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When we are operating from thought-based knowing , we look to thought to know; we think about thinking, ruminating, obsessing, and orienting by thought. When we shift into spacious awareness as the ground of Being, then thinking goes into the background and we don't see pop-ups and multiple programs running on our mind-screens. Then, our conceptual minds are quiet but, just as we can use our hands at any moment, we can use thought whenever needed. Awake awareness in its fullness is empty, knowing, loving, and embodied." (Shift into Freedom, p. 179)
We can learn to know from the ground of Being instead of knowing from the individual mind which is based on programming from our past.
We can learn to shift into spacious awareness through meditation or from the exercises that Lock Kelly presents in his book, Shift into Freedom.
As we learn to unhook from thought and emotion we become open and receptive to Source/God/Spirit/Higher Self. We can call upon our personal mind as needed but we are no longer ruled by thought and emotion. This is freedom.
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