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Giving is not just something goody-goody people do: some of the greatest curmudgeons of all time have acknowledged the fact that we do good because it's good for us. It wouldn't be much fun to own everything in the world, while everyone else had nothing. With most people willing to give a little, the world turns a lot easier. A little giving makes a more enjoyable world, so we give -- like it or not -- because we do like living in a better world. For example, someone may stop us and ask directions, and we may not feel like giving directions. If nobody ever gave directions, however, it would be hard to get around. So we take the time and give the directions. We prefer living in a world where it's easier to get around.

Q: Am I an extension of God? A: Absolutely. Unquestionably, that is so. But you're like the small drop in the ocean compared to all the other drops in the ocean, so you can't do an ego trip. But, still, you are part of it, and every part makes up the whole. That's why not one Soul will be lost -- because God reclaims all of Itself to Itself. But since It only deals in creativity, not in time, there are no time elements on us. It is when we feel the yearning of the Soul that we turn towards God and start to move our journey that way.

The cure for indecision is to make up your mind, stick to it, and do it. And if it's wrong, correct it. Humans can do what no other living being in this world can do, and that is to take conscious, corrective action. Animals act on instinct, or training. Human beings can experience things in a cognitive, aware state and take corrective action. If we get off course, we can bring ourselves back on course. We are blessed with that ability -- when we use that ability.

Be devoted to faithfully finding new truths and to creating and building on those areas of truth. Then look through your intelligence at what you have learned to see how you stand. By these processes, you make your will useful to you and grow to be very devoted to the freedom of your own expression.

Awareness is your constant friend and enabler to choose into higher consciousness and all that comes from higher consciousness.

If someone doesn't do what you ask or expect, you can use that as a stepping-stone into patience and cooperation, and you can appreciate that someone else's "my way" may be as good as your way. If you do that, you are taking another powerful step toward success within yourself and in this world.

Often the glamour of the world, the distraction of the personality, takes you far away from where the Lord lives inside of you. Therefore, we have a very wonderful task in front of us, and that task is to place in us the remembrance of the moments of communion, where the most sacred communion takes place. Where we tell God that in us we have a sanctuary for the most high, for the most wonderful things and that we will constantly cleanse it. We will cleanse all the children of darkness from it -- the habits of our personality that no longer serve us. We'll cleanse the excess of materiality from us, so that we only have that which we can use. It frees us then from those attachments to this world that would block us from eating and drinking of the love and the Light, and especially of the Sound -- that unspoken word of God.

Your job is to experience. That's all you have to do. It is in the loving of your experience, the loving of your expression, that you discover the inner joy, the bliss that is your indication of the presence of the Traveler.

Love God with all your heart. Love yourself with the same devotion. Love all who come to you as you love God. - John-Roger (From: Loving Each Day, Vol. 1, p. 130)

When we can accept ourselves, we can accept others. But we often try to make everyone else in our image, and if they're not like us, we say there is something wrong with them. It's a game that we play with each other -- who is going to be the boss? I think we would find it much easier to accept one another if we didn't feel the need to control.