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

 

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We thank You for Your insights on the nature and causes of impatience, especially so we do not inflict our own upon others. It seems You are suggesting we might need to welcome patience as a discipline. If so, then we ask for Your further help in utilizing Your highest Mind/Spirit Adjunct, that of wisdom, so we can bring the depth of our hard-earned experience to bear on the present moment. For this and all Your other gifts, we thank You. Amen.

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We thank You for Your insights on the nature and causes of impatience, especially so we do not inflict our own upon others. It seems You are suggesting we might need to welcome patience as a discipline. If so, then we ask for Your further help in utilizing Your highest Mind/Spirit Adjunct, that of wisdom, so we can bring the depth of our hard-earned experience to bear on the present moment. For this and all Your other gifts, we thank You. Amen.

MICHAEL: My beloved sons, this is Michael. As Mother introduced herself last week, I too ask you to think of Me as your close buddy, your help-mate, someone you can rely upon. For isn’t this true of any dear friendship? It enables us to give ourselves away, to forget ourselves, if only momentarily, and put the welfare of someone else above our own. While this is obviously a gift, it’s also such a reward, for this truly feeds our souls, this ability to take in another, this opportunity to touch another unique living reality, another living creation of God.

MICHAEL: My beloved sons, this is Michael. As Mother introduced herself last week, I too ask you to think of Me as your close buddy, your help-mate, someone you can rely upon. For isn’t this true of any dear friendship? It enables us to give ourselves away, to forget ourselves, if only momentarily, and put the welfare of someone else above our own. While this is obviously a gift, it’s also such a reward, for this truly feeds our souls, this ability to take in another, this opportunity to touch another unique living reality, another living creation of God.

 

 

Every time we do so this finds resonance within our own personality. It becomes a transcendent connection of one personality to another. It reminds both of us of our common Origin. In realizing another personality, it helps you so much in personalizing God.

Every time we do so this finds resonance within our own personality. It becomes a transcendent connection of one personality to another. It reminds both of us of our common Origin. In realizing another personality, it helps you so much in personalizing God.

You generally experience this only in moments of sheer terror, in other words, during that adrenaline boost when you suddenly find yourself skidding on ice, or about to fall over a precipitous drop; or in moments of ecstasy--being out of yourself with sheer pleasure. These experiences illustrate just how imminent or immediate the present moment can be.

You generally experience this only in moments of sheer terror, in other words, during that adrenaline boost when you suddenly find yourself skidding on ice, or about to fall over a precipitous drop; or in moments of ecstasy--being out of yourself with sheer pleasure. These experiences illustrate just how imminent or immediate the present moment can be.

But you can touch upon this dimension, this limitless immediacy, in your stillness. It’s just, as you say, it’s own thing. As Mother mentioned, this profoundly deep, bottomless stillness is not something you directly create. There is no magical button you can push to bring it about. It too comes about by relinquishing yourself, by relaxing, by not actively shutting out thoughts but just observing them, detached. For thoughts, when deprived of your identification with them, lose their impetus and just slow of themselves. Your consciousness begins to broaden, often to the point you can have the sensation of how enormous it is there inside your mind--even though this is just your mind’s attempt at a spatial representation of your spirit, which actually transcends space. How big is it in there? It’s interesting to wonder.

But you can touch upon this dimension, this limitless immediacy, in your stillness. It’s just, as you say, it’s own thing. As Mother mentioned, this profoundly deep, bottomless stillness is not something you directly create. There is no magical button you can push to bring it about. It too comes about by relinquishing yourself, by relaxing, by not actively shutting out thoughts but just observing them, detached. For thoughts, when deprived of your identification with them, lose their impetus and just slow of themselves. Your consciousness begins to broaden, often to the point you can have the sensation of how enormous it is there inside your mind--even though this is just your mind’s attempt at a spatial representation of your spirit, which actually transcends space. How big is it in there? It’s interesting to wonder.

This, My children, is the reward of faith, of being out there, of going where you have not gone before, and finding the reward of that courage. For the essence of faith is this extending yourself where you are not yet certain, extending yourself forward without any specific expectations but just from a general, wise sense: this is the right thing to do now.

This, My children, is the reward of faith, of being out there, of going where you have not gone before, and finding the reward of that courage. For the essence of faith is this extending yourself where you are not yet certain, extending yourself forward without any specific expectations but just from a general, wise sense: this is the right thing to do now.

This is what you can ask of Us any moment of your life: Dear Michael, dear Mother, dear Heavenly Father, what’s the right thing to do, right now? The only price required of you, My children, is sincerity. You must strive to do what you know is right. Your personality, your soul, needs the feedback that ensues. You extend yourself in order to get the reward, the answer from Greater Reality whether this actually was the right thing to try.

