A simple seeker was talking to herself, or was she thinking out loud, without making much sound, or possibly much sense, either.
“I may be what I have become, but perhaps what I was to begin with was not entirely my idea. So, how can I know just how much I have become that I can accept responsibility or credit for?”
Spirit would know. This simple seeker was beginning to feel more comfortable interacting with this Voice of Authority in her life, for now.
“Why for now and not later?”
“Now doesn’t necessarily exclude later, does it?”
“That depends.”
“On what?”
“On what now has a potential to exclude in the future.”
“Such as?”
“Recklessly squandering resources today may limit or, in the extreme, exclude them from your future.”
“Is that a general observation or a personal comment?”
“Yes. We each have the potential to improve the quality of life for ourselves and some others, today, tomorrow, and beyond. We also possess the potential to do ourselves and others present and/or future harm, with or without intent to do so.”
“How can we know if what we’re doing may harm ourselves and/or some others?”
“Whatever has potential to do harm today may possess the same potential tomorrow and beyond.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
“Spirit can seem to get so heavy in His thinking, at times. How can we go through life continuously concerned with what future affect will develop from whatever we may be doing, or thinking about doing? I mean, where’s the spontaneity?”
“Spontaneity?”
“Yes. How to be relaxed and enjoy the moment if we have to be concerned with possible dire consequences of everything we do?”
“Not everything you might consider doing will likely have dire consequences.”
“How to know?”
“How to know what?”
“How to know that what I may be doing, or considering doing, has potential to harm myself and/or others?”
“Didn’t we go through that in the so-called lesson?”
“Yes and no.”
“How so?”
“You explained that anything that has potential to do good or harm today might possess the same potential tomorrow and beyond. And yet you didn’t seem to be aware that there isn’t much that we could do today that wouldn’t have potential to do good or harm sometime in the future.”
“Such as?”
“Everything we eat has an affect on the environment, today and beyond.”
“Not everything you might choose to eat will have the same potential to affect the future environment.”
“Everything we might choose to do today may ..”
“Again, not equally.”
“So, how to live in awareness that what we do may have negative affects on our future and/or the future of others, without depriving ourselves of the pleasure of relaxed living?”
“How relaxed?”
“Without unnecessary stress.”
“Any stress is unnecessary.”
“How to prevent it?”
“Be aware of tension.”
“How to become aware of tension?”
“Practice.”
“How?”
“One moment at a time.”
“Isn’t that more of when than how?”
“When and how interact.”
“In what way?”
“Whenever you feel tension, something is causing it, and how you respond determines whether the tension relaxes or develops into stress.”
“What has that to do with potential harm?”
“Stress causes harm to your psychological well-being.”
“Can’t I just make the most sensible choices that I can, and let what will happen?”
“Yes, and that’s the most natural thing for anyone to do.”
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Simple Seekers 