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align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date Month="12" Day="1"
Year="2008"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">December 1,
2008</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group--Mill Valley,
</SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">--</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.A.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL--T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s creativity, and worship))
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Value: reflective evaluation)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The ability to
respond)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Michael’s Spirit of
Truth)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Self-honesty; making amends)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Keep
feeling)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The awareness of
potential]<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Our thankfulness--our worship)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These hard times empress
upon us the fact we are physical beings dependent upon material reality for the
basics of our lives--food and shelter, transportation, employment in creating
and distributing our goods and services. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet in that two-hundred-percent-ness of
our challenging, transcendent human reality you tease us to envision, we have
come to understand we are spiritual beings too.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our spiritual sense of value permeates
our mental and physical life, and so we have this ability, even the necessity to
evaluate everything, even your words of insight and assurance for us.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We hope that, as Mother Spirit
suggested, in these times when meditation is forced upon us through fear and
anxiety, it is mostly because we have not been keeping up with our own
voluntary, deep reflection as a necessary part of life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hopefully as we are brought to consider
our economic affairs more comprehensively--just how we are spending our wealth
and our time, this will be a positive step into that sustainable material life,
expanding mental and spiritual life you’ve pointed us towards. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do thank you so much for your
spiritual overview of this adventure we find ourselves upon. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my children, this is
Michael. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A while ago on the eve of
your national acknowledgement of Thanksgiving I held a Light Line teleconference
with a few individuals, and I would like to repeat a little bit of what I
brought up at that time.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s creativity, and worship))
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Open your minds, if you can, to the
concept that, as experiential beings--your fundamental kind of a unique
personality--you are a direct creation of our Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now extend this to consider that
everything you experience--from the taste of a strawberry, to the feeling of
some object in your hand, to the wind on your face, to all the complex emotions
you have with each other; all this, as well as the material universe you live
within--the planet earth, the sun, the stars; all of this from the tiniest to
the largest part of the Creation: everything you experience is created.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>In this sense nothing just happens by
itself. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every effect has sufficient
causes and, as Mother said last time, your conscious presence now is your
personal instantaneously living, moving resolution of everything and
everyone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This realization becomes
the basis for our thanksgiving. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
can thank our Father for everything, either directly or in terms of
possibility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Situation--with a
capitol S, if you will--is the sum total of all of us living and loving and
learning within His existential limits.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Part of His creation is the reality of free will bestowed upon all
personal beings and endowing them with the potential for dignity--free will
dignity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This pretty much accounts
for the Situation writ large, His initial and ongoing creations and all the
subsequent creations of a nigh infinite number of personal beings through the
power of their personalities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
accounts for the physical universe and that extensive brotherhood/sisterhood of
all personal beings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is for this
we give our thanks to Him: for our very lives, and, especially from our hearts,
for each other--that we can have each other, that our eternal souls are
comprised so much of each other. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is what we call worship, this
acknowledgement of our Father’s creativity, this profound gladness in our souls
that we are, and that we have our experiences with each other for
company--forever!--if we so choose. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Mother Spirit spoke extensively last
time about the economic situation you find yourselves in. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me emphasize what she meant when she
said it is not condescension on our part, it is not in any way to make little of
the genuine suffering this occasions, to point out--to help you keep your focus
upon, the potential for this to be a great learning experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For it includes all the devotion, the
study, the paying attention, the respect--indeed all those spiritual qualities
involved in the singular quality of value.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Value: reflective evaluation) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Within any situation there is that
combination of elements that you cannot control, that are more or less just
given because you are indeed involved in a gigantic undertaking of all creation
and all those relatively free-willed individuals about you and above you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet you also have that quotient of
reality that you can control, that you can affect, and your perception of this
also depends upon your spiritual evaluations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even these words I am speaking now can
be, should be evaluated for your own use. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So don’t feel shy about this necessity,
my children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t feel down if you
are brought to the necessity to re-evaluate your life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your ongoing cosmic duty as a
