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* Elyon (Mark TR): Greetings once again, my friends. We together have engaged in this moderately lengthy pause in our interactions to once again visit the stillness together and to illuminate and emphasize the importance of the practice of stillness. We as teachers are well aware of the cyclical nature of your lifestyles, your commitments to external forces, and we are ultimately understanding of these. However, I feel like the school teacher whose responsibility it is to occasionally ring the bell and refocus the students on the lessons at hand. I take this opportunity this morning to visit the stillness with you as a means to emphasize priorities. If the students are preoccupied with their playtime activities, it is often very hard to grasp and internalize the daily lessons. Therefore, once again we are able to refocus our energies and prioritize and arrange our focus by means of visiting the stillness. If you do not allocate the time to do this separately, then priorities dictate to do this when together, as this is key to moving forward together and separately. I know that this might sound as a broken record to you, the repeating of the importance of stillness. But it is my job as a teacher to uphold the principles and priorities necessary for your proper development. I will continue to harp on issues which remain relevant to you. I will also do my best to move the lessons along, to spice up the teachings, but I am bound by your constrictions and restrictions, and you will find that I am exceedingly patient.

Elyon (Mark TR): Greetings once again, my friends. We together have engaged in this moderately lengthy pause in our interactions to once again visit the stillness together and to illuminate and emphasize the importance of the practice of stillness. We as teachers are well aware of the cyclical nature of your lifestyles, your commitments to external forces, and we are ultimately understanding of these. However, I feel like the school teacher whose responsibility it is to occasionally ring the bell and refocus the students on the lessons at hand. I take this opportunity this morning to visit the stillness with you as a means to emphasize priorities. If the students are preoccupied with their playtime activities, it is often very hard to grasp and internalize the daily lessons. Therefore, once again we are able to refocus our energies and prioritize and arrange our focus by means of visiting the stillness. If you do not allocate the time to do this separately, then priorities dictate to do this when together, as this is key to moving forward together and separately. I know that this might sound as a broken record to you, the repeating of the importance of stillness. But it is my job as a teacher to uphold the principles and priorities necessary for your proper development. I will continue to harp on issues which remain relevant to you. I will also do my best to move the lessons along, to spice up the teachings, but I am bound by your constrictions and restrictions, and you will find that I am exceedingly patient.

It is so wonderful to have you all in attendance again, in class. It truly is a highlight of my experience to meet with you, to share with you, to simply be with you as we are here now. You will come to find here more and more that we resonate to the same tones, that we, in a sense, march to the same drummers. You will learn to recognize this as time passes.

It is so wonderful to have you all in attendance again, in class. It truly is a highlight of my experience to meet with you, to share with you, to simply be with you as we are here now. You will come to find here more and more that we resonate to the same tones, that we, in a sense, march to the same drummers. You will learn to recognize this as time passes.

I would open up the floor for your questions or comments. I am available to you as are others at this time.

I would open up the floor for your questions or comments. I am available to you as are others at this time.

 

Ginny: Thank you for your encouragement.

Ginny: Thank you for your encouragement.

Ginny: Thank you.

Ginny: Thank you.

 

Evanson (Jonathan): Hi, I'm Evanson, and I would share a perspective on faith-certainty and would like to compare it to prayer.

Evanson (Jonathan): Hi, I'm Evanson, and I would share a perspective on faith-certainty and would like to compare it to prayer.

Prayer, as you well know, is an attitude expressed by the soul, and you have understood that wording of a prayer is not necessarily the prayer itself. You can use religious jargon; you can use street language and still convey the meaning of the prayer. Likewise faith; faith has composites similar to the words of prayer. These are beliefs. You can change your beliefs and still express your faith. Faith is like a house; your beliefs are like the materials that construct it. It can be adobe; it can be straw; it can be wood and still be a house. When you pray, attempt to pray silently, without words. You will discover that deeper soul communication of which the words are but the mind resonating to this soul. When you wrestle with beliefs and the doubts or convictions that go with them, pause in stillness to experience your faith. Again, it is the soul attitude of which beliefs are but the mind's resonance. It is easy to realize that the changing of the words of prayer do not disintegrate the motivation and attitude of the prayer. So, when your beliefs shift and change, likewise realize this is not a threat to your faith.

Prayer, as you well know, is an attitude expressed by the soul, and you have understood that wording of a prayer is not necessarily the prayer itself. You can use religious jargon; you can use street language and still convey the meaning of the prayer. Likewise faith; faith has composites similar to the words of prayer. These are beliefs. You can change your beliefs and still express your faith. Faith is like a house; your beliefs are like the materials that construct it. It can be adobe; it can be straw; it can be wood and still be a house. When you pray, attempt to pray silently, without words. You will discover that deeper soul communication of which the words are but the mind resonating to this soul. When you wrestle with beliefs and the doubts or convictions that go with them, pause in stillness to experience your faith. Again, it is the soul attitude of which beliefs are but the mind's resonance. It is easy to realize that the changing of the words of prayer do not disintegrate the motivation and attitude of the prayer. So, when your beliefs shift and change, likewise realize this is not a threat to your faith.