What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?
Request: [teaching is from] ACIM lesson 268.
Brian Gibbs
contextualizing negativity / suffering as God’s Will
Request: Seems like blatant falsehood and naïveté to think that God has anything to do with suffering/negativity and having it done so in context for our “Highest Good”.
to comfort another
Request: To be there for them in whatever way is contextually appropriate.
perfecting one's intention
Request: “The true crux of spiritual work is to perfect our intention, which is done by surrendering false contexts (under 200) and their payoffs regarding any and all content” -- article: Map of Spiritual Progress.
Matthew 17:20
Including, "if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."
faith = magnitude
Correlation of these. Spiritually speaking, magnitude is the amount or intensity of a quality in consciousness comparable to "amperage."
self-esteem = magnitude + projected value
"one cannot discover his true, innate power while simultaneously manipulating his self-esteem energy levels by belief"
"The degree of one’s faith in a practice or pathway empowers it"
Request: Doc says in a lecture, “Therefore, the degree of one’s faith, empowers it (the spiritual path/evolution of consciousness).”
Map of Spiritual Progress
A key for understanding consciousness calibration results.
To Be Enlightened... (Doc video clip)
“You don’t have to do anything to be enlightened except stop being unenlightened.”
stake everything on one card
Request: The opposite of keeping one's options open.
Johnny Depp
"His films, in which he has often played eccentric characters, have grossed over $10.8 billion worldwide" -- wikipedia.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Personal LoC and social impact.
level: being a blessing to this world
When what you have become raises the "level of the sea for all boats."
wishful thinking
"interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are" -- dictionary.com.