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Growth, Responsibility and Love
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JULY 2, 1995
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==Heading==
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===Topic: ''Growth, Responsibility, Love''===
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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===
 
Greetings. I am Ham and I am your teacher, and also, your friend. You have come from a long earlier background of understandings, which I endeavor to use in these discussions, because you are unaware of all of the unusual and strange details of the universe that I could disclose. Therefore, you should take heed from our example and refrain from excessive disclosure when explaining the understandings you have acquired. Remember that your understandings are different than the understandings of others and should not attempt to force feed cosmic detail.
 
Greetings. I am Ham and I am your teacher, and also, your friend. You have come from a long earlier background of understandings, which I endeavor to use in these discussions, because you are unaware of all of the unusual and strange details of the universe that I could disclose. Therefore, you should take heed from our example and refrain from excessive disclosure when explaining the understandings you have acquired. Remember that your understandings are different than the understandings of others and should not attempt to force feed cosmic detail.
 
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===Lesson===
 
That said, I would like to discuss change again. When you experience a change of any kind you are usually apprehensive and are frightened due to the newness of your experience. For example, even trying a new food product one is apprehensive that it will be unpalatable. Normally, humans stay with a few known food preparation that they are comfortable with. Trying something new is too difficult and involves too much apprehension. We find this amusing. Experiencing a real change in your life is even more frjghtening for you involving the apprehensions of encountering new humans, who are in reality your brothers and sisters that you don't know, and apprehensions about your performance at some task, or just the fear of the unfamiliar. Humans show great resistance to any change in their outer surroundings and so you understand that the resistance to change in the inner life is even greater.
 
That said, I would like to discuss change again. When you experience a change of any kind you are usually apprehensive and are frightened due to the newness of your experience. For example, even trying a new food product one is apprehensive that it will be unpalatable. Normally, humans stay with a few known food preparation that they are comfortable with. Trying something new is too difficult and involves too much apprehension. We find this amusing. Experiencing a real change in your life is even more frjghtening for you involving the apprehensions of encountering new humans, who are in reality your brothers and sisters that you don't know, and apprehensions about your performance at some task, or just the fear of the unfamiliar. Humans show great resistance to any change in their outer surroundings and so you understand that the resistance to change in the inner life is even greater.
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Ignorance is a jailer and it is a cell constructed of fear. It is only through human experience and human interaction that these bonds of ignorance are loosed. Shortly you will truly see every living human being, individually, as your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, all as intimate family, for you will know that this is the truth and this truth will be given life through your own experience. One cannot love human beings in the abstract, only by interaction, personally, individually, is love given life. Questions.
 
Ignorance is a jailer and it is a cell constructed of fear. It is only through human experience and human interaction that these bonds of ignorance are loosed. Shortly you will truly see every living human being, individually, as your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, all as intimate family, for you will know that this is the truth and this truth will be given life through your own experience. One cannot love human beings in the abstract, only by interaction, personally, individually, is love given life. Questions.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Q: It seems like over the last few months each of your talks is better than the last.
 
Q: It seems like over the last few months each of your talks is better than the last.
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HAM: You must realize what failure is. Is failure real or is it a victory? It depends on your viewpoint. When you take God's view, you can have no failure, only learning experiences. And so, your greatest failures could be your greatest victories. Also, the word failure implies a failure to somebody. You might fail in the eyes of the world, but you can't fail to God. (All failure is a growth process?) Yes, nothing more.
 
HAM: You must realize what failure is. Is failure real or is it a victory? It depends on your viewpoint. When you take God's view, you can have no failure, only learning experiences. And so, your greatest failures could be your greatest victories. Also, the word failure implies a failure to somebody. You might fail in the eyes of the world, but you can't fail to God. (All failure is a growth process?) Yes, nothing more.
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==Note==
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PERSONAL QUESTIONS OMITTED.
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PERSONAL QUESTIONS OMITTED.
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: Nashville TeaM]]
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[[Category: Ham]]
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[[Category: Rebecca]]
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[[Category: 1995]]