[tmtranscripts] 01-06-01.2 (STB) The Discussion

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GINNY:  How can we help others to live on a more elevated level?  I mean, 
that's putting a judgment on somebody else, you know, we're saying that 
they're not living on an elevated level – but how can we encourage others and 
ourselves, but mainly in dealing with others, to look and live and speak and 
behave on an elevated and more divine level?

TOMAS: Perhaps knowledge resides with your peers.  What contributions have we 
from you who are here?

JAEL: Look to understand where people are coming from in your interacting 
with them, generating light and having them look at their consciousness 
throughout the day.  I've been reading a lot about humor and joy and I know 
that's a big part of healing.  That's what I see.

TOMAS: You are correct.  Children respond well to those they can emulate, and 
certainly we would rather emulate joy than sorrow.  The pattern for your 
world has been to bow down to suffering and exalt it to high art.  And yet it 
is not anything that a child would naturally consider to be wholesome or 
desirable.  What kind of god would ask you to suffer or be unhappy?  But most 
of the world believes, has been taught, that God is very exacting and 
unyielding, but a demonstration of divinity in their midst is a reality which 
cannot be ignored.  It may be the stimuli for a fearful response, but again, 
it is a response and thus a communication, and many people who have been 
taught distrust are going to be reluctant to be open to the joy of living as 
a natural state of being.  Therefore, consistency is illustrative of your 
reality, which is the reality of God.  

When you are of good cheer as a child of God, you are not being ludicrous or 
sarcastic, but genuine in joy, in adventure, and in appreciation of each 
day's new challenges, and it is this kind of an attitude that will speak 
loudly to the child within the men and women, boys and girls who are around 
you, who come in contact with you.  Remember the qualities the Master had in 
his walk on Urantia and rather than attempting to become Him, embrace those 
qualities within yourself such that you, too, can have matchless poise and 
find yourself always having the right response, the seed planted, the love 
revealed, the reality confirmed. 

The best teaching you can do is in being.  You therefore need to be aware of 
yourself and your own imperfections in a far more critical manner than in 
observing the imperfections of those you serve.  

JADA: It seems that observing our own imperfections can lead to humility or 
low self-esteem and I wonder could you clarify it.

TOMAS: I will.  Thank you.  I will clarify because it is not my intent nor 
the intention of other teachers to diminish your value, no, and when it is 
suggested you observe your behaviors critically, it is in an attempt to 
assist you to learn to look at yourself in such a way as to foster your own 
development and self mastery into being all that you can be.  The purpose is 
not to undermine your strength but to help you develop your strength.  Thus, 
when you are urged to look at something, it is not for you to dwell on or 
feel sorry for yourself about, but rather to acknowledge academically, 
objectively, and even patiently and tolerantly, in a full understanding of 
your constantly changing state of being.

When you assess yourself and your reactions or responses to situations in 
life, you will become better at loving yourself in the process and this 
appropriate love for yourself is a reality that will innately grow as you 
grow, disallowing your soirees into depression or your side-trips into 
melancholy.  Consider yourself as a soldier of the circles, and without 
abusing yourself, be disciplined in handling yourself, as the Universal 
Censor might constrain you from speaking cruelly or flippantly and spoiling 
an opportunity to plant a seed in fertile soil.  

Think of yourself also as a field that is being cultivated and in time the 
rocks will be neatly piled along the sidelines, the clumps of earth will have 
been broken up and infused with air and moisture, giving fertile conditions 
to your own soul's development.  In learning to be patient with yourself, you 
automatically are more patient with others.  You are one with your fellows, 
and those who have joy in their hearts are those with whom you need to seek 
to associate.  Keep yourself uplifted until you begin to enjoy happiness more 
than sadness.  Physician heal thyself.

But look to us and each other and Our Father in all Its manifestations, to be 
of service to you.  Thus you will feel a desire to return good for evil and 
you will become an avid minister of all you survey.  Jesus may have said, 
"Jada, Jada, how many times must I tell you?  You are a noble son of God, 
well loved, well beloved and it is expected, anticipated that you will 
rejoice in the know-ledge of your sonship.  Having been born again, born of 
the spirit, why would you yearn to wallow?  Rise up and focus your mind on 
those things over which you have mastery and authority and control.  Is this 
not what makes the mortal feel a sense of solidarity in an otherwise unstable 
and fluctuating state of mind? – in particular, in these early years of 
growth and development in the new milieu of life as a being who is connected 
to the greater realities of the greater universe.  

I use these words to help you stretch your branches out of your little minds, 
to expand your participation in life to include the great beyond, but in 
conveying these great realms of possibility, you must not overlook the 
comfort of companionship and the work of your realm.  Nothing is more 
important than the work of your realm, therefore set out with all your heart 
to do that which your hands and your mind find to do.  Bring joy to yourself 
in service to the Father, and you will bring joy to those you touch as you 
pass by.  Yes.

GINNY: I think that we have grown up with the idea that spiritual things are 
always somber and serious, so if we have too much fun, we're not being 
spiritual, so we kind of keep a lid on our joy.
  
TOMAS: Yes, you are correct, and going back to your initial question/ 
comment, it is not only your personality expression that reflects reality, it 
is also energy that you express that affects/ impacts the environment.  In 
this way many people are gifted at making statements or mouthing sentiments 
that have no substance, for their energy is not in support of what they are 
saying.  So, in contra-distinction to this value, you might respond to your 
environment by deliberately setting yourself aside and apart at a specified 
point in time to give yourself over to an awareness of the spirit.  This 
conscious contact with divinity is, yes, a vortex.  It creates an energy 
stirring and a spirit reality that can afford you a centering experience and 
also infuse the environment with a new energy as an air freshener is able to 
lift the psychic energy of a dank room.

God is powerful.  His very presence is able to alter the atmosphere.  And so 
without a word it is possible for you to change the stage upon which the 
players play.  You have tremendous tools at your disposal.  Creative gifts 
abound in helping you bring the Spirit of Truth to your peers, your fellows, 
your younger brothers and sisters in the flesh, in helping them to enter into 
an awareness of a greater reality, that which will alter all of reality for 
all time.  

Oh, yes, of course, a lot of people are very happy with the reality they've 
got and have no interest in expanding or altering the status quo.  Well, they 
are not your assignment.  They are not fertile soil.  Fling your seeds gaily, 
without judgment, even so.  And let the tares grow with the wheat.  We tend 
to the harvest and the Father will sort the grain.  

Yes, I do intend to invigorate you and inspire you to renew your course.  
(Pause)   I am prompted by Merium to ask "What's for dinner?"  Evidently it 
is time for your next course, in fact.  Let me leave you with my untiring 
devotion to your spirit reality, to your growing souls, to your cherished 
integrity.  Nice to see you all and spend time again in your company.  See 
you soon, children.  Farewell.