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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 621550" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>I had to post this...this is further confirmation that the path we are all trying hard to take had a spiritual foundation and that God has planned this for us. I see this evidence all around me. My difficult child MUST answer the question of his own significance. I did all I could to help him but he has today chosen a path that tells me he does not value himself. His addiction is what he values. Unless and until he stops, and sees that HE himself is worthy of all things good, and gets ready to fight the fight, nothing will change. And I have learned this lesson myself in the past four years, at this AGE. What in the world took me so long? I was putting others' significance way ahead of my own. I was not as significant as they were. Today, I am as significant as they are, and that is a blessing. We must all walk the path. Some of the paths are rockier than others. As he says below, we can't "do a nonstop flight to the second half of life by reading about it..." Or having somebody else make it smooth for us. This is so good. This is what we are all talking about here, every day. </p><p></p><p>Container and Contents</p><p>Monday, March 3, 2014</p><p></p><p>The task of the first half of life is to create a proper container for your life and answer the first essential questions: “What makes me significant?” “How can I support myself?” and probably “Who will I go with?”</p><p></p><p>The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver. The container is not an end in itself, but exists for the sake of your deeper and fullest life, which you largely do not know about yourself! How could you? You have not been there yet.</p><p></p><p>The two halves of life are cumulative and sequential, and both are very necessary. You cannot do a nonstop flight to the second half of life by reading about it. Grace must and will edge you forward. Only you can do your own journey; no one can do it for you. If you try to skip the first journey, you will never see its real necessity and also its limitations; you will never know why this first container must fail you, the wonderful fullness of the second half of the journey, and the relationship between the two.</p><p></p><p>Once a person has transcended and included the earlier stages, he or she is able to have a patient understanding of the “juniors” on the first part of the journey, because “I was there once!” That is precisely what makes such people elders. Higher stages of consciousness always empathetically include the lower, or they are not higher stages!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 621550, member: 17542"] I had to post this...this is further confirmation that the path we are all trying hard to take had a spiritual foundation and that God has planned this for us. I see this evidence all around me. My difficult child MUST answer the question of his own significance. I did all I could to help him but he has today chosen a path that tells me he does not value himself. His addiction is what he values. Unless and until he stops, and sees that HE himself is worthy of all things good, and gets ready to fight the fight, nothing will change. And I have learned this lesson myself in the past four years, at this AGE. What in the world took me so long? I was putting others' significance way ahead of my own. I was not as significant as they were. Today, I am as significant as they are, and that is a blessing. We must all walk the path. Some of the paths are rockier than others. As he says below, we can't "do a nonstop flight to the second half of life by reading about it..." Or having somebody else make it smooth for us. This is so good. This is what we are all talking about here, every day. Container and Contents Monday, March 3, 2014 The task of the first half of life is to create a proper container for your life and answer the first essential questions: “What makes me significant?” “How can I support myself?” and probably “Who will I go with?” The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver. The container is not an end in itself, but exists for the sake of your deeper and fullest life, which you largely do not know about yourself! How could you? You have not been there yet. The two halves of life are cumulative and sequential, and both are very necessary. You cannot do a nonstop flight to the second half of life by reading about it. Grace must and will edge you forward. Only you can do your own journey; no one can do it for you. If you try to skip the first journey, you will never see its real necessity and also its limitations; you will never know why this first container must fail you, the wonderful fullness of the second half of the journey, and the relationship between the two. Once a person has transcended and included the earlier stages, he or she is able to have a patient understanding of the “juniors” on the first part of the journey, because “I was there once!” That is precisely what makes such people elders. Higher stages of consciousness always empathetically include the lower, or they are not higher stages! [/QUOTE]
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