The Will to Change

the will to change, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton, FourthWayToday.org

Does change ever stop?

It has to do with movement. Transformation shapes the land and our inner landscape. It may accompany destruction and renewal, like floods and fire.

Water đź’¦, for example, when it goes through transformations, boiling, condensing, cooling, freezing, and melting, is at its purest, because these processes erase its heavy elements. So, too, do we enter into change. We can become more purified, renewed, cleansed of what is heavy and unnecessary.

A person can endure everything, knowing why and for what he does it. Have trust. Everything you do, make it the best and highest possible. This has the power to heal.

Will is an enormous force. Doing things with intention gives enormous energy and love. 

All the things we go through in our lives are ultimately for the spirit to recognize itself. The more the body fades and weakens, the more it becomes evident that the vitality within comes from the soul.

All suffering helps to understand and embrace our nothingness, and in this process become ONE with the spiritual world, which is everything. Everyone is interconnected and touches us.

All the sufferings we experience are illusions that we nevertheless have to recognize. Like our innate aloneness, an isolation that does not exist in reality, because we are one.

Embrace the Universal

Love is universal, it is not individual. When in love, we love all that relates to the beloved. In the end that ultimate love points to the Creator who created all things, so all things are loved.

Feel grateful. There is no gratitude without suffering. There is no transformation without gratitude. Through this change, the thirst for life increases. Be aware of all the many constant gifts of nature every season. Such as waters: lakes, rivers, oceans, rains, springs, and so much more.

The birds sing the new morning so beautifully. Life is wonderful. The air is fresh and amazing; there is so much beauty. We are lucky to be here.

Study new states; get to know the inner self more deeply. Stay kind in the heart, no matter how difficult life becomes. Rejoice in the strength that remains within. A real process is underway.

Have patience, will and discipline. Eliminating the old and damaged, welcoming the appearance of the new, allows change to occur through cleaning, healing, and rejuvenating.

Strengthen willpower and positivity. Purify harmful energies and substances. Clear the inner mirror. Be happy in silence. We are here to strengthen the spirit which is constant and everywhere.

“Only a man who has suffered and is recovering can train himself and his fellows to accept with rapture even the little gifts of life.” – Goethe

Paulina Herrera is from Chile, and has studied the Fourth Way for two decades. A cancer survivor, she currently lives in Northern California.

In the writings of Hermes Trismegistus (@Harvard.edu):
“The highest is from the lowest, and the lowest from the highest, it worked all wonders from one. 
Things are gathered from that essence by the direction of one…the origin of the world and its custodian.”

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