| 5. Your Next Small Step |
We are most pleased to be speaking with you once again; for, as your journeys have taken you through the
patterns and beliefs of the past, you have discovered that such journeys have been detrimental to your enjoyment
of who you are and more so, of your continued journey within the discovery of the glory of the unknown made
known.
You might be asking why we could not assist you to lift from such participations, why we could not save you
from your own dipping into the past patterns; yet Truth says that all that you experience is for the betterment of
your being. And in this manner of speaking, we are not saying that Truth says you have “just punishment for such
beliefs or manners of being”. Though you may not have thought those beliefs remain within your journey, if you
have considered the words ”for your betterment of being” as it is associated with suffering, then you have also
believed that such suffering is “just reward” for distorted beliefs; and, such conclusion also states clearly that you
believe in punishment for some part of your journey. This could not be further from the truth. There is no such
thing as punishment as it has existed within the olde beliefs and patterns which say that you will be punished if you
do not follow – and follow perfectly – the laws or truths as they are presented before you from a source outside of
yourself. Again, we repeat, there is no such thing as punishment or this type of cause and effect as it is
interpreted as punishment.
You have been journeying through the past, through the olde beliefs as they have been rising to the surface of
your consciousness. You have experienced the suffering which resides within those beliefs and you have shrunk
from them. Such refusal to allow the olde to reside within the new you and the new journey is commendable. And
when we say that such an experience is all for the betterment of your being, we are simply saying that your refusal
has been another manner of closing the door or portal to the previous manner of being. And you might be
thinking that you would be a victim to the olde patterns as they seep through the seeming open portal and into
your wondrous paradisal manner of living. Yet we would say, there is no such occurrence. What IS occurring can
be easily understood in this manner.
That which has held you is discovering that it is no longer necessary, no longer useful, and that it has
completely fulfilled its purpose. An example might be that you have become the hot stove from which it recoils.
And the olde ways the olde patterns seek to be as nothing. Why? The journey of forming and unforming is one
of returning to what you have called “the nothingness”. The olde patterns naturally, upon completion of purpose,
return to nothing, dissolve of its own patterned self. The avenue of such returning is through the portal from
which you have emerged. As the olde fulfilled patterns flow forth toward their dissolving, your conscious
recognition of what was is in a manner, like a magnet to those patterns. Yet do not view such an occurrence as
horrific, as debilitating, or as negative. Perhaps this example will assist you in this manner.
It is as if you are a parent and you are seeing your offspring or child go into the world. You know that you
have done all that you can do and now it is your child’s journey. You are complete. Yet, as that child does go off
into his or her journey, you feel a heart recognition of the communion and development you have shared
together. In a like manner, the olde patterns have assisted you, have carried you as you did transform within their
ever emerging into the most expanded fullness that they could hold whilst remaining within the untruth of
separation from the whole. You have a certain fondness for the olde ways, the olde beliefs. That is natural, most
natural, as you have resided within them as a way of life, as a way of knowing yourself, and as a way of creating
and manifesting.
As the magnetic pull – or recognition of fondness – passes through your manner of experiencing your new
manner of being or residing within the most expanded manner of Truth, you have at times, in most recent times
felt the distortion within those olde beliefs. You have, many of you, felt the emotional upheaval and more so, the
resultant depletion of spirit. And, as in the olde pattern, you have asked yourself what you have been doing
wrong. You have concluded – naturally – that you have slipped from the new way and are – much to your horror
or anguish – right back into the difficulties of olde. However, we would emphatically say that you are not. You not
only have not returned to the olde ways, you cannot. We are reminding you of these words, words that we have
spoken together previously.
Now hear these words as they will assist you in deactivating such a magnetic pull to the olde patterns and the
fondness of such residing. Your choice is most powerful; it always has been. Many of you, upon such concluding
as we have just described, have placed yourself within the illusion of being a victim to your own emotional
responses and interpretations of the magnetic pull from the olde beliefs and ways. Yet you are not a victim. You
have simply been re-experiencing the difficulty as it did manifest the moment before you stepped from the olde
patterns and into the new. And you might be asking why you would experience such difficulty, such emotional
upheaval. To which we would say, you are continually reminding yourself that “you have had enough”. In addition
we would say these words.
