Great River Institute - Making the Connection

Making the Connection

ML;

The blocks causing us separation certainly affect our spiritual sense and they will affect our physical sense when we hear the inner calling and cannot respond deep enough due to some particular form of separation. This can be very fatiguing, especially when we try to get help from people, books and teachings that don’t truly understand or effectively address our specific, in the moment, living need for help.

In one sense, you mention again that you are the one responsible to make the connection. This means that you are admitting to being response-able, or to having an ability to respond more effectively somewhere within your Self. Realizing this and making a more productive response is only possible when you know, or Know the inner point of separation as an aspect of your way of being. You cannot take effective responsibility unless you reach the affected area of responsibility. You can, however, know that the responsibility lies somewhere inside yourself. Be intrigued and inspired to find and resolve this and you will be on the path of a more effective and response-able practice.

(I also developed and teach Seven Principles for Standing in the Face of the Truth to serve as a way of being in balance and harmony with the moment as you proceed further into the discovery of your points of separation and Oneness. Without these principles, people generally run and hide from the Way that leads to Knowing themselves and others in the Known. We will likely need to practice with these as we go further in, but do not lose the guiding light of how you Give through the four principles of Giving.)

Let’s take a moment to reflect on where we are in our study. This commentary response will treat several aspects of the current moment, so please treat each area I present with respect and practice the principles so you can stay engaged with the point of Value we are interested in.

While I did not typographically indicate the principles of REPECT, APPRECIATION, GRATITUDE and VALUE in my last response or in this one as they are being applied, they are still at work in a balanced way. You have them working in your last response too. But if you lose sight of them, you will also lose the way to go appreciatively deeper as we discover more of the source of the reason for being in the moment and even in your life.

As you can see, we are now going into your general way of being and the reasons you choose to study (meaning why you study and what you choose to study). We are looking more into your life blocks and spiritual callings and concerns. How did we do this so quickly? In many schools, we have to be enrolled for years before we get to specifically address these parts of ourselves. Maybe we depend on some grace from the teacher or from beings above and within. I tell you that the grace is truly an expression of gratitude and when we become better in our practice, we look and act more graceful. The grace I show is through my way of expressing gratitude. As I move through Gratitude, and continuously move through it gracefully, you can see the reasoning or inner point and sense better.

So, if you would continue to take some time to point out some of the continued examples of the principles at work, you will gain in an important way. Don’t get lost in its content value, but do open to understand it more.

When I gave the repetition for you in the paragraph, “Here goes the repetition,” all the principles were there. I stated, “The place where you can make the most heroic efforts is where your connection to Source is working through the hovel of your temporal dwelling point, but there is a door in that hovel that connects directly to Source and that allows you access to the many mansions available to you in that realm of being. It’s a single thought expressing all four principles (Respect, Appreciation, Gratitude and Value). Everything we give should contain all four. Otherwise, we are limiting our giving of the Everything.

Let’s now address your sense of the Known. You mentioned you have heard its call all your life. Is its inward call being answered as we move further in? Is your inward call to it being answered?

I have repeatedly written about how the proper use of these principles of Giving, outlined in detail in my earlier posts, will bring you closer to the source of everything. The use of these principles as I have described should reveal more about your call to Source and its call to you. Your own self evident knowings and the things you have chosen to express as values are showing signs of this truth at our current position. And there are Knowings being shown as well. Do you recognize them?

You are quite correct about Sincerity needing to be present in our knocking on the inner door. I have taught extensively in previous studies about the Being of Sincerity and how it dwells in relationship to higher Truths. If you do not increase your Value with more Sincerity, you will be limited and unable to continue in a more sincere inward. So, you are discovering a Known Truth. Good. Say hello to this state of being and become more one with it, so we can continue inward. And remember to improve your relationship to it as we move into the Truer Values. Now, let’s look at your opening comments about the knowing and Knowing the Known. Your last sentence, “…it would still be there to be Known regardless of one’s state of awareness” would imply there is a Known here. I agree, let’s get to Know it! And let’s get to know it with Sincerity. The Being of Sincerity can open some wonderful understandings of Truth.

Next, you respectfully continued to quote me including the repetition I did for you. Then you stated some Gratitude, saying “many thanks” and you said that you understood that. Now, if you look back and add some of the Sincerity you are wanting to know better, you can see your gratitude was comparatively weak when considering where we are now. I think you can understand that. In fact, I think you if you re-read your own response, you will see a way of being in the moment that you are inwardly familiar with. In fact, I think you are living in the Knowing of that kind of truth! At times it can be central to your concerns. Hard to express, but normal to feel. And with my one repetition, through your chosen application, at the point where you were stuck, I have brought you into the Knowing of this aspect of your relationship to truth.

