Greetings and blessings for all of you here, my dearest friends.\u00a0 This lecture is another step to help you in a very specific way.\u00a0 The individualized personality in the process of growth and expansion must always evolve toward new states of consciousness and experience.\u00a0 Each stage deepens in scope and releases new creative substance with which to create desirable life experiences and worlds.\u00a0 In this way more of the abundance of the universe becomes available to the individual.<\/p>\n
You all know that visualization is quite essential to the creating and recreating work you do in meditation.\u00a0 Unless you can visualize the state you are to grow into, it is hardly possible to reach it.\u00a0 However, it is extremely difficult to visualize a new state to grow into unless an example of some sort exists.\u00a0 Therefore a prototype provided by a person who already has attained the desired state is essential for imprinting the proper concept on your mind.\u00a0 This map, or blueprint, is the first step; it is the idea that later materializes.\u00a0 Without an idea, materialization is impossible.<\/p>\n
Attitudes, ways of being, and patterns of behavior have a particular power to influence us; we might almost say they are contagious.\u00a0 This applies to both positive and negative attitudes and behavior patterns.\u00a0 Even feelings and the states they create can be contagious.\u00a0 It is known that some people’s opinions can influence others enough to make them adopt the same opinions.\u00a0 This entire process of influence through exemplary figures leads to imitation, emulation, and identification.\u00a0 All of this can exist on a quite conscious, deliberate level, or on very subtle, subliminal, and involuntary levels, depending on what figures are chosen to identify with, to adopt from, or to emulate as prototypes for a new state to grow into.<\/p>\n
The freer the soul and the less encumbered by distortions, misconceptions, negativity, and destructive impulses, the more reliable become its choices.\u00a0 This applies both to the conscious and unconscious choice of figures we want to identify with, and also to the particular traits we decide to emulate or to discard.\u00a0 The ability to make such choices well depends on the purity of the state of consciousness already attained by the chooser.\u00a0 So, as always, the beginning is the hardest.\u00a0 In this case, one’s own distortions may lead to choosing false heroes, and at the same time make one utterly blind to the really desirable aspects of a possible exemplary figure, because the concepts are lacking.\u00a0 Only little by little can a person build the proper concepts so as to be able to recognize the desired traits which can then be used as further road maps.<\/p>\n
Individual personalities choose their parents and environment on the basis of this principle while journeying from one incarnation to the next.\u00a0 The proper exemplary figures set off a spark of recognition in the mind of the seekers.\u00a0 This then creates a vibrant energy field whose creative power molds the soul substance of the seekers who have finally recognized the true examples.\u00a0 When done in a truthful and creative way, this never means falsely aping or giving up one’s own uniqueness.\u00a0 Quite the contrary:\u00a0 the emulated ways of being, traits, and attitudes are adapted to the uniqueness of the seeker who incorporates these universal aspects into his or her own self-expression.\u00a0 You remain totally true to yourself when you emulate someone in a real and creative way.\u00a0 Only negative attitudes in the self can lead to negative identification with negative role models and hence to self-betrayal.<\/p>\n
All parents are prototypical figures to their children.\u00a0 Strong rejection of a parent, or of particular traits and attitudes in the parent, is an indication that a deliberate negative identification took place\u2014an aping which the self now blindly battles, because the real problem has not yet been recognized.<\/p>\n
To the degree that the parents and the child are healthy and purified souls, the child identifies with their positive aspects.\u00a0 The child will recognize what traits in the parent, and later in other authority figures, are to be used for its life plan, and what traits are to be rejected.\u00a0 The child can do this only to the degree that it is receptive through its own power to know the truth.<\/p>\n
Negative identification leads to the creation of “images.”\u00a0 We use the term “images” in the pathwork to define misconceptions and generalizations which form very limited and fixed closed systems.\u00a0 Conscious and\/or unconscious identification which forms an inner image always creates a limited vision that precludes seeing available alternatives.\u00a0 This false vision excludes so many important factors.\u00a0 The few that are seen are therefore so out of context that one’s perception of life and hence one’s reaction to it are unrealistic.<\/p>\n
