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Most despair comes from your interpretation of what is going on, not from the fact of what is going on. Only rarely does a true personal catastrophe take place. You can create a consciousness of catastrophe, however, by your interpretation of the facts. Let's say you are sitting by yourself in a chair. That is a fact. Your interpretation of that fact may be "I'm lonely." When you have awakened to the Spirit within you, you will know that you are never alone. You will not feel the loneliness. The Beloved is always with you, always in your company. All you need to do is awaken to that reality.

When you neglect your spiritual exercises, you may not feel the presence of the Traveler, so you may think the Traveler has deserted you. It hasn't. You just haven't been focusing on the Spirit within and the Traveler's presence, so you probably think it's gone. All you have to do is turn inside to find that the Traveler never went anywhere. It's always with you, it's always present, and all you have to do is turn towards the Traveler. He never leaves you, so you'll always find him as soon as you look.

When something happens that appears to hurt you, rather than resisting it and pushing it away, you will embrace it. You will expand your consciousness to encompass the changes and the new situation and to find what new freedoms are available to you.

If we start to love God, we've stopped the judgments and the negativity, and that allows grace to be extended.

Perfect your beingness by going slowly through the routine of your life until you have it mastered. Do the ordinary things that make up your life. Learn to do those things to the point of mastery. You'll find great satisfaction in them.

The Traveler's teachings are a directive, like a description and an instruction in how to be a Soul in this world becoming itself, enlightening itself, realizing itself. As you go inward and charge yourself up in the Spirit consciousness, the Traveler has a greater ability to clear the negativity from you. So then you have greater access to the higher consciousness and you become much wiser about who you are as a spiritual being and how you've conditioned yourself negatively as a human being.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus gave us a picture of gratitude when he said, "Nevertheless, your will be done." And the gratitude of that statement was that there was a Father who had all things in His hand and that even Jesus was in that hand.

We're here on this planet to work and serve, and to learn and grow. So if we're not doing those things, then we're not doing what we're here to do.

Spirit is energy, the force that activates the human consciousness and gives it life. Spirit individualizes itself as Soul and so resides closely within each consciousness. Many people have said that a human being has a Soul, but it is closer to reality to say that the Soul has a human being.

Physically, we're quite a well-fed nation. But we have hidden hungers that are not satisfied. You may figure the way to overcome the hidden hungers is to stuff yourself with food until you're satiated and no longer cry out in need. And then you think, "Now I feel better." When you feel better, you think, "I really should do something about getting back to God." You might not think about it in quite those terms; it might be more like, "Now that I feel better, I want to do something. I'm frustrated. I wish I could do something more." Being satisfied on one level, you want to do something now to satisfy another level. Maybe you decide to go wash and polish the car. This helps release the physical energy. While you're doing that, your mind says, "I really would like to read that book I started last night." So your mind goes ahead of you to the book, and you finish the car rather rapidly because you've lost interest in that. You go read the book, but while you're reading, you think, "I'm not getting enough exercise lately. I sit around too much." And by now, it's time to eat again, and this hidden hunger cries out, "Feed me." So you snack on cookies or potato chips or drink a soft drink -- anything to satiate the body and eliminate the hidden hunger. But what if this feeling you have isn't hunger? What if you are feeling a lack of fulfillment on another level, a lack of oneness with yourself? When you are not one with yourself, you constantly look for something to make yourself one, to make yourself whole, complete.