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Sometimes you forget to declare things done, so there are little incomplete energies that just keep floating around and draining off a little energy every time they come up. You may be going down the road, doing fine, feeling good, and all of a sudden some incident from the past comes up and grabs your attention. You say, "Wow! Where did that come from? I haven't thought of that in years. How did that get in there?" Your inner beingness brings these up for you to deal with and clear.

In any society there are certain areas of human experience that cannot be taught. There is a great deal about love and the loving relationship between two people that can be demonstrated to a certain degree, but must be lived and experienced directly in order for it to be part of anyone's learning experience.

It comes down to a moment-to-moment choice to serve the highest good. It is not enough to do it just once today and figure that is it. Keep choosing the highest good.

You have a responsibility to be loving.

If you look at a road map of how to get from New York to Jasper, Canada, you'll see just a series of markings on a piece of paper. Jasper is unknown to you. You can sit and look at that map forever, but it will never physically take you there. But once you get in your car and drive, the map becomes a reference point of what really exists. And seeing what is really there lets you know the accuracy or inaccuracy of the information on the map. After you have been over the territory and experienced it for yourself, you see how it fits together. Then you can trust the map enough to give it to someone else and say, "This can get you there." Spiritual Warriors follow the map to its outermost edges, testing and experiencing all for themselves. So remember that what has been written here is unknown to you and you can't trust the unknown. You can have a sort of faith in it, a sort of hope in it, a sort of belief in it, but you cannot yet trust it until you do it and it works.

Question: Can you give me an example of unconditional love -- and I don't mean the spiritual end, but when things are rough on this nitty-gritty level? Answer: A long time ago, I worked as a psychiatric technician in a hospital. There was a particular patient who was about 90. He was all skin and bones, with large sores on his backside; his eyes were almost closed because of an infection, and there was an unpleasant odor in his room. Most of the nurses and orderlies didn't want to have anything to do with this man because he was expected to die soon. So I asked the doctor and nurse if it would be all right for me to take care of him, and they gave me permission. I rolled him over and then cleaned his sores with hydrogen peroxide and held warming lights near him for lengthy periods; within three weeks, the bedsores were gone. I powdered him, diapered him, and cleaned out his eyes. At one point, he started talking to me. I was surprised because this old man hadn't talked all the time I had been working in the hospital, and I had assumed he had lost the power of speech. He explained that he didn't want to talk because the rest of the staff treated him as if he were already dead. We had a beautiful conversation that went like this: He said, "You were a little rough a few times when you rolled me over." I replied, "Be thankful that I rolled you over." He laughed and said, "I am, and you still rolled me over a little hard." I smiled and asked, "Why didn't you speak to me sooner?" "Because I thought if I said something, you'd stop." "That's because you didn't know me," I said. "I do now, he said, "and that's why I am telling you to take it easier." We both laughed. I made sure his room was one of the best smelling ones in the hospital. I made sure his bed was fresh. I knew he wasn't going to live much longer, but while he was living, I made sure he had the attention he deserved as a human being. When he died, there were no sores on his body. When he died, he was content that somebody had cared enough to take care of him. He died while I was in the room with him. He said, "I would like to die now." I said, "Well, not until I give you a hug." He smiled, "What do you think I am waiting for?" I hugged him and he died, and I cried. Then I washed him because I cared enough. Unconditional loving doesn't care about smells, looks, or any other condition. It's just a matter of "love them anyway." That man is dead, and he's also alive in me and, perhaps, in you with whom I share the experience.

When you are in the state of acceptance, you're moving past attachment and desire. It's so easy to talk about acceptance, but not necessarily easy to demonstrate it in your life. Once you can demonstrate that first spiritual law of acceptance, you're in the game. Then you can call in the quarterback, who is called selectivity. Along with it comes discernment. You discern what is available to you and choose what will work best for you. You might ask yourself how well you discern what you are bringing to yourself and how well you test the Spirit.

Don't try to control people. Just let them unfold the way they want. It's beautiful to sit with others and have them start telling you about themselves. The support is in listening and hearing them reveal themselves to you a little bit at a time while you remain free of judgments or preconceived opinions about what they should or shouldn't be. It can be much like reading a book; it's nice to read it one page at a time and get the quality of the book. Some people reveal themselves to you much more rapidly than others. And many times people reveal much more by what they don't say than by what they do say. You have to learn to read between the lines. If you can't, it's because you have prejudices. You mind is thinking that is has to be a certain way. There are no "certain ways" on this planet. There are only ways that work and ways that don't work. And when people reveal themselves to you, they tell you about those things that either worked or didn't work for them.

If we are to experience the greater oneness with the Spirit inwardly, then we must remain open to support our connection outwardly as well. We must be willing to do unto others what God, through the Spirit, would do through us as the expression.

If you practice the inner work of meditation, contemplation, prayer, and spiritual exercises, all this will gradually become familiar, and the way of the Spiritual Warrior will become second nature to you.