The usual life Is Always Actively Involved (Whether Consciously Or Unconsciously) In This Motivated Search and This Native Distress. Therefore, every such a one Is Involved In Programs Of Seeking, Via desire, In all kinds of relations and circumstances.

My Word Is A Direct Address To The Distress and The Search Of each individual. I Do Not Suggest A Way or A Method By Which To Seek. Instead, I Call the individual To Observe himself or herself, To Feel and Examine The Distress That Motivates the life Of Seeking itself.

Through self-Surrendering (and Truly self-Forgetting) Feeling-Contemplation Of My Bodily (Human) Form, My Spiritual (and Always Blessing) Presence, and My Very (and Inherently Perfect) State, and (In The Constant Context Of That Practice Of Feeling-Contemplation) Through Real "Consideration" Of My Heart-Confessions, My Teaching Arguments, My Fundamental Questions, and The Leelas (or Stories) Of All My Work (Whereby I Have Reflected individuals To themselves, and Blessed them To Awaken), Interested (and Truly Devoted) individuals Can (By Grace) Come To Understand (and Transcend) themselves.

The Initial Process Of Listening (To The Degree Of Hearing) Is One Of self-Observation (Truly Felt), Whether By The Primary Practice Of Devotion and Insight Or By The Primary Practice Of Devotion and Faith, Until That self-Observation Becomes A Crisis Of Most Fundamental self-Understanding.

At First (In The Listening Course Of The Way Of The Heart) the individual Becomes Acutely Aware Of his or her Habits Of Seeking, Desiring, Doubting, Believing, Manipulating, Betraying, and Always Returning To The Same Distress and Want. Then, As The Crisis Of Most Fundamental Understanding Approaches, It Suddenly Becomes Clear That All Of That Is Being Motivated By A Constant Feeling Of Distress, Which Is The Result Of self-Contraction In The Face Of all relations and conditions.

This Discovery Is Most Profound. It Is As If a person In Pain Suddenly Discovers That he or she Is Pinching his or her own flesh. (And This Discovery Produces Immediate Relief, As Soon As The Pinching Ceases.) Therefore, As Soon As an individual Discovers That The Painful Search That Occupies his or her life Is Being Created By A Fundamental Feeling Of Distress, attention Is Free To Examine That Distress Itself. And When That Distress Is Directly (and Profoundly) Examined, It Is Discovered That It Is The Result Of A Chronic (and self-Induced) Contraction Of the bodymind, or, Most Simply, The Habitual (and, Ultimately, Always Voluntary and Un-Necessary) Avoidance (or self-Contracting Refusal) Of Relationship and Relatedness.

Every Apparent individual, thing, circumstance, or condition arises, survives, changes, and disappears Dependently (or Always Already Related) Within The Cosmic Universe (Which Is Continuous, Whole, and All-Containing). By Definition (and In Fact) There Is Not (Nor Can There Be) any Separate, self-Contained, Independent, or self-Sufficient conditional individual, thing, circumstance, or event. However, By Reaction To All Apparent Vulnerability, and Otherwise By Forgetting, or By Failing To Notice or Intuit The Whole (and The Inherently Perfect, Which Inherently Transcends Even The Whole), The Tendency Of every conditionally Manifested individual Is To Contract Into (Presumed) Separateness, or a self-Defended and self-Contracted emotional, mental, psychic, physical, and social state Of Isolation, Presumed Independence, and Dramatized Want. This Tendency Is Chronic In every one, and It Is Not Generally Even Inspected, Nor Is It (Without Inspection) Understood. Therefore, every one Seeks. And All Seeking Is Inevitably Frustrated. The self-Contracting Habit (Itself) Is Not (and Cannot Ever Be) Transcended In (or By Means Of) The Search, Because The Search Is Itself The Dramatization Of The self-Contracting Habit Itself.

I Call every one To Feel and To Thoroughly Observe and To Transcend The Habit Of egoity. Eventually, any one who Truly Listens To My Word and, By The Means I Have Given (and Always Give), Fully Embraces The Ordeal Of Feeling-Contemplation (Of Me) and Observation (Of the ego-"I") Will Surely (Truly, and Most Profoundly) Discover The Root Of Seeking and Suffering, Which Is the self-Contraction, The Complex Avoidance Of Relationship, or The Habit Of "Narcissus".

When This Discovery Is (By Grace) Truly and Fully Made and Felt (Relative, Summarily, To Every Aspect Of personal Existence), A Crisis Of Spontaneous (and Not Strategic) Release Is Enjoyed. And When It Is Truly (and Most Fundamentally) Understood That self-Contraction Is The Motivating Pain Of life, It Becomes Increasingly Possible (In every moment Of The Feeling-Contemplation Of My Bodily Human Form, My Spiritual, and Always Blessing, Presence, and My Very, and Inherently Perfect, State) To Enquire Into the self-Contraction ("Avoiding Relationship?") and (Thereby) Feel Beyond the self-Contraction, or, Otherwise, In The Manner Of The Devotional Way Of Faith, To Directly Feel Beyond the self-Contraction, and Thus (Progressively, and Ultimately) To Enjoy A Native Sense Of Freedom (and Fullness Of Being). And any one who Has (Through Responsive Devotional Listening To Me) Thus Become Responsible For This Actively self-Transcending (or Directly Counter-egoic) Feeling-Capability Has Heard Me Truly.

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