My very beloved friends, you are blessed, once again.<\/p>\n
Golden rays are streaming around you and fill your very being.\u00a0 In this lecture I want to give you yet another outline of divine living, a vision of the Christ consciousness that heals all the wounds of division, confusion, and unnecessary conflict.\u00a0 You may sense that the series of lectures I have given you this past working season was geared to open up new visions in several areas.\u00a0 These visions set the pace and the climate of the work we shall be doing in the next working season.<\/p>\n
The particular sequence of lectures may appear, off hand, arbitrary and not necessarily connected, but upon more profound reflection you will see that there is a meaningful sequence and a connection between the topics.\u00a0 In fact, one could not be properly assimilated without the other.\u00a0 All of them form a comprehensive whole.\u00a0 A study in meditation will reveal how all these topics are intricately connected.\u00a0 Every single one of the topics, and all of them together, will open new channels of consciousness in you which, in turn, will make you capable of living the new life that is starting to evolve on your earth sphere.<\/p>\n
Today I wish to explore the concepts of privacy and secrecy.\u00a0 Much confusion exists about these two concepts.\u00a0 This confusion fosters the forces of evil and prevents you from fulfilling all your needs and attaining true expansion.\u00a0 It also makes closeness and intimacy impossible, and closeness is surely one of your legitimate needs.\u00a0 So is privacy.\u00a0 If privacy and secrecy are being confused, either the need for closeness or the need for privacy must be shortchanged.<\/p>\n
Privacy is a legitimate need of the soul.\u00a0 You need to be by and with yourself.\u00a0 You need time alone in which you can delve into your depths and find new levels of inner reality, undisturbed by even the most favorable influences and vibrations from others.\u00a0 At times you even need periods when something you essentially desire to share with all your loved ones needs to be kept to yourself until it ripens sufficiently.\u00a0 Whether it is a thought, a new state of consciousness, or an artistic creation, it may need time to complete itself before being opened to others.<\/p>\n
Such periods of privacy do not indicate isolation or separateness.\u00a0 They merely mean that a time of being by yourself and with yourself, a state of aloneness, is necessary to find more of yourself.\u00a0 However, every divine reality also has a distorted, diabolic counterpart, and if privacy is being sought in order to avoid contact, a distortion is at hand.\u00a0 If you avoid privacy because the true meaning of the anxiety it may at first produce is not explored and understood, again, a distortion is at work.<\/p>\n
Many people are completely oblivious to their own need for privacy.\u00a0 They may, at times, be alone as a result of circumstances beyond their control, but even then, they manage to clutter up their inner being with surface thoughts, with outer or inner noise, to avoid the deep inner contact the soul craves.\u00a0 Human beings who live in perpetually crowded conditions may have produced these very conditions because they desire an outer reason for being prevented from being alone.\u00a0 However, other human beings who also live in such conditions manage to find inner and occasionally even outer privacy despite all the busyness surrounding them.<\/p>\n
Those who keep predominantly to themselves may have created their aloneness precisely because of their fear of contact.\u00a0 But if fear of contact exists at all, it is primarily fear of contact with the self, and only secondarily fear of contact with others.\u00a0 Consequently, this aloneness will not fill the need for privacy.\u00a0 People who are alone because of fear of contact will remain alone without taking the opportunity to come closer to themselves, just as they will spend time with others without taking the opportunity to forge true contact and intimacy.<\/p>\n
Now what about secrecy? \u00a0Secrecy is never positive, at least not in its real sense.\u00a0 We are not talking of the so-called secret one keeps to prepare a lovely surprise for a loved one.\u00a0 This is not really a secret, for it is finally joyfully revealed.\u00a0 Secrets always hide something negative, otherwise they would not be kept secret.\u00a0 This is very important.\u00a0 Although the truth here is quite obvious, it is surprisingly often totally overlooked.\u00a0 Whatever the secret may be, if you look closely, it will not be difficult to discern the wish to hide something that is unpalatable to someone.\u00a0 Either you wish to keep something hidden from others, or another person wishes to involve you in hiding something negative or destructive.<\/p>\n
