[tmtranscripts] Michael 10.16.06

[JERRY LANE]

Michael—October 16, 2006

Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

MICHAEL—T/R-JL

(The Trinity within)
(Your own world—its wonders and limitations)
(Come join the cosmic family)
(How courage changes things)
(Anger)
(The varieties of love)
(Spiritual living and human sexuality)
(Thoughts on eternity)
(Relationship considerations and choices)
(Always remember, your choices keep you free)

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,  We thank you for these last several lessons 
where you’ve encouraged us to seek deeper into the meaning of the words we 
use to understand reality, and examine afresh the concepts we’ve been 
handed.  Then we can realize anew our own experiences directly, and not 
through just a reshuffling of an old deck of perhaps worn-out, no longer 
useful expressions.  To do this we ask for your help in detecting and 
becoming one with your spirit.  Help augment our own creative abilities to 
continue evolving, reformulating our philosophy of life.  Amen.

MICHAEL:  Good evening, my children, this is Michael, your father, your 
brother, your dear friend.  You are very welcome.  Mother Spirit and I 
appreciate your thanks, and your gratitude, and your faith--your trust in 
us, so that when we do want to go deeper into a subject to stretch your 
understanding, you are willing to suspend your disbelief and follow.  
Because of your ability to ignore us, to disbelieve us--one of the 
foundations of your free will--you do give us reality within yourselves by a 
profound act of recognition.

(The Trinity within)

For we are here within you, Mother Spirit’s Mind/Spirit Adjutants helping 
form your thinking, and my Spirit of Truth helping you sort out and 
understand what is happening as you go through your days.  We are always 
with you whether you can consciously detect our presence or not, just as 
your Father Fragment is right within your thoughts making connections, tying 
those links, sometimes recognizable by the startlingly appropriate thoughts 
you have, as you say, “out of the blue.”

And so you have right within you, my children, all the representatives of 
the Paradise Trinity for company, and very immediate company at that.  I 
even joked about this last time, and teased you a bit by reassuring you that 
we are all subservient to your choices, to your free will within you, so you 
needn’t feel it’s too crowded in here.

One main theme we’ve been exploring/evolving these last few years, is to 
give you a handbook, an owners manual, if you will, on the kind of being you 
are.  You weren’t given such a manual at birth, but if you think about it, 
you all were handed one piecemeal as you grew up, in your first few years by 
your family, and then the immediate neighborhood, the adults and children 
you encountered as a youngster.  For whether they are aware of it or not, 
every person has a philosophy of life, including—what--they are.  Every 
person has a human need to understand what is happening to them.  Every 
person has a creative spirit that right from the very beginning begins to 
form a world view, their own personal world based upon their experiences.

(Your own world—its wonders and limitations)

This is a necessary and rather stupendous creation, from the point of view 
of a small child.  You can all remember those times when you extended 
yourself as best you could in your understanding, but then some small 
disappointment would totally collapse your world and you could only sit 
there crying in the wreckage, until, ever so slowly with halting attempts to 
catch your breath, this last tidal wave of emotion that had utterly swept 
you away would subside and leave you somewhat dazed, but at peace.  Then, of 
course, you would start out again.

Though ones world view is quite an accomplishment, and a necessary one, in 
very primitive tribal societies, bound about by other tribes curtailing 
travel and contact outside of ones immediate group, this world view would be 
almost identical with those around one.  In more modern societies with a 
great degree of mobility, and mass media, a young child is exposed at a very 
early age to a much broader view, especially since the age of television.

Having your own world is quite an accomplishment, so much so there comes a 
stage when you identify with it just as a normal course of events.  As it 
nears a kind of practical completion and seems to stick together for a 
while, you can mistakenly assume that this is Reality Itself.  Mother Spirit 
said last week this was the fatal error of those who got caught up in the 
Lucifer Rebellion.  It is also quite common among people as well.  We’ve 
mentioned how people with a highly developed cynical, shared view of life 
can form a tight little group and politically take over a very large country 
through the use of terror, assassination, and all the other machinations of 
ruthless power.

