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Your mind holds the past, your body holds the present, your soul holds the future. If people brag and show off a lot, it raises the question, what do they dislike about themselves so much that they feel they have to get others to like them to compensate? Because if you do not believe that you create your own reality, then you will experience your reality as something you did not create . . .proving that you create your own reality. Its not that people dont like themselves completely. Its just that theres a part of themselves they dont like, and so the ego compensates by trying to get other people to like them. Of course, they dont show the part of themselves they dont like to others until this growing intimacy of a relationship makes it impossible not to. When they finally do, and when the other person acts surprised, and maybe even negatively, then they can assure themselves that they were right about this aspect of themselves being unlikableand the whole circle continues. You are notfirst and foremost I want to tell you that you are notyour past. You are not your yesterdays. You are not what you did yesterday, what you said yesterday, what you thought yesterday. What you are invited to do is live in the moment. Create your Self anew in the present moment. This allows you to separate your Self from your former ideas about youa remarkable percentage of which are foundation ed in other peoples ideas about you. Let go of your past. Letting go of it does not mean forgetting it. It means

stopping the holding on, ending the clinging to your past as if you are going to drown without it. You are drowning because of it. Stop using your past to keep you afloat in your ideas of Who You Are. Let go of these old logs and swim to a new shore. Is this Who I Am? Its the most important question you will ever ask yourself. You may ask it profitably before and after every decision in your life, from what clothes to wear, to what job to take, from whom to marry, to whether to marry at all. And certainly it is a key question to ask when you catch yourself in behaviors you say you want to discontinue. And this will change long-held character traits or behaviors?Try it. Do not be who you thought you were, be who you wish you were. Thats a big difference. Its the biggest difference of your life. Up to now youve been being who you thought you were. From now on you are going to be a product of your highest wishes. Can I really change that much?Of course you can. But remember: its not about changing, and thus suddenly becoming acceptable. Youre acceptable right now in the eyes of God. You are only changing because you choose to change, you choose a newer version of your Self. Fear and guilt are the only enemies of man. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do we let go of fear and guilt?By deciding to. It is an arbitrary decision, based on nothing but personal preference. You simply change your mind about yourself, and how you choose to feel. It is as your Harry Palmer says: Only a decision is required to change ones mind. My intention is to allow you to choose your own outcomes, to create and experience your own reality. Your history is a record of what you have intended. Sodo you want your life to take off? Begin at once to imagine it the way you w a n t i t t o b e - a n d m o v e into that. C h e c k e v e r y t h o u g h t , w o r d , a n d a c t i o n t h a t does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those. When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your higher vision,

change to a new thought, then and there. When you say a thing that is out of alignment with your grandest idea, make a note not to say something like that again. When you do a thing that is misaligned with your best intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was involved if you can. I have intended, since there is no separation between us. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will. Y think it into being. This is the first step in creation. God ou the Father is thought. Your thought is the parent which gives birth to all things. The First Law is that you can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. The Second Law is that you attract what you fear. Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never ever dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever A thought is forever . . This place of knowing is a place of intense and i n c r e d i b l e g r a t i t u d e . I t i s a thankfulness in advance. And that, perhaps, is the biggest key to creation: to be grateful before, a n d f o r , t h e c r e a t i o n . S u c h t a k i n g f o r g r a n t e d i s n o t o n l y condoned, but encouraged. It is the sure sign of mastery. All Masters k n o w i n advance that the deed has been done. If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not e n j o y, b l e s s i t a n d simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing. Do this magnificently and the rest of the world will follow you. Ask it to. Call for it to. Say I am the Life and the Way, follow me.This is how to manifest Gods will on Earth as it , is in Heaven. You get your life to take off by first becoming very clear in your thinking about it. Think about what you want to be, do, and have. Think about it often until you a r e v e r y c l e a r a b o u t t h i s . T h e n , w h e n y o u a r e v e r y c l e a r, think about nothing else. Imagine no other possibilities. Throw all negative thoughts out of your

