THESE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WE NEED TO ASK OUR SELVES

  1. Why am I here in this community ?
  2. What drew me here in the first place ?
  3. What do I want to get out of it ?
  4. What do I want to give to it ?
  5. When I feel disgruntled and it’s not fair, – why do I feel like that ?
  6. Am I here to make money ?
  7. Am I here to feel safe and companionable ?
  8. Am I here to serve, not just myself, but the greater whole ?
  9. Why does this community exist ?
  10. Do I consider this is a spiritual Community  –
    or just an educational community ?
  11. If the latter –
    you will find a number of communities which are there solely for education.
    Why not go and find one ? This is a spiritual community, first and foremost.
    I feel we very often forget that and that is why the gripes and discontent. We are each responsible for ourselves.
    We are free to choose what to do, where we work, etc., etc.
  12. No-one is pushing us around – or do you feel pushed around ?
    If so – why don’t you say so ?
  13. Why don’t you leave and go elsewhere?
    No-one is holding you here, you, and you alone make the choice.
  14. Is this the right place for me ?
    – ask yourself.

Don’t push these questions aside, it is very important you not only consider them but that each one of us meditates, attunes to them and comes up with the right answer.
Unless we can do, there will always be discontent and dissatisfaction
– that is not what this community is all about.
Can we find unity in diversity?

“A house (or a community) divided cannot stand”.

Unity is essential, unity on the higher levels, the spiritual levels.
Can we find that first and foremost ?
Then I feel all will fall into place because we are putting the Divine first
and not just ourselves and our wants.

I know you have heard all this before,
but have you done anything about it?
Have you sat down, asked yourself these questions
– and answered honestly?
If not why not?
– are you afraid of the answer?

 

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(COIF Editor: In 2015 Keith Armstrong received this document from Rory O’Connell and put it in the Findhorn Foundation Online Archive. Rory had found it again amongst his papers and subsequently put it in the Rainbow Bridge. We think Eileen wrote it in the 1980s.)