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[[Attitude]] is an important part of your [[thought]] [[process]]es. And it is a part of your [[thinking]] that can bring you to higher heights or can cause you to digress. Therefor this week I ask you to think upon this aspect of attitude as you live your [[life]]. There are many ways, many levels, and many kinds of [[attitudes]]. As you think on this, this week, ask yourself if there is some aspect or some attitude that is currently bringing disequilibrium into life. Seek the inner [[quiet]] and you will be guided into ways and higher [[thinking]] that will help you in opening up and seeing from a different [[perspective]]. Through [[prayer]] you will find that it is not the intimations that you are asking of the [[First Source and Center]] that are answered so much as the ability to affect your attitude regarding life's [[purpose]]. Prayer will broaden this immensely for you. As you grow in the attitude of trying to match the mindset of the First Source and Center, you will find that [[prayer]] has, indeed, been answered; but not always in the fashion or [[understanding]] that you had initiated the prayer for.

[[Attitude]] is an important part of your [[thought]] [[process]]es. And it is a part of your [[thinking]] that can bring you to higher heights or can cause you to digress. Therefor this week I ask you to think upon this aspect of attitude as you live your [[life]]. There are many ways, many levels, and many kinds of [[attitudes]]. As you think on this, this week, ask yourself if there is some aspect or some attitude that is currently bringing disequilibrium into life. Seek the inner [[quiet]] and you will be guided into ways and higher [[thinking]] that will help you in opening up and seeing from a different [[perspective]]. Through [[prayer]] you will find that it is not the intimations that you are asking of the [[First Source and Center]] that are answered so much as the ability to affect your attitude regarding life's [[purpose]]. Prayer will broaden this immensely for you. As you grow in the attitude of trying to match the mindset of the First Source and Center, you will find that [[prayer]] has, indeed, been answered; but not always in the fashion or [[understanding]] that you had initiated the prayer for.

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Allow this week that the lesson from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1993-12-03-Concept_of_Gentleness last week on gentleness] also becomes a lesson for this week in regard to [[attitude]]. Allow this week also to carry over [[gentleness]] to be a part of a gentle attitude for others. As we build each week through lessons, you will find that which we have is very much inter-related and [[connected]]. And you will realize that in order for there to be completeness and fullness, that you cannot disconnect from any part of your [[divine]] spiritual nature and your [[humanness]]. Let me utilize this Christmas tree you have been looking at as an [[analogy]].

Allow this week that the lesson from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1993-12-03-Concept_of_Gentleness last week on gentleness] also becomes a lesson for this week in regard to [[attitude]]. Allow this week also to carry over [[gentleness]] to be a part of a gentle attitude for others. As we build each week through lessons, you will find that which we have is very much inter-related and [[connected]]. And you will realize that in order for there to be completeness and fullness, that you cannot disconnect from any part of your [[divine]] spiritual nature and your [[humanness]]. Let me utilize this Christmas tree you have been looking at as an [[analogy]].

If one [[light]] from the string is pulled out, the others will then go out as well. If you disconnect one [[part]] of your spiritualness from other aspects of your [[being]] there will be this dimming of [[light]]. As you plug the light back into the central strand then, again, a [[luminosity]] is seen. The main strand is like the [[channel]] that goes between your being, your [[Indwelling Spirit]], and the [[First Source and Center]]. Do not disconnect your light from its Source, for in doing so there will be [[darkness]]. Plug into the [[energy]] and love of the First Source and Center. Allow His love, Her love, to be the energy through which you [[function]]. When you allow this, you will find your [[attitude]] in the many different areas is [[reflective]] of higher and higher [[values]]. I will now ask that you reflect upon this lesson this week. I will accept [[questions]]."

If one [[light]] from the string is pulled out, the others will then go out as well. If you disconnect one [[part]] of your spiritualness from other aspects of your [[being]] there will be this dimming of [[light]]. As you plug the light back into the central strand then, again, a [[luminosity]] is seen. The main strand is like the [[channel]] that goes between your being, your [[Indwelling Spirit]], and the [[First Source and Center]]. Do not disconnect your light from its Source, for in doing so there will be [[darkness]]. Plug into the [[energy]] and love of the First Source and Center. Allow His love, Her love, to be the energy through which you [[function]]. When you allow this, you will find your [[attitude]] in the many different areas is [[reflective]] of higher and higher [[values]]. I will now ask that you reflect upon this lesson this week. I will accept [[questions]]."

