As long as you keep your consciousness centered, as long as you keep yourself free of expectations, of opinions of what should or should not be taking place, and as long as you let your experiences flow into you, you are lifting. At that point, no matter who you are with, or where you are, you will be moving forward on your path.
– John-Roger (From: The Way Out Book, p. 55)
When you get the vision of freedom as your goal, you can really start breaking through your dilemmas. As long as you don’t know where you’re going, you may break the immediate thing that is causing you pain without breaking the underlying dilemma. As soon as you can break through the underlying dilemma, all the others will start collapsing. Even if there are a lot of dilemmas to come, they’ll be easier to handle once that first big one is completely broken. All you really have to do is handle each one as it comes into your consciousness. If you try to rush into them, you might create more dilemmas. Don’t seek them. Just let them come to you naturally, if they will.
You’re never given anything you can’t handle — that’s a spiritual dictum. As a new dilemma presents itself, you have the strength to handle it. There’s never a loss. As soon as you have strength you can’t use, it becomes a dilemma of what to do with your strength, your talent, your ability. Then the dilemma of frustration is upon you. You can handle all situations and overcome your dilemmas by moving to your center and pulling forward a universal strength.
As soon as you move out to your periphery, you lose awareness of that center and that strength. You become confused and unsure and ask, “What should I do?” You think maybe you should do this, or maybe you should do that and there begins a dilemma. It is not necessary. Hold to your center. Maintain your center. Use everything that comes to you as grace. You’ll build your strength that way.
