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Be careful that you don't mis-label and unduly restrict yourself in the form of couching yourself upon "senior moments." Better to be especially conscious and aware of what this pattern is, as best you can determine from your experience and intuition. One of the things that works with those of us involved in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness is something I refer to as "The Net." Essentially, it is that which catches us despite our efforts otherwise to mis-align, disturb, attempt falsehood, and the like. We don't get away with it. Instant karma. Here and now. No lag time. It's a tremendous blessing. It's also humbling, just as it ought to be, to bring us to our humanity and remind us that we are children essentially innocent and playful when we keep ourselves open and willing to do the best we can under the circumstances.

Expressing anger doesn't promote prosperity, but corrodes it. The challenge is to consciously put energy into a self-supportive attitude that says, "So what if I am a little irritable? I don't have to dump it on others. I'm still going to read the paper, meditate or contemplate or do spiritual exercises, eat a nourishing breakfast, and count my blessings rather than discount them."

When looking at the options available, it may be useful to consider recovery from addiction as a lifelong process that requires a sustained focus by the "recoveree." The disease is not necessarily cured, as in bronchitis or an infection. It is more akin to a chronic illness that must be dealt with every day, much like high blood pressure or diabetes. The recovering person would be well served by consistently applying him/herself toward positive activities, positive relationships, and a spiritual focus. Many recovering persons view their sobriety as a gift of grace, a reprieve granted by God. Sobriety must be nurtured, exercised, and actively pursued on a daily basis.

Instant cures are very appealing; life today is so busy and complex that we'll do anything to solve our problems as quickly as possible. But I see it differently. Life is not a problem to be solved. It's a journey of awakening, and that journey is not a race. You can run, walk, or crawl to enlightenment; the pace is up to you. But trying to change the false self by judging it is doomed to fail, because judgment itself is a product of the false self. You'd simply be going around in circles.

So where do we have to go in spiritual exercises? Nowhere. It's all present. You're not "traveling" to see the face of God. You're having "heaven on earth."

You don't need an excuse to do what you want to do. All you have to say is, "I'm going to do this now. I'm nurturing the spiritual part of me." You don't have to get sick to do what you want to do. We all want to listen to tapes and read Discourses, but we'll often put it off and not find time. When we're sick, we have a great time to do those things. So we use our sick time for up-time. Free-form writing during that sick period also helps clear out the junk. But the important thing to remember is that you don't need an excuse to do what you want to do. You can just go do it.

If you enter into anything and the reason that you're doing it is from your loving, from your caring, from the truth of your beingness, that is the way to be.

Do you love someone, or are you "in love" with them? There is a difference because if you are in love with them, you can also be out of love with them. If you love them for what they do, then you may not love them if they don't do what you want or expect of them. But if you love who they are, it doesn't matter what they do, for you love them beyond their behavior.

When you live in the love of the Traveler, it is not necessary to sacrifice the mind, give up the desires, or eliminate the self, because that has already been done. It is over, and now you need only live joyfully and in harmony with your true nature.

I never found God to be fickle but I found me to be fickle. Since God doesn't move, your awareness is moving. And it's not that we don't feel close to God; we are God. But the mundaneness of it is drinking and going to the toilet and driving a car. That's the mundaneness of it and it's also the boredom of it. So we think the other thing is going to be more exciting. So we want out-of-the-body experiences and we want to know all of this stuff. And out-of-the-body experiences can get very boring, especially if you keep going to the same place because that's your karmic repository you're trying to clean up.