But even on a much smaller scale you find petty tyrants within individual 
homes, different small communities, whose game is forcing their world view 
on everyone else.  Seen from outside these are pathetic individuals clinging 
to a tiny speck of reality they mistakenly think is the whole show.  Yet 
because they have such a small grasp of God’s true reality, this leads to 
their unconscious defensiveness, their desperate need to protect their 
little fiefdoms even within their own minds, quite willing to resort to the 
most horrible, unimaginable acts upon their fellows.

          When Mother Spirit mentioned the need to turn about and actively 
seek God’s will, this is the turning about she was referring to.  This is 
the enormous spiritual courage to let go clinging to your hard-earned view 
of the world, by recognizing that it is your own.  You are a spiritual 
being, you have co-created along with general reality this world of your 
own, and you can be happy and proud that you are this kind of being with 
this kind of creativity.  You can joyously welcome with a true humility all 
that other “out there”—God’s creation, his will and ways, and actively seek 
to know these.  But this is precisely where many people fail in their 
growth.  They are unwilling to let go their inner certainty that they’ve 
already got a hold on reality itself.  For them humility means being 
humiliated, being made to feel small; and there is some truth in that.  Each 
individuals’ co-creation--their own world, is small by comparison to God’s, 
as well as everyone else’s—in different combinations.

Here you run into some very deep ironies indeed.  Not unfortunate, but 
fortunate is the individual who has at some time gone, or been thrust 
willy-nilly into a situation that utterly destroyed, momentarily anyway, his 
notions that he had completed his grasp of reality.  Temporally overwhelmed 
with some new discovery, it is only after the fact, after he’s bobbed back 
to the surface of this tidal wave that swept over him, after he’s 
experienced this small ego-death, can he break out laughing in pure glee 
that he has survived.  And look!  Look what’s new, all around then.  With 
this experience under his belt he can begin to wonder what else there might 
be out there, what other adventures might be in store.  There may be more to 
reality than was dreamt of in his philosophy to date.

You are lucky indeed if your parents had this humility and you were raised 
with the notion that reality itself, the encompassing within which you find 
yourself, is infinite.  This does not relieve you of the task of forming 
your own world view, understanding yourself and the world about you by 
forming a cohesive philosophy and articulating it to yourself, perhaps 
sharing it with others; but you never lose sight of the fact that it is your 
creation, and very finite compared to infinity.

Once you have crossed that threshold, once you as an adult have had your 
world blown asunder, then survived to an even larger reality you can 
creatively recognize, you may suspect that you yourself are a spiritual 
being.  You are creative.  With this glorious discovery you can set about to 
take response-ability for what you create.  You can begin to respond by 
letting those others out there, your fellows human beings, be.  You can 
recognize their freewill, their independence from you.  You can drop your 
need to pre-judge them, and glory in the reward as they begin to emerge as 
individuals.  And what a treasure that is, if overwhelming at first.

(Come join the cosmic family)

This is another proof of God’s creativity--all those unique individuals 
around you, no longer stereotyped with a patina of prejudice.  This is the 
reward of the courage to let go, to relax, to open yourself to whatever you 
cannot anticipate.  This is trusting in spontaneity and your own creativity. 
  And so, my children, we welcome you; we even tease you a bit.  Come join 
us.  Recognize you are already part of the spiritual community, the cosmic 
family.  Stretch yourselves and seek the cosmic view or, at least initially 
anyway, a Urantia view, a world-wide view of all your cultures, all your 
ethnic types, all your different histories.  What a great adventure this is, 
and, like any adventure, it takes nerve.  There is such a thing as courage, 
and it leads to the greatest rewards of all.  So again: welcome, my 
children, come join us.  We are already here, right within you.  Come pay us 
a visit, won’t you?

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I certainly do welcome 
them.

