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When prosperity is mentioned, most people immediately think of material prosperity. Translated to specifics, it might be a house with a manageable mortgage, a fully paid-for car, and enough money in the bank not to worry about having enough money in the bank. When I talk about prosperity, however, the material area is secondary. What good are all the goodies if you don't have the capacity to enjoy them? If your inner life is filled with anguish and anxiety, all the outer accoutrements do not add up to a life of prosperity. In order to truly enjoy physical luxury and comfort, you need to have the capacity for joy within you.

These are MSIA's guidelines for life on this level: don't hurt yourself and don't hurt others, take care of yourself so you can help take care of others, and use everything for your upliftment, growth, and learning. These guidelines are not used against others as criteria for condemnation, but rather as direction for ourselves.

The greatest thing we can do here physically is to be -- and I will use the word "total" -- to be of total service to another. This means you need to have totally served yourself first. And if two hours of spiritual exercises or meditation does that, then you have done it. And if fifteen minutes does it, then you have done it.

If you could put one thought in your mind and keep it there continually, you'd find yourself gazing upon the face of God, and that one thought would be: God is.

Loving knows no bounds or barriers. We are the ones who choose to allow circumstances and perceptions to interrupt our experience of the loving. Love is never stopped. Love is present always. At times, we may decide that loving is absent. We are then called upon to find our trust and faith in loving. We are to be patient and keep our willingness and trust that a new experience of loving is forthcoming.

So don't worry about the future. When you're not living in expectation, you're less likely to be caught in negativity. Don't live in the imagination of what might happen. Instead, visualize the presence of God so you can have that. Then if you walk into any negativity, you walk right on through.

Open wide the doors of love.

Some people, who have gone on service projects to help people, have looked in the paper the next day to see if their names were mentioned. Others didn't care because they knew that if you get your reward out there, you don't get it where it counts -- inside of you. It is inside where you have the joy of having been of service to the oneness in all of us.

When you were a baby learning to walk, you didn't scold yourself when you fell down. You got up and tried again. Falling is just part of the process of learning to walk. This is the model of how we learn anything -- including how to live. It's all about bringing ourselves back to the present, again and again. We love, then forget to be loving, then remember and become loving again. The more we remember to love, the more habitual loving will become. It's a matter of being present in every moment.

With a body comes maintenance and a lot of outer rigmarole -- changing clothes, changing soap, changing hairstyles. But inside we change the attitude. The key to spiritual awareness in the physical plane is to watch our attitude. It may be that watching your attitude is the only thing you're going to get done today. But get it done.