citizen, not only of this world, but of all those worlds you will soon enough
encounter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit adds her
Holy Spirit to your own spiritual qualities of intuition, curiosity for
knowledge and understanding, and the courage to seek them, even worship, and the
wisdom to welcome this great adventure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I extend my Spirit of Truth to you as a helpful orientation, a way of
helping you orient yourselves toward the truth. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A fragment of God himself dwells within
your mind to provide you the ideas, the concepts, the links, the connections if
you be but open enough, willing enough, even at times desperate enough to wonder
and feel His presence. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You are somewhat correct in your
opening prayer, but Mother Spirit and I see it not so much as a debt but more as
a living balance within each individual of what reflection is forced upon you
and what you voluntary, even joyfully embrace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What opening to the spiritual dimensions
within yourself, and without to the spiritual community, i.e. what meditation
and prayer do you make an integral part of your life?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or what may be at times forced upon you
through fear and anxiety, that you call worry?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s that enforced meditation when you
are quite literally stumped by circumstances and more or less held in their
enormous grip, held immobile, feeling each moment as it comes to you full of so
much fear of the unknown.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Remember that at every moment in God’s
reality, as a measure of His power, there is that aspect of the Creation that is
not repeating itself, right down to your individual life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Much of each unique moment--now--is ever
springing new in the absolute infinity of His living spontaneity, a spontaneity
that can, in some smaller measure, be yours.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Mother Spirit spoke of the
misperceptions and their related misunderstandings, called fatalism, which still
infect your religion and reasoning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The belief that you are fated, that all reality is entirely Someone
Else’s, or some Thing else, can color all your perceptions and so become a
self-fulfilling and highly limiting philosophy of life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can get terribly out of balance, my
children, with not only the physical health and wellbeing that is your
potential, your birthright--so much of your disease and ill health stemming
directly from your choices, but you can also fail to attain a more ideal balance
of meditation and reflection in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You can go for long periods in what your psychologists call denial, a
kind of stubborn, perhaps only half-conscious refusal to reflect, to consider,
to evaluate--with your spirit, what you are doing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>To her understanding insight I mention
her Holy Spirit of Courage to help you turn around within your life and accept
the necessity to meditate, to evaluate, to decide, to choose.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is upon these that your wonderful
quality of flexibility depends. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is wise creativity, using her Spirit
of Wisdom to, first of all, arrive at an ongoing, inner self-honesty. We invited
you once to explore this realm of self-honesty by fully accepting within
yourself what is the right thing to do--totally irrespectively of whether or not
you will do it right then. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With
this ability to stop, and be still, and meditate, and open yourself to what is
the right thing for you to do in your situation, you can then make the choice,
only now highly consciously, of whether you want to, and whether you will do it
or not. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That decision becomes both
a determining yet liberating fact.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So be gone dulling, enervating denial, and beliefs of being helplessly
fated. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>With accepting a human need for
reflection, and meditation, and prayer, you will create the way forward. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep in mind all of your institutions,
all your governments and their enormous powers, are all composed of living
people, and the way forward is literally and only within each individual’s
creativity, however combined. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We of
the spiritual community are doing all we can to help you achieve an inner
realization of God’s will, and so strive for that. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strive for that inner openness and
transparency and responsibility you would love to see--(Michael chuckles)--in
those around you, and in those institutions that affect your
life.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The ability to
respond)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I know this can be an enormous thing to
ask, it is an enormous thing to ask many of you, to consider that you are, in a
sense, behind in your responses.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are living in pain and unhealthy ways, uncertainty and anxiety and
fear, and to accept your own response-ability for this takes enormous courage.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A once simple, comfortable feeling
can suddenly seem very threatening and complex; something once possible no
longer is. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But as Mother Spirit
also said, and I have to agree with my whole heart: we see the magnificence of
soul and character that you bring to each moment, often with a rather wry or
ironic sense of humor, to acknowledge what an adventure life is.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>That wry, ionic humor of yours, my
children, is one of your greatest spiritual triumphs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So by all means hang on to that and take
it with you as well. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit
and I are constantly, wonderfully, joyfully, amazed at your courage. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do survive. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do thrive, and this is God’s will as
well as ours. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So yes, by all means,
embrace the necessity for meditation and prayer, not only to get you through
hard times, but in the even greater challenges when you are
successful.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>If you have any questions or comments
on these or any other subjects, I’m right here. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Father Michael, for your love