Student:  I thank you for the information and the talk on courage, Michael.  
It is something I have asked for, for many years on a daily basis, and I am 
starting to get it.  The courage has to come before self-forgiveness and 
self love; and it’s time; and I thank you for touching on that.  It’s helped 
me immensely to keep your courage--in the thought of your absolute love--as 
close to me as possible.  Thank you so much.

(How courage changes things)

MICHAEL:  You are very welcome, my daughter.  Yes, courage is something real 
is it not, something you can feel.  It’s a genuine experience and it changes 
things.  It changes you.  And in changing you, it changes all of that “out 
there.”  That’s how you know: that’s proof enough it’s working, and a not 
too subtle hint that all that out there--all that you know, all that you 
experience--your world--is partly you.  There’s that wonderful oriental 
philosophical statement: Thou art That; and I think this is what they mean.

Student:  I’m also understanding that I was my own obstacle to peace.  I 
think I was visited by someone in a dream when I heard the words, hate is 
the enemy, not people.  You are your own obstacle to peace with all the 
hatred you hold.  When I awoke from that dream I knew…I knew--I could feel 
the courage changing me because I finally came to not judge people.  I began 
to feel equal with people; and I’m so grateful for that…

MICHAEL: Well, my daughter give a big hug to your Thought Adjuster then.  
(group chuckles)  Sounds like you had one of those very characteristic, 
delightfully undeniable insights.

Student:  Yeah. I went to bed with ten years of hatred I always had for my 
brother-in-law, woke up from that dream, and it was gone.  I finally called 
him, and I didn’t say, “I forgive you.”  I said I choose to let go of my 
resentments; and it astounded him.  I astounded myself.  I have no one that 
I hate right now, and it feels so great to get rid of my hated and my anger. 
  But what kept me from the peace that I’m now feeling, and the hope you can 
spread that?

MICHAEL: This is your new-found philosophy, your changed understanding.  So 
thank yourself too, for this was most probably--to you, to your 
consciousness--an underground development for many years.  Thank your own 
soul for this need to know, this need to understand that would not let you 
rest until you got to this point.  And welcome again: for you can 
extrapolate this movement on into the future and realize: you ain’t seen 
nothin’ yet! (students laugh along with Michael)

Student:  I’m also understanding these anger emotions, as for the last few 
years I’ve had so much less of them.  I think of all the time I wasted being 
angry, but I’ve forgiven myself--I got to that point--I can honestly say 
that.  But my question is, as we grow in courage and the safety of your 
love, is it truly possible that we can, I mean, still be frustrated, or 
wanting?  Or is it truly possible to never have to go under those levels 
with anger again, because I can completely see people know not what they do, 
so I mean I’m hoping that I never jump in and be the hothead I was--the 
fearful personality that was so attacked—my ego was so attacked…  I hope 
that I’m approaching a level of my life where I will never have that kind of 
anger again.  It’s not necessary.

(Anger)

MICHAEL:  Yes, My daughter, this is something very devoutly to look forward 
to, for your courage and your self-confidence will keep growing if you stay 
on this path.  You need to grow your faith in yourself and in us.  Anger is 
a wonderful thing, a marvelous thing--when it is appropriate.  Anger is the 
mobilization of energies, the release of stored energies to meet a 
threatening situation, and when it is just, when it is appropriate, it 
fulfills a valuable function.  Yet so often, starting very early in life 
following an example set by one’s parents or associates, one’s anger becomes 
an indulgence, an inappropriate way of enjoying the sheer energy released.  
Then this inappropriate, unjust anger becomes hatred when it’s focused on a 
specific target. This continues until, as you just stated, you 
simultaneously realize the target is not threatening and the anger is 
inappropriate.  It takes courage to recognize there is no appropriate threat 
and admit the anger is only a self-indulgence--for which you are righteously 
correct in forgiving yourself.

