10-26-2009, 01:39 PM
(10-25-2009, 04:27 AM)peregrine Wrote: It seems that there are two simultaneous avenues of working, the inner and the outer. What you say above covers well the outer. What about the inner?
Not sure why you say my quote covers outer work but not inner. I think of acceptance, forgiveness, and becoming more in tune with the Original Thought all as inner work. What are you thinking of when you speak of inner work?
Quote:Maybe that's where the business of adeptness comes in? Maybe that has to do with the capacity to "do work in consciousness" (whatever that means exactly) inwardly as well as in sphere of outwardly directed consciousness.
It's not clear to me if your goal is adept-type work or opening the heart. The Q'uo quote is all about letting go of cleverness and opening the heart, but I'm not sure that's the heart of your interest, so to speak.
Carla is a mystical Christian. My guess is that something like this was in her mind as she was passing on Q'uo's thoughts to you:
Luke 18:9-14 Wrote:9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10 "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
13 "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."