mental constructions. Lose all pessimism. R e l e a s e a l l d o u b t s . Re j e c t a l l f e a r s . D i s c i p l i n e y o u r m i n d t o h o l d f a s t t o t h e original creative thought. When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as truths. Say them out loud. Use the great command that calls forth creative power: I am. Make I - a m s t a t e m e n t s t o o t h e r s . I a m i s t h e s t r o n g e s t c r e a t i v e s t a t e m e n t i n t h e universe. Whatever you think, whatever you say, after the words I am sets into motion those experiences, calls them forth, brings them to you. There is no other way the universe knows how to work. The universe responds to I am as would a genie in a bottle. Harnessing your thoughts, exercising control over them, is not as difficult as it might seem. (Neither, for that matter, is climbing Mt. Everest.) It is all a matter of discipline. It is a question of intent. The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about. When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughtsthoughts that negate your highest idea about a thingthink again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrums, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if youll never get it back together again, think again. Y can train yourself to do this. To live your life without expectation ou without the need for specific resultsthat is freedom. That is Godliness. That is how I live. Yet I tell you this: your focus upon the otheryour obsession with the otheris what causes relationships to fail. What is the other being? What is the other doing?What is the other having? What is the other saying?Wanting? Demanding? What is the other thinking?Expecting? Planning? The Master understands that it doesnt matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesnt matter what the other is thinking,expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.

This losing of the Self in a relationship is what causes most of the bitterness in such couplings. Two people join together in a partnership hoping that the whole will be greater than the sum of the parts, only to find that its less. They feel less than when they were single. Less capable, less able, less exciting, less attractive, less joyful, less content. Your first relationship, therefore, must be with your Self. You must first learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first see your Self as blessed before you can see another as blessed. You m u s t first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge h o l i n e s s i n another . If you put the cart before the horseas most r e l i g i o n s a s k y o u t o d o a n d acknowledge another as holy before you acknowledge yourself, you will one day resent it. If there is one thing none of you can tolerate, it is someone being holier than thou. Yet your religions force you to call others holier than thou. And so you do itfor a while. Then you crucify them. And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not whats going on with another It is not in the . action of another, but in your re-action, that your salvation will be found. The first is to admit honestly to yourself and to another exactly how you are feeling. This many of you are afraid to do, because you think it will make you look bad. Somewhere, deep inside of you, you realize that it probably is ridiculous for you to feel that way. It probably is small of you. Y are bigger ou than that. But you cant help it. You still feel that way. There is only one thing you can do. You must honor your feelings. For honoring your feelings means honoring your Self. And you must love your neighbor as you love yourself. How can you ever expect to understand and honor the feelings of another if you cannot honor the feelings within your Self? The first question in any interactive process with another is:

now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that? The Master is one who has lived through enough such experiences to know in advance what her final choices are. She does not need to try out anything. Shes worn these clothes before and knows they d o n o t f i t ; they are not her.A n d s i n c e a M a s t e r s l i f e i s d e v o t e d t o t h e c o n s t a n t r e a l i z a t i o n o f S e l f a s o n e knows oneself to be, such ill-fitting feelings would never be entertained. So often, under the old understandings, people w e l l - m e a n i n g a n d w e l l - intentioned and many very religiousdid what they thought would be best for the other person in their relationships. Sadly, all this produced in many cases (in most cases) was continued abuse by the other. Continued mistreatment. Continued dysfunction in the relationship. Ultimately, the person trying to do what is right by the other to be quick to f o r g i v e , t o s h o w c o m p a s s i o n , t o c o n t i n u a l l y l o o k p a s t c e r t a i n p r o b l e m s a n d behaviorsbecomes resentful, angry, and mistrusting, even of God. For how can a just God demand such unending suffering, joylessness, and sacrifice, even in the name of love? God suggestsrecommends that you put yourself first. If you look to what is best for you in these situations where you are being abused, at the very least what you will do is stop the abuse. And that will be good for both you and your abuser . For even an abuser is abused when his abuse is allowed to continue. This is not healing to the abuser, but damaging. For if the abuser finds that his abuse is acceptable, what has he learned? Yet if the abuser finds that his abuse will be accepted no more, what has he been allowed to discover? Therefore, treating others with love does not necessarily mean allowing others to do as they wish. What will get you from here to there most quickly is total honesty

