12 Finding out the truth about ourselves, including our faults

Apr 6, 2023

The discussion dives into the challenges of the spiritual journey and the importance of inner work to achieve genuine happiness. It explores how our faults and fears block love and understanding, impacting others negatively. Listeners learn to confront the Lower Self and seek deeper self-knowledge through honest feedback and humility. The episode emphasizes daily practices to align with spiritual laws and the necessity of grappling with unconscious beliefs. Ultimately, it's about choosing the path of growth and trusting in a higher power.

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INSIGHT

Difficulty Is Tailored Not Punitive

The spiritual path is hard but not impossibly so; God tailors challenges to our capacity.
Underestimating or overestimating difficulty feeds the lower self's excuses and stalls growth.

ADVICE

Ask For Guidance And Prioritize Inner Work

Put your spiritual work into God's hands and ask for guidance when doubts arise.
Treat inner work as foundational, not a bolt-on activity that drains other life areas.

INSIGHT

Inner Work Drives Outer Change

Solving inner errors is the true route to solving outer problems through cause and effect.
This path yields concrete life improvements after repeated inner victories, not instant miracles.

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If we apply these teachings to our lives, they will work for us in finding out the truth. There is nothing we must believe…If we want to become capable of experiencing genuine happiness, we must learn how to course-correct back into alignment with spiritual laws… None of this can happen by merely concentrating on our outer problems. We must look deeper and find the corresponding inner problems, which always, always, always are the cause of the outer ones…

Expressing our love for God in our beautiful prayers and profound meditations is a wonderful thing. But we must also do the work. And what is “the work?” Just this: to master the Lower Self…As long as we don’t recognize how our Lower Self works, it will continue to rule the roost, hiding behind handy excuses and cloaking its devious ways…

We might perform a nice act and check the box on good-deeds-done-for-today, but if our actions aren’t supported by good, clean feelings, this doesn’t count for much…We will need to learn to grapple with the unconscious mind, which is where the Lower Self operates…

Every fault we harbor stands like a brick wall in the way of unfolding pure loving feelings or insight or understanding. It’s in this way that we do indeed do harm to others. All the livelong day…Another equally impactful hindrance is our fears, which we generally don’t put in the same category as faults…Our fears are like a wet blanket on our inner light of love and understanding; after all, when we are in fear, we are not in truth. So on this path of purification, we will not only come face to face with our faults—our character weaknesses—we will need to face all our fears…

Asking another to tell us how they see us, especially our faults, is tricky business…The best approach is to go with the one who knows us best…We can ask for guidance in receiving unpleasant truths from others. So then their input can be used in a productive way…If our wish to overcome our faults is sincere, we will have made the very best beginning one could imagine…

For certain, this path is a difficult one. But God is not the one making it so hard…We must never lose sight of this truth: everything we suffer from in life results from—directly or indirectly—our shortcomings and our fears. If we had no shortcomings, we would have no fear. And our fear and insecurities are what make us so miserable. They spoil everything.

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Bones, Chapter 12: Finding Out the Truth about Ourselves, Including Our Faults

Read Original Pathwork® Lecture: #26 Finding One's Faults