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PART VIII
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"Like this dark screen background is your mind,
upon which the pure thoughts are placed.
Many will see them. Most will not.
Then, if your mind IS darkness,
but so are your words,
no one will hear your silent screams,
except those who reside there with you."
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"It is written that sickness is a defense against the truth.
Then, the ' truth ' you think you speak is the sickness you defend."
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"You cannot love what is outside you
BECAUSE it is outside you."
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"You say you ' know ' love.
You say you ' know ' peace.
You say you ' know ' happiness.
You say you ' know ' God.
You place me on a pedestal.
You make me your leader.
Your star.
Your teacher.
And then you shove me off the pedestal
upon which YOU have placed me
when I fail to do your bidding.
Does this not prove
you do not KNOW what is best for you?"
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"Why are you here?
What do you want FROM me?
What do you want FOR me?"
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PART IX
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"If you think you are not welcomed here,
it is because in actuality
you do not wish to BE here."
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"You can please some of the people some of the time.
But who would be foolish enough to even try?"
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" To please oneself is a monumental task.
To please others is impossible."
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"Words I use in examination OF myself are kind to me,
but seem unkind to others,
who can not or will not hear them truly."
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"I will not try to please others as a means of pleasing myself.
Nor will I condemn myself for not pleasing others."
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"It is my experiences with You
that make these Insights possible."
It is my experiences with you,
that make these Insights possible."
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"The delusional think you are someone you are not.
The sane know who they are,
and need not your definition OF them."
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"Speaking truth is revealing the truth of one’s own inner madness,
and being willing to expose the insanity of a mind
that thinks it can save itself from its own self-imposed madness."
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" ' Speaking truth ' is not spreading lies and gossip
and retaining the poisoned mind of discontent.
' Speaking truth ' is another defense
to keep from hearing it."
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"You cannot escape the need for self-examination,
but are free to delay it."
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"Do not USE ANOTHER'S WORDS to ' teach them '
what they have already discovered within themselves."
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What a being has realized, in their OWN experiences,
IS their words.
That you copy and paste and attempt to ' teach '
them reveals you have none of your own to impart."
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They scream for help as the quicksand sucks them down,
down further,
to the point of suffocation.
And their muffled cries are barely audible to me.
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"The self-corrected are those who have never been in recovery.
They say, ' I do not smoke pot anymore, 'or
' I am not an addict '.
They USE the DIRECT EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS
for their own personal end.
They have never had the direct experience themselves.
To those I say,
' Go to a 12 Step recovery group and begin the process of self-examination,
and leave the so-called 'spiritual pursiuts' alone'."
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"They say, ' He cannot meet we where I am '.
Yet they think they can bring the Spirit World to THEIR level,
rather than rising TO the Spirit Level.
They are the alcoholics who still sit in the bar,
calling to the sober one, to come to the bar
so they the drunks can give their dissertation on how to live sober.
And these drunks will not hear sobriety
UNTIL they leave the bar and enter the rooms of recovery.
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“We can ' focus on blessings ' until we are drunk with ' blessings '.
But that does nothing for the deep wounds that remain hidden, and unaddressed.
We need to focus on the blocks to the awareness to Love’s presence.
To ‘ focus on blessings ’ is to whitewash a sick mind.”
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"To follow no one is to expect nothing from anyone.
In that one can love everyone."
"I cannot be brilliant to those who are dull."
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“A mind that thinks external changes will change its thinking
is not seeing the foolishness of that.”
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“How can you learn about or from another
when you hardly know who YOU are?”
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“If you wear rose colored sunglasses,
everything will appear rosy to you.”
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“Inner correction will transform one’s thinking and one’s world,
but the world will not transform one’s thinking.”
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“To expand on another’s thinking is to offer the
same opportunity TO another.”
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“If we determine what we think is best for us,
but never rise above this need to find another elixir for our misery,
perhaps we DO NOT KNOW what is best for us?”
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“There could actually be others who DO have wisdom to impart,
and who would make on you what is perceived to be
demands on your thinking in the sharing of their experiences.”
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“There is no ‘ metaphysical study ‘ to share.
There is only one’s experiences with inner correction
that may be beneficial to another who has not yet
perceived the way”
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“I think we demonize anything that we
cannot discipline ourselves to practice or apply.”
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“We cannot ' teach ', in terms of ' I know and you do not ' anyone,
but we can be a demonstration of our own inner experiences
that become teaching aids FOR others.”
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“Today your efforts can END
what your efforts have manifested for you.”
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“That we INTERPRET things does not mean they are practical.
It means our interpretations are impractical.”
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“Have you ever tried NOT joining something,
and worked through your misery of being a joiner?”
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PART X
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“In the final analysis, when Asked,
"What was your contribution?"
each can reply as to what was beneficial to
HIS OR HER OWN transformation.
Your inner changes will affect the whole,
just as no inner change will.”
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“Those who fear are more dangerous
than the object of their fear.”
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“Pacifiers are conveniences
used to convince the mind
it has escaped a self-imposed dilemma.”
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"Conveniences are evidenced by a lazy mind.
A lazy mind always evades into what is convenient,
thereby avoiding the need for serious inquiry."
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“To discriminate is to differentiate between
the personal and the universal.”
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“Corridors lead to the arena.
Do not become lost in, or stuck by them.”
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It takes a great deal of time to come
to self-honesty.
Spiritual Work is very slow, persistent.
Do not attempt to medicate it with 'feel good, warm and fuzzy' pacifiers
designed to quick-fix your misery.
You only disrespect yourself in doing so.
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"If you are 'running TO,'
find out what you are running FROM.
Then, discover what motivates you to run at all."
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"Because you repeat other's words
does not necessarily mean you are
living the truth of them.
Speaking truth is not insulting others or gossiping about others.
It is speaking what is true about the error within your own mind.
This will assure you will not be caught in the trap of
thinking speaking truth is insulting others,
gossiping about others, name-calling others."
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"A 'searching and fearless moral inventory'
must go on for a lifetime.
It is not something one can 'do'."
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"Implications are not assumptions,
but rather Revelations."
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“It is essential to see WHY WE manifest 'teachers' who we demonize,
and not exchange one for another we think has a 'better' answer.
Often, the one who tells us what we want to hear
is labeled the 'good' teacher,
and one who irritates us the 'bad' teacher.
Any conflict raised by our contact with another
must be a prompting for us to look at OUR conflict.
Wise teachers will never make one dependent on him/ her
but will push us away to find our own Integrity,
teaching through direct experience.”
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“One’s physical existence is
a metaphor for one’s spiritual life.
What is experienced in a physical plane
Is what one lives on a spiritual plane.
To know what the spirit is living,
look at the physical life one is experiencing.
This will point to the recognition of the Spirit I Am.”
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"Respect for the Elders, is missing in this world,
in many who wish to be 'independent'.
This desire for self-dependency APPEARS to be
of those who are living some kind of
independent life, but really it is a result of
defiance to and arrogance towards the elder.
So I do not see how any being can come to discover
his or her Life's Work on this plane
as long as one idolizes oneself, or others,
and not come to Respect the Elders.
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“There is a wide range of disfunctionality in the human race.
Think not for one instant you are not contributing to it."
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"We feel bad when we need to speak how we honestly
feel about someone TO them, thinking,
' If I say this to him/her it will hurt his/herfeelings '.
Yet we feel good when we are speaking ABOUT THEM
to someone else, thinking,
' What he/she does not know will not hurt him/her '.
And so gossip is the god of communication
on this plane that we value and diligently practice."
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