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Group: Nashville, Tennessee
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Topic: Buried By Worldly Cares
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February 7, 1999
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===Topic: ''Buried By Worldy Cares''===
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===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
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===TR: [[Rebecca]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I want to thank you all, once more, for having come here tonight. This evening our lesson is concerning awakening to joy. Many humans live their lives almost buried beneath worldly cares and regrets even to the point of hiding from the now time entirely.
 
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I want to thank you all, once more, for having come here tonight. This evening our lesson is concerning awakening to joy. Many humans live their lives almost buried beneath worldly cares and regrets even to the point of hiding from the now time entirely.
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===Lesson===
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Much of your work environment is high pressured and necessitates much work in planning and devising strategies for success. But, what we see very often is people burdened by over much worrying and small regrets. Things that are quite insignificant can tend to occupy the mind to an inordinate degree.
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Much of your work environment is high pressured and necessitates much work in planning and devising strategies for success. But, what we see very often is people burdened by over much worrying and small regrets. Things that are quite insignificant can tend to occupy the mind to an
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Then there are humans who get lost in the future, who fantasize how things will be when such and such happens and spend a great deal of time living in a dream world, a completely fictionalized existence that often times bears little resemblance to the now. Still others live in the past, which is also to a large degree fictionalized in the mind, when things were thought to be better, when that person was happier, etc. etc. This can progress to such an extent that this person cannot relate to the now at all, but is always reliving past events, past relationships.
 
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inordinate degree.
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Then there are humans who get lost in the future, who fantasize how things will be when such and such happens and spend a great deal of time living in a dream world, a completely fictionalized existence that often times bears little resemblance to the now. Still others live in the
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past, which is also to a large degree fictionalized in the mind, when things were thought to be better, when that person was happier, etc. etc. This can progress to such an extent that this person cannot relate to the now at all, but is always reliving past events, past
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relationships.
      
With most people, all these things occur in varying degrees and because the mind is largely free of time constraints and can develop this ability to live in the past or live in he future, or combinations of the two, many people, that is to say most people, cannot find the now time at all.
 
With most people, all these things occur in varying degrees and because the mind is largely free of time constraints and can develop this ability to live in the past or live in he future, or combinations of the two, many people, that is to say most people, cannot find the now time at all.
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You have but one requirement, to love God and in loving him, you will know him, and in knowing him, you will become increasingly like him, and able to identify yourself with his perfection. So children, I say to you awaken to joy, find the now in your stillness, elevate the consciousness into higher levels so that you may receive the constantly flowing, constantly present Divine affection. These children, are the doors no man can shut, they are the way to life everlasting. Are there any questions at this time? If there is anything unclear to anyone, please express it.
 
You have but one requirement, to love God and in loving him, you will know him, and in knowing him, you will become increasingly like him, and able to identify yourself with his perfection. So children, I say to you awaken to joy, find the now in your stillness, elevate the consciousness into higher levels so that you may receive the constantly flowing, constantly present Divine affection. These children, are the doors no man can shut, they are the way to life everlasting. Are there any questions at this time? If there is anything unclear to anyone, please express it.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Q: Let me ask about times when the situation is unpleasant, or stressful, you still want to stay in the now, correct?
 
Q: Let me ask about times when the situation is unpleasant, or stressful, you still want to stay in the now, correct?
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Q: Yes it is, thank you.
 
Q: Yes it is, thank you.
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===Closing===
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Ham: Any further questions. Very well then, if there is nothing further, I will depart until next week. My prayers, my love, are with you each. Farewell.
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Ham: Any further questions. Very well then, if there is nothing further, I will depart until next week. My prayers, my love, are with you each. Farewell.
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