♦ Step Twelve:
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Having realized my inseparable oneness with Spirit, my creative power, and a joyful sense of well-being, I was inspired to deepen my spiritual awareness and share my awakened state with others.
This newfound understanding and experience of myself, this deepening of my connection with Spirit (and the true source of my own power), this coming upon my own sense of aliveness and joy, inspires me to know myself more fully and unfold more wondrous aspects of my own being. This new state of well-being, this new identity based upon the whole of who I am, is the beginning to my further unfoldment and evolution and the expression of this state in the world.
I share my illumined state as a pure and loving expression of my true self. I am inspired to share my understanding with others but the true way to share this knowledge is to live it, to embody it, to allow it to permeate my actions and joyously uplift those around me.
Discussion
There is no end to one’s spiritual unfoldment; with every new state attained, a higher state is revealed. The first stage of enlightenment—where we come to know, and identify ourselves with, our conscious presence (and not our body-mind self)—is the first step into the wonder of our true being.
When we begin the path there is ignorance of self, then there is true awareness (or nothingness), then that nothingness is filled with love, then that love wants to express itself, to expand itself in ever-greater and glorious ways. This love—which cannot be contained—outpours to become the whole universe. Thus, the expression our boundless love, in the creation of our world, is the essence of this “step.”
This is not really a "step" even though it is listed as one. Sharing one’s own qualities—such as joy, aliveness, abundance, creativity, and freedom— is not a step or something one has to do or complete; it is a natural expression of one’s true self. Spirit creates this whole universe by the over-flowing of its own nature—which is love, freedom, creativity, abundance, beauty, etc.—and these self-same qualities naturally find expression in us and through us when you are in touch with the fullness and joy of our own lives.
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Having realized my inseparable oneness with Spirit, my creative power, and a joyful sense of well-being, I was inspired to deepen my spiritual awareness and share my awakened state with others.
This newfound understanding and experience of myself, this deepening of my connection with Spirit (and the true source of my own power), this coming upon my own sense of aliveness and joy, inspires me to know myself more fully and unfold more wondrous aspects of my own being. This new state of well-being, this new identity based upon the whole of who I am, is the beginning to my further unfoldment and evolution and the expression of this state in the world.
I share my illumined state as a pure and loving expression of my true self. I am inspired to share my understanding with others but the true way to share this knowledge is to live it, to embody it, to allow it to permeate my actions and joyously uplift those around me.
Discussion
There is no end to one’s spiritual unfoldment; with every new state attained, a higher state is revealed. The first stage of enlightenment—where we come to know, and identify ourselves with, our conscious presence (and not our body-mind self)—is the first step into the wonder of our true being.
When we begin the path there is ignorance of self, then there is true awareness (or nothingness), then that nothingness is filled with love, then that love wants to express itself, to expand itself in ever-greater and glorious ways. This love—which cannot be contained—outpours to become the whole universe. Thus, the expression our boundless love, in the creation of our world, is the essence of this “step.”
This is not really a "step" even though it is listed as one. Sharing one’s own qualities—such as joy, aliveness, abundance, creativity, and freedom— is not a step or something one has to do or complete; it is a natural expression of one’s true self. Spirit creates this whole universe by the over-flowing of its own nature—which is love, freedom, creativity, abundance, beauty, etc.—and these self-same qualities naturally find expression in us and through us when you are in touch with the fullness and joy of our own lives.
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