Study Group

    Jerry: When I was a kid, I associated with poor people primarily, and we used to make fun of those who were wealthy-we criticized those who drove luxury cars, for instance. And so, as an adult, when it came time that I would like to have owned a  Cadillac, I couldn't bring myself to drive one because I felt that people would make fun of me as I lad made fun of the others. So I drove a Mercedes because years ago people kind of thought that they were "economy" cars.
   

    The only way I could bring myself to drive a Cadillac, which I  finally did, was to bridge my thoughts by saying, Well, by buying this car, I put all those people to work who put this car together. I created jobs for all the people who supplied the parts and the materials-the leather, the metal, the glass-and the craftsmen, and so on....And in that justification, then I was able to buy the car. So somehow I discovered a process of bridging my thoughts that helped me allow that symbol of success into my experience.

    Abraham: Your process of bridging thoughts is an effective one. When you want to feel good and you gradually find increasingly beter-felling thoughts, you are bringing yourself into alignment with your desire and you are releasing the resistance that is preventing your improved conditions. Focusing on opposing opinions of others is never productive because it always causes discord within you, which also prevents your improved condition. There will always be others who disagree with you, and your attention to them will always cause you to vibrationally disagree with your own desires. Listen to your own Guidance System-by paying attention to how you are feeling-in order to determine the appropriateness of your desires and behaviors.
   

    There will always be someone, no matter which side of any subject you choose, who does not harmonize with you. And that is why we speak so firmly, and want so much for you to understand, that your greatest endeavor is to find harmony with who-you-really-are. If you would trust in yourself-if you could believe that throught all that you have lived you have come to a place of very strong knowing, and that you can trust the way you feel as your personal form of Guidance about the appropriateness or inappropriateness of that you are contemplating doing-then you would utilize your Guidance System in the way that it was really intended.

Criticize (v)批評,批判,評論,評價
associate with (v)聯合  
primarily (adv)首先,起初,原來
for instance (ph)例如
lad (n)少年,男孩,小伙子
economy (adj)經濟的,廉價的

bridge (v)把...連結(或彌合)起來
leather (n)皮革(製品)
metal (n)金屬(製品)
glass (n)玻璃(製品)
craftsmen (n)工匠;技工;巧匠;工藝師
justification (n)辯護;辯解;正當的理由;藉口
symbol (n)象徵

effective (adj)有效的
gradually (adv)漸漸地
increasingly (adv)漸增地;越來越多地
alignment (n)隊列,一直線,調準,校直,結盟;組合
align (v)把...排列(成一行),排成直線,使結盟;使密切合作,【物】匹配;調準,校直
release (v)釋放,放鬆
resistance (n)抵抗,阻力
prevent (v)防止,預防
improved conditions (n)改善的情況
productive (adj)富有成效的,有收穫的
discord (n)不一致
vibrational (adj)搖擺的,震動的
Guidance System (ph)【空】【海】制導系統
determine (v)決定
appropriateness (n)適合,適當,相稱

harmonize with (v)協調,和諧
firmly (adv)堅定地;堅決地
endeavor (n)努力
contemplate (v)思忖,思量,仔細考慮
intend (v)想要,打算,打算使...(成為);(為...而)準備,意指,意思是
 
    People always think a lot because they mind or care about the judgment from others. In this situation, we can't do what we really want and that makes us feel not so good. So we try to make some justification to convince others. Although this action is an effective one, I don't think making the justification really works. It is because, in fact, the person who you really want to convince is yourself. Therefore, I think that the most essential thing we should do is paying attention to how we are feeling-in order to determine the appropriateness of our desires and behaviors. So trust ourselves and find harmony with who-you-really-are.