and support.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It never ceases to
amaze me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The more I get to know
you, the more I get to like you, and Mother, and the rest of your children.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The question I have is: how does
one get in contact with your Spirit of Truth; or how does one use the Spirit of
Truth to live life with?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Michael’s Spirit of
Truth)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight I used the word orientation, so
you can think of it as a way of pointing yourself in all your endeavors. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve talked about many ways of achieving
this, mainly through an openness of mind and spirit, which is none other than
being willing to entertain almost anything that comes your way. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s no simple definition for truth,
my son. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you could think of
it--provisionally--as that spiritual dimension that permeates all aspects of
reality. So one of its features is being all-inclusive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An orientation towards truth points you
at this all-inclusiveness. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this
sense truth is all that is. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>My Spirit of Truth is, like Mother
Spirit’s Mind/Spirit Adjutants, an augmentation of abilities you yourself
possess as a personal being created by God. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personality is intrinsically aware of
value distinctions, and so an orientation towards truth is an evolving ability
to pursue truth, to follow where it leads in this merry chase we call the Cosmic
Adventure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Obviously there are
hindrances or hang-ups--(Michael chuckles)--snag-hazards to this pursuit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the mental potential and
capability called denial, using your creativity to construct a personal reality
based upon the only half-conscious, half-unconscious denial of certain
spirit/value realities that are, at least potentially from your point of view,
there for you to acknowledge and become aligned with. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the unconsciousness of the
habit that is so detrimental.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are literally avoiding consciously choosing to consider things.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Yet you first became aware of truth as
a great discovery when you were just children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You could find things that
worked--(Michael chuckles)--and they kept working day after day--like fingers:
they were true--then; they may still be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Those were the first inklings, the first events in which my Spirit of
Truth could help you along--in a sense introduce you to the great quest. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This quest is part of your eternal life,
my son, for truth has no bottom or sides, no end to it, because you yourself
will keep encountering greater and greater dimensions of reality. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This orientation, this deep desire for
and the thrill of discovery of what is true, is one of my greatest joys I can
share with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this give you
some notion of it anyway? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, a little bit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I notice I have a very narrow definition
of truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m beginning to see it
contains a lot more than I thought it did.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The all-inclusiveness I have some trouble with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like I’m prejudiced against the
organized religion I was brought up in because it looks like it’s so far off the
mark it’s not even true.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But are
you saying it is true?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know
quite where to put that yet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
can’t include it in what I could call truth--yet, anyway.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, when you get into human behavior
you do encounter the truth, the reality of deliberate fraud and
falsification.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what people
are capable of, and what they have chosen to do to each other from the very
beginning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To realize that someone
is telling you a lie, could be the truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>To discover that institutions and organizations of men are deliberately
falsifying the reality they know, as they cynically present it to you; this
could be the truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what I
mean by all-inclusiveness, the greater reality if you will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For those who are existentially
oriented, truth is reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
terms are interchangeable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Truth is
what is--all that is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that
help?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it does.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m going to have to read this thing all
over again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s a
beginning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m going to have to
expand my definition of truth and make the distinction between what is really
true and what is false.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, truth includes all of that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Insofar as truth is a quest, a
discovery, you are constantly leap-frogging, using truth as a platform of
insight from which to launch another investigation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet this is also why some folks have a
fear of curiosity--because they have encountered the truth that what they
believed yesterday is no longer valid in the light of what their curiosity has
discovered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’ve become
soul-weary and wish the search for truth could come to an end, the adventure
would just stop, and that what they believe now would be true forever.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is a big universe of many
dimensions and you are taking just your first few hesitant steps out into
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So keep pondering, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep feeling that orientation I’m doing
my best to help you be aligned with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just keep asking yourself: is it true?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If it’s not, what species of reality is
