Hatonn Wrote:The inner work, the work upon the self, is not selfish. For it [is] only the whole self that can serve the Creator it sees in others. What you see is a reflection of what you are. If you have not found enough, then you will continually view outer shortages. If within yourself you have discovered the wholeness of your being and the adequacy, indeed, the perfection of your consciousness, you will then find that same consciousness buried however deeply in the illusions about you. You may think to yourself that you cannot possibly find a whole and complete being within yourself. It is certain that your culture does not encourage you to feel whole. However, through meditation and the discipline of analysis of your thoughts and your actions you can find the keys that open the door to wholeness.

This wholeness is another word for love, for love is that which is not broken or battered or in any way imperfect. Love indeed is creative and multiplies that wherein it dwells. Sometimes you may feel as if your situation were that of a certain crowd spoken of in your holy work called the Bible, gathered upon many hills, many thousands of people, and you have a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish. And you feel completely inadequate to nourish that which is about you, those who need you. You feel that you do not have the food, the nourishment, the love that is necessary. But this is the point. Such is the power of love as it flows through you from the infinite source which has created all that there is that that which you have will be enough. You are enough and you have enough.
And so our young man could grow old and die and never find enough unless the attention had been turned to the inner silence that beckons all who seek, an inner silence so filled with joy that those who have felt it recognize others by that one smile that says to the world, “Yes, I have felt it too, I have known infinite bounty, I have felt the sunshine of a universe scattered carelessly, abundantly and wastefully upon my upturned spirit. I have asked; I have received.” Those who have received radiate that which they have received, and give it again a hundredfold.

And so my friends, please do not think ill of your poverty, whether it be of power or of money or of the right words or of enough love or of the ability to deal with a situation correctly today. For a little while you have left eternity, and you are living in time. You brought infinity with you; you brought the infinite love that created you and is you with you.

 
 

(05-28-2022, 01:23 AM)Sacred Fool Wrote: It's pretty well impossible to discuss this sort of thing if you haven't tasted it.  One can talk around it, but how can you discuss the feeling of the One in all and the All in any one portion without the direct experience?  What's the use of just talking about it?  I don't know.  The best one can do, I suppose, is what the Confederation dudes are doing, viz., encouraging us to seek and seek and seek within until we come upon that wondrous experience of self as All.  And again, at that point, why talk about it?  (...or type about it?)

So many questions.

(05-28-2022, 01:52 PM)flofrog Wrote: I think such websites as this one are helpful for newcomers to express their search once they discover such as the Law of One and how it resonates with them.

True that once you discover bliss with love and/or Creator, one feels perhaps less the urge to discuss  ?  But sharing this bliss is never useless too…

(05-28-2022, 08:11 PM)IndigoSalvia Wrote: This quote brings to mind the balancing of scarcity and abundance. I react very differently when I am in a place of scarcity versus abundance. I often reframe scarcity-based thoughts to abundances-based thoughts. Immediately, I notice a calming energy fill me up. In me, scarcity inspires fear while abundance inspires being present and unity, a sharing.

(06-19-2022, 06:25 AM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: To talk about issues is a way of gaining in understanding, as long as the Self is open to different perspectives than their own.