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How to Dissolve Challenges
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experience which only seems attractive because we are unaware of more advanced ones.
Yet there is a third way
Dormant within us there exist immense depths of knowledge, love, power, abilities and joy. We can access these regions and experience these qualities directly without being hampered by old desires and dreads.
This third alternative is always open, though sometimes we block access to it through restrictive attitudes, actions, longings and fears.
Yet even then we often get a glimpse of it. It's entirely our own responsibility if and how we use these opportunities.
Going for this third alternative not only unfolds our inherent potential, but also generates an abundance of positive energies for future growth.
Acceleration
We can accelerate our progress. Impulses for compassion, charity, forgiveness, helping others etc. make us break out of egoistic mechanisms and widen our understanding.
Yet only spontaneous impulses matter. Charity for mere formal reasons has no effect on our growth.
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Each time we e.g. feel an urge to help others, - a tendency to reconcile, an impulse for compassion etc. - we are offered a Iway out of the dense, hypnotic veil emotions and activities weave around us on STAGE 1.
Yet impulses of this kind last only seconds. If we don't act on them spontaneously, but decide to do it later or postpone
