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Elizabeth: I just want to talk about how it is for somebody who found the [[Urantia Book]] to try to be [[accepting]] of other people's [[concepts]]. I'm talking for myself. I certainly [[pray]] that I can be open minded, like Leah said. I hope I can have an [[open]] [[mind]]. But remembering the [[struggles]] of my own [[growth]], I [[jealously]], perhaps, guard some of my concepts which I won with such [[difficulty]], and I'm so entranced by when you are an [[evolutionary]] creature and you struggle to find something that's [[wonderful]] and reasonable and you look around and you see some of the [[problems]] that arise from what you view as being the limiting concepts that you entertained previously. You have to -- you do have [[reluctance]], perhaps, to let this become important.

Elizabeth: I just want to talk about how it is for somebody who found the [[Urantia Book]] to try to be [[accepting]] of other people's [[concepts]]. I'm talking for myself. I certainly [[pray]] that I can be open minded, like Leah said. I hope I can have an [[open]] [[mind]]. But remembering the [[struggles]] of my own [[growth]], I [[jealously]], perhaps, guard some of my concepts which I won with such [[difficulty]], and I'm so entranced by when you are an [[evolutionary]] creature and you struggle to find something that's [[wonderful]] and reasonable and you look around and you see some of the [[problems]] that arise from what you view as being the limiting concepts that you entertained previously. You have to -- you do have [[reluctance]], perhaps, to let this become important.

For instance we had so many people who have come with wonderful teachings. I mean, everybody at this table, I dare say, has [[engaged]] in other [[configurations]], philosophies, which are wonderful. They are absolutely wonderful, and yet we do, I think, [[appreciate]] here that we have to [[guard]] our [[focus]] to a certain extent. And so from that [[point of view]], so many of our people love the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_philosophy Indian philosophies] and some people love that of the Far East India, and some love the [[Course in Miracles]] ~ I for one ~ and some love the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church Unity concepts], and some love the . .. and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce Edgar Cayce]. I mean we just have a plethora of wonderful philosophies, and yet it is good for us to remember that our [[focus]] is [[the Book]] and the [[Teaching Mission]] -- well, not for all of us, but for many of us the Teaching Mission -- but for all of us the Book.

For instance we had so many people who have come with wonderful teachings. I mean, everybody at this table, I dare say, has [[engaged]] in other [[configurations]], philosophies, which are wonderful. They are absolutely wonderful, and yet we do, I think, [[appreciate]] here that we have to guard our [[focus]] to a certain extent. And so from that [[point of view]], so many of our people love the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_philosophy Indian philosophies] and some people love that of the Far East India, and some love the [[Course in Miracles]] ~ I for one ~ and some love the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church Unity concepts], and some love the . .. and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce Edgar Cayce]. I mean we just have a plethora of wonderful philosophies, and yet it is good for us to remember that our [[focus]] is [[the Book]] and the [[Teaching Mission]] -- well, not for all of us, but for many of us the Teaching Mission -- but for all of us the Book.

TOMAS: Let me [[respond]], for I truly do [[appreciate]] your [[question]] and the soul depth of [[understanding]] inherent in the question, and also understanding the [[dangers]] of having and holding a spiritually [[egotistical]] standpoint of being one of those fortunate enough to have [[discovered]] and acknowledged the importance of the [[Fifth Epochal Revelation]], and to some extent this dynamic [[Teaching Mission]], which underlines the teachings of the Book and of the [[actualization]] of the spiritual brotherhood, [[the gospel]], if you will, of [[Jesus]]. But yes, there are as we discussed earlier in [[reference]] to children, there are as many [[paths]] to [[the Father]] as those who take the path, and they take many diversions through many woods and meadows.

TOMAS: Let me [[respond]], for I truly do [[appreciate]] your [[question]] and the soul depth of [[understanding]] inherent in the question, and also understanding the [[dangers]] of having and holding a spiritually [[egotistical]] standpoint of being one of those fortunate enough to have [[discovered]] and acknowledged the importance of the [[Fifth Epochal Revelation]], and to some extent this dynamic [[Teaching Mission]], which underlines the teachings of the Book and of the [[actualization]] of the spiritual brotherhood, [[the gospel]], if you will, of [[Jesus]]. But yes, there are as we discussed earlier in [[reference]] to children, there are as many [[paths]] to [[the Father]] as those who take the path, and they take many diversions through many woods and meadows.

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TOMAS: Let me [[respond]] and get out of here so that you can talk. I [[understand]], you get into socializing and it extends into the day, but consider -- If you were one who had walked with [[Jesus]] and had been in his company, do you not feel that you would have benefitted by that far more than one who had heard of his deeds and [[goodness]] in another country or in another village? Those of you who have found, [[discovered]], the [[values]] and the [[truths]] within the [[Fifth Epochal Revelation]] to [[mankind]], the Urantia Book, are as fortunate as those who sat at the feet of [[the Master]], who followed him and heard him speak fully and freely.

TOMAS: Let me [[respond]] and get out of here so that you can talk. I [[understand]], you get into socializing and it extends into the day, but consider -- If you were one who had walked with [[Jesus]] and had been in his company, do you not feel that you would have benefitted by that far more than one who had heard of his deeds and [[goodness]] in another country or in another village? Those of you who have found, [[discovered]], the [[values]] and the [[truths]] within the [[Fifth Epochal Revelation]] to [[mankind]], the Urantia Book, are as fortunate as those who sat at the feet of [[the Master]], who followed him and heard him speak fully and freely.