If these secrets were revealed, they could be dealt with, they could be totally dissolved so that a beautiful, positive creation could take their place.\u00a0 But by keeping the secret, you maintain and nurture negative thoughts, dishonest actions, and destructive behavior patterns.<\/p>\n
The person who has a stake in keeping something secret\u2014either alone or in conjunction with others\u2014is perfectly aware of hiding something negative; otherwise it would be unnecessary to keep it secret.\u00a0 To plead righteousness about keeping a secret is therefore absurd.\u00a0 But what usually happens is that privacy is used to camouflage the intent to keep secrets.\u00a0 In other words, secretive people will use the right and need for privacy to conceal that they really are keeping something secret.\u00a0 The weapon of the forces of darkness is always to confuse by using a truth to cover up a lie.<\/p>\n
The true concept of privacy never implies keeping secrets.\u00a0 In fact, just the opposite is true.\u00a0 What is divinely inspired and ripens in privacy is later always opened up and shared with others.\u00a0 It is never meant to be hidden.\u00a0 Only dishonesty, lies, negative intentionality, destructiveness of one sort or another, need to be hidden from others.\u00a0 Nothing that is true and beautiful needs to be kept secret.\u00a0 Not ever.<\/p>\n
Sometimes an excuse is used to rationalize keeping secrets:\u00a0 “If I reveal myself, I will not be understood,” or “I will be unjustly criticized.”\u00a0 This, of course, is not valid.\u00a0 For if one is in truth, understanding from others will not be important enough to create impenetrable walls between the self and others.\u00a0 If one is in truth, one tries to make others understand and to use their criticism as a tool to explore the reality of the situation one wishes to keep secret.<\/p>\n
Those who keep a secret fear that they are not in truth, or they may even know it but have no intention of changing.\u00a0 They are dishonest because they know that others may react to what is hidden, and they wish to avoid this.\u00a0 In other words, they wish the respect and love that they might not be able to earn if the secret were disclosed.<\/p>\n
Keeping secrets is therefore always, in the final analysis, a theft.\u00a0 It is cheating to secure a result that cannot or will not come about if the secret is disclosed.\u00a0 Keeping secrets also avoids the effort and responsibility of finding an equitable, honest solution in which others can participate.<\/p>\n
Secrets are always antithetical to relationship, to intimacy, to real and fulfilling contact.\u00a0 Secretive people are never fulfilled emotionally.\u00a0 They keep a wall of separation between themselves and others and then wonder why they feel so alone and misunderstood.\u00a0 It never occurs to them to put two and two together.\u00a0 They often even blame others for this state and use it to justify their secretiveness, instead of doing the only valid, meaningful and intelligent thing:\u00a0 spill out all secrets and make themselves as transparent as possible.\u00a0 This is not an easy or quick thing to achieve.\u00a0 It requires patience, time, effort, and all the good will that can be mustered.<\/p>\n
Often an important reason for secretiveness is the fear of self-exposure.\u00a0 The fear says, “If I show myself as I really am, they will not love me.”\u00a0 If this is the way you reason\u2014though it can hardly be called reasoning\u2014you ignore certain blatant facts.\u00a0 For instance, you assume that the love, respect, or approval of others is more important than one’s own.\u00a0 You fail to see that the courage and honesty of transparency, no matter what shameful facets may have to be revealed, create more self-esteem than secretiveness ever could.\u00a0 Eventually the esteem and love from others must follow.<\/p>\n
The Pathwork is clearly designed to gradually but surely eliminate all secrets.\u00a0 First you learn to stop keeping secrets from yourself.\u00a0 You realize how much material you had ignored, kept unconscious, secret from your conscious mind. \u00a0Then you learn to apply the same honesty and openness you have acquired toward yourself toward others as well.\u00a0 If you continue, you cannot help experiencing this as the only way to be.\u00a0 Only this way can you fulfill your need for contact and live without fear and anxiety, without shame and hiding, without pretenses and fa\u00e7ades.\u00a0 The relief of this kind of living is a much headier wine than any pseudo-solution could ever be.\u00a0 Those who have begun to taste it can no longer bear to revert to secret living for any length of time or in any respect, no matter what may come up.<\/p>\n
