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How your faith in me warms my [[heart]]! And so I call upon you, my children, just to [[tune]] into me, to [[Mother]], whenever it crosses your [[mind]]. This does not in any way have to be a [[formal]] [[thing]], for you know when I was among you how I had to instruct all my followers and get them away from notions that spirit is something so far removed and so austere it took some kind of formal petition. Rather, we are your closest [[friend]]. I am there in your heartbeat for you to feel me, and in feeling me simply allow me to help you feel. [[Feel]] these [[human]] lives you are living, all the ups and downs, all the [[joy]] and [[Sadness.|sorrow]], everything. This takes some nerve, my children, and Mother and I know that full well. Just to open yourselves to whatever may come, it takes enormous [[trust]] that this is the best way always to be ready, to be here now. For sometimes your life comes at you as if you are in that rushing stream, just a little cork bobbing along, half underwater at times. So you go in with a swirl and come out with a whirl. Just feel the stream carrying you. Feel this life you are living. This is your most fundamental [[purpose]], my children, this is why [[God]] had the [[idea]] of you. Just feel.

How your faith in me warms my [[heart]]! And so I call upon you, my children, just to [[tune]] into me, to [[Mother]], whenever it crosses your [[mind]]. This does not in any way have to be a [[formal]] [[thing]], for you know when I was among you how I had to instruct all my followers and get them away from notions that spirit is something so far removed and so austere it took some kind of formal petition. Rather, we are your closest [[friend]]. I am there in your heartbeat for you to feel me, and in feeling me simply allow me to help you feel. [[Feel]] these [[human]] lives you are living, all the ups and downs, all the [[joy]] and [[Sadness.|sorrow]], everything. This takes some nerve, my children, and Mother and I know that full well. Just to open yourselves to whatever may come, it takes enormous [[trust]] that this is the best way always to be ready, to be here now. For sometimes your life comes at you as if you are in that rushing stream, just a little cork bobbing along, half underwater at times. So you go in with a swirl and come out with a whirl. Just feel the stream carrying you. Feel this life you are living. This is your most fundamental [[purpose]], my children, this is why [[God]] had the [[idea]] of you. Just feel.

* '''''Philosophy'''''

* '''''Philosophy'''''

Over the last few weeks, in the [[dialogue|discussions]], both here in California and even those about the country, I have been sensing a bit of a disconnect in my children's [[philosophy]] as they struggle to make [[sense]] of their lives, to find those strong, coherent [[spiritual]] [[fabric|threads]] that tie it all together and make sense. And this disconnect comes when you are not always aware of how many thousands of years now your [[language]] of [[philosophy]] and [[wondering]] and speculating has been such a primary [[focus]], whether conscious or [[unconscious]]. And so sometimes, my children, your orientation has to be how to get grounded again, how to start all over again, get back to basics. For your philosophy can become so abstract, the [[word]] [[symbols]] you are trying to use to get a hold of something substantial have lost their [[meaning]]. So bear with me while I teach a little lesson here.

Over the last few weeks, in the [[dialogue|discussions]], both here in California and even those about the country, I have been sensing a bit of a disconnect in my children's [[philosophy]] as they struggle to make [[sense]] of their lives, to find those strong, coherent [[spiritual]] threads that tie it all together and make sense. And this disconnect comes when you are not always aware of how many thousands of years now your [[language]] of [[philosophy]] and [[wondering]] and speculating has been such a primary [[focus]], whether conscious or [[unconscious]]. And so sometimes, my children, your orientation has to be how to get grounded again, how to start all over again, get back to basics. For your philosophy can become so abstract, the [[word]] [[symbols]] you are trying to use to get a hold of something substantial have lost their [[meaning]]. So bear with me while I teach a little lesson here.

* '''''Words'''''

* '''''Words'''''

Words just point at different aspects of [[reality]]. And when you get to words like [[good]] and [[evil]], you must remember what they are pointing at, what they stand for. A very sincere question came up the other evening where a student was trying to grasp this meaning and mention was made of good and evil being just opposite sides of the same coin. And I am sure you have all heard this sort of attempt to relate these two. Then you have to ask yourself, "What is this coin?" The most profound [[difference]] between good and evil is that goodness itself has a [[spiritual]] [[reality]] in [[our Father]], where as evil is more or less an abstraction derived from specific, concrete [[acts]] that some [[personal]] [[being]] has committed, has done. So there is almost no similarity between them at all, except they are at times actions that in your sphere human beings do. Otherwise there is no relation.

Words just point at different aspects of [[reality]]. And when you get to words like [[good]] and [[evil]], you must remember what they are pointing at, what they stand for. A very sincere question came up the other evening where a student was trying to grasp this meaning and mention was made of good and evil being just opposite sides of the same coin. And I am sure you have all heard this sort of attempt to relate these two. Then you have to ask yourself, "What is this coin?" The most profound [[difference]] between good and evil is that goodness itself has a [[spiritual]] [[reality]] in [[our Father]], where as evil is more or less an abstraction derived from specific, concrete [[acts]] that some [[personal]] [[being]] has committed, has done. So there is almost no similarity between them at all, except they are at times actions that in your sphere human beings do. Otherwise there is no relation.