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==Session 5==

==Session 5==

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

Step 13

13. Alana - Your [[ego]] is entitled to take [[pleasure]] in a job well done. We have no objections to the ego's [[desires]], only excesses of [[indulgence]]. For example, [[pride]] is appropriate for any one who has overcome hurdles, [[obstacles]] gargantuan or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift#Major_prose_works Swiftian] small, and have done well with all the resources at hand. To indulge in pride, to take pride when it is not due, to inherit pride without fulfillment of prides role, well, that’s a whole kettle of another fish. ([[Smile]]. In fact uproarious [[laughter]] over the [[TR]]'s difficulty typing that [[malapropism]].)

13. Your ego is entitled to take pleasure in a job well done. We have no objections to the ego's desires, only excesses of indulgence. For example, pride is appropriate for any one who has overcome hurdles, obstacles gargantuan or Swiftian small, and have done well with all the resources at hand. To indulge in pride, to take pride when it is not due, to inherit pride without fulfillment of prides role, well, that’s a whole kettle of another fish. (Smile. In fact uproarious laughter over the TR's difficulty typing that malapropism.)

Here comes Legion, you say. Here comes Legion as if you have mixed [[feelings]]? Your ten minutes (of [[strength]] [[practice]]) today stretched to thirty, did it not? Yes, and as with the [[stillness]] practice, you did not immediately notice that stretch because you were so in [[joy]] doing what you were doing? Yes, and you also [[discovered]] that the stillness practice was part of your practice of strength? Good, Yes on all three. That gives you 100 per cent. The boot camp of love teaches [[strength]] as the power of love to do [[good]] in this world. It takes a strong [[mind]], [[body]] and [[heart]] to work with love. The power of love has a force beyond your capacity to [[imagine]], even [[comprehend]]. Your body must be fit to tolerate the power, which by the way is joy, too.

To approach this from another sidewalk in life. There are people on your planet who will never see beyond their nose, so to speak. They will never climb mountains, swing from tree branches, eat an apple, walk a mile in your shoes. Should they be deprived of the great blessing of pride in themselves? Yet even they must beware false pride or pride without merit, for they will not know the joy that is their due. Yes, I repeat, the joy that is their due. The same holds true for any other of the many functions and attributes of the ego. You are human beings walking on the planet earth, Urantia, and you must deal with that as human beings do. You are not expected to be God, only a facet of God on earth walking miles and miles in your shoes. When we say we love you, we speak directly to your gem within, the Thought Adjuster, your stillness place, and to your ego.

You are [[learning]] to take [[direction]], to [[appreciate]] the direction, and to [[surrender]] to interruption with love and without forgetting. Although we will agree that forgetting is the next [[step]] for you, is it not? So it is important to understand why one forgets. Your wish to know often stands in the way of [[love]]. Your fear of love often stands in the way of knowing. [[Surrender]] to a discipline, any [[discipline]], is a surrender to knowing love, which can be found to exist in the most unexpected and strangely encountered places.

Love has always been difficult to explain. Why does the ego do some things and not others? Why does the beaten child love the father? The suffering of human kind is equally incomprehensible to me. You must turn yourself within, inside out, to even understand to a small degree how much love is out there in the universe for thee. Alana

[[Surrender]] is a [[complicated]] word, enough to require a paragraph all it's own. You [[hesitate]] to surrender because of the [[unknown]], and because you [[fear]] you will not find love. Such a [[puzzle]]. And so you often find yourself going down a rabbit hole into the [[dark]] under layers of your earthly [[experience]] and often think you are lost until suddenly you have surrendered the [[idea]] that you knew which rabbit hole you were in and where you were going. And suddenly, you then, but only then, in the moment of surrender, realize that you did know all along that you had [[faith]], faith you would know [[love]], faith you would know the ways of love, even when in [[fact]] you did not know love, or only did know love to a very small degree. Because following the way of love is an ever widening [[path]], even when you may spend quite some time [[thinking]] the way is narrow. Practice [[surrender]], ten minutes a day. You surrender in the [[practice]] of [[stillness]]. You surrender in the practice of [[strength]]. You've got that practice (of surrender) covered! (Chuckle)

I am showering you with the stars and sprinkles and showers of light that are my love for you. I wash away your sorrow, bless your happiness. I am here to listen to your mind and heart working together with my others and me. Whenever you need a rest, a breather from what you have suddenly seen, or continue to do because love leads you relentlessly, the joy is so pure, take one. Your friends will grow many hearts right before your eyes. Their faces will gather around you to smile. They wish to share their love with you, my others, and they want you to know that they enjoyed a good laugh this evening and continue to smile. Devina

Now to speak to your [[Thought Adjuster]], your [[heart]] of [[stillness]] within. We fill that space with everything we have, so much you can not [[imagine]]. And that is why it is important still, to give yourself ten minutes a day of stillness [[practice]] without the task of [[transmitting]]. This you are accomplishing. We mention it so that anyone who may be [[reading]] these words, those who transmit and those who don't will know the importance too.

Here comes Legion, you say. Here comes Legion as if you have mixed feelings? Your ten minutes (of strength practice) today stretched to thirty, did it not? Yes, and as with the stillness practice, you did not immediately notice that stretch because you were so in joy doing what you were doing? Yes, and you also discovered that the stillness practice was part of your practice of strength? Good, Yes on all three. That gives you 100 per cent. The boot camp of love teaches strength as the power of love to do good in this world. It takes a strong mind, body and heart to work with love. The power of love has a force beyond your capacity to imagine, even comprehend. Your body must be fit to tolerate the power, which by the way is joy, too.

[[Transmitters]] must continue their private stillness time for themselves. And those who do not transmit, or do not hear our words, must know how important it is that they allow us to talk to their [[Thought Adjusters]] every day. We are a life line for them as well as you. We keep the [[machinery]] of [[connection]] in [[tune]]. Everyone's stillness practice is of the utmost importance. That is the [[privilege]] that nourishes us, for each time we speak with your Thought Adjuster, we too are spoken to. That is the nature of our love. It [[flows]] through All, You will open into that stillness when you die. You will [[surrender]] to it with a [[smile]], if you can remember, of course. If not, your forgetting will be short lived. Joy is your destination.

So we come back to our [[discussion]] of forgetting. It has to do with [[faith]], as well. Have faith and your faith will [[grow]]. Stay [[focused]]. The fruits of love are many and will remind you, as well. Continue to [[practice]] the [[stillness]], the more quiet the pond the more [[sunlight]] it [[reflects]] for your eye to see. The stillness practice will enhance your [[memory]], for each time you practice you increase your [[understanding]] of how to live peacefully with your brothers and sisters and you bring this knowledge of the stillness into your world. It is your only refuge.  

 

 

 

 

So we come back to our discussion of forgetting. It has to do with faith, as well. Have faith and your faith will grow. Stay focused. The fruits of love are many and will remind you, as well. Continue to practice the stillness, the more quiet the pond the more sunlight it reflects for your eye to see. The stillness practice will enhance your memory, for each time you practice you increase your understanding of how to live peacefully with your brothers and sisters and you bring this knowledge of the stillness into your world. It is your only refuge.  

===Closing===

===Closing===

Keep on. Thank you.

Keep on. Thank you.