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Théun Mares Gives Guidance on Listening and Denial

Dear Members of the UK & NA Forums,

Looking at the most recent emails, but specifically those from the UK Forum, I feel it is important that I give some overall and general guidance.

The most vociferous one amongst you has been told by more than one member to shut up! LOL! But it is not so much a question of having to shut-up. It is instead a question of taking the time to REFLECT upon and then to ABSORB the guidance given. This is the only way in which we can really learn.

Yet this guidance is for ALL of you! Please take the time to READ properly, without defensiveness, and without always wanting to prove yourselves right, or prove whatever point it is you are wanting to make. As I have pointed out before, what difference does it make who is right and who is wrong? The ONLY important thing is to co-operate intelligently towards uncovering new knowledge, most importantly, about YOURSELVES! With respect to this, look at it like this:

If I know for a fact that I am right, meaning that I know from EXPERIENCE that my knowledge is correct, but someone decides to challenge me on my point of view, because of the fact that our two views stem from differences in knowledge, I would be a fool not to stand firm in my knowledge. But the question is, how to do this?

As a warrior I am ALWAYS willing to be open. Why? Simply because I want to LEARN; I want to gain more personal power. If I am only ever wanting to prove to everyone around me that my knowledge is superior to theirs I will learn nothing new about MYSELF!!! Therefore I LISTEN to the other person with every fibre of my being AND I look at that person in terms of being a MIRROR for me. I can afford to do this and not feel inadequate, or attacked, or defensive, or uncertain, BECAUSE I have enough BELIEF in myself and my knowledge not to be brought off-balance by what the other person is pointing out or saying to me. By doing this I not only listen to the face value of what the other person is trying to say, but I try with everything I’ve got to grasp what lies BEYOND the face value of the words. In this way I can and do hear CLEARLY.

This is not always easy to do, especially not when being criticised or receiving negative feedback. And yet if I am wanting to learn then I HAVE to remain open and defenseless. If, after having listened fully and without all that internal chatter that comes about because of wanting to be defensive, I find that there is value in what the other person has said to me, then I would be an utter fool not to take on board what has been said to me. But if, on the other hand, I find that the other person has nothing of value to offer me I have two options open to me. If that person is of no concern to me I will decide in the moment whether or not there is anything to be gained from pointing out to that person his/her folly. But in doing so there is no need for me to have to prove to that person that I AM right. I will simply state my case and leave it at that. In other words, such a battle is not worth my while to fight.

However, if I care about that person, I will attempt to guide that person towards achieving his/her OWN clarity on the issue at hand, but at the same time taking CARE to express to that person my genuine willingness to co-operate with him/her towards both of us gaining from the interaction. In this respect I will ONLY become firm, or fierce, for that matter, IF it is clear that the other person is NOT wanting to listen, and is only acting in defense of his/her view of the world. But if I am forced to become ruthless I do so only because I genuinely care enough about that person not to allow him/her to keep on indulging in folly that is clearly doing him/her no good. In other words, my ruthlessness is not because I am wanting to prove myself right. My ruthlessness is an attempt to help the other person break out of their view of the world, no matter what it takes. This is the true meaning of unconditional love.

With respect to all of the above, I am sure most of you know the old story of the nine men encountering an elephant in the dark. Each one of these men discover a different part of the elephant’s anatomy and each one describes to the others what it is he feels he has found. Needless to say, all nine of them believe they have found something completely different to what the others have found. Yet none of them realise that they are all merely describing a particular aspect of the ONE elephant. Also, BECAUSE they have felt only one part they never do realise that if all the parts are put together they have an elephant on their hands!!!

Finally, realise that there is absolutely no point in getting guidance but never doing anything with it.

Now I have to address our same friend again! Sorry, Friend, I am NOT singling you out! But you DO love to put yourself in the limelight, don’t you?! LMAO! Now about smoking dope. Yes, I am forever pointing out that the Warrior’s Path is not a path of denial, but by the same token it is a path of self-respect and self-discipline. Therefore if there is something that you enjoy and it does not interfere with your progress upon the Warrior’s Path, then you are free to enjoy it, but without indulging in it. Having a hangover in the morning is most definitely indulging!!! And X is right, inflicting the results of your indulgence upon others is not only being disrespectful to them, but also to yourself.

Nevertheless, if what you enjoy is detrimental to your progress upon the Warrior’s Path, then you must CHOOSE which is more important to you – becoming a warrior, or enjoying your whim? Dope does nothing to enhance clarity and is therefore most definitely not something the warrior uses.

