Feb 06 2024 17 mins 2
It is easy to become discouraged with the seeming never ending catalyst that comes our way. The rules of this third density existence require us to go through various dark nights of the soul so that we may drop away those things that no longer serve us and through transformation, create space for new ideas and lessons to manifest.
The issue at hand is that it never seems to stop. As is the nature of the universe being infinite, so is the nature of the lessons we are here to learn. There is no beginning or end, just the infinite path towards knowing ourselves.
This can be rather disheartening but it can also create a calm about you depending how you choose to perceive it. Are you a victim of circumstance? Or do you recognize everyone has their challenges and although yours may seem dark and difficult, you will hopefully learn what it is that your soul is trying to teach you and be a better more authentic person than you were previously.
In the long scheme of things, everything is One. There is only the illusion of separation. All is well in this oneness no matter how hard you try to convince yourself otherwise. The illusion is heavy but necessary for our learning. That understood, the chaos is working as intended. Shakes you up, gets you to ponder, burns away what is no longer needed, hopefully leading to patience for the next set of lessons to come. You don’t need to conquer all your lessons in a short period of time. You need to learn to be patient, pointing your will in the direction of wanting to learn/know/grow and you will certainly achieve that. It’s less about how fast you run and more about how deep you wish to know the truth. The will is everything. What you seek shall come to you.
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L/Leema (November 17, 1985):
We realize that there is a need within the illusion to find a way of thinking about or dealing with these pressures. There are as many ways as there are individuals. One way which we might recommend to you is gentleness with yourself. If you can see yourself as that unique being that is not threatened by extinction by any force from without or from within, then perhaps you can see the possibility of offering to yourself the gift of gentleness, patience and kindness to the self by the self. Examine, if you wish, a pressure that is causing you anguish, pain and confusion. Turn it about in your mind, test it, allow the uniqueness that is you to impinge upon that illusion, and then with kindness and thanking the source of the pressure, the seeming pain, the seeming confusion, allow the self to sound its chord.
Perhaps it has been a difficult thing to hear your own beingness. This is understandable, my friends, for you do dwell within a heavy illusion. The heaviness of the illusion is not an error. There is a design which involves your becoming fuller, developing your uniqueness, accentuating certain qualities of being upon which you may have worked for many, many lifetimes. How could you develop without stimulus, even if that stimulus is painful? Look at the world with a kind eye, a gentle eye, a forgiving eye.
The world does not mean to hurt. The illusion is doing what it was intended to do, and you may move very quickly and confusedly so that you muddy that beautiful chord which is yourself, or you may stop and become gentled and thank the illusion for its pressures and its anguish and its pain. You shall not be victorious over it; you shall learn from it, and it shall learn from you. It is well to remember that the undifferentiated terms such as “society” and “family” and “church” are in fact parts of yourself which you have called to yourself in order that you may polish up that beautiful, harmonious, infinitely lovely identity, that you may develop and thrive without regard for life or death as you know it.
We know that this may be somewhat difficult to assimilate, for you are entities who dwell within bodies and who are impinged upon by what seem to be marvelously strong outer forces. Know, my friends, that all of those outer forces are portions of the creation which you have called to yourself for purposes of development. Know that you do not have to work at this development, you do not have to be a student of development. Indeed, the more active you are, the slower will be your going. Gentleness, patience and quiet are the balms of the identity as it waits and watches and loves and chooses.
