Insights do come, and if we’re in a calm place, they’re clear. If we’re in an ’excited’ place, they’re not clear. But, we don’t struggle there - we just go back to calm. Without calm, you don’t know what you’re hearing or thinking, and you don’tknow what to believe or what’s connected with what. You can’t really do anything there but calm down and let your own system and the Larger System co-operate.
The combinations are very subtle. It requires our ’Being’ - our being normal, our being relaxed, our being not vain or proud, not guilty, not manipulative, not suspicious - open to the HIGHER.
If you are doing something for the ’right’ reason, which is the why, and the ’right’ thing which is the what, and if you are’present’, then you should be getting a taste of a new reality - that you can remember! And when you’re doing somethingless productive, you can stop!
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It’s explained in many of the traditions as to why is man so unique. Man can evolve! Animals always will be animals and angels will always be angels, but this body gives us an incredible opportunity to change our ‘level of being’. By its ability to refine energy! And the energy to be refined, is the energy of pain. Refining it through, what is called ‘Understanding’. We are sitting in the transforming machine.....
Yes, we have everything we need, we are born with it, but we do need to feed it in order that it might live and grow! We are GROWING BEINGS, physically and otherwise. The 'otherwise' is not at all a small consideration - it includes our emotions, our minds and what is loosely referred to as our Spiritual Reality - not small things. ALL these things live, can grow and must be FED, and all of this can only happen in the NOW.
We are Created Beings of Universal Intelligence/God, with a built-in capacity of consciously awaring this Fact, and co-operating with its aims.
NOBODY OWNS ANYONE. We are all children of the Universe, children of God. Real responsibility is to that very Source of our arising. The meaning and potential inherent in the human condition is by virtue of THAT which created us. Created Beings we are - subject to the laws of that creation - and we are not in debt to the fearful and distorted notions of the selfish and greedy, who claim our loyalty and obedience.
Why is it so obvious to certain people and not to others that we are created beings?
We are CREATED Beings !
It’s so obvious – we did not make ourselves! We don't know where we came from, and we don't know really what keeps us alive moment to moment. What we do know is that we didn't go into a factory and make ourselves – our incredible eyes, ears, digestive system, our minds, our emotions, our ability to breathe in the air and stand up straight, fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning, our love and our learning capacity. We haven't constructed those faculties ourselves.We are obviously created beings!
Don’t hold onto thoughts, don’t get too fixed on something. If you do, you miss the next thing, which is reality - and it’schanging all the time. If you can ‘be’ and also reflect on something - good. But if you lose your Being, you lose contact with whatever else is going on in the room. What, are you ready to let the defence-lawyer talk now? I’m a little bit stirring up your ‘personality’ at the moment. I’m putting my finger in the hornet’s nest - the part that’s always trying to figure out, figure out, figure out! And, if I can get you angry enough there - even though you know you could swallow and say it doesn’t matter - then maybe you could find yourself behind all that bulshit. Don’t think about it. Psst! I should be able to talk to you like this and you remember me in the same way as when I give you a kiss on the cheek. There you go! That’s the real you, and that’s the real me. If you can remember that, you won’t mind me giving you an ‘elbow’! You understand?
The Work can help nudge us up to another level, loosening the grip of mechanical devils inside or outside. To BE, free to ponder and think through an issue, free from all fear and pressure, free to remember, free to look.
So, from the poetic we move back to the more practical. The Work allows us to establish a specific BASE, before we attempt to consider the outside world. If we don't have that base in BEING, nothing else can be done, other than react.
The soul, spirit, is the essential ’you’, which came into this world! We are in an amazing piece of ’machinery’ here, but as with any sensitive instrument, for it to work well, it must be in balance! When it’s not, it can only give you confusing... whatever!
What is missing is balance. The balance between man's head and his heart - and his body, that thing pushing all those buttons. Man as we know him today is completely out of balance. He holds himself together with valium and anti-acid pills. His brain is connected to a television tube and his emotions are moved, however seldom, by Super Graphics. His hope is in engineered vegetable, animal and human genes. He is totally and absolutely love starved! Man, as we know him today, Western man, is completely out of balance. It's a fact. And they prepare to fight to keep what they've got. They have forgotten their roots and now glorify their sickness. Not a nice nor a hopeful reality