So I commend you, my daughter, on your comprehension, your understanding of 
this nearly universal human dilemma.  For all those who achieve maturity do 
go through these stages.  The problem is not that one has to go through 
them, but that one often gets stuck along the way.  So, yes, by all means 
let me reassure you, you can keep going.  This flower that’s blossoming has 
an eternity to go.

Student:  I have a kind of a curiosity-question about dreams, if you could 
speak a little about something I read; somebody termed it remote-viewing. I 
found myself, through a dream, very conscious and awake, and I was seeing a 
murder scene--in 1991--and I never knew what I was supposed to do with that 
information.  I didn’t ask for it; I had no connection to anyone that I know 
of that was murdered.  Can You speak a little about something like that, 
that happened through a dream?  Is there anything important I should b aware 
of, concerning it?

MICHAEL:  My daughter, the true instances of what you would call 
clairvoyance through a dream state, brought about an Adjuster-to-Adjuster 
communication, are extraordinarily rare--on the order of less than one in a 
thousand of such dreams.  Unfortunately there is no way for you to know, 
when a dream is so general as that, that it is not just the normal surreal 
landscape--dreamscape, you might say.  Dreams are such a total mishmash 
conglomeration of every level of your unconsciousness and 
super-consciousness mind that most of dream interpretation is only useful as 
a psychoanalytical tool, which at times can help people understand 
themselves.  But only extremely rarely does it provide valid information 
about an event happening elsewhere.  It is barely possible, but only so: and 
how can you tell?

So just think about this a while.  Think about this particular dream 
compared to the thousands of others you’ve had.  This is what you call lucid 
dreaming, where you are seemingly fully awake within a dream, and aware you 
are dreaming.  These dreams are startlingly remarkable and very precious for 
that, but only rarely validly refer to anything beyond the dreamer.

Student:  Is it possible in a lucid dream to thought-travel, to travel in 
the dream-body, or just…don’t go there, just try to go back to sleep?

MICHAEL:  I would keep your adventuresome spirit at all times.  Do what 
seems possible and appropriate within your dreams.  But do not mistake this 
for some actual travelling.  These are sometimes inputs from your Thought 
Adjuster and as such they can have great wisdom and insight in them you can 
feel.  Your Thought Adjuster is trying to convey a message, and your mind 
will cast this in some form familiar to you, some symbolism.  But it may be 
inexplicable or incomprehensible to your waking self.  So while the Thought 
Adjuster’s wisdom is pure, it has to come through the mechanism of your mind 
to be expressed in your dream, and that expression is yours.  The meaning is 
only symbolical, not literal.

This is why the Urantia book cautions you about taking these things 
literally.  It mentions how many people do get carried away with their own 
vivid interpretation of  their Thought  Adjuster’s input.

Student:  Thank you for your words on that.  Thank you very much.

MICHAEL:  You are very welcome, my daughter.  Carry on: you‘re doing fine.  
Be in my peace.

Student:  One more thing…  When I first heard you at Bob Scagel’s in 
Sebastopol I didn’t know how to act.  And now as I’ve grown and feel so…just 
more able to receive you, I don’t feel like a little nut running around 
wondering what I should do, but just to absorb you… (heavy sigh) your 
goodness.  Thanks again.

Student:  Yes Father, I’ve been focusing lately on love.  I always wonder 
why I love certain people more than others, and why I feel a strong pull 
toward someone.   There is one woman who I feel a lot of love for, but she’s 
married, has four kids, and a dog.  But ever since I began working for her 
there’s been love.  So obviously nothing can go forward with this 
relationship.  And I don’t want that to happen.  But then why do I need 
anything?  Love does not need or want anything in return.  Why can’t I just 
love the person without the need for all the other stuff—the intimacy, or 
sexuality, or wanting to be with that person?  How do I portray love into 
the world—especially with respect to the opposite sex?  How is this 
portrayal tinged with sexuality, or the need for intimacy, which can be 
intrusive?  I no longer desire to be intrusive—whether I know it or not.

