Spirit tells me that acceptance is contentment.
How can I feel content about accepting something
that I can’t change?
What else would you feel?
Defeated.
In losing a battle you know or believe that
you never could win?
What else could I feel?
Satisfied with yourself that you did, if you did,
everything you could do to win.
And satisfaction is as contentment?
In this case, yes
Are we referring to a specific case?
Yes, and no.
As particular and general?
Yes.
Spirit asks me to make a promise to be.
To be what?
The best that we can be.
The best what^
What are we?
I don’t know.
We are seekers of ever-greater light.
I think I am, now. But what to do with the light I find when I know there must be even more?
Share what you have found while still reaching for more.
This could become a long-term project.
It is. It lasts forever, but, so do we, in one form or another, or in no particular form at all, if in any.
Spirit tells me that our personal stories must necessarily be incomplete and less than real.
“How can my life story be less than real?”
“Who experienced it?”
“I did.”
“And who recorded it?”
“I did.”
“How?”
“Through memories. How else?”
“Someone might have told you your story when you were too young to be aware of how true it was.”
“If so, that was then.”
“Your story can never be then. Life stories are never then and now, unless there are two or more versions of the same story, and there always are.”
“Then how can we know our own story?”
“It isn’t possible. We’re living interconnected life stories.”
“Then your story and mine may be the same story?”
“Yes, from different perspectives.”
Spirit tells me that I need to learn not to know, in the sense that I can
Accept and understand that there is no absolute knowledge beyond
Which there is nothing more to learn about whatever.
Science serves us well in reaching beyond the limits of our present
Understanding and providing us with ever-more insights into
Whatever.
But, even scientists know there is more that can be and will be learned
About whatever.
That’s fine for scientists, but I seem to need to believe in something.
Do you believe in me?
Yes.
That’s something.
There are times when studying with my Spirit Teacher is less than a
Pleasure. There seems to be such a deep and wide gulf between
The awesome wisdom He would share with me and my shallow
Capacity to absorb it that I must protest.
What do You expect from me? I’m not that bright. Perhaps you want
More than I could ever give.
We know more than you what you are potentially capable of being,
Doing, and giving, and We more than reasonably expect. We know
What we can and what we cannot expect from you or anyone else.
Spirit tells me that I can only serve Life by serving myself, and
I can only serve myself by serving Life. It’s as simple as that.
How can I know when and if I am serving myself or Life?
It’s one and the same.
And if I’m helping a neighbour?
Your neighbour is Life.
But, there are some neighbours I would rather not serve at all.
What then?
Then you have a problem.
Spirit tells me that awareness is an ever-deepening experience of
Understanding, with the capacity to expand forever.
The more we understand how each life form has the potential
To affect every other, the more clearly we will know, for
Understanding is knowing, that all life is much more than
Interconnected; it is interwoven.
We each are part of everything else.
Spirit tells me that we are as individual sparks of Life
Experiencing life.
We learn to know who we are and what we are by
Experiencing relationships with other sparks of Life,
Of intensities that may differ, in some way, or ways,
To our own.
They are, these other sparks, what and whom they have
Become, as are we.
The strengths and weaknesses of other sparks
Provide us with a means of knowing our own, by
Comparing ourselves with others.
This awareness is not meant to be used to judge
Others, nor ourselves. Differences exist and are
As a gift to everyone.
How would it be possible, He asks me, to know
Anything, if nothing or no-one differed, or seemed
Not to,, from anyone or anything else, in any way?
How could we grow? or be aware that we had, or
Had not?
Awareness of differences can serve to inspire each
Of us to become, not as any other, but all that we can,
And in this way, inspire others to do the same,
Not be the same.
Spirit tells me that in the dance of Life, specific energies
Blend or they do not. We each send out smoke signals,
Perhaps in the form of peace offerings, to heal a real or
Imagined offense, and to test the direction in which
Our relationship is moving.
Our peace offerings serve a useful purpose, even if
They are rejected. We have tasted the soup of our
Relationship. Is it too cool to enjoy? Is it too hot for
Comfort? Or, is it just right for a pleasurable and
Mutually satisfactory experience?.
Life is a dance, He repeats, so relax and move to the
Music of challenges and situations. And, trust yourself
To intuitively know when to move closer, step aside,
Back away – how to live your life, your way.
When I insist to Spirit that I am what I am and I need
What I need, then He, with a confidence that I very
Much envy, tells me that my more or less loosely
Organized system of thoughts and emotions is a
Conditioned one.
Who conditioned me?
You did, with help, of course.
Why? and for what purpose?
To conform to a static social order that never existed.
Why would I do that?
God only knows, but hopes you will do yourself and
Everyone else the favour of getting to know who and
What you really are.
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