If you have negative thoughts about others, suspicious opinions or accusations, instead of nurturing them secretly for yourself or sharing them with a third person as a mutually kept secret, you will bring it all out in the open.\u00a0 Doing so indicates that your will to be in truth is greater than your negative opinion, your accusations, your suspicions.\u00a0 You will proceed to explore what the particular truth of any situation is.\u00a0 You cannot fail to be enlightened with the real, peace-bringing, unifying truth if you are committed to it more than to anything else.<\/p>\n
Wanting to preserve your secret, on the other hand, clearly indicates that you have no commitment to the truth, probably not even to the truth that you have a stake in maintaining your negative opinions, accusations, and suspicions, and that you desire to continue doing this precisely because you already know deep inside that you are not in truth, but you do not wish to admit this.<\/p>\n
However, accusations that are made publicly do not necessarily indicate openness, the opposite of secrecy.\u00a0 They may merely mean that hostile and aggressive motives supersede secrecy.<\/p>\n
The new man and the new woman are incapable of harboring secrets.\u00a0 Secrets cannot be carried in the newly emerging consciousness.\u00a0 They are experienced as an unbearable burden, which they actually are.\u00a0 The spiritual form of a secret is exactly that:\u00a0 a heavy burden.\u00a0 The more consciousness becomes enlightened, the more it is infused with the Christ spirit, the faster the burden will be dissolved in the most productive and creative way possible.<\/p>\n
You have begun to experience this new mode of living in your own growing community.\u00a0 This is precisely what is taking place:\u00a0 an ever-increasing openness and a transparency in which all secrets of self and others are being experienced as insufferable burdens, as hindrances to light and love.\u00a0 The price for keeping a secret becomes too high, too absurd.\u00a0 Conversely, the cost of the effort necessary to open up the secrets, to enable the soul to stand clear and clean, visible for all to see, is never too high.\u00a0 Complete openness is the goal.\u00a0 It applies to all relationships:\u00a0 to man\/woman partnerships, to every kind of friendship, and finally to the relationship between countries.<\/p>\n
Keeping your negative aspects secret makes it impossible to reveal your best self.\u00a0 You feel embarrassed about yourself; your innermost thoughts, dreams, and desires feel shameful.\u00a0 To begin with, these aspects are often far from shameful or bad.\u00a0 They become negative because they are enveloped in a veil of secrecy.\u00a0 Merely believing that there is something to hide creates an aura of fog, a darkness that gradually encompasses the best in a person.\u00a0 It is therefore essential that this fog be lifted, whether what is hidden is actually negative or has only become so as a result of being hidden.<\/p>\n
The process of dissolving secrets is the essence of the work you already do on this path.\u00a0 Muster the courage to expose what was hitherto secret.\u00a0 In no way will you ever regret this step.\u00a0 Having taken it, you will always find more love, more respect, more friendship, more help, more recognition of your real values, not to mention the relief of ridding yourself of an unbearable burden.\u00a0 The clarity, the lightness, and the freedom of no longer pretending in any way, are the direct doorway to the self-esteem you so desperately try to create and preserve by hiding.<\/p>\n
If your self-revealing seems to elicit more criticism and censure than love and understanding, I would say to you, my friends, that you must surely have revealed yourself in a distorted way.\u00a0 It is easy to confuse the real way with the false one.\u00a0 The real way is the absolute willingness to follow the will of God; to let go of every cherished attitude, action, or goal that proves damaging and contrary to divine law; to use those to whom you reveal yourself as mirrors that help you see and reconsider some of your previous patterns.\u00a0 Their reaction should not be your inflexible rule to abide by but should make you thoughtful and truly willing to reconsider those aspects of yourself that you now see more clearly.<\/p>\n
