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DEPENDENCY
clear understanding without yielding to all sorts of logic for sloth and other intellectual aberrations we need to learn through implementing the commandments 1,5,6 and 7 the attitude and ability to live in the state of dependency. Dependency enables us to live by the principle of ‘Letting Go’, which has been fully explained by the Master in his commentary on the commandment seven.
The ability to let go complements attentiveness. Attentiveness allows us to be aware of our negative thoughts, beliefs and feelings. With the awareness and insights we can then let go of them. Since we spend almost every waking hour seeking, acquiring, grasping and clinging on to things, we have the tendency to resist letting go. In fact, most people find it extremely difficult to let go of anything and particularly of feelings and beliefs. This is because we have learned to identify our feelings and beliefs as ourselves. We think we are our feelings and beliefs. Thus we fight and struggle to keep these feelings and beliefs in an effort to
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