matrixport wrote:

"Well here's your Elvis/tea connection. Just to keep it all within topic of course:


ELVIS’ SEARCH FOR GOD
By JESS STEARN with Elvis’ Close Friend and Spiritual Confidant Larry Geller
Greenleaf Publications- Tennessee
Copyright 1998
Isbn 1-883729-07-6

Page 53
Elvis pored over the Bible and the books Larry brought with him. Elvis would make sure he had extra copies of The Impersonal Life, which he would give away to the girls who thronged around him. But with it all, Elvis, after months of heavy reading, was the same Elvis, still working in his purpose, still pondering his relationships with his twin and his God, still feeling that his life was drifting with one idiotic movie after another. “My eyes are burning from all the books you’ve given me, Larry, and I don’t feel any wiser. Actually, I’m more confused than ever.” Larry had been through it. “It takes time, Elvis. You’ve been jamming too much into your head to quickly. It hasn’t had a chance to settle in. You’re not a computer. You can’t program yourself like a machine to produce the higher awareness you need to communicate with the Lord.”

Doubt was written in Elvis’ handsome face. He held up a copy of The Impersonal Life. Then why do you have me reading and re-reading all this stuff?” “You’re planting the seeds. Let them grow. It is told that a pupil complained to his master, “Master, I have done my daily meditations. I follow all the rules. I obey your instructions. Why, then, am I still in darkness, no closer to God, after I have applied myself so faithfully?” the master brought out a teakettle. He filled his pupil’s cup and kept pouring even as it overflowed. As the pupil watched the tea brimming over the cup, he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s already full. No more tea can go into the cup.” The master smiled. “Exactly. Like the cup, you have no more room inside. So you must empty your cup. Get rid of your ego and make room for God. You want a soul mate who is at the spiritual level you seek. But you’ve got to be ready.”


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