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Spiritual exercises are a tremendous key. They may not solve anything for you, but they give you the altitude to see more clearly. And as you see more clearly, the solutions often appear.

When you become one with life, the very leaves on the trees are the scripture of nature. The face you look at is the scripture of your own beingness. The aura around you is the scripture of your mind and emotions and, very often, of your own spirituality. The very Soul is seeing the face of God in the physical world.

No matter how spiritual you claim to be, you can still go crazy with emotions if you don't strengthen the spiritual inner connection and exercise the willpower. Most people give in to the won't-power and erupt in emotional energy that only vents anger, hurt, and dismay. What they are left with after this expression is anger, hurt, and dismay, as well as a lonely, exhausted feeling of energy depletion.

Have you noticed that when you try to work on guilt or resentment or other problems, they beat you on the head? We start by rationalizing our problems, and end up complaining about who is in our way, and how to get them out of the way, and if we had had better parents we would never have had any problems at all. Then we say, "Why is my life so much harder than everybody else's?" Why don't you sit back and observe your life? Now.

Use everything in the world -- all the prayers, all the books, all the Soul Awareness Discourses, all the seminars, everything -- to reflect the Spirit inside of you. Use everything as a reflection to show you the glory of your spirit and God's glory.

Have the wit to let go of whatever contracts you and brings you the test of your faith as is allowed in these worlds of learning and growth. Find your strength, your wisdom, your willingness to serve what is good and loving.

If you find yourself having negative thoughts or expressions (an indication that you are living under the law) and you want to change that expression, one of the best ways to do that is to say, "I'm sorry" as a heartfelt apology, followed by a change of behavior that demonstrates the apology in action.

When you create a separation and start placing God, the Traveler, or the Light somewhere outside of yourself, you are involved in illusion. When you ask for the Light in the honesty and purity of your heart, it's present before you can even finish asking. It's faster than your thought. Once you are attuned to the Light, you don't even need to ask for it. You need only ask that your eyes be open to see it and your heart be open to receive it. If you are already attuned to the Light, asking for it can become redundant.

Through doing spiritual exercises (s.e.'s), you also create a channel, an opening, a tunnel, through which Spirit can convey Its wisdom to you. Your job is to separate fiction and reality and discern which is which. Spiritual exercises will help you to discern the levels more clearly. They give you a chance to become quiet and to allow the spiritual experience to lift you so you become defined as something greater than the physical experience. And if you find yourself caught up in negative or addictive patterns of behavior, the remedy often is to get off by yourself, do a lot of s.e.'s , and rebuild your reserves.

Q: Is the discipline of regularly doing spiritual exercises (s.e.'s) going to raise my level of consciousness and free me of karma? A: Partially, yes. The other part of it involves your attitude towards your spiritual exercises. If you do them as a form of punishment, as martyrdom or complaining, spiritual exercises may not do too much. But if you do them in a form of sacredness and holiness and use them as a spiritual time between you and God, the answer to your question is yes. If a person does s.e.'s and is in contact with the Soul and transcendence, that assists in working off karma.