I will go through this again, creating a clearer value. I am saying, that when you originally wrote “many thanks…” you re-read and thought about how it was lacking in expressing the inward sincerity you sensed in the moment. You were showing Gratitude, but you were not honoring the Value with the sincerity it deserved. Not only did you see this, but as you continued writing, you began to open into the sincerity you felt was lacking before. It was this opening that led you further into Truth and this is what you want to be more Grateful for.

Why is this important? Because this is one aspect of your block. You must increase your sincerity when you sincerely see more of the truth of your own reasoning or in someone else’s. And you must take responsibility to sincerely honor that inward calling because it represents something important to you. If it’s really important, it must be imported from the Really. I wouldn’t want to be too casual about that kind of Value.

You did grow more value as you continued, but you were a little removed from a sensing you Knew was important. Your comments about the ego were very good and the understanding was flowing again. You were describing your own manner in the moment, as well as a way we can fall into. But I am focusing on going to the source of your reasoning, because I believe your relationship to source has a value worth Knowing. And that relationship is being expressed to some degree. I am seeing it as it is revealed to me in the Known. And by the way, it is being revealed to you too as you know it and as you Know it, but in different measures and according to your ability to practice and apply the principles.

Let’s consider the sense of knowing/Knowing that has called you inward. Do you trust the sense of knowing? How about of Knowing? You also wrote about studying and teachers and said you “can’t say whether that’s ultimately relevant…” Why can’t you? Do you trust your self to? Do you trust your Self to? It was you that mentioned an ultimate relevance. Can you appreciate that? How about some sincere gratitude? Right after that statement, you went into the relevance of content. You must be tracking an important value. What about the relevance of that Knowing sense you were having when you referred to ultimate relevance?

Where will it lead? What would it mean? It is your own inner voice at work. Can you hear it calling?

The heros of the moment are those willing to appreciate the inner reasons shining through. They show gratitude for the clearest indicators of their own deeper reasons for being. You are practicing that more now. Even right now as you read this. Look for what you Know is true and be more sincere as you get to Know it better. Be more sincere and you will get to Know it better. Why? Because the Being of Sincerity does Know It better.

On another of your discovered values, you stated that no one on a white charger is going to ride in and rescue you. Here’s some more news for you. The hero on the white charger DOES exist. It has to…you are the one who found it in the moment. Think about it. The bright white light, the charge we get in the current moment of understanding, the higher Self as the Knight. The knight as the night, or sleep state, the inward unknown, is the realm of our spiritual aid. We dream about it and look for it in life. It is real and it does come along to help us. Can you see it? Can you not see your prayers being answered?

My dear friend, Don Quixote saw it in everything. Someone may say it was just him acting crazy or unusual… that he was acting like a knight errant long after the era of chivalry and honor quests had passed. In one sense it was “just” him acting, but in a more real sense to him, it was his ideal Self in action and he decided he had done enough reading, enough fantasizing, and enough complaining. He made a change in the moment and in how he related to the moment. He did it for an even higher ideal than himself… his Dulcinea, a being he decided was worth everything good in life. And he Knew that in giving his life and life values in service to Her, he would See Ways to become the chivalrous white knight in the lives of all he met. He went through constant ridicule and abuse, even his trusty squire was doubtful, but hopeful of the great treasure they would attain, but Don Q saw through the outer values and apparent meanings and shared an inward sense of value that all had lost. When he finally was invited to sit at the high table as a noble guest of honor where the royal host and actors were using him as folly, as they questioned him and asked him to share what they viewed his insane dream to be, he did share it, and in a single moment, everyone there, including the reader following the story, suddenly realized that here was a man being true not only to himself, but to everything they professed outwardly to be about. Here was the True noble and he was true to what was truly noble in them and in himself. He stood in that inward Knowing because he Knew it to be more True. He had decided to wait no longer. He was fatigued, prior to accepting his Errand. Running the Errand was living his reason. For that he willingly gave his life. He wanted to get up each day to build a more credible reputation in honor of his ideal. He was the living proof of that Value. And as he moved deeper into his Errand, he saw that Value more clearly in every moment. It was the work of his inner calling and as his efforts became better tuned it became Truer to everyone’s Reason. In the end, the most intelligent, educated, knowing people in his life, while at the height of making their sporting fun of his inner way, came to understand the Known Truths of themselves and they became witnesses to a more Authentic man.

