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===Topic: ''Assurance, Search for Sustainability''===
===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Elyon]], [[Serena]], [[Malvantra]], [[LIGHT]]===
===TR: [[Mark Rogers]], [[Kathy]], [[Jonathan]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Elyon (Mark TR): Greetings, my dear friends and associates, this is Elyon here to
add a few more thoughts to your thought stream and discussion. Today I would have a few
comments to say on the subject of assurance.
===Lesson===
As you well know in your own lives, having a sense of assurance or conviction is a
necessary aspect of your forward growth momentum. It brings you at times great comfort
to have a certain sense of assurance about such things as who you really are, what you
are really doing in the big game of life, and how you are associated in this game to all
that is. You who have developed the foundation of awareness and understanding have, as a
result of your efforts in this process, gained a certain degree of assurance which
provides you a stable footing to use to venture out and be about this process of growth
and exploring dimensions unknown. This assurance that you have built up over time that
you do in fact have some sense of your position, of your worth, and of the value of this
journey that you are on, this sense of certainty enables you to feel secure in the
actions that you take in life and that they are in fact in accordance with your desires
and goals and the overall plan as you see it. So it can be said that one who has
assurance has a certain conviction which brings them a certain peace of mind as to their
direction and their purpose and, if one has peace of mind about their direction and
purpose, they are secure when it comes time to manifest this purpose and reach out into
areas of uncertainty. The security that you build up goes with you into these areas of
the unknown because you have them as your possession, as part of your being. Once you
well know that you are, for instance, eternally loved by your Creator and eternally
cherished as who you are you are willing to extend yourself and manifest conditions and
experiences that if you were uncertain of these basic principles you might not venture
out to investigate.

Lack of assurance or lack of certainty is stifling and debilitating. because it
means that you are uncertain as to how to proceed. It is the dog chasing his tail round
and round uncertain that you are moving in an appropriate direction, that you are cared
for throughout your process, and that in the end you are not only all right you are quite
well.

This sense of security and certainty is developed over time by your trial and
readjustments as you investigate these defining issues of your foundation and you
assemble beneath you this platform on which you will stand of what you consider your
fundamental basic principles. These provide you the sturdiness from which you may reach
out even further and the security that your footing is sound.

To ones who have not developed this platform of awareness they may find themselves
unable to proceed or fear that they may err or that they are somehow in jeopardy or
danger by venturing into the unknown not having the security of a solid platform to
venture from. You see this in your civilization in your family lives. Those children
who are reared in families which are loving and nurturing environments and which
reinforce the idea of self worth and value to their little ones provide this foundation
from which these little ones may be bold enough to venture out with the assurance that
they are loved, they are cared for, there is a support network behind them on which they
may depend. These children will reach far and will go far and will truly take advantage
of the classroom at hand.

Other children who are less fortunate and do not have this solid base of
understanding and foundation will for the rest of their lives function from a place of
uncertainty, of doubt, lack of assurance and therefor lack of conviction that they are
indeed proceeding in any sort of proper direction or that they have any basis behind them
for support. So many times they will simply cease to act, cease to take any forward
steps for fear of its unknown effects, ramifications. They lack the assurance, the
confidence, that comes from this foundation of basic assumptions that they are children
of divine creators who are cherished beyond their capacity to understand and that they
are safe in all their endeavors given these basic truths and understandings.

So it is that we as teachers on our side of the veil constantly strive to provide
you with some sense of assurance, not only of your connection to us and the reality that
this is so, but of your greater connection to your divine parents, to your Creator. This
ultimate assurance that you seek is most profoundly demonstrated in your connection of
your inner guide. When you are brought assurance through this channel or avenue of
connection it is with a profound sense, and once having encountered such profound
assurance there is removed all doubt as to its validity or your connection to its
validity. This is the value of regular stillness exercise, for assurance is sought and
required and received from many different sources. You receive assurance from each other
in your discussion. You receive assurance from your association with the brotherhood of
man, and you also may receive assurance from within that is not conditioned by your
receiving it from another mortal of the realm. You will all grant the validity of this
statement that, when you have received your internal confirmations, they are indeed
profound and strike to the very core of your being because your inner guide knows you the
best and is aware of your needs, your desires, and your given state of receptivity at any
time. Therefore when you seek in stillness the assurance and it is forthcoming, it
registers at a very deep level in your being, far more profound and significant than any
surface reassurance that you may receive from your peers or associates. Once having
received this assurance it is yours; it is part of your foundation.

