time i dont understand something, i can
simply choose to ask these briljant and loving minds for an explenation or i can
choose to let it fall away.
i dont need anything, but i can choose to use this illusion in order to know who
i am.

i love you all, erik.

you may think that you need a person to be complete, or a job to be successful,
or some other emotional or physical gratification to be happy. that is when you
may wish to notice that you are here, right now, without it. why, then, do you
think you need it?

close examination will reveal that you do not need it, not even to be happy.

happiness is a decision, not an experience.

in other words, you can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed
in order to be happy, and you will be.

that is one of the most important things you could ever come to understand. i
will, therefore, repeat it.

happiness is a decision.

your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.

understand this, if you understand nothing else: god needs nothing.


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[parkers5]

--- in asc2k@yahoogroups.com (/group/asc2k/post?postid=fodba24ynqhmtpwfkyrlth0qgytac5b5gw921k peoomxnirpyphcuoywxnxhtjqzeymjbqsyazz_t-cnx6kxsg), "erik strasser" <e.strasser@w...> wrote:

> happiness is a decision.
>
> your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.
>
> understand this, if you understand nothing else: god needs nothing.

this is a curious thing you share,
applicable from some great cosmic
perspective but completely useless
in sustaining the human condition.

we need shelter and we need food,
all else could be considered
addictions that have potential for
unhappiness, sure. some hermits
are completely happy eating grubs
and sleeping in caves, help yourself.

many of this group have found through
experience that to love and help
others, by interaction and nurturance,
they experience growth and live more
fullfilled lives in doing so.

these interactions can become a means
of substitution for addictions that
cause unhappiness. also, they tend
to fullfill so many emotional needs
a human being has, needs that are
culturally stiffled. the center for
non-violent communication defines
these needs. personally their
discovery became a great affirmation
that allowed finer balancing of
feminine/masculine polarities, (but
that is another story.)

needfully, pat