With warm regards,
Théun

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The Challenge Within Cerebral Palsy and Other Physical Handicaps

Question:

Théun, at birth I suffered brain damage, with the result that I now have cerebral palsy. Can this be healed by using the teachings?

Théun’s Guidance:

Experiencing brain damage at birth is much in the same nature as being born with any other physical handicap, for example, a hunchback or a club foot! The important point to grasp is that it is a PHYSICAL handicap, meaning that in order to fulfill your fate in this lifetime you MUST also CONQUER certain handicaps upon the physical plane! These handicaps are NOT in the nature of PUNISHMENT, as many people suffering from the VICTIM mentality want to believe, but much more in the nature of our shortcomings! In other words, physical handicaps, like our shortcomings, are there to SUPPORT us in claiming power we would NOT have been able to claim WITHOUT the handicap! Physical handicaps are therefore, not a curse, but a gift! :)

In the past people KNEW this, which is why physically DEFORMED people, such as dwarfs, hunchbacks, men with club feet etc. were always sought out to serve as advisors to kings, to become court Bards, etc. From what I can see of you, you were born with this challenge to enable you to overcome your INTENSE FEAR of life, and therefore it does not surprise me that as a child you were often ridiculed for having this challenge! :)

Because physical handicaps are like our shortcomings, we cannot REALLY get rid of them, even though today with the marvels of medical science it has become possible through surgery to remove handicaps such as clubbed feet and hunchbacks! But, generally speaking, and definitely as in your case, there are still MANY physical abnormalities that CANNOT be healed in some way and therefore remain for life! Yet in many ways this is excellent, for by NOT being able to get rid of them you have to LEARN how to RISE ABOVE them, and thereby you claim much power!

In your case, what you NEED to DO is to concentrate on overcoming your intense FEAR of life, for the more you do this the greater will become your ABILITY to COMPENSATE for the effects of the palsy! I say “compensate,” for this is PRECISELY what you NEED to LEARN! To grasp this, think for a moment about blind people! In not having physical sight, blind people develop an uncanny ABILITY to SENSE life around them, a sensing that can be REFINED into what most people call a SIXTH SENSE, but which is in fact the EARLY developments leading ultimately to the so-called NATURAL seer or seeress! Therefore in not having PHYSICAL sight, blind people LEARN to COMPENSATE for this by starting to develop the INNER sight! Can you now begin to see why Toltecs look upon physical handicaps as gifts? Only the Do-Gooders of this world look upon physically handicapped people as being VICTIMS! :)

From what I have shared with so far you should be starting to see that it is NOT the palsy you need to worry about, but your FEAR of life! You NEED to LEARN to EMBRACE life, to OPEN UP to life, and to FACE life in WHATEVER way it comes AT you, and the more you can DO this the more you will begin to RISE ABOVE the palsy by SPONTANEOUSLY finding ways and means to OVERCOME the debilitating EFFECTS of the palsy! I cannot tell you HOW you will do this, for in this respect EVERY individual is different, but you WILL find ways even without thinking about it! I say this because, technically speaking, any PHYSICAL handicap is there to TEACH us the USE of INTENT! It is therefore NOT the OVERCOMING of the palsy that is the issue, but rather being FORCED because of the palsy, to LEARN to ACTIVATE your INTENT to the point where it enables you to ACT as if you have NO palsy! Perhaps by sharing with you my OWN example it will help you to grasp what I am saying!

I was not born with cerebral palsy, but when I started to speak I had the WORST imaginable stutter that you can imagine! :) Whenever I opened my mouth to try to speak people would first look at me in total disbelief and then pack up laughing hysterically! :) Cutting a LONG story short, my stuttering brought about in me such an overwhelming fear of life that I spent most of my early life not wanting to speak, and whenever I was forced to I would break out into a cold sweat whilst shaking with fear from head to toe! :) If you had met me in those days, you and I would have had a royal time shivering and shaking together in our boots! You and I could have competed AGAINST each other as to which of us can be MORE frightened!

But eventually I got to a point in my life where I simply REFUSED to keep running away from participating FULLY in life because of my fear! I cannot tell you WHAT I did, much less HOW I did it, but almost within the space of a few short months I taught myself to FACE my fear, and to conquer my stuttering! Today I speak normally and I can even walk out onto a stage and address a HUGE audience without a single stutter! And yet the stuttering is STILL there! When I become too tired, or too stressed, it starts to creep in to such an extent that in disciplining myself NOT to stutter I end up becoming dyslexic instead! LOL!