The false way of self-revealing is the childish, lower-self way that says, in effect, “If I show you my secrets, I demand that you approve of them and of me regardless of how destructive they may be.\u00a0 If you do not, I will accuse you of letting me down, and I will use this as proof that it does not pay to be open.”\u00a0 So be careful, friends, when you assess the results of your self-revealing.\u00a0 The key always lies deep within you:\u00a0 Are you really moved by the sincere desire to be in truth and to do the will of God?<\/p>\n
However, you also need to know clearly whether a real violation of your privacy exists.\u00a0 These are times when others try to pry because of their own negative motives; they may wish to uncover something they can use against you to make themselves feel better, in a desperate attempt to enhance their deteriorated self-esteem.\u00a0 If you sense such motives, you should indeed close your doors to them.\u00a0 But bear in mind that unless you are willing to give up all secrets, and you have already begun to do so, it is extremely difficult to truly distinguish between actual prying and attempts to violate your privacy, and someone’s genuine concern and honest desire to relate to the real you.\u00a0 As long as you have a stake in keeping yourself hidden, your assessment of others’ motives will be very shaky.<\/p>\n
Transparency is a new way of being, a habit that needs to be cultivated with patience, devotion, and perseverance; it is of great importance for you and those around you with whom you long to relate.\u00a0 It is an art that can and needs to be learned.\u00a0 Often your initial hesitancy and inhibitions can be removed when you learn how to express yourself and to convey what at first seems unconveyable.\u00a0 Has it not frequently occurred to you that you related a dream quite adequately, once you started it, although you were first convinced that it could not be explained?\u00a0 Thoughts and attitudes, experiences and feelings within the four walls of your inner self seem so vague, so unexplainable, that you do not even attempt to convey them.\u00a0 But once you know it is possible to do so, even if you cannot perfectly transmit all the nuances, you will make the effort to communicate and you will be surprised to what extent you can make yourself clear.\u00a0 By opening yourself up, you can reach others who may have quite similar inner experiences and thus can emotionally connect with you sooner and better than you may ever have suspected.<\/p>\n
The point I want to make is that communication is an essential part of self-revealing and openness.\u00a0 Effort is needed, a lot of effort, but this effort will be highly rewarded.\u00a0 What first appears to be embarrassing only seems so because you believe that you cannot really put it in the proper words.\u00a0 Try, and the words will come.\u00a0 You will develop a new wonderful way of expressing yourself, and that in itself will enhance your sense of security and adequacy.\u00a0 Your initial inability to express yourself adequately is totally due to your unwillingness to do so and to let God inspire you.\u00a0 If you sincerely wish to reveal yourself, the Holy Spirit will inspire you with the appropriate words, and the walls you have built around you will dissolve.<\/p>\n
Let us examine the quality of various human relationships in light of this topic.\u00a0 The most intimate of all relationships\u2014between two people who love each other and intend to share themselves with one another completely\u2014depends on the ability to be without secrets.\u00a0 This includes the outer ones as well as the inner, more subtle ones.\u00a0 If the risk is not taken to bring all aspects of the self into play, the expected bliss can never materialize.\u00a0 I have discussed this before, specifically in connection with the relationship between mates.\u00a0 I need to repeat it here in the context of the personality’s general tendency to keep the self secret.\u00a0 The false belief that the self in its entirety is not acceptable must be challenged again and again.\u00a0 You need to take the risk repeatedly, step by step, until everything is out in the open.\u00a0 Then true sharing of the inner process can begin and an ongoing communication can be established.<\/p>\n