So I recognize within you all that you have spent much time working on this
foundation of assurance of your basic ideas about basic principles, even about your
individual ideals. These are the factors that once cemented into place provide you with
firm footing, a place to stand and reach from. We sometimes refer to you building
scaffolds on which you grow higher and higher in your awareness level by simply focusing
on the next level in your project of building this platform. After some effort and time
you may look down and notice that you have achieved new heights as a result of putting
more and more foundation beneath you on which to stand.

It is always a pleasure to join you in your conversation. I am deeply respectful
for the opportunity that you present for this purpose, and I would now step aside to
allow this platform for others as well. Thank you for hearing my words.

Serena (Kathy): In the search for sustainability of systems on this planet there
are aspects to consider. The aspect of growth has to be assessed in a manner that allows
for a perception of progress without overwhelming the resources available. As you become
more cognizant of the principles of sustainability, you will see a pattern that develops
in sustainable systems. The perception of progress has been an underlining part of
economic activities in the recent past. In a sustainable system the measurement of
progress may need to shift to a level that can be maintained. Your part in forming a new
framework for progress will involve your own planning and concept of comfort and
necessity. What is viewed in our current society as necessary may need modification to a
level that can be shared by all. This does not mean that hope for better conditions is
extinguished; it may mean that a rethinking of “necessity” will bring a volunteer
reduction to a simpler level such as cleaning of your home of unnecessary objects can
create an environment of freedom and space to grow in new directions.

In a larger picture, the reduction of excess in our consumption may lead to a
feeling of security and peace that has been missing recently, as the search for more and
more material objects has led to a feeling of unrest and dissatisfaction with life in
general. As focus has shifted from the material things of life, the space will be open
for deeper relationships with people around us as well as a deeper relationship with our
Creator and the universe around us. This will lead to a great inner peace and serenity
in the individual as well as the group as a whole. A true brotherhood of man will expand
on this world as adjustments are made in the individual. It all begins with a rethinking
of what is needed for a good life on this world.

Malvantra (Jonathan): My greetings to you, this is Malvantra. I will speak about
acceptance, for it is a value that is currently a lesson for Urantia, as your world
shrinks through its connectivity and enlarges in its scope.

Picture if you will a container and fill it with very fine sand. If that container
is rigid as is an urn of clay or a steel bucket, that fine sand will adjust and conform
to the shape. If we consider the sand to be truth and the container to be one’s
understanding of the truth, then you will recognize that all peoples are encountering
truth and contain it in their own manners. This is true with spirit or spirituality and
religion.

Now one may ask, what if in that fine sand there existed several rocks, quite large.
Within the rigid container viewing it from outside you would see no difference. In a
flexible container such as a sack you might notice a bulge as that rock does not conform
to the shape of the container but rather the container to the shape of the contents. In
the search for truth you may see a boulder and consider it not the truth. If your
philosophy is rigid as a pail you may not ever recognize the error. If your philosophy
is adjustable you will note that error and may be alerted to extract it or perhaps in
this metaphorical analogy to grind it to sand.

When you look upon another you see the container. In some you immediately recognize
the contents; in others it is opaque, yet within it’s still the same. If you break the
integrity of the shell that contains the truth of another you create a leak. It is best
to accept the framework within which another holds the truth, to disregard that form by
which they possess and rather to express what you contain within, for one container may
pour into another quite easily. Jesus said, “You will know the truth and the truth will
set you free.” He also said, “Do not put new wine in old wineskins.” And he did not
say, “You shall know the doctrines and the doctrines will set you free”, for the
doctrines are the containers.

Groups of humankind do find camaraderie and acceptance of one another most often in
the form of nesting baskets where the shapes are similar enough to be acceptable. But
there are also those who can reach beyond the familiar, if I may continue with the
analogy, as would a plastic bag within a steel container. It can adjust and come to
understand the other’s position. Now the acceptance may not be mutual, for a rigid
container within a soft plastic bag may cause damage even though it is embraced.

