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By concluding that things not present should be present, you set yourself up for frustration and discouragement. It's fine to imagine what you can become if you can see how to apply yourself now. Imagining works to create.

The concept of charity does not conflict with your responsibility to take care of yourself. If you don't take care of yourself, you soon do not have any reserves from which to give.

When you come to those peak experiences wherein you find love residing, identify them, internalize them, and make them glow so you can find them again when you start to go off your path. Go into those loving places often, and build that strong place within where you can say, "God and I are one."

When the Holy Spirit comes in, and we rise to these occasions of sharing and knowing and gathering, then you can sit in the room with your loved one and they might not say a word. One may be busy reading a paper and the other one's knitting, and yet there's this contentment within you. Or it could be while one's in the restroom and the other is busy cooking, there's that love in there no matter what they're doing. And they get a little hassled, but then this love comes creeping through and it balances the action. That's the Spirit. That's the Light of our consciousness opening and unfolding towards each other.

The Traveler can give you an experiential level of loving. That experience of loving can be the rock on which you live your life, and, as always, doing spiritual exercises is a way of becoming more aware of the presence of Spirit, whose essence is loving.

You cannot be shut off from God -- you can only think you are.

If you want greater spirituality, you can't force it. You have to put yourself where it is. If your favorite TV show is "Friends," and it comes on every Monday night at 8:00PM, this is what you need to do if you want to guarantee that you watch it: Shortly before 8:00PM, you sit down in front of the TV, turn it on, turn to the right channel, and wait for "Friends." That way, you guarantee that you will see it when it comes on. So, if you want more spirituality, you place yourself in an area or in a way where you can receive of it if it appears or if it happens. If Spirit happens, you'll be there to receive all of it.

Much of what works in this world is done through patience and enduring until the end. You would likely feel better about yourself simply by being involved with uplifting things. Do things that work for you and others. Start out by finding something simple to do that you can contribute. Even selling things from a tin cup can be a contribution by helping to provide what others can use.

If you say you hate one person, you also have to hate others. If you shut off love to one person, you have also shut it off to somebody else. That someone else is usually yourself because when we shut off to anyone "out there," we usually shut off inside of us. As Jesus said, "When you have done it to the least of these, you have done it unto me" (Matthew 25:40). So why shut off anyone, hurt anyone, or hate anyone and then think you can love your wife or husband? No, you carry home with you that same hate towards the other person. When you tell your spouse about it, the spouse feels your hate and has to deal with it, plus your spouse may have to deal with feelings of sadness over what someone else is doing to you. You cannot allow anything to stand in the way of your loving.

Our "natural" state is loving. We don't have to wait for any divine miracle to occur. The fact that you are here, now, alive, breathing in and out, wanting to know how to become fulfilled, is a miracle in itself. The miracle is here, present, right now, if you are willing and courageous enough to avail yourself of it.