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Only by connecting with the nature of the Spirit can we realize that all the problems and negativity in the world are just situations in which we decide what we want to make of them. All things considered, why not make the best choices we can and use everything for our upliftment and learning?

You do not have to try to become spiritual. You don't have to try to be what you already are. The process of trying is like using a double negative; it's redundant. In a sense, trying to be spiritual is like a female trying to be female. She already is; it's not necessary to try. She might "try" to match her expression with some outer criteria or someone's opinion, but that she is a female is a fact. Men and women are spiritual beings. They do not have to try to become that. To express that spirituality consciously in day-to-day activities may be a little bit different. They may have to work to express that quality more directly.

But if you do get up one more time than you fall, if you do correct yourself one more time than you make a mistake, success is waiting for you.

Teach your children to envision their own success and happiness. If they have tests coming up in school, teach them to creatively see themselves taking the tests and passing them. Don't forget to make sure they study, too. It's important that they see themselves being successful. Make it a game. Keep their attitude positive. Keep their spirits up and bright and active.

Abundance is a process of consciousness. Webster's Dictionary defines abundance as quality, affluence, wealth. But in spiritual terms, abundance does not mean possession of objects. Rather, it means access to the essence of what all things are. It means being in communion with that essence inside of you. True abundance is this awareness of the whole, this satisfaction of all our needs (which are far fewer than we may think). That is abundance.

When you don't have to, don't be in charge. If the child is hiding under the blankets and you say, "Come out, come out, wherever you are," and the child doesn't come out, you can still talk, touch, and laugh through the blanket. As long as it does not endanger the child or break an arrangement on which you two agreed, give your children freedom to express themselves even when their expression is different from yours.

You can start finding your own divine love when you start loving others. But that doesn't count until you can love yourself.

One thing that is taught in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, along with the tone -- the spiritual exercises -- is a process of objectivity. So you're not just mindlessly chanting some tone all day long. You're taught to chant as a method of focusing, but you're taught also to listen. And you're taught also to watch and be aware.

Most of you reading this already have the basics of food, shelter, clothing, and love. Yet you probably still feel in need. You covet many things -- particularly material objects (a car, a boat, a stereo, or even a chocolate cake). When you acquire what you covet, you feel great at first -- for a few minutes, maybe even a few days, you're satisfied, think that you don't "need" anything else. But then, inevitably, you distance yourself from the thing you wanted, and you go on to coveting something else, still looking "out there" for something to fill your needs. This cycle can go on forever unless you understand that when you covet something out there, you are really coveting yourself. And you can never find yourself out there. The very thing you are after -- the essence -- is inside of you all the time. And you don't have to leave the physical earth to find it.

Children need to learn that the rhythm of what they are doing can be their own rhythm when they are alone and when they are with others, they must fit with the rhythm of the group. Teach them the rhythm. See how they fit in. Then teach them harmony: not to be louder than others or off-key, how to blend with the group. Teach them to make their consciousnesses an addition to the group, not an irritation.