At first you are bound to find that a great deal of residual material has accumulated.\u00a0 Once this is emptied out and all of you is made known, the process will take over.\u00a0 For the soul is not static or fixed.\u00a0 It constantly moves and changes, forever producing new inner experiences, new feelings, new thoughts, new dreams, new aims.\u00a0 Once you have emptied yourself, the dynamic process of soul development can be shared much more easily.\u00a0 The art of communicating, of self-expression, grows as you grow.\u00a0 Thus you become an increasingly open channel for divine inspiration; this will affect your choice of words, the nuances as well as the tone of voice that also contributes to making yourself clear.\u00a0 What was once a confining prison of your inner self then becomes a wide open field that reaches the infinite horizons of divine possibilities and becomes ever more available to others.\u00a0 A state of mind grows in you which has nothing to hide, for which hiding seems utterly absurd, and being totally transparent is the greatest joy.<\/p>\n
Only when you risk presenting whatever is in you now, will you know your real value.\u00a0 In this process you will inevitably find that there is so much more to you than you feared.\u00a0 How else can you find fulfillment and quench your thirst for being open with others, for attaining intimacy?\u00a0 This longing can never be fulfilled, no matter how hard you may try to deny it or appease it with false substitutes, unless you open yourself up.<\/p>\n
The word “friendship” becomes a farce if you feel there is anything between yourself and the friend that has to be hidden.\u00a0 You will never really know whether you are loved and accepted.\u00a0 You must always fear and distrust, as long as you fail to take the risk of showing the friend all you are, all you have kept hidden.\u00a0 But this, of course, always includes the basic willingness to change a lower-self action, a lower-self goal, or a lower-self attitude.\u00a0 It requires the trust that higher-self goals and activities will provide much better what you need.\u00a0 If the trust is lacking, then this is what you need to share and perhaps receive help with.<\/p>\n
This Pathwork is obviously designed to remove the secrets and to make your self available to others.\u00a0 If you look back on your progress so far, from this point of view, you will see quite clearly how you have liberated yourself and improved your life circumstances, gained new self-confidence and a sense of your own value, learned to trust God and life more and know of divine abundance.\u00a0 This progress came from your courage to reveal outer and\/or inner secrets.\u00a0 Look at what you still hide and you will find the key to where you still block the fulfillment that awaits you.<\/p>\n
When you look at your world, at the interaction between countries, you will see what an enormous role secrecy plays in the interrelationship between countries.\u00a0 Such relations are more marked by secretiveness, pretense, and hiding than any other relationship.\u00a0 Openness is not even considered viable among the governments of different countries.\u00a0 It is universally taken for granted that opaqueness is sound diplomacy.<\/p>\n
In this area humanity is far behind where it could and should be; other areas of human relationships are much more advanced, although they, too, still leave something to be desired.\u00a0 In marriage, for instance, you will recognize to what extent mates keep secrets from one another\u2014not only about past and present acts and experiences, but also about thoughts and feelings.\u00a0 Is it any wonder that marriage does not seem to work very well and that mates cannot stay together?\u00a0 Yet the marriage relationship is much better off than the relationships among different governments, where most of the distrust, deceit, and strife exists.\u00a0 As long as humanity fails to envision an altogether new way of interrelating, peace cannot truly be established, sharing of God’s riches cannot take place, justice and brotherhood will remain empty words.<\/p>\n
In short, there must be a willingness to be open.\u00a0 It must be recognized that this is a prerequisite for a life of peace, joy, and harmony among all the peoples of this earth.\u00a0 Openness must then be painstakingly learned by the nations just as by individuals.<\/p>\n
You are pioneers, bringing a new model to this world.\u00a0 In establishing your community life, you encounter the same basic problem that humanity as a whole encounters in establishing a society.\u00a0 You clearly see that those who keep themselves secret, those who do not share all of themselves, represent a dark barricade that hinders the growth of the whole.\u00a0 You need to make this understood by those who do not dare as yet to be real.\u00a0 You need to know it for yourself.\u00a0 You will learn increasingly, slowly perhaps, but surely, to present yourself in totality, without any false self-projections.\u00a0 You must understand that to whatever degree you do not trust the process of a secretless life, you encourage a false self-projection.\u00a0 Your secrets mean exactly this:\u00a0 “I want you to see me not as I am, but as I pretend to be.”\u00a0 Once you clearly see this, you will understand the grave consequences of secrecy for your relationship with yourself, with others, and with God.\u00a0 You will see how it affects your entire outer and inner life, as well as those with whom you seek to establish a desirable relationship.<\/p>\n