My friend, your palsy is a gift! Learn to look upon it as such and it will SERVE you beyond what you can now imagine! In this regard the Dreaming Practice will help you GREATLY, for although I never stress this point in teaching the Dreaming technique, this is EXACTLY what it is designed to do, that is, to put you IN TOUCH with INTENT!

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Facing the Difficulty in Embracing Ones Challenges

Question:

Théun, I am not too afraid to face my challenges, but sometimes I find my resolve to keep going on begins to wane and waver. Why is this so? Is it just a lack of courage?

Théun’s Guidance:

In treading the Path with a Heart our hearts often take us down dark tunnels that the little self would much rather avoid! But the darkness is only ever the RESULT of the LIMITED vision of the little self! It is invariably always at times like these when we need to remember that the only failure in life is the failure to fight! If in these moments one scrapes together one’s courage and one’s strength, and just takes the plunge in following one’s heart, it is never TOO long when from out of the darkness ahead one begins to see a glimmer of light at the other end of the tunnel. Sooner, or later the darkness of the tunnel suddenly yields to the brightness of a new journey that is ALWAYS far more breathtaking and marvelous than anything one could have IMAGINED! :) Herein for me lies the BEAUTY and the POIGNANCY in treading a Path with a Heart, and it is also herein that lies the MEANING of what it is to be a warrior!

What has often helped me in facing dark tunnels that have made me shiver and shake in my boots is to recall how very EASY, but unfulfilling it is to WALK the wide and paved boulevard that is so loved by most of humanity, but that it takes the MOOD and the SPIRIT of the warrior to DANCE the narrow razor-edged path and LIVE to tell the tale! :) Plodding along a boulevard is burdensome and boring! But to SURVIVE the narrow razor-edged path means having to be ALIVE every inch of the way! How then can I, or any warrior for that matter, exchange being ALIVE for being BORED? If we are to die in twenty years time, then why not next month, or next week, tomorrow, or in the next hour? I would rather LIVE now and die tomorrow, than to EXIST for the next twenty years! :)

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Life Appearing To Be Unfair

Question:

Life sometimes appears to be very unfair. Why is this so?

Théun’s Answer:

Although I agree with you that life at times does appear to be unfair, this is exactly the OPERATIVE word, namely, APPEARS to be! :) But realize that we always have a CHOICE in how we wish to view life! We can either succumb to feeling like a VICTIM, or we can look upon what is transpiring and say, “Even though I may not LIKE this challenge, yet I would never have called it forth were it not for the fact that firstly, I NEED it in order to learn, to grow and gain in strength; and secondly, I am EQUAL to this challenge!”

The first option, although sometimes tempting, is nevertheless at the end of the day SO very MISERABLE and, as a result, BORING! Why is it boring? Well because the moment we start to piss and moan about what a victim we are people have an incredible knack of either switching off and not listening, or else being able to remove their presence so that one is left alone with only one’s own rantings, ravings and sobs! How incredibly boring to have to listen to one’s own sob-story when there ain’t no goddamned audience! But the second option, whether one has an audience or not is just SO liberating and empowering! B-:)

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Théun Mares on Madness

Question:

Théun, why do keep referring to me as being mad?

Théun’s Answer:

Because you can’t think straight! :)

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Working with Hurt

Question:

Théun, I am battling with the hurt I am experiencing as a result of my divorce. This hurt mostly comes from us starting to argue about how we should be splitting up our joint assets, and it is this that hurts me, mostly because I keep on wondering if our marriage meant nothing more than the acquisition of material things. How does one resolve hurt, Théun?

Théun’s Guidance:

My lovely Easterly friend, you are talking and thinking yourself round in circles! :) You are trying to RESOLVE the hurt instead of STAYING WITH the hurt, allowing it to guide you to a deeper understanding of yourself whereupon it will automatically DISSIPATE, having served its purpose! This is the TRUE meaning of the term “resolve,” that is, the intent to learn! But when it comes to intent, to resolving, the mind is a little less than useless! :)

The only REAL hurt there is, is when we are brought face to face with our INABILITY to MEET another unit of life with whom we have come very close in being able to truly meet! It is not the money, the houses, the furniture, the kitchens, the children, the dogs and parrots, but that indefinable some-thing else, loosely termed, love! In other words, whilst the mind occupies itself with material things such as houses, earnings, etc., it is the HEART that feels the wrench in the parting of ways, and the subsequent pain of loss – the deep sadness that comes from knowing that we were given a chance, but that somehow we screwed up! Sure it takes two to tango, and therefore it also takes two to screw up, but where there is a genuine openness of heart, or even just the BEGINNINGS of an opening of the heart, the sense of loss is always devastating in that one can always see one’s own role so clearly!