Daniel: "Your question has many facets that I will address this evening. First and foremost I will address this not only to you, B5, but to the whole group, and that is this...your [[ability]] to accept [[change]] and to change is a given to you [[individually]]. To [[expect]] that you can change the [[hearts]] and [[minds]] and [[ideas]] of others is impractical and does little to help your [[brothers and sisters]] to see and realize [[truth]]. What I am saying is that even though you have a newly founded [[zeal]] and [[desire]] because of the wonderful happenings that have been given to you, does not mean that you will be able to set the rest of the world on fire! Rather hold that through your [[actions]] and your attitude, your [[love]] and your willingness to be there for one another, that you will effect [[change]], that is, you will plant [[seeds]]. Often seeds lay dormant for many years before the other things [[necessary]] to bring about their [[explosion]] into life are met. And so do not [[feel]] that you must change everyone. Rather be a willing [[partner]] with the [[First Source and Center]] by living your own life as a [[testimony]] of [[the Father]]'s will.

Daniel: "Your question has many facets that I will address this evening. First and foremost I will address this not only to you, B5, but to the whole group, and that is this...your [[ability]] to accept [[change]] and to change is a given to you [[individually]]. To [[expect]] that you can change the [[hearts]] and [[minds]] and [[ideas]] of others is impractical and does little to help your [[brothers and sisters]] to see and realize [[truth]]. What I am saying is that even though you have a newly founded [[zeal]] and [[desire]] because of the wonderful happenings that have been given to you, does not mean that you will be able to set the rest of the world on fire! Rather hold that through your [[actions]] and your attitude, your [[love]] and your willingness to be there for one another, that you will effect [[change]], that is, you will plant [[seeds]]. Often seeds lay dormant for many years before the other things [[necessary]] to bring about their [[explosion]] into life are met. And so do not [[feel]] that you must change everyone. Rather be a willing [[partner]] with the [[First Source and Center]] by living your own life as a [[testimony]] of [[the Father]]'s will.

The next aspect of your question is that whenever you or any of you approach another [[individual]] and wish to give them [[advice]], remember that it has been [[written]] very pointedly in the [[Urantia Book]] not to give advice unless asked![http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=48:7_Morontia_Mota  (48:7.16)] You can say to others, 'my [[experience]] has been this. Because of my experiences I have changed, I have [[grown]]. This is my experience'.

The next aspect of your question is that whenever you or any of you approach another [[individual]] and wish to give them [[advice]], remember that it has been [[written]] very pointedly in the [[Urantia Book]] not to give advice unless asked![https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=48:7_Morontia_Mota  (48:7.16)] You can say to others, 'my [[experience]] has been this. Because of my experiences I have changed, I have [[grown]]. This is my experience'.

The last thing that I would say is that, indeed, the [[First Source and Center]] is all perfect. He created a perfect [[Paradise]] and the [[Central Universe]]. And in [[complement]] to that perfect sphere there has been created the imperfect. This is not a perfect world. Not all things are justifiably seen as [[equal]]. This is a time of [[material]] existence for you, to live and to begin the [[soul]]'s [[journey]] from the imperfect [[stage]] on up through [[ascension]] till at last you are able to meet the First Source and Center at the Isle of [[Paradise]]. To your [[friend]] you can only present the [[fact]] that your [[belief]] is that we are [[ascending beings]], made imperfect, but have within us a [[Father Fragment]] that is perfect, that is calling and urging us to [[attain]] that [[state]]. Has this helped you?"

The last thing that I would say is that, indeed, the [[First Source and Center]] is all perfect. He created a perfect [[Paradise]] and the [[Central Universe]]. And in [[complement]] to that perfect sphere there has been created the imperfect. This is not a perfect world. Not all things are justifiably seen as [[equal]]. This is a time of [[material]] existence for you, to live and to begin the [[soul]]'s [[journey]] from the imperfect [[stage]] on up through [[ascension]] till at last you are able to meet the First Source and Center at the Isle of [[Paradise]]. To your [[friend]] you can only present the [[fact]] that your [[belief]] is that we are [[ascending beings]], made imperfect, but have within us a [[Father Fragment]] that is perfect, that is calling and urging us to [[attain]] that [[state]]. Has this helped you?"