Positive identification can never lead to an image.\u00a0 Instead it leads to visualization, which is a flexible, realistic, wide-open system with many alternative ways from which consciousness and creative action can spread.\u00a0 It is very important for you to think about this and to really understand what I am saying here.\u00a0 On the spiritual path you come to a point when you must know that you need positive identification, with a realistic, open, and freeing prototype.\u00a0 You need to recognize external exemplary models.\u00a0 If you cannot yet, you need to first build an inner concept, so that you can visualize both inwardly and recognize outwardly exemplary figures.\u00a0 Later you will become such exemplary figures yourselves, to inspire others on their path when they are ready to see truth and to conceive of themselves according to their indwelling potentials.\u00a0 A true exemplary figure inspires you to visualize similar traits and attitudes dormant within your deeper self which can then be brought into full expression.<\/p>\n
I mentioned before that the blocks and fogs created by illusion and distortion make you blind to true exemplary figures or at least to some of their traits.\u00a0 They cause you to be blind because your concept of what really exists in these examples is either still absent or so misconceived that your interpretation of what you see may be completely wrong.\u00a0 Truthful perception of exemplary figures can only exist when you are already relatively free, open, and aware of yourself; then suddenly something will click in you.\u00a0 A spontaneous, almost automatic, organic desire to develop in the same direction as your example will spring up in you.\u00a0 You will not imitate something that is foreign to your nature.\u00a0 Basic universal traits exist and are expressed in different ways by each unique individual; so you do not emulate to make an exact copy of a trait but rather adapt it to your unique individuality.\u00a0 Somewhere along your path you will have gained sufficient self-awareness to have a subliminal understanding of what is worthy of emulation.\u00a0 You will be alert to it and use this vision to complete yourself.<\/p>\n
As in every area of development, here, too, are certain sequences and alternations according to spiritual law.\u00a0 Where blocks exist, and exemplary figures are therefore absent or unrecognized, the psyche has to learn how to choose realistic, positive figures as signposts.\u00a0 You must pay attention to this necessity and conceive an inner vision of what a unified, harmonious, integrated person, who expresses contact and unification with the divine self, is like.\u00a0 When such a concept exists, inner visualization can begin, which will then make you capable of meeting and recognizing the outer figures who can further help, affect, and inspire you, to fully become your best self.<\/p>\n
In this lecture I wish to give you some clear-cut pointers and initial concepts of what to look for, what to be attuned to, and what to be prepared to recognize as your own as yet dormant\u00a0 potentials.\u00a0 I will draw a picture of what it is like, inwardly as well as outwardly, to come to the point where the personality truly unites with the inner divine self, with the inexhaustible wealth that is every human being’s inner nucleus:\u00a0 the center of one’s very being.\u00a0 This lecture is just an outline that describes certain very basic conditions and expressions which can safely be generalized and applied to all of you who have reached the state where your divine self is being continuously expressed and actualized.\u00a0\u00a0 I will try to give you a concept and a vision so that you can begin to see with fresh eyes, and perhaps recognize in others what you had previously been blind to.<\/p>\n
When individuals come to the state of deliberately and\u00a0 consciously choosing to commit themselves to the divine will and reality, then the groundwork has been laid for certain vital changes to occur in their inner and outer lives.\u00a0 This is a commitment to the all-consciousness indwelling in every creature.\u00a0 It can be called by any name you choose:\u00a0 God, universal consciousness, the real self, the inner self\u2014whatever name you give to that which transcends the little ego.\u00a0 When this whole-hearted commitment is made totally, then certain things begin to happen in one’s life.\u00a0 Obviously, one reaches this state not by crossing a sharply defined line, but through a gradual process.\u00a0 Before describing this process, I wish to say that you must not be misled by the fact that you may consciously have made such a commitment, and yet find no great inner or outer change occurring in your life.<\/p>\n
