Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00308)

At 08:49 AM 11/16/97 -0800, Brenda S. Tucker wrote:
>>Your comment is timely. Also it would very much help if we keep our focus on
>>the critical thing which are our personal objectives/ideals as well as the
>>fact that we need to keep the relevant imporatance of message and the
>messenger.
>>
>>Some time years ago, when someone was grieving for a dead person, a comment
>>was made "let dead bury the dead" and sometimes it seems that this is
>>appropriate when we deal with personalities.
>
>MK,
>
>What do you mean by relevant importance? Isn't someone important for being
>"born in a manger?" Isn't a little 12 year old child important enough to do
>the teaching in the tabernacle? Who did Jesus find important? His message
>was the same to all - love. That's the only message you need. Whether you
>love HPB or Steiner is not important! Because the love you feel makes you
>the Source of your own Truth and it is through this love for all which we
>need to grow.
>
>Some intellectuals only find their "appropriate importance" AND try to
>force the rest of us to live like they do when they are in fact leading us
>astray from our own feelings of adequacy, intelligence, and "listening to
>our higher selves" and not accepting ANY outward authority.
>
Brend: I think we are talking about the same thing and we are on the same
wavelength, at least that is what I feel. Whether you call it love or
compassion or responsibility they are all, IMHO describe the same thing
since words are not the real thing.

Peace

...M...