(03-17-2014, 11:01 AM)Bring4th_GLB Wrote: Hi Icaro, would it make sense to change the word "only" to "most efficiently" in that sentence?
I don't think so, due to what you said about the difficulty you describe. I see will, which could also be described as strength or perseverance, as being hard to develop without experience.
To use a general root example, I think we all would agree that sexual energy needs to be shared more freely here. It's something we can talk about philosophically and understand, yet I'm sure we've all encountered that dreadful sinking feeling of finding out that someone you're interested in is also sleeping with someone else. Yet by working with the catalyst over time, you can eventually get to a place where encountering that in the future becomes ok..because of course love should be able to be freely shared. So it's one thing to have a "polarized" thought about something, but putting it into practice is something else entirely. The latter is development of will, which can only nurtured through interaction.
So I would say that experience is the greatest teacher, capable of determining whether or not one can give freely to their reflection. "Thus, each may aid each by reflection."
Quote:I highlight "all-sufficient" here to bring attention to the allness of self that does not precisely "need" other selves. Perhaps it is as Tolle discusses suffering: suffering is needed only till it is realized that suffering is not needed. Likewise with the reflections offered by other selves?
I think Ra is mostly referencing the ability of one to produce happiness within in the absence of support from another. But yes certain reflections (experience encountered) should fall away once they're no longer needed. In 61.6 though there is reference to a withdrawal from the natural functions in relation to another as possibly being imbalanced towards a love of self. So in the grand scheme of things, one may not need others, but with all the suffering in the world, others need help in general ways.
Quote:In the sense I described in my previous post, *all* things are "within", so to speak, including the dance between selves of the same density. I don't necessarily intend "going within" to mean literally or figuratively stepping into a cave and avoiding people like mountain lions. Rather, seeing that all things, including and especially relationship with others, happens within ones awareness; and in that respect it is only by going within and seeking the source of that awareness (motivated by the fuel that other selves provide the process) that realization of self results.
Or something like that.
I love seeing the fruit of working with others as a "jewel". Thanks for reintroducing that thought back into the brain. : )
We agree