Lights of Love
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Everyone is here in ELS to learn, to grow, to evolve the quality of our consciousness and that growth has to be from the inside out. It's not an intellectual thing. In fact our intellect has very little to do with spiritual growth. We are here to change our inner being. This is done by letting go of our fears. As fear is let go of, the love that the fear covers up is released and fills our inner being. This process is not all that complex because it is simply a feedback process. However, is a slow process and not always an easy one. Sometimes we take a few steps forward, then go backward, then forward again and so on. It is the millions of little decisions we make throughout our daily throughout our life that determines if we are evolving or devolving... whether we gain or lose spiritual growth from the standpoint of where we began during our lifetime.
This world and how we interact with each other... our relationships gives us many opportunities to make decisions and these decisions reflect our intent. If our intent is good/loving then we evolve, if not, if it stems from fear, then we devolve. The reason we can make poor decisions and get caught up in fear is because we have freewill. If we have freewill, then we have to be able to go either way of making both good and bad decisions. Fear is the source of egotism, and for the most part fear is the source of our wants and needs, our insecurities, and our desires for our relationships with others to be a certain way. Fear is always about you and what you want. Fear is always a self focused problem, no matter how we involve other people in our fears. As a society we all have gotten caught up in a victim mentality where we feel the need to place blame. (So and so that wrote this book or that book is at fault... so and so that teaches this religion or that religion is at fault... etc., etc., etc.) You can project anger at other people for whatever you've perceived they've done, but the anger is really about you. You can project your anger toward someone/something else, but your anger is not about them... it's about you because you are the one generating the anger. The other person is just the focus of your anger. It's a challenge, but you have to be responsible for yourself. If you're angry or upset, if you're feeling unhappy with whatever... it's not because of them, it's because of you. The problem is inside of you and that's where the growth has to start. When you tell someone that they will be sorry if they follow this teacher or that teacher... what you are doing is justifying your own self-centered, egotistical need to be right. What is right for one person may not be the same for another. Everyone has their own interpretation of their personal relationships within this world. It is personal because that is the way it is set up. We are individuals and the path we follow toward growth is also individual.
I'm sure your inner intent may be good and loving Albert, but if you want to learn how to really help people, then you need to learn to listen to what they are saying... where they are coming from... really try to understand their perspective rather than projecting your own belief onto them... denouncing them simply because you assume they are not on a correct path according to your own standards, which is based on your own personal interpretation of your own personal experiences is not necessarily helpful. When someone projects their belief system onto someone else, what they are doing is making assumptions, jumping to conclusions about another person, which makes it next to impossible for effective communication to take place, and you run the risk of causing harm rather than being helpful.
Certainly people should be skeptical about anything they read or hear, yet at the same time people need to be open minded enough to learn and grow, otherwise they remain stuck in a belief system that limits them, keeping them from becoming more aware of and understanding the bigger picture. However, the understanding of the bigger picture is individual interpretation based on an individual's own experiences. The larger consciousness system is continually interacting with and guiding each of us, even when we're not aware of it doing so. It provides us with the opportunities to optimize our growth from any and all sources, especially in our relationships and our interactions with these. If dualities were not present in our lives, few opportunities for growth would be available.
Kathy
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