I read that book by Cervantes in 1974. I still have my original copy. I read all 800+ pages cover to cover without stop. I mean there was no stop from the first word to the last. No pause whatsoever. It took me 22 hours and through it, I Knew that I was Knowing the Known. I Knew him and I recognized him for his place in the Known. I Knew him as my own Known, and every time he was faced with a challenge, I understood his reasoning. I Knew him by his way of being and I Know him now.

The guidance you seek is real. It has been shown before. The living form is real in the Now. The beings that are in the Known are beings in the k“NOW”n. Even in the past, they were in the Now. When people you study and live with want to talk and meditate now, so they can do what you are interested in now later, it fatigues you. You remain hopeful but get tired as the now continues to be forever moved to later. Don Quixote said, I would rather be the way I am while doing my reason now, than to wait until then to do what I want to be now.

Remember, the more inward states of being have eternal values needing to be shared and worked in every moment. That includes right now.

How do we open more to this work? By looking to connect to the inward values of our reason now. Recognize the Known values when you Know them in the moment. And recognize the known when you Know it and known it. There is a clear difference and your own sense will guide you to what is truer to you. If you have Known this sense before, it was from being in the moment with a being of the Known. Know that too.

Some students and schools of understanding prefer to know about and want to be about some aspect of Knowing, while others want to Know the beings and the states of being up close. Of the schools offering a sense of the Known, they do not all offer the same sense because they represent different aspects of the Known and of the on-going work.

You may have a disposition for one school over another. They all contain some element of truth, but it is not always the element you are most interested in. Do not be afraid to consider what you truly want to be more about. The work of some schools has been underway for a long time, while other schools are newer and are more on the knowing side. All have a value to share. Some people have even been involved in the work of particular schools before. The Buddhist schools are examples of an ongoing value, but there are other ongoing programs as well, some not as outwardly known. They can all have members integrating in various areas of life, where the former Buddhist Lama is a Buddhist again or where they are now a Christian housewife or even an agnostic engineer. The sense of an inner calling can also be a sponsored one where a particular school sends ideas and inspirations to applicants, teachers and students.

It’s fascinating and it is not meant to be something exclusive or elitist. It’s hard work and the benefits are directed toward all human beings, while the work itself may be specifically focused on a particular group of individuals working on some aspect of the human condition. It is a combined effort. But all efforts are not specifically targeting the same values in the overall Reason.

To be your own hero in this, as you mentioned wanting to be, you must bring your higher sense to yourself in a way that is Truly valuable to You. It means that you must bridge the gap and connect to the inner calling, bringing that sense into your everyday experience. To be someone else’s hero, you must bring your higher sense and reason for being to help others realize Theirs. Heroism is honorable when it is for the higher reasons. We are our own heros when we manage to give ourselves a relationship with our Selves.

I will also share another way to consider your desire to be your own hero. Consider that you may have made the heroic effort before, that you have been part of some work in some way before, and that you are being called from within to realize that already established inner point of connection so you can continue your in progress work by being engaged in a point of higher conductivity that you have already known. In other words, get to your own more heroic work position. The assignments are there for you if you will answer the call to duty.

Now, let’s review this relative to the repetition I did earlier, “The place where you can make the most heroic efforts is where your connection to Source is working through the hovel of your temporal dwelling point. But there is a door in that hovel that connects directly to Source and that allows you access to the many mansions available to you in that realm of being.” Can you see how I have gone more truly inward on this value?

And you finished last with, “Whatever it is, I want to hear it and try to invest myself in it. I’m not asking you to be the hero on my behalf; it’s more that I am seeking some kind of guidance about how to be my own hero.”

Have you heard it what it is, will you now invest in it further, are you getting the guidance you seek and can you now see a way to be a better hero to yourself?

sensei

August 30, 2009 at 19:01 | sensei

Sensei,

Thank you for this astonishingly generous response. There is really so much there, and it strikes so many chords, that I need to contemplate it in depth before I can hope to do it justice in my response. I will make that response as soon as possible, but let me say at this point that it’s almost as if you have been reading my mind about certain things.

I will mention one in particular. In a previous post, when I was talking about the hero, I did in fact quote the example of Don Quixote, but from the viewpoint of his detractors, because I thought of him in relation to my particular ideas of heroism at that point, i.e. derogatorily. But in the end, I edited it out. I have double-checked, searching for “Don Quixote” using the search feature of my Web browser, but it doesn’t appear to be there in anything I have actually said.

