09-18-2016, 06:03 PM
(09-18-2016, 05:56 PM)Patrick Wrote: That was an interesting discussion. I will end my part in it by saying that we are not expected to succeed in this, what we expect of ourselves is to have the intent. The rest comes in time.
Quote:http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0301.aspx
The next time that you experience the catalyst of feeling that you are yet an incomplete spiritual being, remember the truth of subtracting, of dropping away that which is not. And as you experience those realizations that enable you to drop a part of the ego away, rejoice. You cannot make it happen. You cannot rush it. But there come moments and you perceive that you no longer have that pride or that particular fear. And of that you may be proud and happy, and if that is a distortion also, then so be it. For you are not here to go beyond distortion but to live within distortion by faith, to express within this confusion a trust in the plan that placed you here, a trust in the destiny that is absolutely yours. Do not give up upon the self because it continues to have distortions and confusions. That is all right. You are not supposed to be without illusion.