Like any good teacher, the Holy Spirit knows more than you do now, but He teaches only to make you equal with Him. You had already taught yourself wrongly, having believed what was not true. You did not believe in your own perfection. Would God teach you that you had made a split mind, when He knows your mind only as whole? What God does know is that His communication channels are not open to Him, so that He cannot impart His joy and know that His children are wholly joyous. Giving His joy is an ongoing process, not in time but in eternity. God’s extending outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Sonship does not communicate with Him as one. So He thought, “My children sleep and must be awakened.” T-6.V.1: 1-8
A Course in Miracles (p. 231). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
What happens when a person is open to communication but other people avoid them? Perhaps the other people don’t know what they don’t know and so see no need to communicate or perhaps there is guilt which engenders fear of punishment and so they lay low as they say. There can be many reasons why a person blocks the ability of other people to communicate. This blocking can be defensive and protective and enables the lack of mutuality which deprives the people of happiness. People do the same thing with God. They block God’s communications.
In Unitarian Universalism some of us covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The application of this principle involves an openness of heart to the communications of others even when distressing.
Today it is suggested that we drop our guard and listen to others even if it scares us and we feel vulnerable.
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