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You know that you must first accept yourself before you can accept others. And you must first cooperate with yourself before you can cooperate with others. So also, must you first give charity to yourself before you can give charity to others.

We must practice finding the living love within us.

If you're not nice to your car, you're off. You might ask, "Who would be nice to my car? It's terrible. It's an awful car." It's yours, so love it and be nice to it. Say nice things to it when you look at it. Look at it endearingly. You might say, "No, I can't stand it. It needs a paint job. It needs new upholstery. It needs new tires." Love it anyway. It's never so dark you can't love it, whatever "it" is. That's what unconditional love is.

Another thing we know not to do is harm ourselves or others. Yet we spend a lot of time beating ourselves up about one thing or another. "Don't hurt yourself, don't hurt others" is one of the most important phrases you'll learn. It is a universal spiritual principle that has an enormous practical effect.

This physical body is truly a temple of the Spirit, for the Spirit resides in each one of us.

As you stop doing things to hurt yourself, you naturally start to take better care of yourself. And as you take better care of yourself, you start to feel more expansive and reach out to others.

Do whatever it takes to assume responsibility for yourself.

You test people; you test them all the time. Husbands test wives; wives test husbands. Children test parents and each other. It's often a question of, "Do you love me or not?" Often this is the end result, although it may take a different form, such as the following conversation: "I love you." "Then why did you do that terrible thing?" "Because I don't love you your way. I love you my way." "Well, your way isn't too good." "I'll love you your way if you show me what it is." "I'm not too sure I know...." The fact is, we're often not sure if we want to give love. So sometimes we give love a little bit at a time. It's called "courting." We court people in many ways. Sometimes we court them for love, sometimes for a joy, sometimes for opportunity. But once the goal is accomplished, we tend to forget about the process of courting, and that's a big mistake. For instance, after being married, some couples forget about courting each other. But it's the process of courting that got you your goal, your spouse, the promotion, that job and it is the process of courting that will maintain it. It is that courting process of awareness, of caring and of giving which will assist you in bringing about greater spiritual success.

The source of abundance is present inside you as the vibration of Spirit. You cannot demand against it because that just won't work. Spirit does not seem to respond to demands or attempts to manipulate it. The best thing you can do, if you want to support the manifestation of abundance, is to handle what has to be done on the physical and then be quiet. Be quiet. Silence. Meditation. Calm yourself so you can receive of the divine consciousness within, which will manifest your abundance.

We can hold and focus into the positive while we confront the negative or, more accurately, while it confronts us. We're not negative. It's none of our business. It's not our level of concern, but we deal with it, when we need to, as a process towards upliftment, learning, and growth. So when someone brings up negativity there is no need to deny it. Focus instead on the good that is always present.