Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness A/V Seminar 24, which will soon be published in Volume 13 of The Living Light Dialogue.
“Frustration is an unpleasant experience in the mind, the effect of a judgment that what we depend upon we cannot control. And so once realizing and awakening to whatever it is we have chosen to depend upon and cannot control, then wisdom reveals that we change our dependence, the effect of which, of course, is a freedom from dependence.
For that which disturbs us, of course, controls us. But what is that control and that disturbance? It is the bondage of the error of ignorance of our own dependence. The best way, and the only way that works, is for one to face their temptations, for the temptations, once faced, reveal, of course, one’s own dependence.
There is no limit to the things that the mind can and does choose to be dependent upon. Each time a person realizes and accepts that the true cause of their frustrations in life is an error in their own thinking, a dependence and a bondage, each time that is realized and accepted, one makes another step onward and upward on the path of freedom.”
Our frustrations reveal what we, in error, have permited ourselves to become dependent on. As we make the conscious effort to free ourselves from being dependent upon people, places, and things outside, we experience a greater freedom and more of the joy of living.
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Russell Fitzgerald
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