Within the heart there is no blame, no justifications, and if one knows that one has given that relationship one’s ALL, yet still failed, there are no regrets, no remorse, even though the pain of loss STILL cuts to the very core of one’s beingness! Why? Because deep down inside we all KNOW what the purpose of the spirit is, for it pulses through our beingness as surely as does our blood, the life essence! What is that purpose? At-one-ness, inclusiveness! And when we fail in doing OUR part in SUPPORTING that purpose, for whatever reason, our hearts cannot lie by pretending that all is fine, all is okay, but instead speaks the truth, and the truth is always sobering, and often hurts like all hell!

So, rather than getting yourself LOST in the petty world of an overactive and domineering mind, elevate your mind to its RIGHT-FULL place in helping you to think CLEARLY about how BEST you can play YOUR part in supporting the purpose of the spirit, for only in THIS way do you stand any chance at all in fighting your battles concerning relationships IMPECCABLY! These relationships include also your relationship with your business, with crystallized power, and above all, your relationship with THE male, namely, the spirit! Is it a battle we can ever win in the true sense of the word? Not really! The only thing that you and I CAN do is to fight an IMPECCABLE battle towards achieving at-one-ness, inclusiveness, you as a female, I as a male! And hopefully, by co-operating intelligently, we will BOTH gain a better under-standing of how to fight this battle, until one day we wake up from the madness of the dream, the madness being the ILLUSION of SEPARATIVENESS, to KNOW that we do not have to WIN the spirit’s love for us, for we ARE the spirit, irrespective of gender!

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Actions With An Edge

*Old Sorcerers = New World Order, Globalists, International Elitists, Illuminati
*Living Room = Toltec Legacy Forum

Question:

Théun, thank you for letting me know. I am happy to happen to have the best predeliction and direction, for me that is.

May I take the opportunity to kindly ask you for guidance on the following?

Sometimes I get a feeling of anxiety out of what is going on in the living room. It seems that much of what is being said is philosophically and scientifically unsound. I find this disturbing. Maybe this is my self-importance acting from my direction.

However the anxiety stems not purely from this.

An atheist actually believes in God, he merely choses to not follow what he believes to be the commandment of God. And he needs God to be real in order to be an atheist.

This came to mind when I reflected upon undercurrents from the perceptionon the forum of the challenges the Old Sorcerers present.

Somehow these lads manage to be so very present without people even noticing. And when people happen to notice they become anti-establishment (or coffee-break gangsta-rapers) without noticing that being anti-something actually fosters the power of something. And this is very much a techniqueof the Old Sorcerers – they always play with the tension fields they generate by imparting ireconcileable opposites into the consciousnes of their victims.

People do not recognize when they are engaging in practices of the first ring of power enforced by the Old Sorcerers, and it happens even here on the forums. :(

And it seems to me that my anxiety stems from this, because I fear to belong to a group of travellers where everyone reassures himself and his fellows how well things are going while the carriage is accelerating towardsa cliff….shudder…

Sometimes the thought crosses my mind that it is too dangerous to be here. Not because some Old Sorcerer could hit us with a lightening bolt or something similiar, in a way that happens all the time, but because people here could start a destructive chain reaction of sorts in believing to fight the Old Sorcerers while actually perpetuating a folly that multiplies the deadly effects of the ever present social black magic.

As with lightening bolts in nature there are ways to earth the doings of those who are called Old Sorcerers and render them harmless.

But if this earthing is not present in a group it is equally dangerous tobelong to this group as it is to stand on a hill-top during a thunderstorm holding the hand of someone who points an iron rod towards the sky.

I honestly do not want to be disrespectful towards anyone, least of all you and your work. I need to release this pressure. And maybe you can giveme a pointer on how to cope with and put above described anxiety in it’sproper place as it renders many of my attempts to reach out to fellow people (not only here on Toltec Legacy) useless and causes me at times painful sorrow.

