[tmtranscripts] North Idaho Team 07/17/05

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Reflections on the Common Ground Event, Happiness
Teachers: Elyon

July 17, 2005

*	Elyon (Jonathan  TR):  Greetings, this is Elyon.  I will 
open our contact today by thanking you for your energy given, 
the extension of yourselves toward many who gathered with you to 
make this past event successful.  I know that in your hearts you 
are always looking for an opportunity to be of service and to do 
so in a context which includes the spiritual dimension.  This 
occasion that you developed provided a multitude of 
opportunities to extend yourselves, from the most basic but 
necessary to the profound and sublime.
	You are better aware of the requirements in a functional 
sense for reaching others in the future.  This will be of great 
benefit to you, for no degree of planning can ever reveal the 
practical requirements.  Having many personalities engaged 
interjects considerations which are unforeseen by a planning 
committee.  The recognition of requirement, those events which 
must occur, and the allowance for the interjection of 
spontaneity are harmonizable when you are experienced as you 
have been with a function of this sort.
	In an amphitheater there are many places to sit and 
observe.  There is a platform upon which a directed and planned 
presentation may occur.  But each seat is occupied by a freewill 
individual and every one of them has an experience that is not 
simply a reaction to the presentation.  It is a melding of each 
one’s orientation, their desire for fulfillment, their desire 
for increased realization, their desire for entertainment, and 
the content of the planned event.  While there is a factor of 
wholeness, of an experience of entirety as a collective, no 
individual sees that grand experience.  That is the property of 
the Supreme.  Each one develops their own contribution, a unique 
context, which meshes with and contributes to the whole event.  
These individual experiences are priceless, extremely valuable.
	You have offered the opportunity for many souls to make 
that contribution within themselves to the enlarging brotherhood 
of all creatures in time and space.  Few are the celestial 
personalities who make such grand contributions.  Each one of 
us, myself included, makes minuscule contributions, apparently 
small in quantity, equally large in quality.  You have done 
well, and you have learned well, and we teachers will support 
you in furthering your effort to reach others.
	I wish to speak about happiness.  Happiness is not a state 
of being; it is a function.  It is as the flow of a river, as 
current in electricity.  When it is spoken that one seeks 
happiness, one is viewing happiness as an object,  a place to 
go.  In reality the seeking of happiness is merely the need to 
throw the switch to make the connection, to open the dam and let 
the currents flow.  When such a connection is made then is the 
feeling of being blessed, of being engaged in purpose, of being 
filled with joy; the sense of being precisely where you wish to 
be, need to be, and want to be.
	When a flood occurs water seems to go everywhere.  It is 
unrestricted in flow because of volume.  The greater the volume, 
the less restriction of where it may spread.  So is happiness.  
The more you make the connection with spirit to matter, to your 
terrestrial life, the more opportunity for the flow of joy and 
happiness.  The greater the volume, the greater the amount of 
daily events that are happy.  Difficulty and suffering are 
submerged; they do not disappear, they are submerged.  They 
still must be dealt with as one swimming a stream navigates 
around rapids.  The higher the flow, the easier the course to 
take.
	You have spent years increasing your aperture, making 
yourself experientially aware that everything you do contributes 
to your well-being as a child of God.  Each activity is 
intimately associated with your personality.  The presence of 
your being determines the spiritual value of that activity.  
Therefore with right attitude all your engagements become sacred 
opportunities.  Every undertaking is identical to entering the 
sanctuary, to bow at the feet of the Lord.
	Thank you for receiving my thoughts for consideration.  I 
wish to receive you into conversation.

	Jada:  You spoke of quality and quantity; we didn’t reach 
many people this weekend but the few that we did was a very high 
quality experience for them and for us, too.

*	Elyon:  I am pleased that you have recognized that value, 
and I interject that this is proving to be beneficial that you 
were not thronged by many people, for this event is your initial 
undertaking, and the quantity of attendees was sufficient for 
training.  Quantity of attendees does not increase the quality 
of the experiences.

	Mary:  I felt we were undertaking this event for others, 
yet I found so much in it was wonderful for me.  I recall a 
session one evening when Michael said to look for the greatest 
changes within.  I’ve been experiencing that I am taking so much 
away from this experience.  I feel surprised and in the wonder 
of it all, the quality with so few people was profound, not just 
as a service project going out but how much came back.

	Evelyn:  What distinction are you making between happiness 
and joy?  You spoke of joy recently as the outward expression of 
the peace within.  Happiness sounds like an attitude; maybe I’m 
missing something.

*	Elyon:  The three words I have expressed: joy, peace, and 
happiness, are interconnected.  I spoke of peace as a retiring 
joy and joy as an expressive, exuberant peace.  Happiness is the 
movement; it is the velocity of the other two.  When joy moves 
one feels happy.  When peace is experienced one feels happy.  I 
spoke of joy and peace as two sides of the same coin.  Happiness 
is the passing of that coin,  the transfer.
	I will add another comment.  Each of you has talents.  They 
are present due to your personality and your acquirement of 
experience.  But when a talent is expressed it turns into a 
skill.  A skill is the outworking, is the functioning, of a 
talent which may in itself lay passive for years.  When you 
develop the ability to express a talent, you acquire skill.  
Skill is the activation, and so it is with happiness.  It is the 
activation of joy or peace.  I hope this helps.

	Evelyn:  Yes, thank you.

	Mary:  I want to express my gratitude to you for being our 
teacher for all these years.  I am contented to look back over 
the years we have spent together seeing all the changes.  It’s 
been a joy.  Your part is much appreciated.  Thank you for being 
there all this time.  I look forward to the future.

*	Elyon:  I speak for all my associates when I return my 
gratitude to you for your dedication, for your devotion.  You 
have created opportunities continually for our contact.  You 
have boldly stepped forward to let others of your kind know of 
our availability.  Your faith has gone beyond simply seeking for 
yourself, but also to make available such contact for others who 
may have never considered such an opportunity.  We have been 
through much together.  We have struggled in coming to terms 
with accuracy.  We have been overjoyed to see a lesson received 
and applied and even transformed into a possession.  No teacher 
could be more satisfied than to observe that in one’s student.  
We will be spending much more time together as you are willing 
and I am present.

	Tom:  There’s a triangle there, joy and peace and happiness 
when action was taken.  Maybe the same thing with the skill and 
the talent, when that was activated happiness was the end 
result.  Maybe those two triangles share a common corner, I 
don’t know.

*	Elyon:  I accept your observation.  It is the activation 
that these two share.  It is in the doing that one more fully 
experiences one’s being.  Peace you may have all by yourself.  
Joy encompasses all.  Happiness is the experience of each event, 
numerous as they are.  This is why you can feel joy even when 
troubled.  You may not be happy at the time, but joy overlays 
all things in your life.
	I will release us from our session.  I share love with you 
and I repeat the words of our Sovereign Son when I say, be of 
good cheer.  Farewell.

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