| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class A/V CP 32, which will be published in Volume 15 of The Living Light Dialogue. The quote begins with a question from a student of the philosophy.
"Thank you. When we have been guided that we would experience greater harmony through acceptance, how may we grow in acceptance?
Well, the question of how may we grow in acceptance—for example, when you are concerned or interested in growing in acceptance, try to understand that it reveals to you how you can find a way to control acceptance. So that actually is not acceptance at all. One accepts and that's what's done. One does not question how they can grow in acceptance, for it isn't a matter of question. It is a matter of demonstration. For example, a person has opportunities thousands of times daily to accept or to battle. And therefore, one should not concern themselves with the mental activity of growing in acceptance. One should simply demonstrate, through declaration, "I accept personal responsibility. My thought is in my mind. I put it there. I can take it out. By the law of putting it there, I have the right to take it out. I think this is a beautiful day. I alone put that form there. I alone can take that form out. No one can take from me what I do not first, through my error of ignorance, give to them."
So if you permit yourself to believe that someone has made your day miserable, if you permit yourself to think in that way, then you are demonstrating, through a lack of accepting personal responsibility, that whatever someone else does is how you live. Surely a person in that attitude and frame of mind is ever lost in not knowing who they are, why they are, and not even knowing what they truly are.
And so let us not be concerned in how to grow in acceptance. Let's just be acceptance and growth will take care of itself, freed from the mental concern.
And remember, whenever you do not make the effort to declare the truth, "This is a thought in my mind. I put it there. I put it there by my belief that someone else is greater than I. And I demonstrate they are greater than I when I permit myself to be miserable and judge that it is because [of] what someone else is doing to me." Remember that no one can do anything to you that you do not want, first, done unto you, for you alone allow the form to enter your mind and only you alone can move the form out of your mind."
Many people are concerned these days. While it is prudent and wise to be cautious, I have found that concern does not bring goodness into my life. Using the teachings of this philosophy, one of the ways I have found to free myself from my own thoughts of concern is through helping another. A kind word, an encouraging word, even a smile may truly help another person. When we are engaged in helping others, even in the smallest of ways, we become more free from concern. So when you feel you are about to be overwhelmed by your own thoughts, be kind to your true being by being kind to another. The philosophy teachings God helps those who help themselves by helping others.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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