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[[Morality]] is not the [[ideals]] imposed on you from [[society]] or social [[organizations]] such as [[churches]]. Morality is individual and is variable according to each person's own individual situation and inner [[light]]. Life's [[journey]] is only meaningful as it is [[expressed]] in this search for higher [[morality]]. Morality is not what someone tells you you should do. It is found only in your own [[heart]] and [[soul]] center, that place of spiritual [[leading]].

[[Morality]] is not the [[ideals]] imposed on you from [[society]] or social [[organizations]] such as [[churches]]. Morality is individual and is variable according to each person's own individual situation and inner [[light]]. Life's [[journey]] is only meaningful as it is [[expressed]] in this search for higher [[morality]]. Morality is not what someone tells you you should do. It is found only in your own [[heart]] and [[soul]] center, that place of spiritual [[leading]].

For example, [[Jesus]] followed his own inner higher [[morality]] rather than submit to the [[structured]] morality of his day. When publicly [[censored]] for eating without washing his hands, which in that day and time was considered seriously immoral, he answered his [[accuser]] by pointing out that it is not what goes into a man's mouth which makes him unclean or immoral but rather what comes out.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_15]

For example, [[Jesus]] followed his own inner higher [[morality]] rather than submit to the [[structured]] morality of his day. When publicly [[censored]] for eating without washing his hands, which in that day and time was considered seriously immoral, he answered his [[accuser]] by pointing out that it is not what goes into a man's mouth which makes him unclean or immoral but rather what comes out.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_15]

Today, among your [[religions]], breaking [[taboos]] like working on the [[Sabbath]], are still considered immoral. But to all [[spirit]] [[lead]] [[mortals]], morality is not found in the proscriptions of [[society]]. Every spirit lead mortal must [[discover]] for him or herself the [[reality]] of higher morality in life.

Today, among your [[religions]], breaking [[taboos]] like working on the [[Sabbath]], are still considered immoral. But to all [[spirit]] [[lead]] [[mortals]], morality is not found in the proscriptions of [[society]]. Every spirit lead mortal must [[discover]] for him or herself the [[reality]] of higher morality in life.

[[Morality]] is in [[essence]] just the finding of increasingly better ways to live. So in finding this better, [[happier]], less stressful, freer, and more rewarding life _ you may in [[actuality]], in actualizing this, break societal [[taboos]]. But this [[struggle]] with [[conscience]] is essential to finding actual [[truth]]. The pathway to [[self-realization]] and self-fulfillment also involves finding what for you is immoral.

[[Morality]] is in [[essence]] just the finding of increasingly better ways to live. So in finding this better, [[happier]], less stressful, freer, and more rewarding life _ you may in [[actuality]], in actualizing this, break societal [[taboos]]. But this [[struggle]] with [[conscience]] is essential to finding actual [[truth]]. The pathway to [[self-realization]] and self-fulfillment also involves finding what for you is immoral.

And in this struggle for distinguishing the [[moral]] and the immoral, you will come to find that it [[changes]] for you. [[Actions]] that you were [[comfortable]] with in your [[youth]], you probably are not comfortable with in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age middle age] because you have come to find finer distinctions than you saw when you were young and your [[pathway]] toward increasing [[morality]] has led you to drop off things by the way. This is the [[process]] of developing [[righteousness]] and you come to [[understand]] that you delight in living a righteous life for its own sake because it gives you [[pleasure]]. One's [[heart]] burns to live in the light of [[truth]] and be carried forward in this light. [[Jesus]] said, "Happy are you though others shall revile you and say all [[manner]] of [[evil]] against you." [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_5] Because you are firm in the [[righteousness]] that burns in your breast, no amount of [[public]] [[censure]] can remove it. So you [[persist]] in your own individual, unique [[righteousness]], even though other's may be calling you immoral for breaking some societal rule. That is how you truly know that you have found it, when you are unmoved by the [[opinions]] of others or [[fear]] of their opinion.

And in this struggle for distinguishing the [[moral]] and the immoral, you will come to find that it [[changes]] for you. [[Actions]] that you were [[comfortable]] with in your [[youth]], you probably are not comfortable with in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age middle age] because you have come to find finer distinctions than you saw when you were young and your [[pathway]] toward increasing [[morality]] has led you to drop off things by the way. This is the [[process]] of developing [[righteousness]] and you come to [[understand]] that you delight in living a righteous life for its own sake because it gives you [[pleasure]]. One's [[heart]] burns to live in the light of [[truth]] and be carried forward in this light. [[Jesus]] said, "Happy are you though others shall revile you and say all [[manner]] of [[evil]] against you." [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_5] Because you are firm in the [[righteousness]] that burns in your breast, no amount of [[public]] [[censure]] can remove it. So you [[persist]] in your own individual, unique [[righteousness]], even though other's may be calling you immoral for breaking some societal rule. That is how you truly know that you have found it, when you are unmoved by the [[opinions]] of others or [[fear]] of their opinion.

The [[path]] of the [[spirit]] is never long traversed by the [[weak]] of [[heart]]. If you have [[courage]], then [[the Father]] requires all your [[courage]]. If you have [[faithfulness]], then the Father requires all your faithfulness. It is impossible to be truly [[devoted]] to the spiritual life and be half-hearted or [[cowardly]] about it. The world is full of men who follow men, but there are very few men who follow [[God]]. That is all for tonight's lesson, I will answer your questions now.

The [[path]] of the [[spirit]] is never long traversed by the [[weak]] of [[heart]]. If you have [[courage]], then [[the Father]] requires all your [[courage]]. If you have [[faithfulness]], then the Father requires all your faithfulness. It is impossible to be truly [[devoted]] to the spiritual life and be half-hearted or [[cowardly]] about it. The world is full of men who follow men, but there are very few men who follow [[God]]. That is all for tonight's lesson, I will answer your questions now.