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When dealing with a challenge, remember to check out the conditions thoroughly. Factual information is your friend. Taking care of yourself is your friend. Trust in God is your friend. You don't need to have fear or doubt towards yourself or the conditions. So strive to let those go and let God.

The nature of this planet is negative and it's sometimes easy to "fall asleep" and forget why you are here. The only thing you have to do while you're here is to awaken to the sound of God within your heart and follow that sound back to the heart of God.

When we set up rules and regulations about what our weight should be and it's not matching that ideal, then we distract ourselves from handling our life and we use weight as the thing to beat ourselves up. We're actually avoiding relationships with ourselves and with others. Go to the movie, be with your husband, be with your wife, go talk to your kids, go talk to the teacher about your grades, go talk to your boss about what's happening. Don't avoid the relationship by eating. When we handle our relationships, there's not the need for excess energy, so we don't require more food. Energy from food is utilized differently than the energy involved in relationships. They are different energy fields. When we avoid relationships, those energies get mixed up in the body, our nature becomes confused, and we put on weight.

These lower levels can be full of errors, frustrations, and mistakes. They're designed that way. They're designed to refine your level of awareness so you can discover more completely who you are.

The cliché is that life is what you make of it, but, in a greater sense, it is what you do with it. Much too often it is your emotional opinion about what is going on that is the problem, rather than what is actually happening. Life is designed as a learning experience, not a penalty situation. Rather than being limiting and painful, relationships can be enriching and joyous.

Discover where you can assist, rather than interfere. Assistance is a very beautiful form of loving.

Though we may be thousands of miles away from one another we all are immediately present within the inner sanctuary in which our oneness and connection with God welcomes each of us in silence and prayer.

Discipline is the prelude to freedom. Therefore we enter willingly into discipline to gain freedom.

When you feel yourself to be in a position of suffering, you can almost bet that you have created that suffering for yourself. You may find yourself saying, "I need help, I need advice; these things happened and I have to find a way to solve this." What you are really saying is, "I did this and this and this, and now it's all come back to me, and it hurts." When this happens, you have two choices: you can laugh or you can cry -- but you have to handle it. You can stay in the feeling of misery and despair and cry over what has happened. Or you can start lifting yourself and say, "Well, it sure hurts when I laugh, but I'll laugh anyway." You'll feel so much better with the second choice. It might not take away the suffering, but it could make it easier to go through.

Q: How do we pray, just ask? J-R: Not only just ask, but pray fervently with emotion and depth and fire and conviction and claiming that. Then meditate and allow God to reach into you, tell you, be with you, so you can sense or hear God. It's called "waiting on the Lord." Another way is contemplation, just looking at the wonder of God, being in awe of a sunset, a flower, a baby, another human being -- the attitude of "God did this, it's marvelous!" Watching the surf coming in, listening to birds. There are just so many things we can contemplate where we're in awe of beauty. It's a Zen state, it just is.