11/9/01: Reading: Healing the Original Wound
11/9/01 Friday 11 / 09 / 01 — 7:23 pm Wow, another lesson. Sooner or later you’ll figure out that this isn’t really about you, it’s about us. Or rather, you could say that your relationship with us has certain factors within it that expect reconciliation between past and present, between known and unknown, seen and unseen. We work according to a system of certain expectations, not to say rules. Perhaps there has been a perception within you that you MUST do this or that or the other, and that punishment is expected if such goals are not achieved. Indeed, a cursory glance at the history of these workings [in the Wilcock Readings] may seem to indicate that we have issued such expectations with a sense of inevitable duty that is chosen “from above” and then commanded to the physical self to carry out. Nothing could be further from the truth, as ultimately it is the Self that chooses all paths in life, and we are simply the arbiters and facilitators of self-will, thus enabling the deepest goals to be brought forth. We have all experienced these times where we feel obligated to do something for someone, either physical or non-physical. It is more important to try to be true to yourself, to live up to the ideals that you have already espoused in your dealings with others,...
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