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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Steadfastness]]''''', '''''[[Value]]'''''====

===='''''[[Steadfastness]]''''', '''''[[Value]]'''''====

Tonight's lesson will be a [[discussion]] of [[steadfastness]]. All of you are steadfast in some things and are vacillatory in others. Which is important, which is unimportant? You all tend to cling with great steadfastness to unimportant or inconsequential [[habits]] likes or dislikes while other things which may hold greater importance for you, you [[vacillate]] and cannot hold fast to it.

Tonight's lesson will be a [[discussion]] of [[steadfastness]]. All of you are steadfast in some things and are vacillatory in others. Which is important, which is unimportant? You all tend to cling with great steadfastness to unimportant or inconsequential [[habits]] likes or dislikes while other things which may hold greater importance for you, you vacillate and cannot hold fast to it.

When it comes to one's [[self]], it is [[difficult]] to sort [[values]]. What may be [[comfortable]] or pleasant, you tend to place, mistakenly, value upon it and what may be difficult, demanding, or taxing, though it may hold the greater value, you value it less. Sometimes circumstances will [[force]] you to reevaluate your lives and your values and sometimes in a blinding flash of [[insight]], you will see where true [[value]] lies. But, then the daily grind of [[existence]] continues on and you [[gradually]] slide back into a more comfortable [[understanding]] of your [[values]]. The struggle for higher values is not in the [[intellectual]] realm, it is not in finding [[philosophical]] [[structures]], the struggle for values, which in [[reality]] is the enhancement of [[life]], goes on on the everyday level.

When it comes to one's [[self]], it is [[difficult]] to sort [[values]]. What may be [[comfortable]] or pleasant, you tend to place, mistakenly, value upon it and what may be difficult, demanding, or taxing, though it may hold the greater value, you value it less. Sometimes circumstances will [[force]] you to reevaluate your lives and your values and sometimes in a blinding flash of [[insight]], you will see where true [[value]] lies. But, then the daily grind of [[existence]] continues on and you [[gradually]] slide back into a more comfortable [[understanding]] of your [[values]]. The struggle for higher values is not in the [[intellectual]] realm, it is not in finding [[philosophical]] [[structures]], the struggle for values, which in [[reality]] is the enhancement of [[life]], goes on on the everyday level.

Children, your [[angels]] [[literally]] [[weep]] at seeing you throwing [[time]] away in your [[busy]] lives. Many of you even now see a [[step]] you must take, and you avoid this step by finding all the demands of the [[material]] world too pressing. You are all so [[busy]] with what I must do to face the [[question]] "who am I, what is my [[purpose]]"? [[Life]] is a continual [[struggle]] of finding [[values]], and of replacing old values with new and higher values, and this struggle is very real. [[Eventually]], when there is a step that must be made and this struggle is not overcome and this new [[value]] does not replace the old one, you become [[trapped]], and this trap is very [[dangerous]] because it takes some [[trauma]] to [[shock]] you into breaking out of it. [[Health]] can be endangered, livelihood, [[relationships]], many things.

Children, your [[angels]] [[literally]] [[weep]] at seeing you throwing [[time]] away in your [[busy]] lives. Many of you even now see a [[step]] you must take, and you avoid this step by finding all the demands of the [[material]] world too pressing. You are all so [[busy]] with what I must do to face the [[question]] "who am I, what is my [[purpose]]"? [[Life]] is a continual [[struggle]] of finding [[values]], and of replacing old values with new and higher values, and this struggle is very real. [[Eventually]], when there is a step that must be made and this struggle is not overcome and this new [[value]] does not replace the old one, you become [[trapped]], and this trap is very [[dangerous]] because it takes some [[trauma]] to [[shock]] you into breaking out of it. [[Health]] can be endangered, livelihood, [[relationships]], many things.

You must instead, [[struggle]] to [[recognize]] the higher [[value]] and to pull that value into your lives, letting go of your old [[patterns]] because [[spiritual growth]] requires you to change. It requires you to break out of [[Comfort Zone|comfort patterns]], and [[embrace]] the new.

You must instead, [[struggle]] to [[recognize]] the higher [[value]] and to pull that value into your lives, letting go of your old [[patterns]] because [[spiritual growth]] requires you to change. It requires you to break out of [[Comfort zone|comfort patterns]], and [[embrace]] the new.

Are you all following my [[words]]? Do you have any [[questions]]?

Are you all following my [[words]]? Do you have any [[questions]]?

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Q: Our [[values]] are not so much what we say they are, but they are [[reflected]] in the choices we make in every day life and that is where we need to [[focus]] in order to have [[spiritual growth]].

Q: Our [[values]] are not so much what we say they are, but they are [[reflected]] in the choices we make in every day life and that is where we need to [[focus]] in order to have [[spiritual growth]].