Observation means to look without judgment, resistance or anything like a closed, contracted or denying attitude. It’s important to look with observation at our past actions and whatever presents itself now -- to observe without attachment to what we think we should or should not see.

If I could get you to observe with your mind and your ears for just 30 minutes, you would start transcending the limits of your personality. When we start to observe without judgment, the answer we have been seeking arrives naturally.

People complain, "I close my eyes and I want to see God. I really want to, but He doesn't show up." Come on! You can't even control your own mind. Do you think you can control God? Do not waste your time with such thoughts. Observe. Watch. See what happens.

When we are observing, we are in that place that I call purity -- purity of thought, of emotion, of content. In that moment of feeling good, that moment of observation, the power of God will move inside of you.

Watch out when you demand something of Spirit. Is it your ego or your ambition talking? Why don't you observe and see what part of you is really doing the demanding? By the time you find out, it will no longer matter. When we observe we rise in time above the desire, and we learn from being above it.

Have you noticed that when you try to work on guilt or resentment or other problems, they beat you on the head? We start by rationalizing our problems, and end up complaining about who is in our way, and how to get them out of the way, and if we had had better parents we would never have had any problems at all. Then we say, "Why is my life so much harder than everybody else's?" Why don't you sit back and observe your life? Now.

When we leave that center of Divine awareness and go out in the world, we must go out as a participant observer. Going out is participating; the rest is observing. If you do not succeed at this the first time, don't worry. You are going to be given millions of opportunities to work at it: Namely, every moment of your life.

I hope I have made it clear that the Spiritual Warrior never tries to control the guilt, the separation, and the rest. We observe them. Observation is a state of detachment, which lifts us into a greater awareness. We become more and more free.

As Spiritual Warriors, we do not judge the meditation. We do not judge the mind or the emotions. We observe them, and the observing itself dissolves our negative emotions. You may ask, what will be left when they are dissolved? If you ask, you are losing. But if we can observe what is happening and record it accurately, and then place the love in it, that love will move the disturbance. That is how we get free; that is how we dissolve negative karma.

By observing, you can spontaneously rise into love. Spontaneously, without having learned how.