This speaks to anyone that resonates with it.

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glbean34@... (/group/asc2k/post?postid=dfmmjinxpnta9fd602ekwnpwuzmqqyqck8txu7 rorjmi6szkmnsojs0gipp_pcqrbb93uefgwhf3) wrote
"i received this from a friend today. it reminded me of the truth i am
always preaching....."

nice :)
thank you

brendan

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i received this from a friend today. it reminded me of the truth i am always
preaching, but fail to put into practice when i am too busy getting down on
myself. though this was personal to me, i've reread it through group eyes and i
think that they are words that all of us who judge ourselves for not being
"enough", need to hear. hope it chips away some self-judgment on just one
person's shoulders. thank you hp.


"stop putting your intellect down. there is nothing wrong with your smarts so
that you can't play with the "big brains." and i might point out, that there are
all kinds of intelligence. and even the biggest intellectuals still limit
themselves, are not perfect beings, and still make stupid mistakes. cleverness
is not the end all be all goal. love is. and you know this. cleverness and
intellectual ramblings may spin around hundreds of times per secod, flattering
themselves and impressing others with their "abilities and knowledge" and still
achieve only the limited amount of knowledge we are allowed here. your heart,
which is at not disadvantage to anyone else's, is what leads to true
enlightenment. not brain. brain is too rooted in the body, in the self, in the
earth plane, in the ephemeral. why do you keep holding yourself back? let your
mind run free without the crutch of "i am not smart enough." you are a beautiful
person."

love is the goal,
glb






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[Dave M.]

there is nothing wrong with striving to increase one's intellectual powers, but
it is important to
balance it with divine love and/or wisdom. too often, intellectuals become
impressed by their own
abilities and become self-indulgent and egotistical.

if you are getting down on yourself because your intellectual powers are not
equal to another's.
then you can use it as a catalyst to develop your intellect through intensified
learning, or you can
use it to stop comparing yourself to others in a way that brings unrealistic
expectations of your
abilities. try to find the roots of these expectations within self. usually
they come from
childhood, from parents or teachers who may have had good intentions, but who
had their own
limitations and wanted more for the child.

this is the most competitive country in an overly competitive world so it is all
to easy to get
wrapped up in wanting to be "better than" or to criticize self for being "less
than" others. find
both the criticizer and the criticized parts of self within and learn to love
them both.

l&l,
dave

[Lesley Schultz]

dear dave and mr. light eye, l/l and peace to all:

your points are well taken, dave, and mr. light eye, i
don't know what in the world we would do without your
special light and gifts to us all! ;-)

i think we sometimes limit ourselves in what we can
really do because we want to fit into a certain
position in a group, or indeed a family, and accept
these limitations as being genuine over time. we can
all do amazing things with the gifts we have. just to
give one example, there is a young man with down's
syndrome who received his ba from a university a few
years back. yeah, it took him a bit longer and no,
the degree wasn't in nuclear physics, but it was an
immense achievement all the same. i don't point this
out to say that we ought to do better because our
limitations are less, er, obvious-- our limitations
are just as real as his if we let them be-- but to
reiterate that we should each find our own truth about
what we are capable of. and then test our assumptions
and our conclusions about our abilities, because they
might be too limiting.

abraham lincoln once said that god must love the
common people very much, because he created so many of
them. i would argue that, in light of what we now
know [literally], there are neither common nor
uncommon people, only reflections of the one infinite
creator's amazing beauty and genius. and not only the
reflections but the mechanism of refraction is also
work of incredible artistry, grace and limitless
resource.

thank you again for reminding us.

blessings,
~lesley

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group : )



just want to pre-apologize that i have flooded the list with largeness in
posting. this isn't my forum and i mean not to monopolize. i promise i won't
make it a habit. just this brief excursion only. please clear me of all karma
incurred.



and dear mr dave m (not matthews i am assuming : ). thank you for your words
too. i felt distortions of being a dork the following morning after having so
impetuously sent in the post that you replied to from the night before. i wasn't
at all knocking the intellect and those with them. on the contrary, i am in deep
admiration of the quality thoughts that are churned out by the minds behind the
screen names. however, like anything that can be labeled "superior", or somehow
ranked and made high note of because of its obvious appeal, a person inclined
towards seeing what's so right about others and so wrong about the self, or, in
other words, someone who has not connected lovingly and acceptingly with
themselves, this list can be a major source of self-judgment. i know i have felt
devastated before in reading, what i consider to be, the genius of posters. once
you learn to love you for who you are though, as a member of a whole with your
own unique piece to the collective puzzle which
no one else has but you and which no one else has to offer as service to give
freely, but you, that self-judgment turns more into appreciation for others. as
you more readily accept your own limitations, you more easily accept the
corresponding limitations in others and open your heart to every variation under
the sun.



the excerpted paragraph that i sent in was just a reminder that, in the
third-density end, the intellect is not where it's at and the heart is.



you were so very right about the roots of such self-judgment originating in the
childhood experience too. i have been pointed in that direction several times
now in the past few months and it is there that i am pushing my mental shovel
into the grounds of personality and trying to dig up the past who's effects i
can feel distorting my perception, but who's faces i have yet to face and
discover.

thank you and love on brother,

glb



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