So I’ve been looking at this, and how I’ve been programmed since my birth on 
how to portray love, and experience love, and accept love.  I look at Ala 
(sp?) who hugs and loves a thousand people a day.  She doesn’t need 
anything; she just loves.  I’m not saying I’m aspiring to be like her, 
because I want to be who I am.  But I’m looking at a different 
conceptualization of love, where I just love the person without all the 
other…colorization (sic).

But since I’ve been thinking about this, I’ve been experiencing a lot of 
unsettlement in my stomach, because it’s like something really dark and deep 
within me just desires to be intimate, or something—I don’t know.  I want to 
be a pure vessel of love—like you were.  And like Buddha was; and Mohammed.

One thing before you say anything:  I don’t want to be celibate!  (much 
laughter)  But at the same time, that is a possibility.  I want love to be 
an inspiration, nothing else.

(The varieties of love)

MICHAEL:  My son, you’ve just told a wonderful story of a person’s need to, 
first of all, understand himself, to sort through many different ways of 
loving, and understand each one.  At the same time, you are expressing a 
genuine spiritual ambition to keep growing in your ability to love across 
this whole spectrum.  Within this there is a growing maturity of recognizing 
the necessity for freedom, both in being free yourself from desires or 
impulses that might serve to limit your ability to love, shall we say, by 
indulging in a kind of smarmy, unwelcome sexuality; and at the same time, 
realizing the need to let other people be free: recognize their freedom—from 
you.  This is because you now want a genuine response, not something coerced 
or seduced.  You now want a wholeness to relationships that involves your 
whole personality, your whole being.  You’re not quite sure how to do this, 
but you are reaching toward it.  It involves meeting, and enjoying another 
person’s wholeness.

And this is great!  It leads to a whole number of different kinds of 
relationships, rather than just being stuck with one or two.  For I’m sure 
you are aware of those individuals who are so caught up in the chase, the 
sexual seduction scene, they have no true friends of the opposite sex—other 
than their current lover.  Yet as soon as that relationship ends, they break 
off any kind of further contact, any friendship beyond their physical need.

So enjoy all these different relationships.  Some people you will find are 
easy to love because they are simply, intrinsically lovely—they just fit 
your idea, your predisposition of what a lovely person is.  But for the most 
part, you will find they are just loving, themselves—that is, a loving kind 
of person themselves, not someone who’s consumed with self-love.   Out of a 
generosity and wealth of spirit, they love others.

So keep going!  Keep stretching yourself toward what you are getting 
intimations are more full, and rewarding, and satisfying kinds of love that 
are truly gifts to others.

Student:  Yes—that’s what it is.  That is my vision, is for the love that I 
have to be a gift for others, for a person to feel…safe, in my presence, 
without any of that what you called unsavory-ness or smarmy-ness that takes 
away from the purity of what I have to offer.  Because I can feel that 
unsavory-ness in my gut; when I‘m not honoring that person--I’m not honoring 
myself.  So I am becoming clear about that.   But at times—to be honest—the 
pull of sexuality is strong, and I know how coercive and manipulative it can 
be.

MICHAEL:  Don’t forget, my son, advances are only smarmy when they are not 
welcomed…  (much laughter all around)…

Student (much relieved):  Yes—that is true!  That is true; that is true…

MICHAEL:  Were that not so the human race would die out in a short time.

Student:  On that note too, I notice I do get projected on a lot from past 
relationships, and that gets in the way.  From my part, that is something 
that is in their history, they perceive.  And sometimes I’m totally innocent 
of anything, but because they see me as some mean father, or jilted lover, 
or…just being a man.  Unfortunately there’s a lot of anger toward  men these 
days.  So, anyway…   But thank you for that, because I do want to become all 
this love, without giving up sex; but at the same time I want the purity and 
integrity—for both people.

(Spiritual living and human sexuality)

MICHAEL:  There is that wonderful statement in your Urantia book that human 
sexuality--which was, after all, created by our Father, and Mother Spirit 
and I--is fully compatible with genuine spiritual living—except in the minds 
of overly fastidious people.

