| Dear Friends, I am pleased to announce that Serenity's annual drawing is now open. And for more information on that, please see below. This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 56, which was published in Volume 3 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"How may man know himself? Man starts on the inward journey to know himself by understanding his own motives, his own motivation. And so it is, in all our getting, we seek to get understanding.
So, my friends, we start on the inward journey to understand our own motivation, to understand our feelings, to understand why we feel happy and joyous over one experience and we feel sad and depressed over another experience. We must first seek to understand why we have those types of feelings. And when we seek to understand them, you see, my friends, we must step outside of ourselves to get inside of ourselves. And the reason that we must step outside of ourselves to get inside of ourselves is because there are eighty-one levels of consciousness. And while the soul is expressing on one of those eighty-one levels, we can't see the other eighty. Do you understand?
So a person, seeking to understand themselves, they strive to become objective. And they look at themselves over here and they say, "Now that's most interesting. I get my feelings hurt almost seven days a week. Sometimes I feel very joyous and very happy. Now, why do I feel this way? And why do I feel that way?" And the first thing that the mind starts going through is, "Well, with certain people I'm very happy. I have a rapport with them"—don't you see? "Now with other people, I don't have a rapport. They're so sharp. They don't have any understanding." Well, that's the first step.
Then, the person says to themselves, "Now I want to work on myself concerning the individual that doesn't have any understanding of me. Because the individual that I have experience with that doesn't have any understanding of my feelings is revealing to me that I am not emanating understanding to that individual. And that individual is a mirror that's reflecting back to me a lack of understanding." Consequently, my friends, you see, we want to work on the things that are distasteful in our life.
You see, my friends, the things that are tasteful and satisfactory, that's a waste of energy to work on those. You see, irritation wakes the soul. It is satisfaction that lets it sleep. So, you see, we want to work on the situations in our life where our feelings are hurt, where it's difficult for us to express the soul faculty of tolerance, where especially in areas where we don't get our own way—and those are the areas, my good students, that we want to work on. Because, you see, we want to work on those struggles, you see. They will reveal to us levels of consciousness that we haven't, before, been consciously aware of.
You know, it's just like a person, they go to work and, you see, they walk in on their job and maybe the boss says hello. Maybe he's not feeling too good and doesn't say hello. How do we feel? Do we feel hurt? If we feel hurt or slighted, don't look at the boss. Look at yourself and ask yourself the question, "What inside of me causes me to experience a hurt feeling? What causes me to feel slighted?" Is it because we have decided that somebody must speak to us, because that is what we desire?
Now, if we have decided that, then we're constantly under the control of all of the people that we have decided should speak to us under certain circumstances and conditions. So when we meet those people and they're in another level of consciousness and maybe they have a lot of thoughts on their mind and they don't speak to us, we take the slight for an injury. And our soul starts to descend."
Serenity's Annual Drawing I am pleased to announce the annual drawing to commemorate the birth and the passing on of the founder of Serenity, Mr. Richard Goodwin. The prizes for the drawing are 5 copies of Volume 1 of The Living Light Dialogue. That is, there will be 5 winners and each winner will be mailed a copy of Volume 1. The drawing opens today and will close on February 29, 2020. All are welcomed to enter---just respond to any of the weekly emails saying that you would like to enter. In order to be fair, only one entry per email address will be allowed. In the first week of March, the winners will be drawn. The winners will be notified by email and asked to provide a mailing address so that their copy of Volume 1 can be mailed. If a winner does not provide a mailing address in a timely manner, a new name will be drawn. If the winner of the drawing already has Volume 1, then he or she may choose any other published volume. The winners may also choose to receive a PDF of their volume. As soon as all copies have been mailed to the winners, their names and countries of residence will be announced in this weekly email. This drawing is being sponsored by a number of friends of Serenity in order to make these beautiful teachings more available to those who are seeking. And I think this is a beautiful way to honor and commemorate Mr. Goodwin.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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