this thing?--to be included.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be
in my peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank you, Father
Michael)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My question tonight is, with respect to
things I could have done better, I’d like your guidance on how to go about
correcting some of my errors with other people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And how can I bounce back from their
errors?--not just forgiving them but how, as you did in your life, can I
graciously accept them?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Self-honesty; making amends) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter, it seems you’ve
already taken that first courageous step of being self-honest, opening yourself
to your memories and, even deeper, your soul, revisiting the times in your past
when you might have done something better--according to your present evaluation,
or cannot help but feel that others might have been a little bit better toward
you as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The profound goodness
of this, my daughter, is that it helps you achieve and stay in the living now,
for it is within this living now, and with an orientation toward discovering the
truth--whatever that might be, that you avoid denying what is real now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re accepting bringing these real
past events into conscious consideration, because they do affect your present
life, consciously or not.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>That was more or less my lesson for
tonight, to encourage people to take some time out of their precious lives and
revisit what they’ve done, perhaps what has been done to them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For this reflection is always in the
light of your present, growing understanding and wisdom, and these become the
basis for your forgiveness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I
put it once, you can forgive much more readily when you can see to what degree
people do or do not know what they are doing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an evaluation you can make
without being overly judgmental.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just how much were they able to make a conscious choice in what they did
to you, and what portion was some kind of unconscious, conditioned
response?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The striving for expanding
consciousness within yourself, this pursuit of totality, is what your Urantia
book means by God’s desire for you to be perfect, even as He is perfect.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For only He is omniscient.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only He is truth itself, for only He is
conscious of total reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so,
in this way of knowing and accepting yourself and all you’ve done or failed to
do, you can also find the ability to make amends--directly--to those you may
have harmed or disappointed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
yourself must choose how you will repay that debt.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can only counsel you to do it as
directly as possible with that person so it forms a new, changed
relationship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You are a living example of what I mean
by opening your mind to everything--to the truth, whether you can immediately
live it or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s part of the
humility--(Michael chuckles)--that comes with the pursuit of truth: it keeps you
in touch with that which is greater than you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that cover all the bases, or was
there something further?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student, laughing:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think it
does.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have that expression--forgiving and
forgetting--but we prefer to advise you simply forgive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve already paid dearly for every
speck of your human experience; you need not forget or deny anything.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, include everything in your
pursuit of truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be in my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, I see now I’m by
myself--my offspring have flown--that there’s an enormous opportunity for me to
reorient myself to something greater, something more beneficial, whatever that
looks like.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Past a few days’
roller-coaster of emotions, and feelings, and thoughts, even a little
depression, I was getting pretty low, so I just lay down to feel the loneliness
of my space, and prayed to every deity, every spiritual being that came to
mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How was I to use this space
about me; what materials did I need to use now the old ones no longer worked for
me?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This space was my
consciousness--in those moments of loneliness and prayer, and discomfort--but
letting myself go; tears were coming and everything.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then it just stopped, or peaked, and
a recommitment to what I could be came back. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes my desire for description and
definition gets in the way of the vastness of the potential that awaits all of
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I felt peaceful, and the next
day I felt like I was in a womb--in my place--and that was good.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just worked at home and prepared for
the next adventure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So that’s where
I am now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So: do you have any
comments?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, I must say I enjoyed taking that
trip with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I didn’t mean to ramble on like
that…<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Keep
feeling)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh!--not at all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wasn’t being sarcastic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really enjoyed that whole thing
of--mainly--just giving yourself over to feeling--which Mother Spirit and I have
been encouraging through this series of lessons. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To do so you have to trust that the
experience is intrinsically progressive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s what tonight we called a desire for truth with an intrinsic part of
your personality--the ability to weigh things, get to the bottom of things, to
find sound, practical ground, and have some real concrete things to do to be