Some of you may be very committed to God on a conscious level, but you may not realize at all that there are other levels in you where this is not the case.\u00a0 You may find it very easy to believe on a merely conscious level that this commitment to God is what you want.\u00a0 Consciously you may be full of goodwill and really mean it.\u00a0 But unless you have come to experience the contradictory levels within you where you do not wish that, or where you only wish it on your own ego terms which defeats the very act of self-surrender, you will want to balk.\u00a0 Unless you acknowledge your contrariness, fear, selfwill, and pride, your conscious commitment will always be blocked.\u00a0 Unless you own up to the contrary ego level hidden behind your goodwill, you may not even understand why certain results are still lacking despite your conscious commitment to truth, to God, to love.\u00a0 This awareness is extremely important, and the pathwork deals with it in a very intensive way in order to help you avoid one of the most insidious obstructions:\u00a0 self-deception.<\/p>\n
We search for and bring out that negative part of the self which says, “I will not.”\u00a0 You will learn the courage, humility, and honesty to expose this part\u2014the part that even says, “I want to resist.\u00a0 I want to be spiteful.\u00a0 I want to have it all my way, or else!”\u00a0 Only when the secret crevices of your psychic substance yield up and expose these areas can you begin\u2014often with a lot of struggle\u2014to change this very negative level, this darker part of the personality.\u00a0 When this part remains hidden, you are split and do not understand why your positive endeavors fail to go further.<\/p>\n
Then there comes a point when you have won this particular battle.\u00a0 At this stage you can wholeheartedly embrace and trust the surrender to divine consciousness.\u00a0 But again, this does not come in one fell swoop.\u00a0 At first this surrender must be fought for every time.\u00a0 You need self-discipline to remind yourself.\u00a0\u00a0 Although resistance is gone, the outer self is still conditioned to the old functioning and automatically forges ahead on the top level of the mind.\u00a0 At this stage you need to acquire a new habit pattern.\u00a0 It takes time.\u00a0 Perhaps when you are in real trouble, in a state of crisis, you will remember to let go and let God.\u00a0 But in ordinary life, in your everyday chores, this does not yet\u00a0 occur to you.\u00a0 Perhaps you can do it where you are relatively free, but you still find your old obstinacy, distrust, and forgetfulness where problems persist.\u00a0 Only little by little do you reach the state where a new habit pattern is instituted, where the act of self-surrender to the all is actualized, where it manifests and where it permeates all your thoughts and perceptions, your decisions and actions, your feelings and reactions.\u00a0 We shall come back to this.<\/p>\n
First let me speak about the relationship between your inner and outer life.\u00a0 A lot of confusion exists among people about this topic.\u00a0 There are those who claim only the inner life is important.\u00a0 They prohibit the inevitable movement from the inner to the outer life because they do not see the limitation and actual falsity of this idea.\u00a0 If unification and divine process are truly in movement, the inner content must express itself in outer form.\u00a0 In short, the outer life must mirror the inner life in every possible respect.\u00a0 But if your consciousness ignores this truth, or even strongly embraces the opposite belief that the outer does not matter, then you prohibit the flow of the whole process.\u00a0 If this happens, the more radiant energetic matter cannot express itself on the levels of coarser matter and thereby refine it.\u00a0 You may recall that in one of the more recent lectures I described how creation attempts to fill the void. Every human being helps in this task of refining the coarser matter by bringing inner spiritual reality into outer expression.<\/p>\n
The false concept that the outer level does not matter encases the inner spiritual truth and beauty behind a wall, separating it from the material reality.\u00a0 The individual with this false concept begins to see a dichotomy between the two which are really one.\u00a0 Many movements and spiritual schools of thought preach asceticism and the denial of the outer life under the guise that this furthers inner spiritual life.\u00a0 This distortion is a reaction to the equally distorted opposite extreme, which position claims that outer form is more important than inner content, and may even negate that an inner reality or content exists at all.\u00a0 Instead, it asserts that only outer form matters.\u00a0 True inner growth must eventually also manifest outwardly, though not necessarily with the speed designated by the outer-oriented person, who in expecting an instant change is making mistakes in judgment.\u00a0 It is certainly possible to express outer form without it being a direct expression of inner content.\u00a0 You must therefore be careful in your evaluations.<\/p>\n
