FORTY

解

LIBERATION

CONCERNS: The opportunity to free ourselves from our current rigidities and begin a new cycle; resolving problems by finding openings, rather than by forcing; choosing forgiveness, which liberates us from the emotional past.

1. After achieving liberation, we need to recuperate and regenerate before we act.
2. Now is the time to move unhesitatingly toward our goal.
3. We will experience humiliation if we misrepresent ourselves to gain approval.
4. Leaving self-centered associates enables us to attract strong, creative friends with whom we can accomplish our mission.
5. By practicing sincerity, by being cooperative, we free ourselves from negativity.
6. The obstacle to liberation is eliminated.

COMMENT: How can we go about eliminating our negativity, doubts and fears? First, we must consciously reorient ourselves in all that we do and think, turning to and striving toward the Subtle World, the spiritual Reality that underlies all manifestation. Constant work in this direction produces, eventually, a living connection with this Reality. Second, we should deliberately and systematically confront our habitual reactions, seeing them more and more objectively. This synergistic, dual practice creates a mature, spiritual development, the evidence of which is the receding of negativity.