2001-09-20-Humility of Respect

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Topic: Humility of Respect

Group: Costa Rica TeaM

Facilitators

Teacher: Alana

TR: S. Butterfield

Session

Opening

TR : Mother, wrap me in your cloak of love. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Alana : Yes. Alana is here.

David : I welcome you, Alana.

Alana : Thank you. She suffers from fear, so she fears even my words in hers. She wrestles with “might I not just be saying…?” What I want you to be saying, my dear, is love. Thank you for that private conversation.

So yes, thank you for your welcome. We shall see how she can do. You have something you want to say to me.

David : I would like to explore that phrase, “the humility of respect.” I had the feeling that I had experienced that in some way, that Saturday when we were here around the table with Oliver. I remembered that phrase, humility of respect. There was something that I was feeling all day in dealing with these difficult things. I seem to have in check my usual propensity to jump up and announce things with a loud voice when I disagree, or feel outrage. There was something different going on with me. And I have a feeling for it, but…the humility of respect…that is a strange juxtaposition. Would you like to say anything about it?

Dialogue

Alana : Have you had the experience, have you knelt before the altar of your love and bowed your head, have you then exchanged your love, shared your love, spoken your love, in the speaking is the respect, spoken humbly from your knees, but with no less respect for your self, for the other no more; for in the eyes of light there is a mirror. You can look inside that mirror, you can look inside that light, and you will see. Eyes of love, eyes of hate. You will see.

And then comes the moment when you try to love the hate. To blow love upon it. To see through the eyes of God’s love. There is a certain calmness in that moment of seeing, akin to the stillness practice. Yes? Thank you.

David : Thank you for that guidance. I feel that I, and we, are still in the drama of learning respect. I am constantly open to the teachings that are coming to me, and to us, about respect. The focus is on one of our brothers in the group. I would like some guidance from you about what our responsibility is in straightening out some of the difficulties we are having with this brother. I would like to turn it over to you altogether, but I would like to have you outline a handrail for us, again, so we may have a sense of calmness as we go into our meeting on Sunday with Sandy back. It has been a bit of a bumpy landing since our long trip, and I am longing for some smoothness.

Alana : Yes. You may need to make some choices that relieve the stress. Even now, she feels…well, shall we say, she is watching herself as I speak. That kind of stress is not necessary. When she can accept her limits with love, that is when she will be released from self-doubt and anger. (interruption by phone)

Alana : This is Alana.

David : Welcome back. Excuse the interruption.

Alana : Yes. We were speaking of respect for her self. Yes? And love for her limitations, which could be anything, but she perceives a failure to me. She had to love her self just a little bit more to receive my love, once again. Innocently, you might say. Yes, she has many sorrows in her heart now. When she sees her own fears, and embraces those fears with love, she then weeps, shall we say, embraces the suffering into her heart and needs to breathe through that into my love, breathing in and out, and in and out. She imagines her self, sometimes, gasping for air, or gulping air, in her dialogues with Mr. Practice.

So, speak from your heart with Sandy. Speak from your heart. Perhaps it would be good to embrace your fear. Yes? You have a fear of, once again, tackling the Oliver Question. Your fear is that this will be stressful and tiresome. Yes?

David : Yes. Correct.

Alana : Need this be so? Let us blow love upon it now. You will notice your heart is willing to let it go smoothly. It is the tongue that might threaten to be unruly. Yes?

David : On the bais of past experience I would have to say that suggestion has merit to it.

Alana : So, what do you have to say to Sir Oliver that you have not said?

David : As close as I come to it in an overall way would be to say: Oliver, I wish you could see what is going on. I have faith in you that once you see what is going on you will do what is necessary to correct it. I would like to get cured of whatever need I have to fix him, or…I don’t know what to say…I feel the group has strength. I don’t feel so much any more that it is my task to straighten anyone out. I’ve relinquished that.

Alana : Yes, and once you have surrendered, surrendered all, what is left for you to say?

David : Usually, all is well and all will be well.

Alana : Yes.

David : I also have great faith in you teachers. That Saturday we spent with Oliver, I saw great and wonderful progress. I saw the way he listened to you teachers. I have great deal of faith in the process we are in with you. This is the most powerful love experience I’ve had on my journey in life. I guess I don’t want to be guilty of letting things slide. Perhaps like when I went to talk with Patrick, if that is an appropriate description of that event.

Alana : Yes. And what is it that you think you need to accomplish?

David : Well, as you said earlier on, I think we need to reduce the stress. Certainly for our transmitter, if no one else, but for all of us, as well. I kind of think that it might be propietious at this time to post pone the question of Patrick and give us some breathing room, some time to smooth things out. I would hope to accomplish at that time that Oliver would come to recognize the loyalty-love of his colleagues, and come to join them in that loyalty-love rather than exhibiting these tendencies, like not respecting us and feeling that we are going in the wrong direction. I hope that we could bond together again in harmony and unity…harmony would be the word that would epitomize what I would hope to accomplish.

Alana : Yes. Respect for harmony. Respect for the balances in life. Respect for the delicate balance of the life of any one thing. Respect for the balance of love. The discipline of respect. The discipline of love. The discipline of balance. The discipline of joy.

Yes, those go well together. Yes?

David : I would agree. Yes. When you spoke of the discipline and the respect for balance, I thought of the Master. The textbook portrays his life as a model of balance.

Closing

Alana : It is his forgiveness that we would emphasize today. His compassion and forgiveness. Look upon your enemies, as you say, with love. Look through the magnifying glass of love. Learn to love what you see. Practice the discipline of love with what you see. Respect what you see. Stand tall in love. Stand clearly ready to acknowledge who you are. Learn to love who you are. Learn to forgive who you are not. Have faith in love. Have faith in Father’s love to come through. Beam it to where ever you go, to what ever you hear, to what ever you see. Shed light upon the truth with love. Thank you.

Yes?

David : Thank you. A wonderfully calming effect upon my heart and my mind to hear you speak, Alana. One question, when you said…did you say, bring me where ever you go, where ever you hear…did you say bring me?

Alana : Well, yes, it could be understood that way as well. However, I said beam, as with a flashlight.

David : Like “beam me up, Scottie.” Do you know that phrase?

Alana : Yes.

David : Ok, that is a wonderful metaphor. I like that.

Alana : Beam forth the love.