With lectures given every month for over twenty years, the body of material that comprises these teachings is extensive. Over the years, the Guide offered several lectures to help summarize what this work is about.
#25 The Path: Initial Steps, Preparation and Decisions
#193 Resume of the Basic Principles of the Pathwork: Its Aims and Process
#204 What is the Path?
If we feel ready to delve further into these teachings, we can trust our own guidance about which lectures or Q&As to read next. Avoid the temptation to satisfy the ego’s thirst for knowledge if it wants to read everything before doing anything. We could liken that to a thirsty person trying to drink from a fire hose, unable to get the few cups of water really needed right now. A garden hose would be a wiser choice.
Also know that little may actually change in our life if we only read this material. Some openings will surely happen and shifts may occur. But we must apply these teachings to the everyday happenings in our lives to really make progress.
If we are ready to do this work, we will be guided to someone who can help us. We can pray to align with our Higher Self—the part that wants to heal. This is our true Godself and it is worth searching for.
“Two birds were sitting on a wire. One made a decision to fly south for the winter. Now how many birds are sitting on the wire? Two. The one only made a decision.”
– Shared by someone anonymously at an AA meeting
Find Helpers around the world through the global Pathwork website.
The road we are on is a long one with many twists and turns, which is true whether one follows a spiritual path such as this or not. This path the Guide is leading us on is particularly narrow in the way it calls for rigorous self-honesty. But by following it we can accomplish in one lifetime what might otherwise take twenty.
It is a long journey. But God’s laws have been created so that eventually all will arrive once again in God’s loving embrace. We have all the time in the world. But how much time do we really want to take?
From Proverbs and Tiny Songs
II
Why should we call
these accidental furrows roads?…
Everyone who moves on walks
like Jesus, on the sea.
VI
You walking, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing else;
there is no road, walker,
you make the road by walking.
By walking you make the road,
and when you look backward,
you see the path that you
never will step on again.
Walker, there is no road,
Only wind-trails in the sea.
– By Antonio Machado (1875–1939),
translated by Robert Bly
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