In your response, it’s exactly as if I had mentioned it and you had countered with the opposite viewpoint, in line with the way my value about heroism has shifted from being a negative to a positive thing.

I will be trying in my full response to be adhering to the principles in a more structured way. I did in fact attempt that before editing out the headings for both your points and mine, because I wasn’t sure whether I had labelled them correctly. And there certainly was a shift between my earlier points and the last ones, because in between, I received the message from MW that seems to have opened things out for me. I was certainly in a different state of mind at that point: before I had been struggling to say something, but after, it became appreciably easier.

August 31, 2009 at 9:26 | ML

"Whatever it is, I want to hear it and try to invest myself in it."

ML,

Your sentiment, an expression of Gratitude, evoked a response from Sensei that - from my perspective - clearly flows more deeply from Source. You asked, and have received... times 10. You declared a desire to "invest" in the eternal, and the eternal spring opened correspondingly, and is investing in you at an even greater rate.

In my own experience, this inner voice that you have always felt - "I have felt its call all my life, right from early childhood" - this voice cannot more fully express itself unless we are rigorous and determined in our practices to overcome those little 'hitches' that Sensei pointed out in my own comment - a few comments back - and in yours when he said:

"Then you stated some Gratitude, saying “many thanks” and you said that you understood that. Now, if you look back and add some of the Sincerity you are wanting to know better, you can see your gratitude was comparatively weak when considering where we are now. I think you can understand that. In fact, I think if you re-read your own response, you will see a way of being in the moment that you are inwardly familiar with. In fact, I think you are living in the Knowing of that kind of truth! At times it can be central to your concerns. Hard to express, but normal to feel."

We often sense and feel these things, but quietly move on, ignoring them, because, after all, no one will notice. And besides, it's "hard to express." But it's funny, isn't it, to realize that someone actually DOES notice it? And in the noticing of it, they can apply principles at that very spot, that then opens the whole thing up and take us deeper and deeper - sometimes deeper than we have ever been before.

"I am saying, that when you originally wrote “many thanks…” you re-read and thought about how it was lacking in expressing the inward sincerity you sensed in the moment," - this is an important point. In my own case, I felt that hiccup in my comment as I was writing it. That hiccup, because of a more Sourceful eye and mind, is now Known to me. Before that comment from Sensei, I knew it was there; but now it is Known for what it is. Most of the time we would deny such a thing happened, and if someone took us to task on it, we might become defensive, saying "What's the big deal? It doesn't really matter that much."

But it does matter that much, so much so that we stay stuck in matter. These seemingly subtle nuances are not at all subtle to the Knowing eye of the teacher. My own experience - along with the many thousands of proofs that Sensei has demonstrated over many years - has proven that it is our willingness to concede - and embrace - these kinds of points that determine our deeper success.

August 31, 2009 at 22:30 | MW

Sensei,

1. I’d like first to practise on your message as a whole.

R: Your response is extensive and I feel it connects in a number of ways.

A: I have realised that one essential ingredient that has been missing in my present school is trust (on my part). You say it is important to address our specific, in the moment, living need for help. This doesn’t seem happen in my school. You have said more in just this one message than I have heard in five years, but it’s a lot more than mere volume; what’s important to me is how it addresses my specific needs and concerns.

It is a simple point, once it registers: each of us needs to be our own hero, but help and guidance is still very useful and doesn’t in any way obviate the need to do the work ourselves.

G: I experienced an unusually strong feeling of connection after receiving your message; I felt as if I was ready and willing to follow this thing through, without the sense of reservation I so often feel. I think this is a change in being, the opening up of a door.

V: I think it may be a kind of recognition: people from different spiritual traditions, including Sufism, speak of recognising their teacher, but that is not something I have experienced before.

R: That changes the quality of my relationship with you. It becomes more committed, more in earnest.

A: You speak of being response-able. I agree, and “Intrigued and inspired” is exactly how I feel. Accepting responsibility is, as always, a little bit scary, and one needs a certain amount of courage. I think I know what you mean by the impulse to run and hide from the Way that leads to Knowing themselves and others in the Known. But you also indicate that practising the principles is what enables us to succeed. So it is a matter of sticking with the trust I have decided to place in you, which is also the trust I have decided to place in myself, or, in the end, in Source. It means getting on the white charger and doing the business.

