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If you want to be an optimist, if you want your energies to be lifting, if you want to realize your highest potential for joy and fulfillment, then you must pledge to yourself that from this moment, you will become more and more aware of what you are doing now.

In this world, we all know how difficult it can be to just be ourselves, to own our experience, to be relaxed in who we are, and to not be fearful about our life. Spiritually, when we behold who we are, we realize that there is nothing that can happen to us, bodily or elsewhere in the world, that we fear.

The journey to the true self will take you through your body, imagination, emotions, mind, and unconscious because these are the conditions of the human experience. Take a moment now to observe yourself. You may feel out of balance, your mind may be jumping around, but you can still observe yourself. Your inner observer will not be waving a flag to get your attention, but if you are still and aware and present, you will sense its presence. What if that which is aware -- your inner observer -- is God? How ironic to think that we are running around looking for Spirit, for God, and all the while God is inside us, looking at us looking for Him. A lot of us think that if God were present, there would be more going on, golden chariots or a choir of angels. We look for something phenomenal, something that will make us feel special. But maybe God is present in the ordinary act of observing.

You do not have to get through situations in any particular way. You might be crawling, but to keep on keeping on is the most important thing. Sometimes, it is a matter of simply getting the experience and then moving on. You may not feel you handled everything perfectly, but you went through it, and that is what really matters. Sometimes you just need to endure past whatever is happening.

One of the great ways we can serve is to touch, with love. I make it a point inside of me that there is always a place inside of me to reach out and touch someone with loving. That's what I work from and in. I know that love is the savior of us all. If a person I am relating to doesn't have enough, the love in me would have enough because it's tied to a greater supply of love. I make no apologies for that to anyone. I don't love because I am after anything. My love is to serve because we love to serve. At the same time, it's a very selfish thing, because I feel the love come back to me. It re-enters into me, and I feel the quality that the person receives.

Get high enough to observe your behavior rather than being a victim of it. When you get the altitude to improve your attitude, that's high communication with yourself.

Your life is what it is. Whatever your expression, it's all right because it is an expression of your awareness. If you smoke, that doesn't mean you're evil. It means that expression is satisfying something within you at some level. When you find a different way to satisfy and fulfill that something, you might not be smoking anymore. You don't have to judge yourself for what appears to be negative expression. And you can pay attention and look for expressions that will more nearly express the inner self you know yourself to be.

You can choose to be happy if you would rather be happy than miserable. And consider that happy is a choice. Are you willing to make that choice? Are you willing to let go? I know when people are miserable, and I know that when I am miserable, I am hanging on. Are you willing to let go to be happy? God is happy.

The heart wants a contentment, a peacefulness, a quality of flowing through life like a stream that flows on its path to the ocean. You're flowing on the stream of Light and Sound, into this great ocean of love. You can't get off. You can go a long way to the periphery, but you still keep moving forward. And everyone is going to make it back to the ocean, back into the heart of God.

The Soul, the Spirit part of you, does not care about what goes on because what happens is just experience, and the Soul sees it in all of its perfection. The part that you need to be kind to is your ego, which comes out of the mind and the emotions. Because the ego is tied to your mind and emotions, if you beat it up, you will feel mentally and emotionally beaten up. So be kind to that part of you, too. Then when you go back inside, you will feel the kindness in your emotions and your mind.