Try to visualize what life is like when you know that there is nothing to hide, ever.\u00a0 And when you feel there is something to hide, consider that perhaps what you hide is really something damaging to yourself and\/or others.\u00a0 It should be revealed all the more because you need help in recognizing what makes you desire this act or attitude.\u00a0 You then need help to change your inner defense mechanisms so that you will no longer need to desire a destructive act or attitude.\u00a0 Your lower self must be revealed so that it can be healed and transformed.<\/p>\n
Perhaps what you believe should be kept hidden is really a beautiful aspect of yourself that should be shared.\u00a0 Perhaps you only think your secret is bad and in reality you need the experience of exposing it before you can really be convinced that you have nothing to hide.\u00a0 Imagine the feeling of no longer hiding anything from anyone.\u00a0 Imagine the liberation of shedding a heavy armor.\u00a0 Imagine the joy and the healthy pride of holding your head high while knowing you can truly be open to all.<\/p>\n
Only when this state of consciousness is achieved can your true enfoldment begin.\u00a0 Your limitless potentials for greatness, for creativity, for still-hidden talents, for your universality and uniqueness, for your essence and your beauty can stream forth only when the confinement of hiding is removed.\u00a0 The process of self-unfoldment begins with removing the walls of secretiveness.\u00a0 It continues with liberating the best in you only after this has been accomplished.<\/p>\n
Of course, the process often overlaps and goes back and forth.\u00a0 As one layer or aspect of hiding is dissolved, new qualities and assets that you have never known begin to take shape.\u00a0 Then you return to other areas of hiding that you had not even been clearly aware of, so that more of your potential can begin to unfold.<\/p>\n
Can you visualize a world in which no one ever hides anything from anyone else?\u00a0 Is that not paradise?\u00a0 This is the direction in which evolution moves, my friends.\u00a0 This is what the New Age signifies.\u00a0 How can the Christ in you truly manifest if you have a hidden agenda?\u00a0 How can your divinity unfold if you are not free and if you continue to project a false self into the world?\u00a0 Do not rationalize such projections by pretending to preserve your privacy.\u00a0 Look at the real reasons why you maintain this painful and unnecessary state of isolation and deception\u2014for that is what it truly amounts to.<\/p>\n
There are three fundamental reasons for resistance to giving up secrets:\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 The fear that your lower self makes you all bad and, together with this fear, your unwillingness to risk the possibility that this may not be so; that others will not reject you, and that you will not find it necessary to reject yourself.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 The ignorance that indeed there is a way\u2014which can be learned\u2014of communicating all that now seems incommunicable.\u00a0 The unwillingness to learn the process gradually, by small steps.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 The fear of being too vulnerable when all the hard shells fall off.\u00a0 Secrets are certainly among the hardest layers.<\/p>\n
The common denominator of these three factors is the resistance to going to God with all of yourself and to trusting His will.\u00a0 The resistance is perpetuated by your choice to follow the voices of the dark forces who inspire you to trust in your false, destructive, separating devices for safety and for the resolution of your problems.\u00a0 You need to become aware of these influences, and you desperately need to challenge and refute them.\u00a0 You have to choose new behaviors and seek new solutions.<\/p>\n
Before ending this lecture, I wish to speak more about the third factor, the fear of vulnerability.\u00a0 This vulnerability goes beyond the obvious fear of being less protected from hurt and disappointment without the secrets.\u00a0 This fear is an outright illusion, easy to discover once you summon up the courage to do without it.\u00a0 But there is also another kind of vulnerability.<\/p>\n
