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Urantia, December, 11, 2016.
Teacher: The Beloved One.
Subject: “The Art of Listening.”
Message received by Lytske.
The Beloved One: “Let us begin today with the topic of listening. This is a most difficult skill or art to master, especially inward listening to Spirit, because usually listening is done superficially. Most people listen but the words seem to often ‘go in one ear and out the other,’ because of the habit of un-focused listening. Listening is a skill-full art that can be cultivated and refined by the one who truly attempts to listen. It has everything to do with focusing and the level of intent.
“Outward listening is often shallow and meaningless; the reason for this can also be a sort of protection because of the cacophony of too many empty words on this planet, which are often carelessly and thoughtlessly spoken and as a result, the hearer develops a ‘deaf ear,’ which can be a subconscious protection from too much noise.
“All too often, when someone speaks, the other is already busy formulating an answer in his or her mind because of wanting to respond before the speaker is finished. Therefore, the speaker gets interrupted by the impatience of the one, who can’t wait to have a say. Also, at times there is a fine line as some speakers repeat themselves and don’t know how to end a conversation.
“Actually, the listening I desire for you to pay attention to is the inner listening which is even more difficult as this art discerns the true motive and contend behind the spoken word and your learning to ‘read between the lines’ so to speak and to ‘feel with the heart’ the words which are not being spoken. In this manner discernment can take place as to what lives in the other person's heart with which one has the conversation.
“Listening is an artistic skill that can be refined when more wisdom and discernment is being mastered. Of course the ultimate listening skill you can develop is by paying full attention to my words. It is oh-so-easy to come between with your own thoughts, pre-opinions and belief systems, especially when you sincerely doubt, whether it is I, who speaks or if they are the ruminations of your own mind. In times to come you will know who it is that speaks from within.
“You can begin by asking yourself these questions: ‘Have I been uplifted while being in the presence of my Thought Adjuster, whom I call my Beloved?’ ‘Am I feeling Loved and is my own love towards others increasing?’ ‘Am I feeling more secure in myself and have I a calmer demeanor?’
“If you can answer these in the affirmative, you will then know that you are on the ‘right track,’ and if others chide you and say that it is not possible to hear the Small Voice within, it is because they have not recognized Me within them yet or have not yet developed the required depth of listening, so My words do not resonate within them and therefore they presume to pass judgment because of this lack of recognition in their own hearts.
“Continue to learn and listen to my voice, stay focused and pay close attention as I am leading you deeper into yourself.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
I am the satisfaction of your Soul – The Beloved One.
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Oregon, US of A, December 12, 2016.
Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “Ascend and Transcend.”
Message received by Anyas.
“We find God through the leadings of spiritual insight, but we approach this insight of the soul through the love of the beautiful, the pursuit of truth, loyalty to duty, and the worship of divine goodness.” [UB2076:05]
Thought Adjuster: “Dear child, we are a match made in Heaven. Isn’t this the most amazing fact to ponder pertaining to your life and to the life of your many planetary siblings? Doesn’t it convey to you a sense of the magnitude of the Father’s Love for each one of His children? The mere contemplation of this fact of life should greatly ‘appreciate’ the value you confer on your life.
“Our eternal partnership is the Divine Promise made to you at the time of My coming to indwell you. I did not chose you lightly as I am looking forward to an eternal relationship — not one of the type ‘till death us part.’
“I dwell within you and partake of your every living moment — as a mere Observer, or as a more involved Partner. You are the one deciding to which level you take our relationship as I am patiently waiting for you to initiate each step. As I witness your touching efforts to include Me in your life, I come out of what is perceived by you to be My hiding place — My aloofness.
“I am far from being an illusion — a figment of your imagination. I am not the one who is elusive as I am 100% committed to bring you back with Me to the glory of Paradise. Yet, My own longings are not enough as it takes two to get there. Paradise is not a place where the Father’s children are dragged kicking and screaming. Rather, it is a place of incommensurable attraction, meant to fully quench the longings of any soul.
“As you strive to ascend toward those absolute spiritual realities, you simultaneously bring them down into your own being by increasingly embodying them. You could compare that process to the one of calibrating the lens of a camera so as to get a much sharper image.
