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The more fun you have, the more detached you can be from the circumstances of your life. You cease to be obsessed by money, by how you look, by how you compare with others, by your need for approval. You can still have fun in the midst of it all.

Q: I have heard that the karma changes when two people get married. Is this so? A: When a person gets married, almost 100 percent of the karma is affected. When you get married, you take on some of the karma of your spouse.

When you direct yourself towards the expression of the Christ, you have the Christ Consciousness on your side. If you go against it, you have a lot of nothing on your side. So know that you are the only one who can delay or block your progress. You are the only one who can cloud your awareness. By the same token, you are the only one who can recognize the Christ within. You are the one who can make the Christ a living reality in your life and who can demonstrate the unconditional loving and forgiveness that indicate the presence of the Christ.

All the things that we know about ourselves, if we don't do them -- if we don't fulfill God's promises for us -- we're not fulfilling the spiritual promise. We're going to fulfill something else because we're creators. And we'll step into the negative side.

As we reach out to others, we will meet up with our limitations. We will find that we are doing work that we do not know how to do completely. In the Bible it says, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 5:16). We are called upon to be open to doing God's work as co-creators, which can be humbling to acknowledge that we would be chosen for such an almighty purpose. Let this purpose therefore be simple that we may begin wherever we find ourselves. Find the good. Increase the good.

Although the corporal form is always going to change, fall away, and decay, the Beloved sees past that, and assists us to step across the threshold of the flesh and enter into the reality that we all are. That reality is love, peace, and joy. And the living of it is to enter into the Beloved.

People in MSIA who have loved ones on the spirit side have been taken many times in the dream state to the realm and level where the loved ones reside. There they have seen and communicated with the loved ones, and have realized that they were very much alive, not in the physical sense, but in the larger sense, well, healthy, happy, and contented with their present state of consciousness. The feeling of sadness that comes from being separated from the loved ones is often replaced with relief and joy, whether or not the dreamer is consciously aware of the visit in the dream state. Some people who do remember have asked me for verification. My question is, "Did it seem real at the time?" They'll usually say, "Oh, yes, very much so." If they think about it, they'll usually realize that, at that time, the physically awake state seemed pretty unreal. When you come back to the physical consciousness, the other realms seem unreal. But when you move out of this physical consciousness, the higher realms become more real than this one.

Q: Was it our karma that my wife and I got married? A: When two people get married, it is generally karma that brings them together to work through things. But we usually don't have karma with someone else. We have karma with ourselves, and other people come in to help us work it out. They may have a similar type of karma, and they bind us. It could be that in another lifetime, we messed up, and we're back now, doing it again, but the karma is still with us and we're working it out together again. We have a chance to do it better and complete it. On this level, we don't seek perfection; we seek greater and greater understanding so we can do things better and better. Then we become more agile in our movement across the physical level, and we break the bonds that hold us here. Each person brings forward karma out of their own individuality. Spouses may not have had many lifetimes together, and they could have had quite a few. When that karma is broken, they may divorce and go their own ways.

After we have entered into being devoted to God, to the Light, to our husbands, our wives, our children, our job, we find out that almost automatically we start disciplining ourselves with the type of discipline that says, "I will do these things that lead me on. I will just do these." The discipline draws in the boundary lines, and we hold ourselves in line, giving up a lot of things that we really think we want and saying, "Is that really on my path of truth and Light?" And if we hear, "Yes," we move into it. And later if we hear, "Now it is not," we move out of it.

I know that we have the power and authority to change how we personally relate to the world, and that can be done any way we can. There are qualities in service, in caring and giving to others, that transcend our differences and make life in this world, regardless of what happens afterwards, nicer.