Be gentle with yourself. Be gentle within your discoveries that you have a certain fondness for the olde was,
for the olde journey. You have such fondness because it is the most familiar to you and your past experience of
residing within the unknown has been one of fear and within such fear did you turn from the unknown and reform
the known ways. Yet now the unknown and your journey within it is the discovery of self, the discovery of your
own magnificence. And you are asking yourself to trust that such a journey will deliver to you joy and delight and
not the grave difficulties with which you had become most familiar. Another way of saying what we are delivering
to you, is that you are asking yourself to go forth in a new way and that new way does not have fear within its
foundation; the new way has within its foundation the essence that is the real you, the fabric of your own being:
totality, wholeness, One.
Your choice, your powerful choice resides within placing yourself within the small gentle first experiences of the
new way. It is experience within your new manner of being, of discovering, that will cause the unknown to be made
known and will then result in a firm foundation of not only trust, but of knowing Truth. Truth says that the more
that you reside within its purity of being, the more that you are able to go forth within the fullness of its expression
of you. And though you might want to dive right into the fullness of Truth as it makes itself manifest within your
consciousness, you are not able to do so. Why? Truth is a vibrational frequency. It simply is and is becoming.
Always. It is THE journey, and it is your journey. With each experience within your new way, within your discovery
of your own magnificence, does Truth flow forth to offer to you the next experience of itself made manifest. Within
every large and small step you take within this new way of being, you leave behind the now crumbling foundation
built so long ago upon fear.
Your powerful choice within this ever-expanding journey of discovery of self is the choice to allow the olde ways
to be and to be released, to allow your fondness of your own journey to be, yet to be contained within your own
self and not as a reaching outward [ie, not the magnetic pull to that which is being released] to hold on to, to
control, or to participate “once more” with that child of your own self: the created journey within the untruth.
Your powerful choice is to claim your own journey’s past as that which you have been – as some might view, a
past life in this present life – and to allow it to be… as you rejoice and dance your new dance, your new journey,
your new joy and delight, and your great new fulfillment of being as the real thing, the real you, the real journey
and its fulfillment. Within your powerful choice to claim that which has been as your own history, you are also
choosing to let go of your attachment to the imperfections of the past, knowing that within the untruth or within the
olde patterns, there could not reside the perfection of paradise. And though your strivings for perfection, for
paradise within the untruth did carry you to the recognition that “there must be something better”, the strivings
were unfulfilled and in the same moment fulfilled in their purpose: to carry you to such conclusion and to the
eventual stepping through the portal into the new way, the new you, the real thing.
And now here you are, reading these words once again, perhaps sighing a sigh of relief that you understand
further what has occurred in your lifely experiences since we last communicated. We encourage you to then take
the next small step within your journey, within this journey which we are making together. The next small step is to
choose to detach from that which was, from the olde goals, the olde avenues of seeming fulfillment. Such
choosing asks you to let go of the created avenues to your fulfillment and to embrace the unknown as it delivers
to you greater fulfillment and joy, synchronistic invitations to dance and play. Such choosing delivers to you the
opportunity of freedom as we have spoken of freedom previously: the freedom to go forth unencumbered by the
crumbling foundation of fear. And such going forth is not only possible but is delightfully free, and does become
an avenue through which you can explore all manners of discovering your own magnificence.
And you might be asking, “Which is the best way to choose? “Which is the best way to go forth within this small
step?” And though we are not diminishing our view of you, neither are we criticizing your wondering, we do find
such wondering to be humorous. Why? The answer is that you are the All. You are Truth flowing forth as you,
taking form as you. By the very fact that you have wondered [which way is best] means that you have already
decided. Such wondering is your mind’s way of asking you to be sure that you are correct, that you go forth in the
best way; yet there is no best way. There is no need, no need to figure out what is best.
Remember, such a choosing does not take from you your fondness for your previous path. More so, such
choosing allows you to keep to yourself that which you love, that which you enjoy. What such choosing does not
do is to debilitate your discovery by attaching to the past. It is as if you are severing the response to the magnetic
pull: a benefit to you and to the releasing olde ways that they might make their journey to completion, to the
unforming.
Then we will speak a little further upon your journey as you free yourself from the attraction to the history of that
which you have been. As the adventure opens for your perusal, for your inspection and more so, for your
choosing of the placing of your next small step, there will be many manners of fulfillment made known; your very
presence makes it known to you.
