Spiritual progression is a continual process of leaving behind the old, familiar patterns and venturing into the new. When you’re working with a spiritual teacher, you’ll feel that it’s like taking a trip with a good friend whom you trust and who knows the road.
Then the whole trip can become an adventure because you know where you’re going and how to get there. There is no dilemma except as you create it. When you work with the Mystical Traveler, you might ask yourself if you place your dilemma between you and the Mystical Traveler and the love that is present. Once you tune to the Mystical Traveler and his love, all dilemmas disappear and strength is present.
– John-Roger (From: The Way Out Book, p. 61)
The fact that ignorance can be perpetrated in this way does not mean you should blame your parents for your dilemmas. For the most part, dilemmas are self-created. Even if instigated by someone else, it is you who allows the dilemma to take control of your consciousness. Through awareness and understanding, all dilemmas can be dissolved.There is nothing that can bind you unless you allow it within your consciousness. Everyone has the potential of freedom within his or her own consciousness.
When you’re traveling across the country in a car, you are in a state of constant change. You don’t have to get out of balance, upset or disturbed because the scenery is changing. Similarly, parts of your life pattern will always be in a state of change. That’s just the way it’s set up. You don’t have to get out of balance when things change for you.
As you’re traveling across country, you may modify your responses as you come into new territory. When you get up into the Colorado Rockies, you may wear heavier clothing because it may be cooler. In the high altitude, you won’t get out and run up a hill very fast. You’ll go a little slower and take care of yourself. If you remember how fast you could run in the mountains at age eighteen and then try to do that at age forty-five, you have a dilemma going. This is the dilemma of a lot of ‘‘weekend athletes.” They remember the athletic ability of eighteen and try to duplicate it, and they end up with physical difficulties. Other middle-aged men who were good athletes when they were young try to live off past glories, continually talking about their past accomplishments, which tend to become “greater” as the years go by. Either approach can be a dilemma. The best approach is simply to live in the now, do the best you can with present abilities and talents and let your actions speak for themselves. That takes understanding. That takes awareness. It also takes love and respect for self. With it comes freedom, a sense of self-worth and an inner security and serenity that is worth everything. The only permanent solution to any dilemma is God. And God already IS.
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