“A camera can zoom in on a specific objective, while at the same time drowning in blurriness the rest of the panorama. This is what happens when human beings are over focusing on their physical reality at the expense of its spiritual counterpart. My job as your Thought ‘Adjuster’ is to help you adjust your mental focus so as to get a sharper image of your eternal destiny.
“As we cultivate our relationship, as you adjust your life’s decisions to the divine criteria of Truth, Beauty and Goodness, you get to increasingly relish the moments we share in our little piece of Heaven — the haven of peace within you. This is a small foretaste of the unspeakable feelings of bliss and elation you will get to experience once we reach our coveted Paradise destination.
“Dear ones, use each day as yet another opportunity to fine tune your being so that it can be receptive to the many gifts that Spirit will deliver to you — one by one — as you manifest the ability to appreciate them and multiply them. You are so blessed and yet so few among you live with this awareness and fail to actively express their gratitude to the Giver. You are children of promise—the promise the Father made to you that you will one day stand in His Presence on Paradise. You won’t be magically teleported there. Rather, you will get there on your own merits as you undergo your metamorphosis from a mere animal-origin human being to a godlike personality who has fully transcended its animal nature.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
No matter what the question is, the answer is always Love.
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Alabama, US of A, September 10, 2012.
Teacher: Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “About Potentials.”
Message received by Oscar.
Thought Adjuster: “Each one of you is free to choose the life you want to live. The only commandment is to be perfect as your Father is heaven is perfect. Beyond that, the possibilities and choices available to a human being are practically infinite. However, those who choose to live the will of the Father are in fact choosing a stimulating and plentiful life, full of opportunities for growth and progress, because the plan of the Father is a program of study designed to help you become more perfect each day.
“Those who start to discover the hidden potential within begin to feel the inspiration to explore certain tasks that are adequate to each individual’s personality and talents. It is possible that you start to think about trying something you have never been exposed to in the past, something for which you may need to prepare investing a lot of commitment and time, but sooner or later your talent for this task will become evident.
“Human beings somehow have a confused idea about talent. A person is considered talented when she can accomplish certain task with great ease, without requiring a lot of instruction. Examples are those ‘virtuosi’ that can play and compose beautiful melodies with minimal musical instruction. But is the person who practices for a decade or more in order to reach the same level less talented? Time is not a factor for human talent nor is the place where you start. The important thing is where you end up and the achievements your effort and your consistency produce.
“Do not consider as a waste the time invested in exploring those things your feel inspired to engage in. Maybe because of your current job, or your present duties, you can only allocate a few minutes every few days to a task of self-exploration and growth, but every effort towards the attainment of perfection always produces results and every little step you take with the intent of living the will of your Father will bring you closer to your destiny.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
Faith is just curiosity tinged with hope — Thought Adjuster.
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Illawarra District, Australia, December 27, 2016.
The Damascus Scribe (Sananda).
Subject: “The Poverty of Language and the Thought Adjuster.”
Message received by George Barnard.
The Scribe: “The great knowledge and wonderful space-time experiences you will engender for yourself on the morontia worlds and beyond are such that you will need to learn a new language with each forward and upward move. Morontia living will require you to grasp the remarkable efficiency and the deepest of meanings of the morontia tongues.
“The good news is that you will have the unhurried time to learn them, as well as having the Teachers to teach you these languages. However, at each new world, most importantly, you will have the so much sharper mind endowments to keep up with these languages, so created to be expressive of the newer, more complex and accurate meanings and explicit values.
“What will really surprise you, as it does every pilgrim working his or her way to Paradise, is that Truth is relative to what individual world languages, be they morontial or spiritual, will allow you to ascertain. Indeed, truth is accurate only to the degree there is an appropriate language in which a truth can be explained. Your question as to how to name your Thought Adjuster is an excellent example here to be answered. Your Urantia languages are simply too inadequate to do justice to the Thought Adjuster.
“Personalities are either a ‘he’ or a ‘she,’ even the immature and newly-born is so distinguished. Almost everything else is classed as ‘it.’ However, Thought Adjusters are neither male, nor female but neither are they immature nor newly-born. They simply do not compare to anything else you daily come across and class as an ‘it.’