These two distortions are faulty counter-reactions, each one attempting to eliminate the other by misunderstanding its own.\u00a0 This phenomenon can occur on all subjects as long as consciousness is entrapped in dualistic illusion.\u00a0\u00a0 During different eras and civilizations, and under different cultural conditions, one of these opposite distortions may be adopted until the pendulum swings to the other.\u00a0 Only a truly connected, self-actualizing and unified person expresses outer form as an inevitable sequence of inner con tent.<\/p>\n
When the outer form exists without the inner content, it is a temporary cover that must break down, even though it resembles the glorious perfection of divine reality and its expressions. Again, this is a process that repeats itself in many areas throughout human development.\u00a0 However, it is an ongoing law that all false covers must crack and crumble.\u00a0 When outer form exists unconnected with an organic inner content, it must disintegrate.\u00a0 If it exists on faulty premises based on appearance, on confusing the outer life with the inner, then the outer form must first crumble before it can be rebuilt as an organic expression of the inner movement and content.\u00a0 Only when the outer form has crashed and the inner chaos been exposed and thoroughly eliminated, can inner beauty build outer beauty, inner harmony build outer harmony, and the inner abundance build outer abundance.\u00a0 A clear vision of this principle is also necessary for creating a\u00a0 visualization of your own movement which can then manifest in your outer life as a result of your inner process.<\/p>\n
I shall now discuss specific manifestations that take place in a person who is already deeply anchored in the process of actualizing the divine life into his or her ego consciousness.\u00a0 What are the inner and outer attitudes, manifestations, and expressions of such a person?\u00a0\u00a0 All decisions, big or small, are made on the basis of self-surrender, where the little self surrenders to the godself.\u00a0 It steps aside and allows the inner wisdom to permeate it.\u00a0 In this process the personality realizes that there is nothing that is unimportant.\u00a0 Every thought, every opinion, every interpretation, every mode of reacting is given a chance to be permeated by the greater consciousness.<\/p>\n
At this stage the resistance to pay attention to everything that occurs is overcome; a new habit has been formed so that the divine process is now self-perpetuating.\u00a0 It is so much part of the whole person that it operates even on those rare occasions when the personality forgets to establish the contact, when, perhaps, an old raw area might still flare up and push the personality in the wrong direction.\u00a0 The inner self is sufficiently freed to manifest so that it can send forth warnings, disagreement, advice\u2014and then leave the decision of whether or not to follow such advice to the outer personality.\u00a0 This is already a state of grace.\u00a0 Confidence and trust have been established as a result of repeated proof that divine reality brings truth, wisdom, goodness, and joy.\u00a0 At first, the divine will is not trusted.\u00a0 It is confused with untrustworthy parental authority, which may often have proclaimed something as good for the child that really proved not to be so.\u00a0 At the stage in question this confusion no longer exists.\u00a0 The self is fully aware that divine will is truly in accordance with all that the heart may possibly desire.\u00a0 This trust grows gradually every time you overcome your resistance and go into the apparent abyss of surrender, giving up narrow selfwill.<\/p>\n
This self-perpetuating divine process brings a vital revolutionary change into the entire person.\u00a0 I can touch upon only a few of its manifestations.\u00a0 Thoughts of truth will be sent forth into your being, notwithstanding the limited thoughts you still habitually follow.\u00a0 You will hear an inner voice instructing you with a wisdom and a unifying spirit that your outer self cannot possibly produce.\u00a0 According to this wisdom, there is never any need to hate, to feel self-rejection or to reject others.\u00a0 The answers and revelations will show the oneness and unity of all, which will completely eliminate fear, anxiety, friction, and despair.<\/p>\n