being willing to assert, acknowledge, and declare exactly how you feel about a thing. Say your truthkindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but t o t a l l y a n d c o n s i s t e n t l y. C h a n g e y o u r t r u t h e a s i l y a n d q u i c k l y w h e n y o u r experience brings you new clarity. A n d I dont h a v e t o p u t u p w i t h a t t a c k s o n m y d i g n i t y, a s s a u l t s o n m y p r i d e , damage to my psyche, and wounds to my heart in order to say that I gave it my best in a relationship; did my duty or met my obligation in the eyes of God and man. Still, while there is no such requirement, this much should be said: long-term relationships do hold remarkable opportunities for mutual growth, mutual expression, and mutual fulfillmentand that has its own reward. First, make sure you get into a relationship for the right reasons. (Im using the word right here as a relative term. I mean right relative to the larger purpose you hold in your life.)As I have indicated before, most people still enter relationships for the wrong reasonsto end loneliness, fill a gap, bring themselves love, or someone to loveand those are some of the better reasons. Others do so to salve their ego, end their depressions, improve their sex life, recover from a previous relationship, or,believe it or not, to relieve boredom. None of these reasons will work, and unless something dramatic changes along the way, neither will the relationship. So I want to find the tools for a long-term r e l a t i o n s h i p a n d y o u s a y entering relationships purposefully is one of them. Y e s . B e s u r e y o u a n d y o u r m a t e a g r e e o n p u r p o s e . I f y o u b o t h a g r e e at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligationan o p p o r t u n i t y f o r g r o w t h , f o r f u l l S e l f e x p r e s s i o n , f o r lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false t h o u g h t o r s m a l l i d e a y o u e v e r h a d about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two s o u l s i f y o u t a k e that v o w i n s t e a d o f the vows y o u v e b e e n takingthe r e l a t i o n s h i p h a s b e g u n

o n a v e r y g o o d n o t e . I t s g o t t e n o f f o n the right foot. Thats a very good beginning. Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Dont try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully. See them as grand gifts from God; glorious opportunities to do what you came into the relationshipand life to do. Try very hard not to see your partner as the enemy,or the opposition, during these times. In fact, seek to see no one, and nothing, as the enemyor even the problem. Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to knowbe, and decide, Who You Really Are. I dont like the word expectations here. Expectations ruin r e l a t i o n s h i p s . L e t s s a y t h a t p e o p l e t e n d t o s e e i n t h e m s e l v e s w h a t w e s e e i n them. The grander our vision, the grander their willingness to access and display the part of them we have shown them. See more in you than you think there is to be seen. See more in your partner too. You dont , have to do anything! If you enjoy life at this level, if you feel this is the ultimate for you, you can have this experience over and over and over again! In fact, you have had it over and over againfor exactly that reason! You love the drama.. You love the pain. You love the not knowing, the mystery, the suspense! You love it all! Thats why youre here! Most people do what they hate for a living, so they dont mind taking money for it. Bad for thebad, so to speak. But you love what you do with the days and times of your life. You adore the activities with which you cram them. For you, therefore, to receive large amounts of money for what you do would be,in your thought system, taking bad for the good and that is unacceptable to you. Youd rather starve than take filthy lucre for pure service... as if somehow the service loses its purity if you take money for it. So here we have this real ambivalence about money. Pa r t o f y o u r e j e c t s i t , a n d p a r t o f y o u r e s e n t s not having it Now, the universe doesnt know what to do about that, because the universe has

r e c e i v e d t w o different thoughts from you. So your life with regard to money is going to go in fits and starts, because you keep going in fits and starts about money. You dont have a clear focus; youre not really sure whats true for you. And the universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces multiple copies of your thoughts. Now theres only one way to change all that. You have to change your thought about it. You are what you think you are. Its a vicious circle when the thought is a negative one. Youve got to find a way to break out of the circle. So much of your present experience is based on your previous thought. Thought leads to experience, which leads to thought, which leads to experience. This can produce constant joy when the Sponsoring Thought is joyous. It can, and does, produce continual hell when the Sponsoring Thought is appellations. The trick is to change Sponsoring Thought. I was about to illustrate how to do that. Well, forget it. If you want to change a root thought, you have to act before you think. Example: youre walking down the street and come across an old lady begging for quarters. You realize shes a bag lady and is living day-to-day. You instantly know that as little money as you have, you surely have enough to share with her. Your first impulse is to give her some change. Theres even a part of you thats ready to reach in your pocket for a little folding moneya one, or even a five. What the heck, make it a grand moment for her Light her up. Then, thought comes in. . What, are you crazy? Weve only got seven dollars to get us through the day! You want to give her a five? So you start fumbling around for that one. Thought again: Hey, hey, common. You dont have that many of these that you can just give them away! Give her some coins, for heavens sake, and lets get out of here. Quickly you reach into the other pocket to try to come up with some quarters. Your fingers feel only nickels and dimes. Youre embarrassed. Here you are, fully clothed, fully fed, and youre going to nickel-and-dime this poor woman

