Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Julian Edwards- KabU Instructor]

Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Verena]

I feel very much in those two environments or worlds at the same time now- the spiritual one and the corporeal one. And the more I learn about connection and prayer and the upper force, the more I feel or sense how different they both are. It’s  a big change in my perspective to actually feel those differences and it challenges my perception and concepts. It’s challenging, too, to give both its place and not muddle it up…especially now, when it’s all still new and undeveloped, but still so strong.

In a way, in terms of spirituality, all of this is mindblowing, and so beautiful, but to think of working in a group also challenges my need to trust. After all, it’s all about humans, and while maybe nothing is coincidental and even conflicts are great to learn, I feel a bit insecure about what working in a spiritual group will be like.

[Branden]

I also appreciated how we must have a positive kind of envy, which is one that appreciates the greatness of the friend because I also the love the friend. And we can measure our progress by how much we can maintain this attitude toward our friends without succumbing to negative jealousy.

[Branden]

Seeing the friends as greater than myself is so crucial because that is the only way I can receive from them. How can you receive from someone when you think you’re better than them?

 

 

 

 

[Koena]

I learned that absorbing other peoples desires and feelings is the quickest way to elevate my prayer.

[Nn]

I learned how big my ego is and how “smart” it is at coating my intentions, desires and pretty much everything in a sauce that sounds and feels so… holy, but is yet another way to fulfill my desire to receive.

I learned prayer, because I asked for it, I asked to be changed and was eventually overrun by pain and put in a place to decide: faith above reason, thanks to the Good that does Good, or lost within reason and ego? The hardest thing was to give thanks in the midst of that sheer pain, but LOVE was there, holding my hands and I HAD to stop fighting and open my eyes to what I was blessed enough to See in front of me.

Thank you all!

[Esther]

Expanding my understanding and experience of prayer. To enter prayer with praise and thanksgiving towards the creator, whether I feel it or not – especially if I don’t feel it – and trust that he is the good that does good. I’m not sure if it was in this lesson or in lessons from Rav Laitman or in the readings, but I was deeply impressed this week that growth comes by staying in a heart space of gratitude for everything – I worked with the fact that in and of myself I am completely unable to have the experience of drawing close to the creator in ALL things. Gratitude for the heartbreaking difficulties of life can only be accomplished with the help of the Creator, the teachers, the writings and the friends.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.    Proverbs 3:5-6

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