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The only rest I know is in the Soul when the Spirit comes to a steady place, and I call that the rest point of eternity. And it's also the rest of eternity.

When you find yourself upset or annoyed, stop and take a breath. Just breathe. Gradually you come present. Then focus on expanding your consciousness to encompass a bigger perspective than the one you are seeing. That's a way to get to compassion. Maybe you try seeing the situation from the other person's point of view. Think of how they might be feeling or what they may be dealing with. Maybe you look ahead in time and ask yourself if the situation will be important enough to matter in five years - or ten. You may check to see if your reaction is from your ego and if your ego is important enough to risk hurting yourself or another. You can look at the situation impersonally, as if it were happening to someone else. Or take yourself out of it and pretend you are seeing from the top of a mountain. Once you have expanded your consciousness and have seen the situation from a higher perspective, it's likely you will begin to experience compassion - for yourself and for others.

You do not have to love personalities. People are not their personalities. You are not your personality. You know that you are not your mind; it changes too often. Your emotions go up and down. Your body gets old too fast and develops all sorts of aches and pains. Then what are you? You are living love. You always have been. Let your loving lead you into awakening and the discovery of what you already are.

We talk of Spirit and spiritual laws of acceptance, cooperation, understanding, and enthusiasm. But what value are all of these if there is no charity? Charity is the keynote that allows us to function here.

It can get difficult at times to recognize what is the Light and what is the dark, what's working and what isn't working. It's not always clear, and my mind is guessing constantly. Still, there are practical ways of knowing. The most practical is to ask, "Is it loving?" And if it's loving, where is the greatest loving? How can we be involved and be acting in the greatest loving, in the consciousness of the highest good of all concerned? That's God's domain: it is the omniscience of God to know the highest good of all concerned.

Because the Soul is alive and dynamic, you must get moving and active in order to know it. The exercises we are giving are techniques of chanting sacred names of God. In addition to giving your mind something to do, this connects you to an uplifting energy. Some spiritual exercises work with one specific part of your consciousness; all spiritual exercises lift you into higher, more subtle and refined states of awareness. At first, you may become more aware of (and better acquainted with) the levels of your consciousness that are part of your existence in this world: your mind, emotions, and imagination. Spiritual exercises can also break through the illusions of this world and move you into awareness of the higher levels of Soul and Spirit.

If there is anybody in this world that you have any type of feeling towards other than a good feeling, get it out of you. Work on it like you've never worked on anything before - because you cannot see the face of God unless you can turn towards God, and you cannot turn towards God if you are blocked in any area every time you think of it. To see the face of God, you have to see the face of God in all people. And that takes a lot of courage because you have to continually move yourself past your personality, prejudices, and points of view until you recognize your oneness with those other personalities out there.

Everyone on the planet is allowed the mistakes of growth and learning with anybody, at anytime and anyplace, and you don't have to make amends for your mistakes. If you purposefully hurt someone - you planned it in detail and then carried it out - that is not a mistake, and you may need to make amends for that. But if you just said or did something and then realized, "Oh God, that hurt them, and I didn't mean to," you don't have to make amends for that. You can apologize, as part of having manners: "I didn't mean that to hurt. It just came out."

God is always present, here and now, with nowhere to go because God just is, always, in all ways.

God may be using your family, friends, boss, or even total strangers to bring discipline to you, but it is really coming from Spirit. Spirit loves you enough to point up to you the mistakes you are making and to assist you in correcting them. When you can see the loving in every action and behind every action, you are on your way to seeing God in everyone. You can see the God in everyone and still recognize the mistakes of this level and the areas that need improvement. The two are not mutually exclusive; they coexist.