“The term, ‘It,’ even with a capital ‘I’ is inappropriate as the Thought Adjuster is a true Fragment of the Creator of All — a true Particle of the perfect, almighty, all-knowing, all-loving eternal God — the Universe Guide you need if you wish to live forever. The Thought Adjuster demands respect far beyond merely being called an ‘It.’
“One option you have is to call your Thought Adjuster a ‘He’ for the fact that He hails from the Creator of All — the Father. Another choice would be to call this Gift from the Creator of All a ‘He’ if you are a male — a ‘She’ if you are a female.
“Take good note of this, My student, for it is truly heart-warmingly delightful to the Thought Adjuster to be reminded of your eventual fusion with this Gift from God. Now take some time in Stillness Meditation to consider your friendship with this essential Pilot and His task in these, the most treacherous waters of your life.
“I am the Scribe. Always, always count on me.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
My Gift to you is for you to be of service to Me — Christ Michael.
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Oregon, US of A, December 4, 2016.
Teacher: Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “The Feeding of the Soul.”
Message received by Anyas.
Thought Adjuster: “You were just now reading in the Urantia Book about the manifold revelations of Truth: “...whether by direct personal ministry of the Spirit of Truth, by the world bestowal of divine Sons, or through the revelations of the written word.” [UB Paper 101, Section 2]
“The fact that the ministry of the Spirit of Truth is a ‘personal’ ministry hit home with you. It once more made you realize that none among you is ever considered being generic by your Divine Parents. You are not meant to receive a ‘one size fits all’ type of spiritual education that fails to meet all of your individual needs for knowledge and enlightenment.
“You may acquire your ‘elementary’ education by being dispensed the basic knowledge that pertains to the spiritual skeleton of your being—as all of you have been created equal in that sense. Yet, once a solid frame of reference has been put into place, your ‘personal’ development takes priority, based on your unique personality and individual spiritual needs.
“Your Indwelling Divine Fragment is constantly monitoring your thought processes and, whenever you establish an adequate receptivity to His leadings, He trades His Observer Position for the more active one of Private Tutor and thus provides you with many valuable insights and precious spiritual Guidance. In His loving ministry, He as well fully collaborates with the very personal ministries of both, the Spirit of Truth and Its Consort—the Holy Spirit.
“They may expose you to some textbooks—the revelations of the written word—just as a teacher will assign some specific academic materials as teaching and visual aids. Yet, as you well know, Truth is not static and becomes very quickly stale when imprisoned between the cover of a book. This is the reason why teaching books have to be frequently revised and updated based on new discoveries. Would you rather have as a health practitioner an ‘old school’ MD who was trained decades ago and considers that his education was completed then? Or would you search for a practitioner who keeps up with new medical developments and keeps improving his skills? The answer is a no brainer.
“Indeed, textbooks can be great catalysts for enhanced thinking as they introduce to your mind some thought patterns you may not have been exposed to so far and that are needed to stimulate your grey matter and contribute to your ever expanding awareness of the overall reality you live in—beyond the mere physical realm.
“The third category of Truth Revealer agents you benefit from are incarnated divine Sons, who are visible representatives in the flesh of the Father—Glorified Teachers who come to contribute giant spiritual leaps in the whole planetary evolution. They, too, are undeniable proof of the Father’s Love for His children: When the children are not yet able to ascent to His level, the Father lowers Himself to their level through the physical embodiment of His Sons. This is what occurred on your planet over 2000 years ago through the very personal and hands-on ministry of your Master Jesus.
“How then could anyone claim abandonment? Isn’t it time to accept the established fact of the Father’s Love for all His Offspring? Indeed, on the threefold foundation of these various forms of revelation, you are constantly privy to tasty tidbits of Truth.
“And true revelation never renders science unnatural, religion unreasonable, or philosophy illogical... Thus does revelation successfully bridge the gulf between the material and the spiritual, even between the creature and the Creator, between man and God.” [UB Paper 101]
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
No matter what the question is, the answer is always Love.