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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
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new, even if these changes may initially cause disorientation and confusion.
Confidence in the purpose of reality is the fundamental conviction that all events we confront in our present state of corporeal existence have only the purpose to make us conscious of our immense potential abilities, so we may explore them, understand them and use them for our further growth.
Confidence in the purpose of reality is the fundamental conviction that the immense potential abilities we feel within us will become real. It means to direct our attention towards the experience of higher states of consciousness - irrespective how fleeting they may appear initially - and then to actively work on their unfoldment and stabilization.
This confidence is not brought about by blind faith or purely intellectual understanding, but only by us experiencing it on a personal level.
A skeptical attitude during our first experimenting with this concept does not obstruct the process. Positive results usually manifest after only a short time, even if not every single effort in this direction does yield results. The growing freedom from events we thought inevitable before, independence from restrictive persons or circumstances and the additional energy and inspiration available for our development are the best motivation for a continued engagement in this direction of increasing self-determination.
Any obstacles we confront on this path are caused by our very own emotions, prejudice and bias. The mechanisms that give rise to these obstacles and their dissolution cannot be described with adequate thoroughness in this context. The book KARMA - THE MECHANISM deals more extensively with this subject.
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