more beneficial.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So don’t fear the
human need for description and definition in thought.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Yet you experience that some times you
are stumped and nothing comes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Yeah…)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There you are for a
while, and it’s real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Finally you
come back to yourself, changed, so wonderfully refreshed for the journey, for
the opening, almost as if the spiritual community as a whole is giving you a big
wink and saying, Yes, my son: keep feeling.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep throwing yourself open this way to
whatever may come--inside.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I can only add, in all your prayers to
the spiritual community: don’t forget your own soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t forget you can sit down and pray,
Oh my soul--all that I have been and known--and not only as I know us now, but
as God knows us--you too are welcome to come forth and remind me of all I have
been, starting from scratch as that little, bloody, squalling bundle of
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eventually--as you
discovered--even Ultimately--your soul emerges to reassure you: you are!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes--thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for that, because I know--as
I’m developing in this metaphoric womb: this is my time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not in a self-centered or egotistic
sense, not in a material sense; and not only to find truth, but to live it as
you said--concretely day to day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And blossom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a sense
of that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m very aware of what
content is allowed in this space.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
have a lot of choice here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want
it to be from God, and not from fear or suffering.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I find it interesting, my son, you
feel yourself to be in a womb, because my first impression was--as you were
relating these last few days of yours--that you’re becoming aware you are
evermore…pregnant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter
at the notion)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No!--that’s right--I have
been!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The awareness of
potential]<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exactly!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that wonderful awareness of
potential and the awesome responsibility of choice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does take courage to accept how much
you are determining what comes into your inner life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit spoke of giving up your
feeling of forward momentum in life and coming to a complete stop, even for
several days at a time, or several times a day, to meditate with as much
devotion as you can bring to it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Then start again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stop long
enough to get an impression of what to do right, and then do that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may be only a little bit later you
find you’re doing something wrong again, but every time you stop to evaluate
becomes a fresh opportunity to feel for what is right.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The root of the word
opportunity--po--power--means to sit down with power for company, to make power
your companion, to sit with the power to start anew.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Op-portunity means potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can have not only the vicious cycles
you’re familiar with in that expression, but also those wonderful cycles that,
as you exercise and realize your potential, that potential itself
increases.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The more you do, the
more pregnant you become with what you can do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your positive abilities are growing
along with your character, adding to your soul, adding to all your future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This soul is what you are becoming--the
only, but only necessary possession of your
personality.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It sounds like you’re getting excited
there.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL, laughing:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, we do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do get excited with you--and for
you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do know that--in my aloneness: I know
I’m not alone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I know that
somewhere--out there--someone hears my prayers for me to be an extension of the
kingdom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you have that choice to make it
your own, and make your own life part of it.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve always pondered what you and Mother
spirit have said, that the universe was created for each one of us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I started my lesson tonight with the
invitation for you to realize that everything you encounter or experience, and
not only your physical perceptions but including your mental and spiritual
feelings and awareness as well, is all created by our Father, either directly or
by way of His endowment of free will personality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each of us has the power of our
personalities, with whom He shares His absolute and infinite creative power, a
sharing that is the essence of divinity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Only in this way could we determine, could we earn, who we are, and who
we are becoming.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Our thankfulness--our worship)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>That realization becomes our
thankfulness, our worship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s
our love and our regard for Him, our devotion to Him.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our immediate response to His will as
expressed in the Creation is our sense of humility of just how enormous it is,
and yet--as you just said, my son, it is made for us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our home.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each one of us co-creates it for
ourselves and those about us. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the great circle of personal
creativity; the great circle of freedom; the great circle of will dignity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enjoy it with us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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