As you view the possible fulfillment, it is most likely that your mind will want to enter into each and follow the
seeming journey. The mind would be going forth in this manner for one purpose and that is to assure that there
would actually be a fulfillment at the end of the rainbow, so to speak. Yet such a journeying forth is no longer
necessary; there is no fear to run from or to avoid. Then what is the next small step? It is to train your mind to
respond – instead of react – to the appearance of the many possible manners or avenues to fulfillment.
We believe we can assist you and your mind easily with the following Truth: All avenues to fulfillment, all manners
of experiencing fulfillment are the same. Pause for a moment here and allow that statement to fill you and to
reside its frequencies within you.
We will say these words: All avenues are the One Avenue, all joys are The One Joy, and all manners of
fulfillment are fulfillment itself.
The avenues are simply pathways through which you can explore your own fulfillment; yet all deliver fulfillment,
none greater than the other. Yet it is your journey within them that gives to you varied fulfillment. Again and
again will manifest such invitations to explore the more of who you are. There is no better or more correct journey
or way; there is no greater or lesser fulfillment. Those are all concepts of the past and reside within the history of
your own exploration of that which you are not.
Perhaps you will reflect upon those words. Perhaps you will allow your mind to receive and reside within those
vibrations and frequencies of Truth which say: There is no greater or lesser fulfillment. There is simply
fulfillment. There is no greater or lesser journey; there is simply your journey. All concepts of the best or the
most fulfilling are your mind’s way of wanting the best for you, of doing its job as it has in the past. And you are
simply allowing your mind to reform itself, to reform its response to your discovery of the many choices which now
come forth for your pleasure.
Your mind no longer needs to follow the proposed journey to its probable ending, and in so doing discover if
there is an abyss or possible unfulfillment hidden therein. You are now residing within Truth; there is not falsity
within Truth. Allow your mind to rest within those words. Truth is. And it is within Truth that you do now reside,
allowing its frequencies and patterns to flow forth as you and for you, for the delight of discovery of Self, discovery
of Truth as it makes itself manifest as the journey, as you, and as the discovery. Truth says none else exists.
Now your mind will reform itself. Allow that to occur most naturally. We are with you, here to guide you within this
new journey, within this new you, and within your glorious fulfillment which has been waiting for your presence.
And as you say the words, the good news is that here you are.
patterns and beliefs of the past, you have discovered that such journeys have been detrimental to your enjoyment
of who you are and more so, of your continued journey within the discovery of the glory of the unknown made
known.
You might be asking why we could not assist you to lift from such participations, why we could not save you
from your own dipping into the past patterns; yet Truth says that all that you experience is for the betterment of
your being. And in this manner of speaking, we are not saying that Truth says you have “just punishment for such
beliefs or manners of being”. Though you may not have thought those beliefs remain within your journey, if you
have considered the words ”for your betterment of being” as it is associated with suffering, then you have also
believed that such suffering is “just reward” for distorted beliefs; and, such conclusion also states clearly that you
believe in punishment for some part of your journey. This could not be further from the truth. There is no such
thing as punishment as it has existed within the olde beliefs and patterns which say that you will be punished if you
do not follow – and follow perfectly – the laws or truths as they are presented before you from a source outside of
yourself. Again, we repeat, there is no such thing as punishment or this type of cause and effect as it is
interpreted as punishment.
You have been journeying through the past, through the olde beliefs as they have been rising to the surface of
your consciousness. You have experienced the suffering which resides within those beliefs and you have shrunk
from them. Such refusal to allow the olde to reside within the new you and the new journey is commendable. And
when we say that such an experience is all for the betterment of your being, we are simply saying that your refusal
has been another manner of closing the door or portal to the previous manner of being. And you might be
thinking that you would be a victim to the olde patterns as they seep through the seeming open portal and into
your wondrous paradisal manner of living. Yet we would say, there is no such occurrence. What IS occurring can
be easily understood in this manner.
That which has held you is discovering that it is no longer necessary, no longer useful, and that it has
completely fulfilled its purpose. An example might be that you have become the hot stove from which it recoils.
And the olde ways the olde patterns seek to be as nothing. Why? The journey of forming and unforming is one
of returning to what you have called “the nothingness”. The olde patterns naturally, upon completion of purpose,
return to nothing, dissolve of its own patterned self. The avenue of such returning is through the portal from
which you have emerged. As the olde fulfilled patterns flow forth toward their dissolving, your conscious
recognition of what was is in a manner, like a magnet to those patterns. Yet do not view such an occurrence as
horrific, as debilitating, or as negative. Perhaps this example will assist you in this manner.
