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Something to Think About

by

Charles R. Crooks

A series to statements made to another involved in the Good Work; experiencing some difficulties with their co-partner. Flexibility is the process where the truth is examined without interference from the outer ego. Always ready to consider that we might not be correct in our observation. In doing so, examination and resistance to our ideals becomes a pleasure and not a burden.

Regarding the mundane, true Reality can destroy one’s perspective unless that perspective is clear. The Work provides that clarity once known. Some claim to have balanced both Reality and the Work. I’m impressed. If that being true, then how can one blame someone else for anything at all affecting yourself, let alone your health? That would be like saying that someone else is greater than you. Are they your Master? And are you and your health totally dependent upon their desires? Some people just have too much power.

Have some not in the least considered that some of the problems they’re having are of their own making? It seems by various complaints received, that many might be pretty good at blaming someone else as the cause of their problems. This was evident in one’s repetitious complaints, demonstrating they did not seem to get it. Either they’re pretty impressed with themselves or at least convinced thereof, or they have a tendency to only look at what is safe. "After all, it is someone else’s fault that one would have all these problems". It is very safe approach and guarantees that we do not have to look at our own weaknesses.

It is our own unhappiness and arrogance that brings a closed heart condition. Another is not powerful enough to force this upon us. Check your basic stuff. All functions and actions that are benevolent, loving, compassionate, non-judgmental, are beneficial to the heart, anything to the contrary causes problems.

I cannot make a judgment upon one for this, nor will I ever. As that is not in my Work or attitude. I will just point out that from previous communications and the nature of these communications, a certain degree of wisdom has prevailed. However, the nature of the statements received seemed to throw all that down the drain. We all have lapses, that when you are in your normal mode, your talents naturally expose themselves. Therefore I complimented you, excepting in these particular communications of complaint.

As being involved in the Work, each of us functions differently as needed. These are the primary conditions which binds us all together. Our strengths are in each of us, not as separate possessing individuals, but as parts of the whole. Therefore, for these strengths to become fully functional in ourselves, we cannot live in an isolationist world thinking we have all the answers, correct attitudes, and or special privileges. Thinking that we are the teachers without the built-in respect for the other, problems will manifest. We might even try to force correction on another, thus finding resistance to that attempted correction. The perception appears rebellious and with that, anger and resistance become our first tools observed and used. We will fail to look at our process and or methods, let alone the subject we are trying to impress upon another. Is it possible that what you’re trying to impose is inaccurate and the other’s resistance to that inaccuracy offends your intellect? It is this type of attitude and separateness that causes our weaknesses and failures.

I have heard of your many accomplishments and hold in high regard of those, however, I do not consider you or anyone else outside of the whole, and therefore not my superior nor my inferior, but another involved in the work utilizing their current talents toward a common goal. I am a supporter of the Good Work that you do.

Therefore, I implore that the nature of the Good Work becomes that which is of prime importance subverting to no other thing or action. That each day, give thanks to all that there is, as by our frailty proves, that our very existence is a gift indeed.