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Demonstrating the manner and method of
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No one can give unless he has. In fact, giving is proof of having. We have made this point before. What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. No one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed. The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess.
How is this possible? For it is sure that if you give a finite thing away, your body’s eyes will not perceive it yours. Yet we have learned that things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind. Perhaps the form in which the thought seems to appear is changed in giving. Yet it must return to him who gives. Nor can the form it takes be less acceptable. It must be more.
Broadcasting in total the unity and singleness
of purpose of the universe.
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Can You Hear This? - Part 4
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It is always initially astonishing to a newly awakened Master to discover that the manner in which he thinks has undergone a radical transformation.
His former limited consciousness construct finally had nothing to do with the complete exposé. He stands naked with his own certainty. He has lost the capacity for specific comparison. The wholeness of his thinking inevitably makes the objective rationale of limited consciousness seem absurd.
He is thrust into the position of seeing that his former value system, based on specific conclusions arrived at by comparison and analysis, has no validity or even reality. He finds himself in an illogical, unreasonable place. He must now deal with his absolute, unqualified certainty that the objectively constructed world is totally meaningless, except to the necessity of bringing about the revelation that established his own transcending consciousness.
