The Work and Challenges

The Work and Challenges - (4115)

A challenge is something of a pressure. Something that we can either accept or not. It is a call to jump to a higher level inside of ourselves.

All the challenges that exist require that we exert ourselves. If they don't do that they are not a challenge.

Challenges in the work require that we exert our consciousness. That we apply pressure on ourselves to make our consciousness to work to answer the challenge.

There are many types of challenges, however, the challenges that are real for us are all to do with our present weaknesses or our potential to develop.

In the pressure to exert our consciousness we may find ourselves needing to draw on one quality more than others...

On intelligence, on wisdom, on love, on patience, on trust, on endurance...

The effort of the consciounsess in a challenge is always about putting our attention on our consciousness, focusing our consciounsess to find what we need, using our consciousness to develop what we need so that we can rise to answer it.

Every challenge is by default something currently above us.

A common denominator to all challenges are the following: a positive attitude to face them, the acceptance that effort is needed and the knowledge that they will improve us.

You know what also happens is that surmounting one hurdle leads to other challenges... That we have also to accept...Thus our devlopment never stops...

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Attention with Mind, Attention with Essence - (5197)

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