I’ve always Known in my heart that at some point, one has to take an irrevocable leap across a chasm, to bridge the gap as you put it. I’ve been unable to do that with my present teacher, even though others have; I respect them for that, accepting that they may have thereby got that much closer to their hearts’ desires; but as you point out, I may have a leaning more to one school than another. What works for them may not work for me, and I don’t want to be afraid to consider what I truly want to be more about.

G: I’m grateful for that insight. You see, there is indeed an element of fear that keeps me attached to my school. The fear that if I leave, I will be being disloyal, and that there might be adverse spiritual consequences. But then, I ask myself, if fear is the central thing that is keeping me in it, how could I possibly be benefiting from it?

In the end, it may be that things just haven’t worked out for me as well as I’d hoped, as well as they seem to work out for others. It could be no different in essence from a situation that happened in secondary school, where one science teacher didn’t really help me, but another did. But both of them knew their science.

It’s this question of trusting oneself: Why can’t you? Do you trust your self to? Do you trust your Self to? It was you that mentioned an ultimate relevance. Can you appreciate that? How about some sincere gratitude? Right after that statement, you went into the relevance of content. You must be tracking an important value. What about the relevance of that Knowing sense you were having when you referred to ultimate relevance?

Where will it lead? What would it mean? It is your own inner voice at work. Can you hear it calling?

Yes, I can hear it calling. And it’s a matter of supreme relevance for me. I just didn’t have the confidence to say that. I was hedging my bets again. The plain fact is that I respond well to your method of teaching, but less well to my current teacher. My gratitude for you flows easily, but for him, only with great difficulty. In that sense I’m not fully respecting him, so what am I doing in his school?

V: This is the start of a new phase in my learning. One with trust and commitment on my side, one where I don’t feel inclined to hedge my bets.

Some other points:

R: When people you study and live with want to talk and meditate now, so they can do what you are interested in now later, it fatigues you. You remain hopeful but get tired as the now continues to be forever moved to later. Don Quixote said, I would rather be the way I am while doing my reason now, than to wait until then to do what I want to be now.

A: Yes, I don’t want “jam tomorrow”:

I think I have a gradually improving sense of Knowing the Known in the moment. It’s this question of trusting oneself yet again. It’s a matter of letting go and going with the flow, of abandoning excessive intellectual reserve and going more with intuition.

G: One important consideration is that you are there to correct me if I only think I Know. You are there to guide me skilfully with a touch on the tiller here and there. That is one thing that I have particularly felt the lack of in the past. I think you have already demonstrated this skill.

V: Your guidance is inestimably valuable.

R: Consider that you may have made the heroic effort before, that you have been part of some work in some way before, and that you are being called from within to realize that already established inner point of connection so you can continue your in progress work by being engaged in a point of higher conductivity that you have already known. In other words, get to your own more heroic work position. The assignments are there for you if you will answer the call to duty.

I have occasionally mused about something like this. Do you think it likely something of the sort applies? I may be able to practise further on it if you are inclined to say more.

R: Now, let’s review this relative to the repetition I did earlier, “The place where you can make the most heroic efforts is where your connection to Source is working through the hovel of your temporal dwelling point. But there is a door in that hovel that connects directly to Source and that allows you access to the many mansions available to you in that realm of being.” Can you see how I have gone more truly inward on this value?

Have you heard it what it is, will you now invest in it further, are you getting the guidance you seek and can you now see a way to be a better hero to yourself?

To some extent, I feel I have practised on these points earlier, but I wanted to be explicit about my respect for them. The answer to both of your questions is in the affirmative.

A: However, I don’t pretend that I can pick up on every nuance of everything you say. I know I miss/overlook things. Over time, I’m becoming a little more aligned to your mode of expression.

I’m reminded of the Garden, of that place where Adam and Eve operated at the interface of Source and Matter. I am wondering if, likewise, your language is rooted in that place, which is why occasionally I find it difficult.

G: Despite struggling sometimes, something real comes through, more real than with conventional language. It’s rather like the way that there is often more truth in myth than there is in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, stuffed with fact though that is.

V: So I am working on paying sufficient attention to what you say and the way you say it. This is an ongoing value.

September 1, 2009 at 12:14 | ML

MW ,

We left off with your stated Value, “I respect getting to that point in life, when someone is insisting on a deeper standard, even when they don't know what that standard is, and even when sometimes they don't even realize that this inner 'insistence' is driving them.” This was a few posts back, your previous one, and you have referred to it in this new post. You have also added some valuable comments for ML and some valuable sharing of your own study experiences. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see how this all relates to the hitch point, or bump in the road I was referring to before?

