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by Gregg Sanderson<\/span><\/p>\n I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do\u2014including my emotion-backed addictions\u2014as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness. ~ Ken Keyes, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n ********<\/p>\n And then there\u2019s:<\/p>\n Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: * * * * *<\/em><\/p>\n When you get to feeling good all the time, you might tend to get down on yourself if you aren\u2019t always 100% \u201cSpiritual\u201d\u2026 Whatever that means to you.<\/p>\n Ken Keyes wrote The Sixth Pathway for just such moments.<\/p>\n The other day, when I asked a friend how she was doing, she said apologetically that she wasATTEMPTING\u00a0<\/em>to follow the Pathways.\u00a0<\/em>Hey.\u00a0 That\u2019s all any of us can do. No apologies needed.<\/p>\n Think of a ship at sea. The navigator plots the course to the destination, but the winds and currents require regular course corrections.\u00a0 A course correction doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s something wrong with the ship.<\/p>\n It\u2019s that way in life, too. You\u2019ve plotted the course for your \u201cship of life,\u201d then the winds and currents throw you off. No course correction you ever need to make, can ever mean there\u2019s something wrong with you.<\/p>\n In other words, you\u2019re OK, even if you screw up now and then.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, sometimes you have to, just to remember that you haven\u2019t arrived yet.<\/p>\n The sixth pathway addresses one of the most insidious of the limiting beliefs foisted upon you. Every time you turn around you\u2019re told you need something outside of yourself to be OK.<\/p>\n The mark of the con artist is first to convince you there\u2019s something wrong, then of offer you a way out for a simple tribute.<\/p>\n You\u2019re not OK because your clothes are dirty.\u00a0 Buy my soap.\u00a0 I\u2019ll save you<\/p>\n You\u2019re not OK because you\u2019re going to get sick.\u00a0 Buy my pill, I\u2019ll save you.<\/p>\n You\u2019re not OK because times are tough.\u00a0 Vote for me.\u00a0 I\u2019ll save you.<\/p>\n You\u2019re not OK because you\u2019re going to hell.\u00a0 Put a dollar on the plate.\u00a0 I\u2019ll save you.<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t much input these days that just says, \u201cYou\u2019re OK, just the way you are right now.\u00a0 That\u2019s where the sixth pathway comes in.<\/p>\n \u201cI accept myself completely<\/em>\u2026\u201d Every bit of you.\u00a0 Even those extra pounds.<\/p>\n \u201chere and now\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>You\u2019re not going to be OK.\u00a0 You already are.<\/p>\n \u201cand consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n That covers it all.<\/p>\n \u201cincluding my emotion-backed addictions\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/em>It\u2019s OK to get caught up in your \u201cstuff.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cas a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>How else could you become aware of the causes of your suffering?\u00a0 See the Third Pathway.<\/p>\n Now, we\u2019re at the halfway point of the Twelve Pathways.\u00a0 If you follow just these first six, it would be enough to assure your unending happiness\u2026if you live alone in a cave.<\/p>\n For the rest of us, there\u2019s those pesky \u201cothers\u201d we have to deal with.\u00a0 You know who \u201cothers\u201d are, don\u2019t you?\u00a0 It\u2019s anybody who isn\u2019t you\u2014those who never got a grade for \u201c..works and plays well with YOU.\u201d<\/p>\n Yet, there they are and they\u2019re your unavoidable playmates in this sandbox of life, so you might as well learn to love them.<\/p>\n Although it may not look that way from your vantage point, they\u2019re also learning to love you.\u00a0 Follow the rest of the pathways and make it easy for them.<\/p>\n Next Month\u2014 Interacting With Others<\/p>\n *The Twelve Pathways are from the\u00a0Handbook to Higher Consciousness\u00a0<\/em>by Ken Keyes, Jr.\u00a0 Whenever you feel any unpleasant emotions, the Pathways will lead you back.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Gregg Sanderson I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do\u2014including my emotion-backed addictions\u2014as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness. ~ Ken Keyes, Jr. ******** And then there’s: Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[9,11,17,26],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-the-love-collection","tag-emotions","tag-forgiveness","tag-love","tag-release","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf you\u2019re alive, it isn\u2019t. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014<\/em>Richard Bach \u2013\u00a0Illusions<\/em><\/p>\n