1991/04/09

What is my priority?

"The acid test for each new day and each new situation is ‘is it taking me nearer, or further away from, the light?’ Let that idea govern every action. If you apply the thought systematically you will soon find your life catch fire, and will gain courage to discard what is irrelevant. Perspectives will change, many things you once thought essential to your spiritual development will become unimportant.
"What is the light? It is anything that sets you free from the tyranny and close confinement of man-made systems. Paradoxically, the more weightless you feel the more gravity you acquire.
The more self-confidence you have in your work the more it ties you down. Doubt, if used creatively, is the best medium for allowing me to help you. If you have already made up your mind, what can I do? I only overrule those who have a psychological predisposition to be of service to the light, and then only because achievement of their true fulfilment depends on the shock of psychic awakening.
"Young one, you have such confidence in your body. Use it responsibly, enjoy it to the full while it is yours. Revel in its energy and develop whatever skills or dexterity are most apt. Your physicality is the ideal medium for forming and maintaining extrovert relationships of every sort. Later on it will outgrow you and then, as you perceive your essential self to be separate from your body, you may seek a different path. The light will call you inwards, and deep inside you will find true extroversion — and a deeper connection with all living things than you ever found thru outward contact.
"There is a time to turn outwards and a time for turning inward. You cannot do one before the other. Enjoy your body while you can, for it is important that you have no regrets when you are called away from the party to enjoy your spirit in solitude. They would merely keep you earthbound.
"Light is light. There is more weight in a particle of charged dust than in the whole world. If a job is too heavy for you leave it. Don’t burden yourself with ingratitude. It isn’t your job to push boulders uphill. Let someone do the job whose spiritual velocity is equal to moving denser matter. Concentrate on what you can achieve. It is a long way from the bottom of the mountain to the top. Don’t expect to arrive there immediately. As long your general direction is upward be content. Your arrival is timed, yet it depends completely on you: you control your own pace, yet it is preordained. All things are governed by you, yet you depend entirely on everything else. Only by being light enough not to slow down the cycle can you gain the necessary weight to power its momentum. Stay cool to grow hot."

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