who has nothing. You try in vain to find a quarter or two. Oh, theres one, deep in the fold of your pocket. But by now youve walked past her, smiling wanly, and its too late to go back. She gets nothing. You get nothing, either Instead of . the joy of knowing your abundance and sharing, you now feel as poor as the woman. Why didnt you just give her the paper money! It was your first impulse, but your thought got in the way. Next time, decide to act before you think. Give the money. Go ahead! Youve got i t , a n d theres more where that came from. Thats the only thought w h i c h separates you from the bag lady. Youre clear theres more where that came from,and she doesnt know that. When you want to change a root thought, act in accordance with the new idea y o u h a v e . B u t y o u m u s t a c t q u i c k l y, o r y o u r m i n d w i l l k i l l t h e i d e a b e f o r e y o u know it. I mean that literally. The idea, the new truth, will be dead in you before youve had a chance to know it. So act quickly when the opportunity arises, and, if you do this often enough, your mind will soon get the idea. It will be your new thought. N e w t h o u g h t i s y o u r o n l y c h a n c e . I t s y o u r o n l y r e a l opportunity to evolve, to grow, to truly become Who You Really Are. Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone eases old thoughts. Its important now, its time now, to change your mind about some things. is all about. The function of the soul is to indicate its desire, not impose it. The function of the mind is to choose from its alternatives. The function of the body is to act out that choice. W h e n b o d y, m i n d , a n d s o u l c r e a t e t o g e t h e r, i n h a r m o n y a n d i n u n i t y, G o d i s made flesh. Then does the soul know itself in its own experience. Then do the heavens rejoice. True Masters are those who have chosen to make a life, rather than a living. From certain states of being will spring a life so rich, so full, so This is what evolution

magnificent, and so rewarding that worldly goods and worldly success will be of no concern to you. Lifes irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you. How can that be? What of conditions contracted from another? Coldsor, for that matter, AIDS? Nothing occurs in your lifenothingwhich is not first a thought. Thoughts are like magnets, drawing effects to you. The thought may not always be obvious,and thus clearly causative, as in, Im going to contract a terrible disease. The thought may be (and usually is) far more subtle than that. (I am not worthy to live.) (My life is always a mess.) (I am a loser (God is going to punish me.)(1 am sick and tired of my .) life!) Thoughts are a very subtle, yet extremely powerful, form of energy. Words are less subtle, more dense. Actions are the most dense of all. Action is energy in h e a v y p h y s i c a l f o r m , i n h e a v y m o t i o n . W h e n y o u t h i n k , s a y, and a c t o u t a negative concept such as I am a loser, you place tremendous creative energy into motion. Small wonder you come down with a cold. That would be the least of it. It is very difficult to reverse the effects of negative thinking once they have taken physical form. Not impossiblebut very difficult. It takes an act of extreme faith. It requires an extraordinary belief in the positive force of the universe-whether you call that God, Goddess, the Unmoved Mover, Prime Force, First Cause, or whatever . The biggest mistake people make in human relationships is to be concerned for what the other is wanting, being, doing, or having. Be concerned only for the Self. What is the Self being, doing, or having? What is the Self wanting, needing,choosing? What is the highest choice for the Self?I also stand by another statement I made in that book:The highest choice for the Self becomes the highest choice for another when the Self realizes that there is no one else. The mistake, therefore, is not in choosing

what is best for you, but rather, in not knowing what is best. This stems from now knowing Who You Really Are, much less who you are seeking to be. Most people believe if they have a thing (more time, money, love whatever), then they can finally do a thing (write a book, take up a hobby, go on vacation, buy a home, undertake a relationship), which will allow them to be a thing (happy, peaceful, content, or in love). In actuality, they are reversing the Be-Do-Have paradigm. In the universe as it really is (as opposed to how you think it is), nothingness does not produce beingness, but the other way around. First you be the thing called happy (or knowing, or wise, or compassionate, or whatever); then you start doing things from this place of being-nessand soon you discover that what you are doing winds up bringing you the things youve always wanted tohave.The way to set this creative process (and thats what this is. . . the process of creation) into motion is to look at what it is you want to have, ask yourself what you think you would be if you had that, then go right straight to being Deciding ahead of time what you choose to be produces that in your experience. To be, or not to be. That is the question.Precisely. Happiness is a state of mind. And like all states of mind, it reproduces itself in physical form. Theres a statement for a refrigerator magnet:All states of mind reproduce themselves. But how can you be happy to begin with, or be anything you are seeking to bemore prosperous, for instance, or more lovedif you are not having what you think you need in order to be that? Act as if you are, and you will draw it to you. What you act as if you are, you become. In other words, Fake it until you make it.Something like that, yes. Only you cant really befaking. Your actions have to be sincere. Everything you do, do out of sincerity, or the benefit of the action is lost. This is not because I wont reward you. God does not reward and punish, as you know.