Surrendering the knowledge of the limited ego to the knowledge of the deeper self, so as to exert all energy, courage, honesty, and self discipline toward making the deeper knowledge self-perpetuating, leads to ultimate fulfillment.\u00a0 Without this as the essential foundation, no joy, pleasure, or fulfillment can exist for long.\u00a0 Even while they do exist, the fulfillment becomes unbearable and finally cannot be accepted.\u00a0 Give up your stake in your negative reaction, in the stubborn opinions of your little mind, in the laziness that forces you to succumb to the old habits of your separated self.\u00a0 You will thus gain true life.\u00a0 Wait patiently, but be ready to receive divine wisdom which you can activate if you so desire.\u00a0 When this state has been instituted, or is in the process of being continually deepened and strengthened, then certain other manifestations begin to appear, inwardly and outwardly.<\/p>\n
You will find an immense security.\u00a0 This is a security you can only gain when you discover the reality of the spiritual world within you and operative around you.\u00a0 You will then know the deep peace of the meaning of your life and of all life.\u00a0 You will intuitively know the connections and be permeated by a sense of fulfillment and safety that surpasses all words.\u00a0 All this will then no longer be a theory or belief that you cling to or deny, but an experiential fact which you can recognize again and again.\u00a0 There is always a way out of every darkness and therefore never a reason to despair.\u00a0 You will know that nothing happens without good cause and that you are always capable of using whatever you experience to heighten your blissful life.\u00a0 Dark spots become opportunities for further light and no longer need to be avoided, whether they be pain, guilt, fear, or whatever.\u00a0 Again and again you will experience the wide open system of creation.<\/p>\n
You will know and make use of your own creative powers, rather than feeling a helpless object in a fixed world.\u00a0 Peace and knowledge of the rightness of life come from realizing that your world, your experience, your life is your creation.\u00a0 This opens many new doors.\u00a0 You no longer live in the two-dimensional world of either\/or.\u00a0 You avail yourself of the many-faceted reality at your disposal.<\/p>\n
The confidence and fearlessness in which you then live necessarily release an immense amount of energy and joy.\u00a0 As you lose your fear of pain because you can experience pain, your pain ceases to exist.\u00a0 As you lose your fear of anger and hate because you can accept your own anger and hate, they no longer exist.\u00a0 The energy is now free for other, better expressions.\u00a0 You now become capable of pleasure and joy and no longer need to reject them.\u00a0 Instead of creating loneliness, you can create relationships:\u00a0 the bliss of the most intimate relationship with one mate, and the satisfaction of deep, open friendships.\u00a0 Pleasure will no longer frighten you because you now know in every pore and cell of your being that you deserve it.\u00a0 Your every pore and every cell are expressions of a consciousness which is now in harmony with your god-consciousness.<\/p>\n
Many of you find yourselves in an interim state where you experience new joys and pleasures you never knew existed.\u00a0 Life opens up for you as it never did.\u00a0 But you also find yourself in the position where you cannot yet bear too much of it.\u00a0 This is because you have not totally surrendered to the god-consciousness, or you have not sufficiently faced negative aspects in you and still cling to them.\u00a0 Hence, you fear pleasure, which becomes more frightening than the grayness you still wish for and create, a grayness of neither pleasure nor pain.\u00a0 You often want to painstakingly preserve this state of grayness without knowing that you do so. \u00a0It is a grayness which gives you comfort, but in the long run leaves you empty.<\/p>\n
An inevitable manifestation of the continuous process of actualizing your deep self is the incredible creativity that blossoms out from your inner life.\u00a0 You are creative in ideas, alternatives, talents, richness of feelings, and the ability to live with and relate to others.\u00a0 You find the treasure of your creative powers, the wealth of your feelings, and the fullness of your own being.\u00a0 Only as you go through the emptiness can you find that fullness.\u00a0 And that requires courage which comes when you pray or meditate for it.\u00a0 You must want the fullness and commit yourself to it.\u00a0 This fullness of feelings, this wealth of creative ideas, and the ability to live in the now with all its excitement and peace, will deepen and widen.\u00a0 It will not consist of mutually exclusive opposites but of different facets of the same fullness.\u00a0 The times when you seem to lose it will come less often and be less severe.<\/p>\n