Elyon spoke of assurance. This assurance is regarding the content within any given
container. Some of you have gone from rigid containers to a more flexible one and have
enjoyed the adaptability that offers and see that it is good and well. Others have gone
from leaky sacks, the holes too large to contain and transport the truth received; it
gets lost continually, and you have moved on to a firm, solid container and see that as
good and well.

Truth is like your perception of time. You may perceive time as a vast expanse of
eternity. You may see it as a momentary instant. You may see truth as infinitesimal
grains of sand or as one universally large boulder. You know of your past and your
future, but you also understand the inability to live in either state, and this is so
with truth. You may attempt to retain all truth within yourself, but alas, it is the
truth of the instant that is bearing on your life and your consciousness. This does not
disregard the validity of prior states of truth awareness any more than you would say
that the gasoline spent in your vehicle yesterday was worthless but the gas of this
moment is the best. Each individual will fill himself with the truth as it is best
absorbed, and that truth will modify that the soul will be uplifted. In the growth of
the soul the truth will adjust and the soul will adjust that both come into a harmonic
resonance. You know of the truth that is within yourself. Accept the truth that is in
another. The two are shaped differently, but that is merely your contain-ability of that
truth. Remember that while you may wish to pour your grains into the container of
another, and sometimes this is beneficial, far greater is the pouring of the grains of
truth from the God of all, the unbounded, uncontained, absolute truth.

May I return to my comment of the truth setting you free? This freedom is the
experience of the adaptability of truth. It is the understanding that if you wish to
mold truth into a shape you may do so. It is the freedom to allow the truth to not have
any shape whatsoever also. The freedom that truth sets you into is the freedom to make
your own stand for truth, to be bold enough to acclaim the validity of your experience of
that truth. And it is also a freedom that is your own right; no longer must you possess
another’s truth; it is your personal experience, and it may be acquired in any manner,
not necessarily A through Z. While all of you, while you ascend to Paradise, will
eventually have A through Z, you may accumulate in many different ways. While your
fellows may only have L, M, N, and O and you D, E, and F, you both are working towards
the fullness of truth, and this is the manner in which you may accept one another, and
this is the freedom you have to experience the reality of God in the manifestation of
truth.

I thank you.

Light (Mark): I am humbled to greet you as well, I am Light here once again to
shine some more light into the discussion. In working with these thought frames and this
idea of assurance we may see light as fitting into this discussion in perhaps the
following context.

If you are secure and comfortable and embracing much content of truth then you are
said to be lifted up in brilliance. It is noted that you are lighter and brighter the
more you gather to yourselves this sense of purpose, awareness, and ultimate conviction.
As you become lighter and brighter in this process this luminescence which is part of
your constitution helps you to dispel areas of uncertainty ... with the bright
luminescence ... oppressive because it is uncertain and unknown and lingers in darkness,
to another may be exposed and illuminated by one who brings with them this light of
assurance. Or having this internal assurance means that you are a carrier of this light,
and as it goes with you throughout your experience, those things in proximity to you
simply become illuminated. Where there is no darkness there is no fear of the unknown
and uncertainty does not dominate you to the point of inaction. Rather it is as though
you wear a headlamp, and everywhere you choose to direct your gaze there is light there
with you. No matter how many times you turn your head to refocus your gaze, there is the
light. This light you have brought with you is your assurance that all that is out there
is in fact a friendly place to simply be illuminated, not a fearful and dark and unknown
place because you are groping from a position of insecurity and uncertainty yourself.
Wherever you are there is the light. Wherever you are your truth is there.

So you may be confident of never being caught in the dark, never being subjected to
the oppressive conditions of uncertainty and fear that being left in the dark presents.
Rather carry with you this assurance as your headlamp knowing it will illuminate the way
of your choosing. So it is it naturally and effortlessly dispels the dark and uncertain
places and illuminates them for what they truly are, and then they may be gathered to you
as these grains of sand more easily and readily in this process.
===Closing===
Thank you for allowing me to shine a little more light in context. Farewell.

[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: N. Idaho TeaM]]
[[Category: Elyon]]
[[Category: Serena]]
[[Category: Malvantra]]
[[Category: LIGHT]]
[[Category: Mark Rogers]]
[[Category: Kathy]]
[[Category: Jonathan]]
[[Category: Assurance]]
[[Category: 2009]]

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