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In love we bring forward all things, in love we maintain all things, and in love we change all things. In love we then become all things because truly we already are love -- infinite, limitless truth and love. That is who we are.

Freedom is loving and accepting with responsibility, loving yourself first and extending that love to others. Love never erodes; it is an organism that feeds off itself and grows. I suggest you water your loving plant with the freedom of honesty. Un-protect by sharing what is, regardless of considerations. You may be surprised to find that the person you care for has as many frailties as you. As long as you both share honestly, the human shortcomings are less likely to be held against the other; they become just part of the human process, like breathing in and breathing out.

There is another kind of voice you might hear within, and that comes from something I call the "emotional spirit." You might go to a ball game, a pep rally, a political meeting, or a gathering of people all sharing a common emotional experience, and you fall into their point of view. You become caught up in the emotional fervor and know that they are right. Not only that, you know that everyone who does not share that point of view is wrong. If you move on this emotional response, you may get hurt. Later when you are by yourself and the emotional energy of the group is gone, you may think, "How could I have let that happen? How could I have believed that?" You were caught up in the emotional spirit.

The main business of the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness is Soul Transcendence. That means that we are, first and foremost, recognizing the spark of Divinity that resides in all people. We recognize that we may well be more than our physical body, more than our mind, more than our emotions, more than the imagination, and so on. We recognize that there is more going on than we can perceive with our physical senses. We recognize that we are part of a larger picture. We are seeking to transcend the limitations of the finite and become increasingly aware of the infinite. This means we have to constantly exercise those "muscles" that are somewhat out of our general pattern of awareness. That means we have to keep looking beyond the easy explanations, the obvious connections, the snap judgments. We have to keep stretching into possibilities that may seem uncertain or imprecise at first, and we have to keep exercising forgiveness for ourselves and for everyone else.

That one that is the Mystical Traveler shares himself with those who are his Beloveds, those who are the initiates. The Traveler does not offer just an association; the Traveler offers a relationship that abides in the heart, nowhere else. It is a relationship of living love.

We are to love it all. That's humbling because it is easy to realize we don't always let our love come forth fully, completely, and openly. There is a difference in terms of what you like and what you prefer. So you are allowed to exercise that according to your own consciousness. When we are more willing to understand, we have our diversity, we can be at peace with our differences. We can honor and respect them. At the same time, honor and respect your truth which may be different than anybody else's. So if nobody else agrees with you, agree with your truth.

When we look at things from the point of view of a level other than the Soul, or when we identify with something other than the Soul, we can experience suffering. When we identify with the Soul (which is who we truly are) and when we look at things from the Soul's viewing point and really know the truth of that, we can have the joy of the Spirit in the midst of suffering on another level (for example, grief, physical pain, etc.).

We can see that suffering is an attitude -- a point of view and a point of identification. We all have experienced suffering in our ego, which generally suffers when it cannot get its own way and have the things it wants -- when it wants them and the way it wants them. In short, the ego creates its own suffering out of its own desires and demands. The Soul does not suffer. Instead, it looks at every situation as an opportunity to get more experience.

You cannot control your outer environment; you can control yourself.

If you want success in your life, it's time to recognize that you cannot change the past. This isn't just 20 years ago; you can't even change what happened 20 seconds ago. You can't change things so your mother or father would have loved you the way you may have wanted them to. You can't change things in the past so you would have expressed love the way you might have wanted to. What a waste of time it is to put your energy into something that is really a bucket of ashes. The past is dead. Why continue to put energy into a ghost? The best you can do with the past is to use it as a reference point, like a scientist does with an experiment. If you need to look at it, do so with awareness. Without emotional content, see what happened; see it for information, not for blame or judgment. There may also come a time when you have no need even to look at the past. You can simply let it go immediately, so you have all your energy present for living in the present.