Bashar:
Channeled by
Darryl Anka
From "The Razor's Edge"
6-20-91

The Path of Conviction


What we mean by the razor's edge is the following concept -- many of you
have been exploring the idea of spirituality for quite some time; you have
begun to see certain effects of your metaphysical knowledge manifesting in
your physical reality, making certain  changes here, making certain changes
there.  But now and then we hear many of you say, "Well, I was going along
fine, everything seemed to be rolling along and then, all of a sudden,
everything went, as you say, 'kaput.'  Everything seemed to go down the
drain, everything became more difficult, all the obstacles started cropping
up, and whereas I was doing fine a few weeks ago, all of a sudden
everything seems to be at a standstill, and I do not know what I am doing
wrong."

The idea is to understand the following thing, as you pursue the thing that
excites you the most in life, you begin to narrow down all of the
preferences to those few things that are truly representative of the thing
that excites you, of the path that you really prefer. As you narrow down
these choices, narrow down these preferences, the things that you have to
choose from, that are representative of what you do prefer in life, become
less and less and less, fewer and fewer and fewer.  In other words, whereas
before you may have been able to operate within, shall we say, a certain
wide range of opportunities, now there are fewer and fewer and fewer
opportunities in your life that actually represent the path that you
prefer.

You have less margin of, shall we say, "flop."  You now are required, as
you pursue the idea of what excites you, to have far more precision in
understanding that the choices you make, if they are not representative of
the thing that excites you, then they will not work for you at all. Before
you may have been able, shall we put it this way, to "get away" with things
that were peripheral to the ideas that excited you, that perhaps were not
exactly aligned with it, but still contained some of the elements of the
thing that you knew you preferred.  But each time you choose to take a step
in the direction of the thing that you prefer, and ONLY move in that
direction, you yourself eliminate, eliminate the choices that do not
contain as much of the elements that you prefer in them.  You weed them out
and your path, in a sense, becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.

Now, there is a paradox in this because the idea is, that even though it
may seem that the path becomes narrower, even though it may reduce itself
to a fine line and you may feel as if you are walking a thin tightrope, in
actual fact, this is far more stable.  When you make the choice to stay on
the one line, in the only direction that you really prefer, it becomes
very, very wide, very stable, in the sense that you cannot, in any way,
shape, or form, get off of that path, fall off of that line.  The idea
becomes simply that if you are off it, it is because you are choosing
things that are not as purely representative of the one thing you say
really motivates you, of the one way that you prefer to be.

Now, there is a trick in this as well.  I use the word trick, but you will
understand what I mean.  It is very cleverly arranged, this mechanism,
because as you continue to choose the thing that you prefer, and as you
begin to weed away those choices that do not contain as much of your
preference, another thing starts to happen.  By choosing those things that
excite you, and only those things, all the other things, all the other
choices begin to disappear from you, in a sense, begin to be taken away
from you.  So that sometimes you get to a point where you're moving along
the path that excites you, that you say excites you, and then, perhaps, you
have some second thoughts, perhaps, you find yourself doubting this path
and you look back, look for something else to fall on, and it's not there.
All of a sudden you are staring into an abyss.

You begin to realize that as you make those choices, you are truly, truly,
truly telling the universe, "I want no other choices, other than those that
represent what really excites me, therefore, do not even begin to show them
to me, do not even begin to give me the opportunity to fall back, to settle
for less, to have anything but the choices that really represent what I
want."  And so, perhaps, if you come across those moments of doubts, you
look back and there is nothing, and perhaps this makes you afraid.  But
that's all right,
because it is a way for you to know that your reality is working just fine,
that the universe is supporting you in the doing of the thing that you
really love to do, and is helping you stay aligned with that path by
removing any other choices.

At first, it may cause a few of you to panic a little bit, but it is really
all right.  The safest thing to do, the most stable thing to do, is to
continue to move straight ahead, and only, only, only take those choices
that are really representative of what you know in your heart is really who
you are, your real preference.  That will accelerate you, and it is that
acceleration, that speed, that forward momentum that will keep you securely
aligned on that apparently thin, thin line. The line only needs to be
representative of the one path you choose to be at any given moment, so it
doesn't have to be very wide.  You do not have to feel you that you are
walking a tightrope, you will not fall off, you can only choose to get off.
 But again, you now are beginning to find that the mechanism itself is
giving you fewer choices to get off to the side on.  So you are
streamlining, refining your ability, your mechanism of creation, in this
way.  Do not fear it, do not panic; it is exactly how it is supposed to
work for you.

The razor's edge is all you need, and that that sharpness will cut through
any and all of the so called blocks, and the so called obstacles, allowing
you to have a crystal clarity, allowing you to TRUST your instincts and
your inner sight about the things you say are really representative of the
type of reality you want.  Because you can have it, you CAN have it; you
can have the reality you prefer and nothing but the reality you prefer.
And for many of you this may still sound like it is too good to be true,
but it is not.  Allow yourselves to trust it.  You will accelerate and you
will cut through all the remaining barriers.