It is as if you are a parent and you are seeing your offspring or child go into the world. You know that you
have done all that you can do and now it is your child’s journey. You are complete. Yet, as that child does go off
into his or her journey, you feel a heart recognition of the communion and development you have shared
together. In a like manner, the olde patterns have assisted you, have carried you as you did transform within their
ever emerging into the most expanded fullness that they could hold whilst remaining within the untruth of
separation from the whole. You have a certain fondness for the olde ways, the olde beliefs. That is natural, most
natural, as you have resided within them as a way of life, as a way of knowing yourself, and as a way of creating
and manifesting.
As the magnetic pull – or recognition of fondness – passes through your manner of experiencing your new
manner of being or residing within the most expanded manner of Truth, you have at times, in most recent times
felt the distortion within those olde beliefs. You have, many of you, felt the emotional upheaval and more so, the
resultant depletion of spirit. And, as in the olde pattern, you have asked yourself what you have been doing
wrong. You have concluded – naturally – that you have slipped from the new way and are – much to your horror
or anguish – right back into the difficulties of olde. However, we would emphatically say that you are not. You not
only have not returned to the olde ways, you cannot. We are reminding you of these words, words that we have
spoken together previously.
Now hear these words as they will assist you in deactivating such a magnetic pull to the olde patterns and the
fondness of such residing. Your choice is most powerful; it always has been. Many of you, upon such concluding
as we have just described, have placed yourself within the illusion of being a victim to your own emotional
responses and interpretations of the magnetic pull from the olde beliefs and ways. Yet you are not a victim. You
have simply been re-experiencing the difficulty as it did manifest the moment before you stepped from the olde
patterns and into the new. And you might be asking why you would experience such difficulty, such emotional
upheaval. To which we would say, you are continually reminding yourself that “you have had enough”. In addition
we would say these words.
Be gentle with yourself. Be gentle within your discoveries that you have a certain fondness for the olde was,
for the olde journey. You have such fondness because it is the most familiar to you and your past experience of
residing within the unknown has been one of fear and within such fear did you turn from the unknown and reform
the known ways. Yet now the unknown and your journey within it is the discovery of self, the discovery of your
own magnificence. And you are asking yourself to trust that such a journey will deliver to you joy and delight and
not the grave difficulties with which you had become most familiar. Another way of saying what we are delivering
to you, is that you are asking yourself to go forth in a new way and that new way does not have fear within its
foundation; the new way has within its foundation the essence that is the real you, the fabric of your own being:
totality, wholeness, One.
Your choice, your powerful choice resides within placing yourself within the small gentle first experiences of the
new way. It is experience within your new manner of being, of discovering, that will cause the unknown to be made
known and will then result in a firm foundation of not only trust, but of knowing Truth. Truth says that the more
that you reside within its purity of being, the more that you are able to go forth within the fullness of its expression
of you. And though you might want to dive right into the fullness of Truth as it makes itself manifest within your
consciousness, you are not able to do so. Why? Truth is a vibrational frequency. It simply is and is becoming.
Always. It is THE journey, and it is your journey. With each experience within your new way, within your discovery
of your own magnificence, does Truth flow forth to offer to you the next experience of itself made manifest. Within
every large and small step you take within this new way of being, you leave behind the now crumbling foundation
built so long ago upon fear.
Your powerful choice within this ever-expanding journey of discovery of self is the choice to allow the olde ways
to be and to be released, to allow your fondness of your own journey to be, yet to be contained within your own
self and not as a reaching outward [ie, not the magnetic pull to that which is being released] to hold on to, to
control, or to participate “once more” with that child of your own self: the created journey within the untruth.
Your powerful choice is to claim your own journey’s past as that which you have been – as some might view, a
past life in this present life – and to allow it to be… as you rejoice and dance your new dance, your new journey,
your new joy and delight, and your great new fulfillment of being as the real thing, the real you, the real journey
and its fulfillment. Within your powerful choice to claim that which has been as your own history, you are also
choosing to let go of your attachment to the imperfections of the past, knowing that within the untruth or within the
olde patterns, there could not reside the perfection of paradise. And though your strivings for perfection, for
paradise within the untruth did carry you to the recognition that “there must be something better”, the strivings
were unfulfilled and in the same moment fulfilled in their purpose: to carry you to such conclusion and to the
eventual stepping through the portal into the new way, the new you, the real thing.
