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Why have joy? Why not have joy? It's fun when joy comes up as a profound, ecstatic feeling. Joy comes in and you start moving with fluidity inside you, so that people can even insult you and you still have joy. You are so joyful, you are happy just to get recognized. They thought they were insulting you, and you joyfully took it as recognition. It's a wonderful feeling.

In the physical realm, one quality is attention. You need to be actively involved in your life and to pay attention to what is going on around you. At the same time, the challenge is not to get caught up in thinking that the physical level is the entire truth about yourself, for it actually represents only 10 percent of your existence, the other 90 percent being on the nonphysical realms. You also need the quality of endurance to work through and overcome any obstacles to your spiritual progression and to get up one more time than you fall.

You don't forgive the other person for what you think they've done to you; rather, you forgive yourself for holding on to a judgment about what you think they did. And if you're the one who did something unloving to someone else, you use the same approach -- forgiving yourself for holding on to a judgment about your behavior.

We could say that your breath is a truth. You don't have to interpret it and it isn't based on your thoughts or feelings. Whatever is going on in Your Life, you breathe in and out. Sometimes you breathe quickly, sometimes slowly, but you are always breathing, until your time here is done. At that point, your breath isn't a present truth; something else will be truth for you. Holding on to anything, whether it's an inner revelation or your own breath, is futile. You can't even hold on to your physical form, for everybody is in the process of aging, regardless of what steps you take to deter the process.

Oftentimes, our concern is not that we might get sick, but that we won't have the energy to do what we want to do. With that thought, we feel too tired and we sit and let the television entertain us, or books or magazines. That's why I tell you to do volunteer work for an organization. When you are serving people, it pulls the energy in line and a new direction appears.

You cannot get away from the essence of Spirit within you. If you try to deny that essence, the result is disturbance and imbalance. The butterflies in your stomach are you placing yourself against yourself. You don't need to do that. You only need to relax, to let go, and to allow the ongoing process of Spirit to take care of you.

Your loyalty is not designed for this world. This world will betray you, and that is good news. The message of the world is, "This is not your world. As soon as you try to make your life complete in this world, the world is going to let you down." When the world delivers this message to you, don't feel picked on. Be grateful for the reminder. It is there to lift you. Go inside to the real world, where your Soul awaits you with your fulfillment promised by nothing less than God.

In MSIA, we do not pay a lot of attention to the negative power, though we do learn how to hold a focus of loving in the face of it, because we keep our attention on where we are going -- Soul Transcendence and God. We also do not talk much about the concepts of evil and hell, since good/God and heaven are where we are headed. In one sense, in fact, "heaven" could be seen as awareness of our oneness with God, and "hell" could be seen as forgetting our oneness with God. I look at evil as unnecessary experience. The Soul is here to gain experience, but not all experience is necessary. Some things are a detour, a distraction, yet since not one Soul will be lost, there is no unnecessary experience in the bigger picture. It just depends on how many millions of existences you want to have before you return home to God.

How do you accomplish things without getting karma? By spontaneously having the action and the energy come forward through you to accomplish for the highest good of all -- without ego involvement in the goal, the results, or the outcome. When the energy of Spirit moves through you to accomplish, it is the doer of whatever takes place, not you. What is accomplished through Spirit and what is accomplished through ego may appear to be the same, but the one who moved with the ego has karma, and the one who moved spontaneously with the action of Spirit is karma-free.

As you consciously lift into the level of Soul, you move into a clearer expression of responsibility, you see more of the Light, you find it easier to reach beyond the levels of mind, body, and emotions; you know yourself more clearly and purely.