As you become more open, more accessible, new capacities of perception grow in you.\u00a0 What you previously perceived only vaguely becomes more and more acute, more clearly defined.\u00a0 This is immediately and directly beneficial in many areas of your life.\u00a0 This desirable result, however, is totally ignored by the personality because too much darkness and fog still cover up the reality.\u00a0 So you lack the incentive to use the new perception.<\/p>\n
This newly-evolved vulnerability has another effect that is not immediately experienced as desirable.\u00a0 It is a grieving pain about the destruction caused by evil.\u00a0 It is healthy and good to allow this state to grow in you, to experience it fully.\u00a0 It manifests in different ways, and the more aware of your vulnerability you become, the more you will experience this very healthy pain.\u00a0 You may feel pain when you see God’s gifts in nature willfully destroyed.\u00a0 You may feel pain about the suffering on this plane of existence.\u00a0 Take for example the suffering of animals who become the prey of other animals in order to sustain the greater life cycle and to fulfill their function.\u00a0 In one sense this suffering is certainly much less than the suffering willfully inflicted on animals by the indifference and cruelty of humans.\u00a0 But that animals have to go through this phase of their own evolution is painful, even though there is an intrinsic rightness about it.\u00a0 These animals are incarnated aspects of consciousness that need these experiences, but they are nevertheless, on the level of manifestation, much more innocent than man, who has a consciousness that gives him much more responsibility.<\/p>\n
What I say here may sound contradictory, yet it is not.\u00a0 I must ask you to try to understand this from the depth of your soul, because true understanding will come from there.\u00a0 Compassion and love, gratitude for the beauty of creation, appreciation of and joy about it must also create a deep pain when something is destroyed, a pain that needs to be suffered.\u00a0 This pain is ever so different from the neurotic pain, the pain by association, the pain of masochistic self-punishment that identifies with what appears to be a victim.\u00a0 This living, healthy, loving pain is also the threshold to joy and ecstasy.<\/p>\n
Another aspect of this pain is the recognition that untrue thoughts about your fellow human beings are damaging to yourself as well as others.\u00a0 Such thoughts may well be camouflaged and rationalized away.\u00a0 However, thoughts of maligning and unwarranted suspicion, the inner and\/or outer acts of factual, psychological, emotional, and spiritual cheating, impose unfair disadvantages on others, and therefore also on the self.<\/p>\n
As long as this pain is denied, the price becomes much higher, for such pain must turn against whoever inflicts it, or against whoever colludes with those who inflict the pain by passively standing by.\u00a0 Many self-defeating patterns are connected with pain you have unwittingly inflicted because you have not allowed yourself to know and feel them.\u00a0 It seemed too tempting to follow the way of the dark forces and too undesirable to give them up.\u00a0 You fear and avoid your own pain about causing pain to others.\u00a0 This then grows into debilitating guilt and indirect self-punishment.\u00a0 You also need to feel the pain that is independent of you, but can help liberate you by moving you to compassion, the pain you simply see existing in this earth-sphere.<\/p>\n
So, my beloved friends, when the walls of separation and secretiveness fall from you, you step out into a beautiful world of light, of goodness, of singing joy, of eternal life, of fearless existence.\u00a0 This world can exist only in a defenseless person who is free from armoring, who does not deny the soft vulnerability that can experience the pain of all the suffering created by the forces of evil in this earth sphere.\u00a0 If you harden yourself against this kind of pain, you also deny the joy that is meant to be yours for all eternity.\u00a0 Allow this experience to strengthen your determination to become an ever stronger fighter with the forces of light.<\/p>\n
The blessings of all the angels accompany you, the blessings of the Highest flows through them to you, enriching and guiding your life.\u00a0 The presence of the Highest, of the Creator, lives in your heart and soul if only you will see and feel it.\u00a0 Be always aware that you are here on this earth plane to find your true being and fulfill it for God.\u00a0 Live in Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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