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Cottleston pie tao of pooh11/29/2023 Please give me a slice of Cottleston Pie. Please give me a slice of my inner nature. I’m not quite there yet at realizing my nature as an invaluable resource for accomplishment, but I’m working on it. In time, you will realize that it is an invaluable resource for accomplishment, for you have a calling in the world.” Prior to this you will resist your nature, thinking it is a limitation upon you. In other words, you are made specifically for something that you have not yet comprehended. This will erase all cause you have for self-condemnation, for your nature represents a usefulness that you have not yet realized. As your calling emerges, you will realize why you think and act the way you do, and all of this will be brought into true balance and harmony. It is for this reason that your mind is the way it is and that you have a specific nature that is distinct from others. “You have a calling in this world because you were sent here to do something. Steps to Knowledge makes such a promise in Step 231, “ I have a calling in this world.” I trust my deepest inclinations, and it seems to help. In the world of Knowledge, I find things to be good for, and they find me. But in the world of Knowledge, it is as if people rest under my sheltering branches, and stroll beneath me, enjoying the bumps on my branches. I sometimes feel like I have been like Hui-tse’s crooked, tough, bumpy tree, not good for being made into things. I have felt utterly uncooperative in not responding to their efforts to make me into something. People have had beautiful dreams of making me into something all my life. Since it would not be endangered by an axe, what could threaten its existence? It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in its proper way.” But you could make use of the shade it provides, rest under its sheltering branches, and stroll beneath it, admiring its character and appearance. “You complain that your tree is not valuable as lumber. But for all its strength, it cannot catch a mouse.” It stands like a stone, or a cloud in the sky. On the other hand, a huge yak is not easily caught or overcome. But when its attention is focused on such things, it can be easily caught with a net. Crouching low, it can leap in any direction, pursuing whatever it is after. “As you know,” Chuang-tse replied, “a cat is very skilled at capturing its prey. Therefore, no one pays attention to them.” Your teachings are the same–useless, without value. No builder would turn his head to look at it. Its branches and trunk are crooked and tough, covered with bumps and depressions. Hui-tse said to Chuang-tse, “I have a large tree which no carpenter can cut into lumber. “What has disappointed you but the misappropriation of your abilities? What grieves and angers you but the misappropriation of other people’s abilities.”īenjamin Hoff connected this song to a passage from the writings of Chuang-tse: If a fish judges itself by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. It merely pinpoints the real purpose behind your individuality and its great promise for the future. “This distinction does not elevate you above or place you below anyone else. Step 12 of the 365 steps of Steps to Knowledge is “ My individuality is to express life itself.” Steps to Knowledge, the book of spiritual practice of the New Message from God, addresses this subject. It sounds a little unfair to the fly to me. The chapter that resonated with me is the chapter titled “Cottleston Pie,” a song that Winnie-the-Pooh sang in the 1926 children’s classic “Winnie-the-Pooh” by A. A particular chapter in this book spoke eloquently to my condition. The universe recommended “The Tao of Pooh” by Benjamin Hoff to me in this way. I consider this a small nudge from the universe. Every so often people in two unrelated corners of my world recommend a book to me.
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