Take a look at the quote above where I pointed to your “bump in the flow” and where you yourself knew you were having the break even when you first wrote it. Now look at your new comments to ML. Look at everything you italicized. Really take a look right now…

… Consider that you highlighted what is pertinent to your own flow. Can you see it? It is the You speaking through you. Even as you share the Truth with ML, You are sharing it with your self and other selves reading this who may now start to get a more inward sense of their own Selves. It is the hero at work. Can you see it? See the message as it is directed at you and you will know the hitch point or bump that much better.

You are right in what you are sharing with ML. You are right because you know the truth of what you are saying. You know the truth because of your experiences. Your experiences go back to an early calling, but have also been present through many other moments with countless proofs of Knowing. It is at a particular point in the unfolding of Knowing the inner value of the moment that you sense the hitch point, or bump in the flow. At those points when you are more inwardly sensing, you turn your focus partially away from a value that is Known to be Truer, resulting from a relative lack of sincere gratitude, regarding a sensing of a more real inner knowing and familiarity, which is then coupled with a lack of acknowledgement of the very thing you are inwardly Knowing, causing you to sort of squirm at the more inward thought or sensing of that more inward Knowing, which then results in some convenient hiccups, allowing those subtleties to be more easily ignored, although they continue to play on your psyche, and even after having a record of proven successes through thousands of positive evident examples… even in the moments when you have looked far inward with your eyes wide open, knowing and Knowing truths and Truths, this hiccup has appeared… and I am saying you know this hiccup for its convenience and restriction, the convenience and restriction representing the positive and negative ways it serves to buffer you from the clarity that is one step, and then another step more into your own sense of Knowing the Known Truth for its still Truer nature.

And that is what you are really talking about in your comments to ML. The real quest is to see your inner reasoning at work and to find ways to be more true to it, more open to it and more respectful in your appreciation, gratitude and the value you are nudging against as you stretch the inner threshold of your reasoning to become more at one with the Known and Knowings that have been present with you since you first heard their callings… and the actual first callings may have been even earlier than your earliest known recollection.

These callings occur even in these writings and teachings and in the moments of your learnings when you once again come face to face with those inner aspects of the edge between your knowings and Knowings. And your statement of Value as I quoted in the beginning of this posting is referring not only to others, but to your own outer efforts to make contact with your own inner. And I am saying that your inner is ALSO saying the same thing, the same quoted statement of value, about a Knowing of the Known that your inner has with a Known in the Known and that when you sense the Truth of that, it causes a gulp, or inward gasping that results in the hiccup effect, that while outwardly may even be invisible to readers and other students, but that you know and Know because it is an aspect of the Known that not only has commonality with the statement in quotes above, it is in Sourceful relationship to the comment made in the quote and it is that more Sourceful relationship and the being of that more Sourceful resolution that is causing you to flinch and stutter when you work to express the respect you were outwardly referring to.

So, look again at your statement in quote here and see what you can now see hidden in between the lines and phrases: “I respect getting to that point in life, when someone is insisting on a deeper standard, even when they don't know what that standard is, and even when sometimes they don't even realize that this inner 'insistence' is driving them.” This is the value you stopped to respect. It was your decision and choice of value.

You see? I think your statement holds more Truth, not less. We often pass over these inward portals because we are not comfortable with being at, or being with the beings of, those points in the moment. So, let’s consider that too. You and I are beings at that point in the moment. Here we dwell, and to this point of value, more or less, you offered Respect. What is this point of being that you are respecting? It has called you before. It is calling now. It will call you again. Do you Know it? Is it familiar? How familiar is it?

As Ralph Waldo Emerson would ask, what is that iron string resounding from within my heart?

You said you Respect it. To build that value on the basis of that respect, you must respect it more. You must find the value hidden in between the lines that will lead you to the Source of your feelings as they not only relate to someone else, as you were implying, and not only to yourself as you were offering, and not only to your Self as you were applying, but to everyone wanting answers to the questions: You respect getting to what point in life? Who is insisting? What deeper standard? Who doesn’t know? What times? What realization? What point inward? Driving them where?

And how far inward do you Know to answer the call of? You will certainly need more respect, appreciation, gratitude and value to go even more inward, but consider you are being called to do just that or I would wonder why you chose to show your respect for this point of understanding.

Now, take another moment to re-read your entire last post and see how it is all addressing this; every word and sentence. See what is showing through your chosen values. See the inner speaking through. And apply the principles to keep your coordination open to even more understanding.

sensei

September 1, 2009 at 23:37 | sensei