First student again:  Learning to give without the sense of having to get 
has been on my mind a lot during the past few weeks.  I’m kind of a lone 
ranger and work at home, alone, a lot; which I enjoy.  But it’s been on my 
mind—just the real art of giving without this expectation to get something.  
And also from the Urantia book, different from the way I was brought up—the 
love of right-doing as different from the fear of wrong-doing.  I’ve learned 
that very valuable thing from the book—along with other things.

MICHAEL:  Practical considerations, my children, point to sensitivity, being 
very open to the feedback, the response—letting other people feel free to 
respond to you.  Sometimes this means pausing a lot, making some small 
statement then pausing to see what the response is.   Pass the ball of 
conversation and contact back and forth lively, and don’t try to hog all the 
action.  Be open to your partner and give them their share.

Student:  In that context, the framework for the relationship is created, 
whether it will be a friendship, or one of intimacy, or…whatever form it 
takes.  So thank you for all that.

MICHAEL:  You are very welcome, my son.  Good luck!

Student:  Oh God!…  (more laughter)  Gee, I feel like I’m treading in deep 
waters here, trying to… because there are a lot of, unfortunately, angry and 
hurt women out there, and I am so tired of being projected upon.  But I am 
willing to try again.  (heavy sigh)

MICHAEL:  Then remember: you are in my peace.  Remember to feel it.

Student:  Father Michael, we thank you for the reminder this  life is really 
an adventure, and that we’re living in exciting times—with the possibility 
of living forever—eternity—which I really don’t understand yet.  I can’t 
picture eternity.  But I can picture one day at a time.  And also: thank you 
for your love, and kindness, and support--both you and Mother Spirit, and 
all your children—Angels and such--that support us.  Thank you very much.

(Thoughts on eternity)

MICHAEL:  You are very welcome, my son.  About eternity: you’re closer than 
you know.  (much laughter)  Eternity can’t be pictured.  And it is always 
now.  It is only: one more day.  Be in my peace.

Student:  Michael, tonight we’ve been discussing a lot about relationships, 
and that brings to mind mine with my wife.  I feel if I were to be truly 
honest as to how I feel about the relationship, where I think it’s going, I 
would cause much hurt.  And I do not wish to do that.  But the dilemma I 
face is: am I hurting this person more by not expressing what I truly feel?  
And this problem is causing great distress within me, and has for many, many 
years.  It continues to grow.  At some point it is going to have to be 
faced, and honesty is going to have to surface.  But there’s so much 
involved.  There’s children; there’s family; there’s home—things I don’t 
wish destroyed.  Perhaps you can give me some insight on how to bring 
honesty into a relationship—heart-to-heart honesty, even though it may cause 
great pain.

(Relationship considerations and choices)

MICHAEL:  My son, I do sincerely acknowledge your dilemma, and I salute the 
courage it takes to acknowledge it to yourself, for you have opened yourself 
to the complexity involved.  One way out of this dilemma is to re-examine 
your own anticipations, your own expectations about what a certain 
revelation or expressed need might bring about.  I commend your sensitivity, 
your recognizing the need for tact in expressing what you feel needs to be 
expressed, but think about the other person in the sense of her creativity, 
her spontaneity, her ability to rise to the occasion.  For in a way you are 
already evaluating this.  It’s part of your tact: if I say this, how will it 
affect her?

But as necessary as this evaluation is, be careful you don’t slight her 
abilities to respond adequately.  This could be another fear--that she might 
respond, in a way, too adequately, if you take my meaning.  You are correct: 
once certain things are said, they cannot be taken back if your relationship 
to date has had a certain amount of honesty.  As you know, some very 
intimate couples can say almost anything to each other, and do, but then 
with the necessary apologies later, really muddy the waters so badly that 
not much can really be exchanged; and I sense you want to stay out of 
that—very wisely so.