P.S. Watching your cinematographic introduction was so beatiful – I would like to hug you now.

Théun’s Answer:

My friend, your observations are very, very good and indeed also very accurate! I can only HOPE that your fellow apprentices are going to take to heart what you share in your email above.

However, if we were to retreat into some place where it is safe, where would such a place be, and what would it look like? Even monasteries are NOT safe, for from a seer’s perspective the EMOTIONAL and MENTAL components within a monastery are mostly quite HECTIC! LOL! So at face value a monastery may APPEAR to be a safe haven, but believe me, I have SEEN far worse dangers lurking within monasteries than when I walk down the street of a town or a city!

So what choice do we as warriors have? We either close ourselves OFF from the rest of the world by retreating to some PERCEIVED place of safety, and fall prey to all sorts of self-created devilish dangers that are NOT clearly visible to MOST people, OR we take out CHANCES on the battlefield of life. No battlefield is SAFE, my friend, and it certainly is NOT a place for children and the faint-hearted, but AT
LEAST the MANY dangers it holds are mostly VISIBLE for ALL to see.

So from a warrior’s perspective, he does not really HAVE a choice! Living cut off from the ACTION around which life revolves, is for him NOT a Path with a Heart! But what DOES hold heart for the warrior is to be out there on the battlefield of life, fighting with everything he has got whilst allowing his spirit to flow FREE and CLEAR! Only by participating within the ACTION taking place upon the battlefield does LIFE take on meaning for the warrior, because within that ACTION there is also, and most importantly so, the CLOSE proximity of his DEATH! Life and Death. This is what gives the actions of the warrior an EDGE, for where BOTH Life and Death are present the warrior is ACUTELY aware in
every MOMENT of every STEP taken, that Death can tap him on the shoulder at any given instant and within any one act of his. Therefore the warrior makes his EVERY act the very FINEST act he can make it, for it may well be his LAST act upon earth. In this way the warrior’s actions, big or small, carry with them an impeccability, a power and a poignancy that gives them an EDGE!

The actions of average men and women LACK having an edge, because their actions are seldom, if ever, their finest actions, for average men and women are never present in the NOW. As a result the actions of average man have no edge to them – they are like striking someone with a blunt blade! Blunt blades can hurt very badly, and because they are blunt they also tend to create wounds that are not CLEAN, and therefore the wounds fester and become disease ridden. But when one is present in the NOW, one’s actions have a CLARITY and a POWER within them that make them like blades with exceedingly SHARP EDGES. Such swords are DEADLY, and they inflict wounds of PRECISION that run DEEP, but that are also CLEAN. :)

If you now bring this back to the Living Room, then it should be clear to you why you get a feeling of anxiety. The actions of your fellow apprentices are MOSTLY as of yet the CLUMSY and very INEPT actions of the inexperienced swordsman dangerously brandishing around a sword that has NO edge! :) But worse still, is the fact that SOME of your fellow apprentices STILL tend to see the Warrior’s Path as a joke, a GAME, and therefore an EXCUSE to give expression to very infantile and undisciplined MINDS, but in the name of FREEDOM. LMAO!

But…………..to allay your fears, realise that sooner or later, when the undisciplined children have finally hurt themselves and others for long enough, they DO start to grow up and to take more CARE in LEARNING the impeccable ways of the warrior! You can only stab yourself in the foot for so long before you begin to realise that it hurts and cripples, sometimes for LIFE! Likewise do you learn rather quickly on the battlefield that what goes round, comes round! LOL! So when you take a stab at someone else, the “favour” is invariably returned, either by THAT person or by someone else, and that someone else could well turn out to be a far more skilled warrior than you! LOL!

With all my warmth and support for a very promising Scholar! :)
Théun

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Ruthless Honesty

Question:

I feel so upset about what has been happening in the Group of late, that I feel the time has come for ALL of us to put ALL our cards on the table!

Théun’s Guidance:

Yes, putting all the cards on the table with ruthless honesty is an excellent place to start in becoming REAL and in making each other REAL too! But it is exactly herein that both SPACE and TIME are needed, for how often do ANY of you truly LISTEN to each other, and above all, listen to yourselves?

