[tmtranscripts] North Idaho Team 07/17/05

rickgiles rickgiles at icehouse.net
Thu Aug 4 19:05:12 PDT 2005


North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Reflections on the Common Ground Event, Happiness
Teachers: Elyon

July 17, 2005

* Elyon (Jonathan TR): Greetings, this is Elyon. I will
open our contact today by thanking you for your energy given,
the extension of yourselves toward many who gathered with you to
make this past event successful. I know that in your hearts you
are always looking for an opportunity to be of service and to do
so in a context which includes the spiritual dimension. This
occasion that you developed provided a multitude of
opportunities to extend yourselves, from the most basic but
necessary to the profound and sublime.
You are better aware of the requirements in a functional
sense for reaching others in the future. This will be of great
benefit to you, for no degree of planning can ever reveal the
practical requirements. Having many personalities engaged
interjects considerations which are unforeseen by a planning
committee. The recognition of requirement, those events which
must occur, and the allowance for the interjection of
spontaneity are harmonizable when you are experienced as you
have been with a function of this sort.
In an amphitheater there are many places to sit and
observe. There is a platform upon which a directed and planned
presentation may occur. But each seat is occupied by a freewill
individual and every one of them has an experience that is not
simply a reaction to the presentation. It is a melding of each
one’s orientation, their desire for fulfillment, their desire
for increased realization, their desire for entertainment, and
the content of the planned event. While there is a factor of
wholeness, of an experience of entirety as a collective, no
individual sees that grand experience. That is the property of
the Supreme. Each one develops their own contribution, a unique
context, which meshes with and contributes to the whole event.
These individual experiences are priceless, extremely valuable.
You have offered the opportunity for many souls to make
that contribution within themselves to the enlarging brotherhood
of all creatures in time and space. Few are the celestial
personalities who make such grand contributions. Each one of
us, myself included, makes minuscule contributions, apparently
small in quantity, equally large in quality. You have done
well, and you have learned well, and we teachers will support
you in furthering your effort to reach others.
I wish to speak about happiness. Happiness is not a state
of being; it is a function. It is as the flow of a river, as
current in electricity. When it is spoken that one seeks
happiness, one is viewing happiness as an object, a place to
go. In reality the seeking of happiness is merely the need to
throw the switch to make the connection, to open the dam and let
the currents flow. When such a connection is made then is the
feeling of being blessed, of being engaged in purpose, of being
filled with joy; the sense of being precisely where you wish to
be, need to be, and want to be.
When a flood occurs water seems to go everywhere. It is
unrestricted in flow because of volume. The greater the volume,
the less restriction of where it may spread. So is happiness.
The more you make the connection with spirit to matter, to your
terrestrial life, the more opportunity for the flow of joy and
happiness. The greater the volume, the greater the amount of
daily events that are happy. Difficulty and suffering are
submerged; they do not disappear, they are submerged. They
still must be dealt with as one swimming a stream navigates
around rapids. The higher the flow, the easier the course to
take.
You have spent years increasing your aperture, making
yourself experientially aware that everything you do contributes
to your well-being as a child of God. Each activity is
intimately associated with your personality. The presence of
your being determines the spiritual value of that activity.
Therefore with right attitude all your engagements become sacred
opportunities. Every undertaking is identical to entering the
sanctuary, to bow at the feet of the Lord.
Thank you for receiving my thoughts for consideration. I
wish to receive you into conversation.

Jada: You spoke of quality and quantity; we didn’t reach
many people this weekend but the few that we did was a very high
quality experience for them and for us, too.

* Elyon: I am pleased that you have recognized that value,
and I interject that this is proving to be beneficial that you
were not thronged by many people, for this event is your initial
undertaking, and the quantity of attendees was sufficient for
training. Quantity of attendees does not increase the quality
of the experiences.

Mary: I felt we were undertaking this event for others,
yet I found so much in it was wonderful for me. I recall a
session one evening when Michael said to look for the greatest
changes within. I’ve been experiencing that I am taking so much
away from this experience. I feel surprised and in the wonder
of it all, the quality with so few people was profound, not just
as a service project going out but how much came back.

Evelyn: What distinction are you making between happiness
and joy? You spoke of joy recently as the outward expression of
the peace within. Happiness sounds like an attitude; maybe I’m
missing something.

* Elyon: The three words I have expressed: joy, peace, and
happiness, are interconnected. I spoke of peace as a retiring
joy and joy as an expressive, exuberant peace. Happiness is the
movement; it is the velocity of the other two. When joy moves
one feels happy. When peace is experienced one feels happy. I
spoke of joy and peace as two sides of the same coin. Happiness
is the passing of that coin, the transfer.
I will add another comment. Each of you has talents. They
are present due to your personality and your acquirement of
experience. But when a talent is expressed it turns into a
skill. A skill is the outworking, is the functioning, of a
talent which may in itself lay passive for years. When you
develop the ability to express a talent, you acquire skill.
Skill is the activation, and so it is with happiness. It is the
activation of joy or peace. I hope this helps.

Evelyn: Yes, thank you.

Mary: I want to express my gratitude to you for being our
teacher for all these years. I am contented to look back over
the years we have spent together seeing all the changes. It’s
been a joy. Your part is much appreciated. Thank you for being
there all this time. I look forward to the future.

* Elyon: I speak for all my associates when I return my
gratitude to you for your dedication, for your devotion. You
have created opportunities continually for our contact. You
have boldly stepped forward to let others of your kind know of
our availability. Your faith has gone beyond simply seeking for
yourself, but also to make available such contact for others who
may have never considered such an opportunity. We have been
through much together. We have struggled in coming to terms
with accuracy. We have been overjoyed to see a lesson received
and applied and even transformed into a possession. No teacher
could be more satisfied than to observe that in one’s student.
We will be spending much more time together as you are willing
and I am present.

Tom: There’s a triangle there, joy and peace and happiness
when action was taken. Maybe the same thing with the skill and
the talent, when that was activated happiness was the end
result. Maybe those two triangles share a common corner, I
don’t know.

* Elyon: I accept your observation. It is the activation
that these two share. It is in the doing that one more fully
experiences one’s being. Peace you may have all by yourself.
Joy encompasses all. Happiness is the experience of each event,
numerous as they are. This is why you can feel joy even when
troubled. You may not be happy at the time, but joy overlays
all things in your life.
I will release us from our session. I share love with you
and I repeat the words of our Sovereign Son when I say, be of
good cheer. Farewell.

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