Serenity's Weekly Spiritual Quote: Insight into procrastination

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

This week's quote is from spiritual awareness A/V Seminar 6, which will soon be published in Volume 12 of The Living Light Dialogue. This is an exchange between a student, whose words are italicized, and the teacher, whose words are in roman font.

 

"Thank you. You take an experience like procrastination . . .

Yes?

That’s blocking the way to something. Is the way to eliminate that to accept it or to understand why it is being created?

Thank you. We cannot understand what we do not first accept. For if we do not first accept that we alone have created the obstruction, then we cannot understand it for we do not qualify our self to understand what we do not first accept.

So first we accept that we have experienced and perhaps recently experienced what we know as procrastination. Do you understand? Now by accepting that we have experienced that, by accepting that we have created it, we begin on the path to understand the motive, the law established, that expresses itself in what we understand to be procrastination. In other words, we want to do something, we know that we should, but we put it off. What it reveals is other priorities, other forms, rise up and convince us that we are those forms, and that that over there, which we know we should be doing, well, that’s not as important at this time. Do you understand that? Well, those are forms created by our mind which have convinced us, and we believe that we must do this or that in order to experience what we believe we need to experience in our tomorrows. Did that help with your question?

Thank you.

So, you see, by accepting, “Fine. I have procrastinated. I didn’t want to, but I did.” By accepting it, we begin to understand it. For we cannot understand what we do not accept. Would you not agree?

Yes.

You see, there is nothing in life, in creation, that we can understand until we first accept. Because we cannot honestly examine, analyze, and study what we do not first accept. And so we find our self in many schools and many different philosophies, and there is a little bit of us that accepts. Well, if we make the effort, and the Law of Continuity will reveal to us, from that small acorn and from our effort of continuity, that little acorn starts getting bigger and starts to grow. And someday we take a look and we [say], “My, what a great tree that has become. Now it will serve me well.” And it always does.

So there is nothing wasted in life. Everything is serving a purpose. It is serving the purpose of its original motive, which is the law of its design."

In CC 48, the teacher explains that procrastination is the theft of all time.

 

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Sincerely yours,

 

Russell Fitzgerald

Vice President

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