All too often it is just the MIND re-enacting the same OLD emotional stuff over and over again, and all of that stuff is the accumulated garbage collected around your shortcomings! Therefore when you DO start trying to MEET each other, it will be imperative that you bear in mind at ALL times your own shortcomings, and how these shortcomings influence your speech, your ability to listen as well as your motives! For example, what do you HEAR in the phrase “space and time?” And what is your FEELING in THIS moment concerning this particular guidance? What am I REALLY saying? All of you will do so much better if ONLY you would bear in mind that true feelings are the expression of IRRATIONAL knowledge, and therefore whenever you catch yourselves being so SURE of a feeling in the moment, you can take it as FACT that you have ALREADY squashed, and I mean squashed, that feeling into your view of the world, and have thereby distorted it!

I bring this to your notice, for all too often this is what I see from all of you! But to make it clear: you have a feeling, which is good and true, but because it is irrational you immediately ASSUME understanding of every-thing surrounding that feeling BECAUSE of this, that or the other that you THINK you know! As a result you become hooked to the face value of the feeling, and then get carried away by the history that has led up to the moment in which you experience the feeling! All of this can be avoided so easily if ONLY you will bear in mind that ANY true feeling is the expression of IRRATIONAL knowledge, and as such, you will at first not know EXACTLY what the feeling SHOULD translate into in terms of PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS!

So whilst laying the cards on the table is good, check your motives, your verbalisation and INTENT! It is really quite simple to do this if you would only ask yourselves TWO questions, namely, “Do I want to LEARN? Or do I want to PROVE a point?” In other words, there is a HUGE difference between wanting PROOF of what you THINK your feelings mean, as opposed to WANTING to LEARN what your feelings are trying to tell you! All too often putting the cards on the table amounts to nothing more than two people each demanding PROOF of what they THINK their hearts are trying to TEACH them! Demanding proof implies that you ALREADY KNOW, whereas LISTENING in order to LEARN what your heart is trying to tell you implies OPENNESS and WILLINGNESS!

*This article is taken from the website www.toltec-legacy.com with the permission of the administrators. tag: theun mares

Ruthless Honesty

Question:

I feel so upset about what has been happening in the Group of late, that I feel the time has come for ALL of us to put ALL our cards on the table!

Théun’s Guidance:

Yes, putting all the cards on the table with ruthless honesty is an excellent place to start in becoming REAL and in making each other REAL too! But it is exactly herein that both SPACE and TIME are needed, for how often do ANY of you truly LISTEN to each other, and above all, listen to yourselves?

All too often it is just the MIND re-enacting the same OLD emotional stuff over and over again, and all of that stuff is the accumulated garbage collected around your shortcomings! Therefore when you DO start trying to MEET each other, it will be imperative that you bear in mind at ALL times your own shortcomings, and how these shortcomings influence your speech, your ability to listen as well as your motives! For example, what do you HEAR in the phrase “space and time?” And what is your FEELING in THIS moment concerning this particular guidance? What am I REALLY saying? All of you will do so much better if ONLY you would bear in mind that true feelings are the expression of IRRATIONAL knowledge, and therefore whenever you catch yourselves being so SURE of a feeling in the moment, you can take it as FACT that you have ALREADY squashed, and I mean squashed, that feeling into your view of the world, and have thereby distorted it!

I bring this to your notice, for all too often this is what I see from all of you! But to make it clear: you have a feeling, which is good and true, but because it is irrational you immediately ASSUME understanding of every-thing surrounding that feeling BECAUSE of this, that or the other that you THINK you know! As a result you become hooked to the face value of the feeling, and then get carried away by the history that has led up to the moment in which you experience the feeling! All of this can be avoided so easily if ONLY you will bear in mind that ANY true feeling is the expression of IRRATIONAL knowledge, and as such, you will at first not know EXACTLY what the feeling SHOULD translate into in terms of PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS!

So whilst laying the cards on the table is good, check your motives, your verbalisation and INTENT! It is really quite simple to do this if you would only ask yourselves TWO questions, namely, “Do I want to LEARN? Or do I want to PROVE a point?” In other words, there is a HUGE difference between wanting PROOF of what you THINK your feelings mean, as opposed to WANTING to LEARN what your feelings are trying to tell you! All too often putting the cards on the table amounts to nothing more than two people each demanding PROOF of what they THINK their hearts are trying to TEACH them! Demanding proof implies that you ALREADY KNOW, whereas LISTENING in order to LEARN what your heart is trying to tell you implies OPENNESS and WILLINGNESS!

*This article is taken from the website www.toltec-legacy.com with the permission of the administrators. tag: theun mares