Since you now have the power to create, you can create a deeper intuitive understanding of yourself, others, and life.\u00a0 Your total attitude of relaxation about every part of yourself eliminates the need to cover up and escape from anything in you and therefore must make you aware of other people on their deepest levels.\u00a0 You read their thoughts and understand the deeper connections within and between them so that you can help them, have empathy for them, and love them.\u00a0 You need never fear and defend against others with your destructive ego defenses.<\/p>\n
Outer manifestations must follow suit.\u00a0 Your health will be glowing.\u00a0 You will have vitality and energy as you never had before.\u00a0 The energy you expend will always be replenished\u2014and more so.\u00a0 All your functions will be in perfect working order.\u00a0 All your physical systems will be coordinated.\u00a0 This will affect your outer looks; you cannot help being beautiful when you are in such vibrant health and harmony.\u00a0 It will show in the grace and poise of your movements, the balance and coordination you express, in the tone of your voice, in the sparkle of your eyes, in the brilliance of your skin, in the suppleness of your form.\u00a0 The improvement will come in varying degrees, but it is always possible.\u00a0 Think of it as your possibility.\u00a0 You will be able to materialize it because you already are essentially that person.\u00a0 But you cannot make it manifest if you either have a stake in believing you cannot be like that, or if you want all that vitality, health, radiance and beauty for egotistical reasons or competitive power drives.\u00a0 Then the inner guilt will not let you make it happen.<\/p>\n
There are of course those who have these desirable qualities only in outer expression.\u00a0 In that case, the time will come when these outer forms must break down before they can be rebuilt with inner content.\u00a0 There is an innate system of divine justice built into all consciousness.\u00a0 Whenever a life expression is sought that does not come as a harmonious outer result of an inner reality, it will either not succeed or will break down after it has been created.\u00a0 The real inner guilt that psychologists all chalk up to neurotic guilt operates here.\u00a0 Such guilt is neurotic only when it expresses itself in distorted perfectionism, which hides an\u00a0 unwillingness to give up a real guilt.\u00a0 So when you find resistance to happiness, look for the meaning and the areas of justified guilt.<\/p>\n
Inner unity with your eternal self makes it possible to use your creative ability to explore any area of universal truth you truly wish to comprehend.\u00a0 You now know the power of thought and consciousness and you can focus it as a result of the self-discipline you have learned.\u00a0 Thus you can cultivate a creative receptivity to experience the eternal state beyond physical death.\u00a0 This perception is not reliable as long as you seek it out of your own fear of death.\u00a0 It is reliable only when you do not fear death because you now can die, just as you can be in pain.\u00a0 Whenever you want something because you fear its opposite, the result cannot be reliable.\u00a0 You can create only out of fullness, not out of need and poverty.<\/p>\n
So the difficulty is in initially creating fullness.\u00a0 Seeking the opposite of what you fear is an escape and leads to a split rather than to unification.\u00a0 Exactly the opposite road must be taken.\u00a0 You must die many deaths, right now, every day in your life, in order to discover the eternality of life.\u00a0 Only then will you live fearlessly.<\/p>\n
How can you die all these little deaths?\u00a0 Follow exactly the process I described:\u00a0 let go of the little ego, the little opinions, the negative reactions you have such an investment in.\u00a0 You have to die to those.\u00a0 The little ego with its little investments must die.\u00a0 In that way you can transcend death and intuitively experience the reality of life ongoing.<\/p>\n
When you live without fear of death because you experience it so many times, you will know that in principle physical death is the same.\u00a0 You find it to be so by temporarily letting go of the smaller self, only to find a larger self wakening, which then unifies with the little self.\u00a0 So you see, not even the little self of the ego really dies.\u00a0 It is enlarged and united with the larger self, not given up. But it appears to be given up and you must be ready to take the plunge.\u00a0 When this happens, a measure of eternality will manifest in your life right now.\u00a0 It manifests not only by eliminating fear of dying but also in a more immediate practical sense.\u00a0 It will keep you vital and youthful, giving you as it were a foretaste of the timelessness and agelessness of the true life.<\/p>\n
