Sundar,
One of the most unexpected insights I have experienced through Gary’s and Linda’s teaching is that many of my seemingly loving interactions were in fact actually coming from a frighten part of my personality. As David mentioned, the guidelines help me so often to discover my true intention when conventional “wisdom” brought me to the wrong conclusion. Your reference to our recent call on Accept versus Tolerate is an excellent example. Before that call I would have said being tolerant of people I don’t agree with or whose behavior is at times offensive would have been me exercising my loving part. But I learned on that call that Acceptance does not judge that other person as wrong where Tolerance likely does judge. As your spiritual partner I cannot know your intentions and so I ask for you to review and reflect on your feelings, thoughts, and actions and see if your intuition shares something new.

I appreciate your giving me this opportunity to practice our spiritual partnership.

With Love Doug

Patrice,

You wrote: “I had a FP come up when I read your response. A pain in the solar plexus and a familiar feeling of nausea.” I am really sorry you went through that. There was no need.

You expressed: “The thoughts were “did I say something wrong?”” No, please know that you did not say anything wrong at all in my opinion.

You wondered: ““Was I teaching?’” No, not at all. Not in my opinion. You had written in the first post, “There appeared to be many FPs active in many people present that day.” I considered this statement very important for two reasons. I would definitely like to know the types of fp’s revealed by different statements quoted in the story I wrote, from the perspectives of other spiritual partners in this community. I believe this type of analysis would help me and anyone else interested to understand Gary’s teachings better and better. Even more important to me was what types of fp’s my own statements quoted reveal, from the perspectives of other spiritual partners in this community, which I can analyze further and, if correct, use for my own spiritual growth.

Thank you so much for your response. I address it in the next post.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Patrice,

Thank you for explaining the proverb: “From a multi-sensory point of view when your intention is love “honey” rather than fear “vinegar” the outcome will always be perfect for everyone, whatever that outcome may be.”

This is the meaning I ascribed to it first when I heard it in the store. It is in this meaning that I wanted to share it with the community when I started to write the post. Then, since it was a totally new one to me, I wanted to check the meaning before sending the post. As you say, the meaning I saw happens to be one from a five-sensory point of view.

Very interesting indeed.

Thank you so much again.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Doug,

I really love your specificity. That is what I always consider very helpful. Thank you for that first and I definitely see your words as coming from love.

I also want to thank you for an important message you have conveyed. I will address this soon (tomorrow). Today is my wedding anniversary and I am going to focus on that today.

Thank you again and talk to you soon.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Doug,
Thank you so much for sharing your story. That really rung true for me and was very supportive. I have noticed that if I don’t take the time before I respond that I often respond automatically from a fearful place, and realize after that I have done so. It is interesting for me to observe the change in pace of conversation that has to occur for me to respond from a loving place. Do you notice that as well? Sometimes I am comfortable taking the time and then other times I have frightened parts that come up that make me feel the need to respond right away. I am starting to recognize the feeling that arises when I’m in that place and find the courage to pause, reflect, and then respond…or don’t respond. Gary’s recently posted talk on Courage really hit home for me. There is so much courage required to change the way we interact in the world, whether it’s making the decision to not feed into gossip conversation, or admitting to someone you love that you acted from a frightened part, or all the examples in between. It is so nice to be supported by so many others on this journey.
Much love, Ame-Lia

Doug,

Special thanks to you for reading my posts so attentively with an intention of love, recognizing my desire to learn and deciding to refer so directly and specifically to my statement involving the words “you should”. When I was analyzing, I did not consider this part at all. How loving of you to take me right there!

You wrote: “As your spiritual partner, I cannot know your intentions”. Very true – I think this is an important, tricky feature of the Grand Design regarding the Earth school! In the absence of this feature the challenges we face would not be as difficult as they are now. Let me explain to you my intention first.

I truly believe that a strong lp my soul must have decided to bring with me in this lifetime is ‘sharing’. One of my missions in this life has been to share my knowledge with no expectations for anything in return. In my profession I deeply share my science knowledge with my dear, wonderful students. I don’t actually consider it teaching. I just keep sharing my knowledge and I continue to take efforts all the time to deepen that knowledge further and further to make the sharing more and more effective.

In a similar manner, after coming to know and understand the greatness of Gary’s amazing spiritual theory, I continue to share it with quite a few relatives and friends, when opportunities present themselves. I know how excited they feel and want to understand his theory. The soul of a close relative of mine has brought with her the same kind of fp as mine, namely shouting in anger. I share with her Gary’s ideas and explain how that fp can be addressed. She has been taking efforts to challenge and change it. But, when I do so, I follow Gary’s approach. I make it abundantly clear that it is just a suggestion for them to experiment with, making sure that the ideas are not imposed on them.

Sorry about the details and the point is that my intention was to share with the pharmacy staff something relevant to the situation from Gary’s ideas in a very brief manner (I never before had an opportunity to discuss with them anything regarding Gary’s teachings). The intention was not to teach them or try to change them to suit me. Given your valuable input, I now understand the wrong choice of words.

As you have researched into paying attention to the use of words in your own life experiences, can you please suggest alternative expressions I can use in the future in similar situations? I appreciate your help in this regard.

Incidentally, I assume you digressed into the matter you discussed in the second paragraph as your own illustration of the importance of paying attention to “words”. I believe it has no connection to the story I posted, since in that context I don’t think I was using any kind words to be pretentiously polite or so. But, in case I was indeed so and am now missing something, please do not hesitate to let me know so. That will support me.

Thank you again so much for your loving spiritual partnership.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Hi Stephanie,
Thank you for sharing. You mentioned in your previous post “I have become so used to pushing away feeling,” I’m curious if you have continued to notice physical sensations in your body, or if you have pushed them away? I would love to hear what you are experiencing.
Love,
Kristen