But if this has been building up for a number of years, and you fear a more 
thorough airing of the situation would really destroy the relationship, and 
hurt your children who are dependant upon it, there is little here I can 
help you with, my son, that you have not already considered.  I truly 
commend your sensitivity, and this genuine love you have that comes out as 
not wanting to hurt another.  But these are decisions you have to make, and 
there is no avoiding the need, sometimes, to experiment.  This may sound 
rather callous, but I don’t mean it that way at all.  I mean: when you are 
on the very edge of what you know, and what you cannot know until you try 
some small token, some way of approaching what you need to express, there is 
no way around the need to experiment, to try something--with all the tact 
and sensitivity you can muster, certainly.  But give this other person a 
chance to respond.  Don’t automatically assume you know what that response 
will be.  For if you truly do know how she will respond to what you feel you 
need to say, you’ve already made your decision.  You see what I mean?

Student:  I’m afraid I’ve lost you right at the end there.

MICHAEL:  If you are very sure how she will respond, then in a sense you 
already know the outcome, you’ve already decided what it will be; you’ve 
already made that decision.  Not that you’ve discounted her response, but 
you’ve already decided what it will be.  In a sense you’re saying you don’t 
need to bring this up; it would serve no purpose.  You simply  have the 
choice to continue living with the situation, or initiate whatever action 
you decide upon to change it.  But in doing so you are taking her out of the 
equation—her creativity, her response-abilities.

Student:  I hear what you’re saying, Michael.  I feel the decisions I’ve 
made all these years are quite simple: I would rather absorb, myself, the 
pain, than watch another suffer because of what I say and do.  I have seen 
my spouse’s response in the past when this subject was broached.  I have 
seen the pain that is very deep inside her from her own upbringing, from her 
own father—how he left their family.  And so I decided I did not wish to 
bring that pain to the surface, and destroy our family, for I guess this is 
what this would do.  So I choose to just absorb this myself, but it’s 
becoming more and more almost unbearable.  But thank you for listening.

MICHAEL:  You’re very welcome, my son.  I feel at a bit of a loss because 
you have so thoroughly thought it through, but I think we have arrived at 
the bedrock of decisions you have been making.  I can only ask you to 
reexamine those and consider again whether your partner may have changed, or 
grown, so that her response might be different than what it was in the past. 
  The situation could be mitigated somewhat by recognizing what estrangement 
you may be responsible for yourself.  This just points to the maturity 
necessary for every person in a relationship, to accept their share of the 
pain of misunderstandings, or even insufficient love--as they might ideally 
want to see it.  This is just a part of a good maturity—accepting your share 
of these disappointments.

(Always remember, your choices keep you free)

So be in my love and peace, my son.  Try to remember in your regular 
stillness, in spite of how it feels at times, you are fundamentally free.  
Your are making a continuous choice, day by day, and it is your free will to 
do this.  You are choosing to accept the pain involved because of a higher 
morality that is also your choice.  In doing so you do keep in touch with  
Mother Spirit and I.   You do keep in touch with your Father Fragment.  And 
so I commend you for this once again, and ask you, my son, to accept my 
peace.  Let it bathe you and heal you—as much as you can.

Student:  Thank you.

MICHAEL:  And so, my children, another evening draws to a close.  Both 
Mother Spirit and I do commend you all for your striving to grow, your 
striving to know what you’re doing—especially as it impacts others.  This 
taking responsibility, this accepting the need to respond to others, is the 
surest way to grow.  For it is only incidentally, and after the fact, you 
reap the rewards of that effort.

This is one meaning of courage, that you must first extend yourself and open 
yourself just on general spiritual principles stemming from your own wisdom 
and desire to be a loving person.  You extend yourself, you reach out, you 
stretch, and then the reward comes truly by the grace of God.  So thank you, 
Father, for settling up our lives this way, for your absolute faith and 
trust in us.

Dear children, be in my peace—deep, deep within you.  Relax into it; let it 
heal you.  Good evening.


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