Another outward manifestation is abundance.\u00a0 Since real spiritual life is limitless abundance, to some degree you must begin to manifest that when you actualize your divine self.\u00a0 If you can make room in your consciousness for outer abundance as a reflection of universal abundance, you will create and experience it.\u00a0 If you want to experience it because you fear poverty, you also create a split.\u00a0 The abundance you create out of fear is not built on reality, and its flimsy structure must be crushed again so that you can then let yourself be poor and dissolve the illusion of poverty.\u00a0 Only after this can the real, unified richness grow.\u00a0 Only when you first can be poor can you allow yourself to be rich as an outer expression of inner content.\u00a0 Then you will not want to be rich for the sake of power or for outer gains in the eyes of others, or out of greed and fear, but to be a true divine expression of the abundance that is the nature of the universe.<\/p>\n
Another outer manifestation of the continual process of actualizing divine life is the proper balance of everything:\u00a0 the balance of assertion and giving in, for instance.\u00a0 The spontaneous knowing when one or the other is appropriate comes from within.\u00a0 Or consider the proper balance of right selflessness and right selfishness, as opposed to wrong selflessness and wrong selfishness.\u00a0 All these balances and dualities will become elements in a spontaneous unification and harmony.\u00a0 The intuitive knowledge of when, what, and how will come not because you decide it with your mind, but as a manifestation of inner truth and beauty that reaches expression on the outer level, appropriately and beautifully.<\/p>\n
There will be a poise and a beauty in your whole bearing\u2014a courtesy and chivalry will emanate from you that will never be ridiculous or invite being taken advantage of.\u00a0 There will be order without a trace of compulsiveness, order in all things of your life.\u00a0 Order and beauty are related and interdependent.\u00a0 There will be generosity, a giving and receiving in one ongoing stream.\u00a0 There will come a deep ability to be grateful and to appreciate others, yourself, and the whole creative universe.<\/p>\n
A new freedom to be soft and vulnerable will make you truly strong and take away false shame.\u00a0 Concurrently, you will experience a new freedom to be strong and assertive\u2014even angry\u2014without false guilt.\u00a0 You will know and act from within because you are in constant contact with the wisdom, love, and truth of your inner divine reality.<\/p>\n
The emotional loneliness that is the self-chosen lot of so many people gradually begins to disappear among you, my friends.\u00a0 In your development you learn to be real, to function without your masks and pretenses.\u00a0 Consequently you begin to feel comfortable in closer intimacy.\u00a0 As you simultaneously cease to fear the pain\/pleasure syndrome, true ecstasy and deep fusion on all levels must give you the deepest fulfillment a human being can experience.\u00a0 You will progress to new heights and depths of experience, where you explore the inner universe in unison.\u00a0 Loneliness and the torture of conflict about the need for and fear of closeness will no longer exist.\u00a0 Such relationships fuse on all levels.\u00a0 The abundance of the universe expresses itself in all areas of life.\u00a0 You will feel it in the sharing, the respect, the warmth, the ease and comfort with which you can be intimate and fused with another person, or in giving to and receiving from another person.\u00a0 The security of your own feelings will make you equally secure about being loved.<\/p>\n
You will experience the deep satisfaction of giving, helping, fulfilling a task, and of being devoted to doing so.\u00a0 You will rejoice in the ongoing creative process that is at work in it.<\/p>\n
All of these are gauges for you, my friends.\u00a0 These gauges are not to be used to put yourself down in impatience and intolerance.\u00a0 They are gauges you can use to create deliberate inner visualization about any and all of these life expressions.\u00a0 And then you will perhaps be more strongly motivated to search further for what still stands in the way.\u00a0 This lecture will give you many tools and a lot of material for your work.<\/p>\n
The love of the universe spreads over all of you and reaches deep into your hearts, my dearest friends.\u00a0 Be blessed, be God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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