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.
– John-Roger  (From: The Way Out Book, p. 54-55)
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.
Lack of familiarity in a new situation can be the cause of a dilemma. Imagine a caveman in a modern kitchen; he’s very, very thirsty, so that whether or not he can find water becomes a matter of life and death. In the kitchen is a sink with faucets which could provide clear running water if he were aware of how to turn them on. But the caveman doesn’t know about that. He just knows he is in a strange, unfamiliar situation, dying of thirst, and he must get water.
You’re never given anything
