Keep in mind that your personality is not going to please everyone. It's just not possible. What we all have to do is see beyond the personalities to the Soul that lies beyond all the bodies, minds, and emotions that are so much more obvious on this level.

Not knowing is being open to receive the information. Once you receive it, there's a good chance that you can do something with it. If you don't receive the information, you can't do anything with it, and you won't know which way to turn to make something happen. Letting go, asking inside, and a willingness to just be open will help a great deal.

Have the willingness and an openness to attune to the Spirit. Spirit does what it does perfectly. If you are open such that your intention as you sit there or however you participate is to be with God, to commune with God, to worship with God, then that intention will take care of you because it’s between you and God.

God dwells in each of us, and works through us all when we are willing. When you stay present, in the moment, taking care of what comes your way to the best of your ability, keeping your heart open, and asking for God’s assistance and blessing in all you do or say, then you are in good territory.

Your prayer might be just counting to one hundred. If you are doing that as a tool to hold your mind and attention steady, it can work for you. If you tune inward to your Self as you count, you may discover many levels within yourself where you can break through many fixations.

You have the opportunity to let life contract upon you, to squeeze you, and give you the justification to curse, gnash your teeth, wring your clothing, and complain about the injustice and inequities of life. You are given that chance all the time. And right along with that, you have the chance to expand into a loving quality in the very moment of your contraction.

In the midst of the most terrible, wrenching, insidious thing inside you, laugh. That's the time you need it the most. You have to get something to counterbalance the tremendous terrible thing, and laughter starts to bring it out so it can balance out. If you don't feel like laughing, that's the time to laugh. If you've been practicing it, you can get it going.

Newborn children are very open. Their love is unconditional - it is also unconditioned. No one has yet told them or taught them that they can be hurt in any way. And in their openness, they receive unconditional love back from us.

If you are holding a foundation of false ideas, ideals or images, it will tumble and fall down. Those things have to come down eventually. When we are disillusioned, that is a day of glory. That is a blessing. It may not feel like it. You may feel confused, disoriented or shut down. But it's actually a movement forward. Something is going on for the good as you are waking up.

You're breathing the same air that Jesus the Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad and all the other great spiritual teachers and leaders of all times breathed. With each breath you can awaken yourself to greater and greater spiritual awareness.

I tell people to forsake the knowledge they have gained solely from the outer world, from books and intellectual pursuits, and I suggest they go within to the wisdom and intelligence that is of Spirit. Outer knowledge by itself can be used to twist, distort and corrupt, and much of the time can be used against you and others rather than for the upliftment of all.

There are people on this planet who are content with the lower energies of the earth, but the person who reaches into the greater consciousness of divine love walks with the Beloved and can have experiences of a transcendental nature and become one with the Divine.

The rewards you will find happening inside of yourself will far outweigh the "price" you pay to expand rather than contract. The price you pay for sacrificing the state of contraction and resentment is opening up to the love that is present and letting your whole self be sacrificed on the altar of God's love.

Self-inquiry is the foremost way to become aware. You ask yourself, "Why am I unaware? Why am I not participating in this?" You may get an immediate answer, or you may get no answer at all because you're not ready to be taught what that is. When you're ready to be taught, you become the student to the information instead of trying to get the information and then become the master of it.

There have been various interpretations when people have chosen to share their inner experiences. Often inner experiences are not meant to be shared in this world because they are of a nature that’s sacred and holy, and they're not yet to be revealed outwardly. If someone happens to know the sacred and holy, then that’s the Spirit that revealed it to them.

When you're dealing with God, all things are possible - total possibility. When you're dealing with the negative power, you are dealing with probabilities. If you go to strict possibilities, you're in the frame of reference that all things are you. Therefore, you have to go nowhere and you just produce the effect, which is all God is doing with us. We're just the effect of God.

For the most part, the goal of every Soul on the planet is to become a co-creator with God. In one sense, God needs us as much as we need God. We are how God gets things done on this physical-material level. He works through us in this world. The human body and consciousness are receptors for Spirit on this level; they are what the Soul uses to transport itself here.

To seek perfection on this level is folly, but to seek for excellence is to improve the last state you were in, and work on the one you're moving into. To improve the last state you were in also is moving you to the next state. You, as a human being made in the likeness of God, are gifted with the ability to make intelligent choices in your life's expression.

Don't forget to love yourself and laugh at yourself.

The optimum condition is to have all your input channels open and functioning - the ones that recognize suffering as well as happiness. Having them all open is being spiritual and there is a divine protection that is extended to you so that you cannot be "hurt" in your openness.