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You have surely noticed an emphasis throughout our recent lessons on the connection between fulfilling your function and achieving happiness. This is because you do not really see the connection. Yet there is more than just a connection between them; they are the same. Their forms are different, but their content is completely one.
The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. It is not a two-way battle. The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. He knows what your function is. He knows that it is your happiness.
Broadcasting in total the unity and singleness
of purpose of the universe.
A spiritually maturing consciousness will inevitably have a strong necessity to establish and often proclaim its antecedents. The whole idea of a spiritual path is in reality nothing more than an attempt to identify and validate self-consciousness. Is there anyone in the world with the discernment to see that the admonition: “Know Yourself” or “To thine own self be true” is paradoxical?
Knowledge cannot be gained by your perceptions and is most certainly not conceptional. That’s the whole dilemma. You actually believe you can have a conception of yourself, or selfness.