But Natural Law requires the body, mind, and spirit to be united in thought, word, and action for the process of creation to work. You cannot fool your mind. If you are insincere, your mind knows it, and thats that. Youve just ended any chance that your mind can help you in the creative process. You can, of course, create without your mindits just a great deal more difficult. You can ask your body to do something your mind doesnt believe, and if your body does it long enough, your mind will begin to let go of its former thought about that, and create a New Thought. Once you have a New Thought about a thing, youre well on your way to creating it as a permanent aspect of your being, rather than something youre just acting out. This is doing things the hard way, and even in such instances, the action must be sincere. Unlike what you can do with people, you cannot manipulate the universe. So here we have a very delicate balance. The body does something in which the mind doesnt believe, yet the mind must add the ingredient of sincerity to the bodys action for it to work Therefore, whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. Would You say that again, please?Of course. Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs. Do this sincerelynot because you seek personal gain, but because you really want the other person to have thatand all the things you give away will come to you. Why is that so? How does that work?The very act of your giving something away causes you to experience that you have it to giveaway. Since you cannot give to another something you do not now have, your mind comes to new conclusion, a New Thought, about younamely, that you must have this,

or you could not be giving it away. This New Thought then becomes your experience. You start being that. And once you startbeing a thing, youve engaged the gears of the most powerful creation machine in the universeyour Divine Self. Whatever you are being, you are creating. when you want something, give it away. You will then no longer be wanting it. You will immediately experience having it. From there on, it is only a question of degree. Psychologically, you will find it much easier to add onto, than to create out of thin air Yet all objective phenomena is drawn to you subconsciously; all events are created by you unconsciously; every person, place, or thing in your life was drawn to you by you was Self-created, if you willto provide you with the exact and perfect conditions, the perfect opportunity, to experience what you next wish to experience as you go about the business ofevolving. Nothing can happenI say to you, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience something that you wish to heal, create, or experience in order to be Who You Really Are. When your choices conflictwhen body, mind, and spirit are not acting as one-the process of creation works at all levels, producing mixed results. If, on the other hand, your being is in harmony, and your choices are unified, astonishing things can occur. Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell not in negativity and darkness. And even in moments when things look bleakespecially in those momentssee only perfection, express only gratefulness, and then imagine only what manifestation of perfection you choose next. In this formula is found tranquility. In this process is found peace. In this awareness is found joy I say again, it is the same for souls still residing with a body, except the results are usually not as immediate. And it is the time lapse between thought and creationwhich can belays, weeks, months, or even years-which creates the illusion that things are happening to you, not because of you.

This is an illusion, causing you to forget that you are at cause in the matter. Everything that occurseverything that has occurred, is occurring, and ever will occuris the outward physical manifestation of your innermost thoughts, choices, ideas, and determinations regarding Who You Are and Who You Choose to Be. Condemn not,therefore, those aspects of life with which you disagree. Seek instead to change them, and the conditions that made them possible. Behold the darkness, yet curse it not. Rather, be a light unto the darkness, and so transform it. Let your light so shine before men, that those who stand in the darkness will be illumined by the light of your being, and all of you will see, at last, Who You Really Are. Be a Bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path. Your light can be the light which truly lights the world. Shine on, then, 0 Illuminati! Shine on! That the moment of your greatest darkness may yet become your grandest gift. And even as you are gifted, so, too, will you gift others, giving totem the unspeakable treasure: Themselves. Let this be your task, let this be your greatest joy: to give people back to themselves. Even in their darkest hour. Especially in that hour. The world waits for you. Heal it. Now. In the place where you are. There is much you can do. For My sheep are lost and must now be found. Be ye, therefore, as good shepherds, and lead them back to Me Your life is a reflection of what you desire, and what you believe you may have of what you desire. I cannot give you what you do not believe you may haveno matter how much you desire itbecause I will not violate your own thought about it. I cannot. That is the law. Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result Thus, if you say that you cannot be in two places at once, then you cannot be. But if you say that you can be anywhere you wish with the speed of your thought, and can even make yourself manifest in physical form in more than one place at any given time, then you may do that. Thus, if you say that you cannot be in two places at once, then you cannot be.