And now here you are, reading these words once again, perhaps sighing a sigh of relief that you understand
further what has occurred in your lifely experiences since we last communicated. We encourage you to then take
the next small step within your journey, within this journey which we are making together. The next small step is to
choose to detach from that which was, from the olde goals, the olde avenues of seeming fulfillment. Such
choosing asks you to let go of the created avenues to your fulfillment and to embrace the unknown as it delivers
to you greater fulfillment and joy, synchronistic invitations to dance and play. Such choosing delivers to you the
opportunity of freedom as we have spoken of freedom previously: the freedom to go forth unencumbered by the
crumbling foundation of fear. And such going forth is not only possible but is delightfully free, and does become
an avenue through which you can explore all manners of discovering your own magnificence.
And you might be asking, “Which is the best way to choose? “Which is the best way to go forth within this small
step?” And though we are not diminishing our view of you, neither are we criticizing your wondering, we do find
such wondering to be humorous. Why? The answer is that you are the All. You are Truth flowing forth as you,
taking form as you. By the very fact that you have wondered [which way is best] means that you have already
decided. Such wondering is your mind’s way of asking you to be sure that you are correct, that you go forth in the
best way; yet there is no best way. There is no need, no need to figure out what is best.
Remember, such a choosing does not take from you your fondness for your previous path. More so, such
choosing allows you to keep to yourself that which you love, that which you enjoy. What such choosing does not
do is to debilitate your discovery by attaching to the past. It is as if you are severing the response to the magnetic
pull: a benefit to you and to the releasing olde ways that they might make their journey to completion, to the
unforming.
Then we will speak a little further upon your journey as you free yourself from the attraction to the history of that
which you have been. As the adventure opens for your perusal, for your inspection and more so, for your
choosing of the placing of your next small step, there will be many manners of fulfillment made known; your very
presence makes it known to you.
As you view the possible fulfillment, it is most likely that your mind will want to enter into each and follow the
seeming journey. The mind would be going forth in this manner for one purpose and that is to assure that there
would actually be a fulfillment at the end of the rainbow, so to speak. Yet such a journeying forth is no longer
necessary; there is no fear to run from or to avoid. Then what is the next small step? It is to train your mind to
respond – instead of react – to the appearance of the many possible manners or avenues to fulfillment.
We believe we can assist you and your mind easily with the following Truth: All avenues to fulfillment, all manners
of experiencing fulfillment are the same. Pause for a moment here and allow that statement to fill you and to
reside its frequencies within you.
We will say these words: All avenues are the One Avenue, all joys are The One Joy, and all manners of
fulfillment are fulfillment itself.
The avenues are simply pathways through which you can explore your own fulfillment; yet all deliver fulfillment,
none greater than the other. Yet it is your journey within them that gives to you varied fulfillment. Again and
again will manifest such invitations to explore the more of who you are. There is no better or more correct journey
or way; there is no greater or lesser fulfillment. Those are all concepts of the past and reside within the history of
your own exploration of that which you are not.
Perhaps you will reflect upon those words. Perhaps you will allow your mind to receive and reside within those
vibrations and frequencies of Truth which say: There is no greater or lesser fulfillment. There is simply
fulfillment. There is no greater or lesser journey; there is simply your journey. All concepts of the best or the
most fulfilling are your mind’s way of wanting the best for you, of doing its job as it has in the past. And you are
simply allowing your mind to reform itself, to reform its response to your discovery of the many choices which now
come forth for your pleasure.
Your mind no longer needs to follow the proposed journey to its probable ending, and in so doing discover if
there is an abyss or possible unfulfillment hidden therein. You are now residing within Truth; there is not falsity
within Truth. Allow your mind to rest within those words. Truth is. And it is within Truth that you do now reside,
allowing its frequencies and patterns to flow forth as you and for you, for the delight of discovery of Self, discovery
of Truth as it makes itself manifest as the journey, as you, and as the discovery. Truth says none else exists.
Now your mind will reform itself. Allow that to occur most naturally. We are with you, here to guide you within this
new journey, within this new you, and within your glorious fulfillment which has been waiting for your presence.
And as you say the words, the good news is that here you are.
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