But if you say that you can be anywhere you wish with the speed of your thought, and can even make yourself manifest in physical form in more than one place at any given time, then you may do that. Once, when I was meditating, I had the experience of total oneness, total awareness. It was wonderful. It was ecstatic. Ever since then, I have been trying to have that experience again. I sit in meditation and try to have that total awareness again. And I have never been able to. This is the reason, right? You are saying to me that as long as I am seeking to have something, I cannot have it, because my very seeking is a statement that I do not now have it. The same wisdom You have been giving me throughout this dialogue. Yes, yes. Now you understand it. It is becoming more clear to you now. That is why we keep going around in circles here. That is why we keep repeating things, revisiting things. You get it the third, the fourth, maybe the fifth time around. Yet I tell you this. You are worthy. As is everyone else. Unworthiness is the worst indictment ever visited upon the human race. You have based your sense of worthiness on the past,while I base your sense of worthiness on the future. The future, the future, always the future! That is where your life is, not in the past. The future. That is where your truth is, not in the past. What you have done is unimportant compared to what you are about to do. How you have erred is insignificant compared to how you are about to create life goes on, with you or without you. Nothing stays the same, nor can anything remain unchanged. To be unchanged is to not move. And to not move is to die. All of life is motion. Even rocks are filled with motion. Everything moves. Everything. There is nothing that is not in motion. Therefore, by the very fact of motion, nothing is the same from one moment to the next. Nothing. Remaining the same, or seeking to, moves against the laws of life. This is foolish, because in this struggle, life will always win. So change! Yes, change! Change your ideas of right and wrong. Change your notions of this and that. Change your structures, your constructions, your models, your theories. Allow your deepest truths to be altered. Alter them yourself, for goodness sake. I mean that quite literally. Alter them yourself, for goodness sake. Because your new idea of Who You Are is where the

growth is. Your new idea of What Is So is where evolution accelerates. Your new idea of the Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why of it is where the mystery gets solved, the plot unravels, the story ends. Then you can begin a new story, and a grander one. Be open, therefore. Be OPEN. Dont close off the possibility of new truth because you have been comfortable with an old one. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Yet be not quick to judge another. Rather, seek to avoid judgment, for another personswrongs were your rights of yesteryear; another persons mistakes are your own past actions, now corrected; another persons choices and decisions are as hurtful and harm-fool, as selfish and unforgivable, as many of your own have been. It is when you just cant imagine how another person could do such a thing that you have forgotten where you came from, and where both you and the other person are going. And to those of you who think yourselves to be the evil ones, who think yourselves to be unworthy and irredeemable, I tell you this: There is not a one among you who is lost forever ,nor will there ever be. For you are all, all, in the process of becoming. You are all, all, moving though the experience of evolution. And if you think that the technology of video games is something, wait til you see the technology of the universe!Think of the Cosmic Wheel as that CD-ROM. All the endings already exist. The universe is just waiting to see which one you choose this time. And when the game is over whether you win, lose, or draw, the universe will say, , Want to play again?Your computer disc doesnt care whether you win or not, and you cant hurt its feelings. It just offers you a chance to play again. All the endings already exist, and which ending you experience depends on the choices you make. So God is nothing more than a CD-ROM?I wouldnt put it that way, exactly. But throughout this dialogue I have been trying to use illustrations that embody concepts everyone can hold in their understanding. So I think the CD-ROM illustration is a good one. In many ways, life is like a CD-ROM. All the possibilities exist and have already occurred. Now you get to select which one you choose to experience. So use your life as a meditation, and all the events in it. Walk in wakefulness, not as one asleep. Move with mindfulness, not mindlessly, and do not tarry in doubt and fear, neither inbuilt nor self-recrimination, yet reside in permanent splendor in the assurance that you are grandly loved. You are always One with Me. You are

forever welcome. Welcome home. For your home is in My heart, and Mine in yours. I invite you to see this in life as you will surely see it in death. Then you will know that there is no death, and that what you have called life and death are both part of the same unending experience. We are all that is, all that ever was, and all that ever will be, world without end. Amen. The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what youve already learned? Bring your awareness to others. Not by proselytizing, but by example. Be the source of the love which I Am in the lives of all others. For that which you give to others, you give to yourself. Because there is only One of Us. Thank You. Yes, You have given me that clue before. Be the source. Whatever you want to experience in yourself, You have said, be the source of it in the lives of others. Yes. This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you.