This is what you can ask of Us any moment of your life: Dear Michael, dear Mother, dear Heavenly Father, what’s the right thing to do, right now? The only price required of you, My children, is sincerity. You must strive to do what you know is right. Your personality, your soul, needs the feedback that ensues. You extend yourself in order to get the reward, the answer from Greater Reality whether this actually was the right thing to try.

Now: if this lesson has stirred up any reflections within you, let’s have a look at them.

Now: if this lesson has stirred up any reflections within you, let’s have a look at them.

 

Student: Father Michael, thank You for Your lessons and for Your support in my life, and Mother also, and all the other Beings involved. Just when I think I have a handle on something, You or Mother say something that expands it quite a bit, which is fine.

Student: Father Michael, thank You for Your lessons and for Your support in my life, and Mother also, and all the other Beings involved. Just when I think I have a handle on something, You or Mother say something that expands it quite a bit, which is fine.

I don’t understand what You mean by relinquishing yourself so you don’t color the next moment. I can’t quite remember exactly what You said. I’m thinking when I leave here tonight I have a ways to go home, and I’ve been doing it pretty much the same way for almost two years. I know all the twists and turns, and all the speed limits of the road. I don’t think that’s what You’re talking about, but I’m not sure what You’re talking about. Could You clarify about being in the moment, or relinquishing yourself, especially when you’re dealing with someone else--relinquishing myself so I can be there for them in the moment?

I don’t understand what You mean by relinquishing yourself so you don’t color the next moment. I can’t quite remember exactly what You said. I’m thinking when I leave here tonight I have a ways to go home, and I’ve been doing it pretty much the same way for almost two years. I know all the twists and turns, and all the speed limits of the road. I don’t think that’s what You’re talking about, but I’m not sure what You’re talking about. Could You clarify about being in the moment, or relinquishing yourself, especially when you’re dealing with someone else--relinquishing myself so I can be there for them in the moment?

MICHAEL: Yes, My son, you recall the lessons where We pretty much defined your ego as simply your own sense of yourself, and yet how this changing, shifting, living sense of yourself is only a tiny fraction of who you fully are? How do you contact and use this greater part of yourself? An oriental philosopher/painter put this quest as: after painting bamboo for many years, I finally, simply become the bamboo, and let it paint itself.

MICHAEL: Yes, My son, you recall the lessons where We pretty much defined your ego as simply your own sense of yourself, and yet how this changing, shifting, living sense of yourself is only a tiny fraction of who you fully are? How do you contact and use this greater part of yourself? An oriental philosopher/painter put this quest as: after painting bamboo for many years, I finally, simply become the bamboo, and let it paint itself.

Student: Thank You, Father—a very interesting challenge, creating a new road—a new experience of the road: a new experience of myself.

Student: Thank You, Father—a very interesting challenge, creating a new road—a new experience of the road: a new experience of myself.

MICHAEL: You can actually do this. Try it with some old, familiar piece of music. Feel for the…dimension--if you will, of hearing it for the first time. I’m talking about a qualitative enhancement of the music, a real exercise in suspending your expectations, your familiarity with what’s coming next. Try this. See if you can develop it as a conscious ability. It’s very similar to stillness. Instead of just hearing/re-experiencing mostly your sentimental memories of the music, you will be approaching the fullness of a spontaneous present reality by doing so. This ability has enormous potential to change your day to day life.

MICHAEL: You can actually do this. Try it with some old, familiar piece of music. Feel for the…dimension--if you will, of hearing it for the first time. I’m talking about a qualitative enhancement of the music, a real exercise in suspending your expectations, your familiarity with what’s coming next. Try this. See if you can develop it as a conscious ability. It’s very similar to stillness. Instead of just hearing/re-experiencing mostly your sentimental memories of the music, you will be approaching the fullness of a spontaneous present reality by doing so. This ability has enormous potential to change your day to day life.

So that’s one thing. Secondly, what You talked about tonight reminded me of a friend who says she always has trouble connecting with the Father—His spirit, because of the way she was brought up. So I wanted to help her experience herself, her own spirit; and afterwards I had the idea that this was what I wanted to do with my life. I want to help people become re-acquainted with themselves. That feels certain within me. So what You talked about is a way of doing that. If I relinquish myself of my agendas, of how I see a person, so I can reflect back to them their own connection with spirit.

So that’s one thing. Secondly, what You talked about tonight reminded me of a friend who says she always has trouble connecting with the Father—His spirit, because of the way she was brought up. So I wanted to help her experience herself, her own spirit; and afterwards I had the idea that this was what I wanted to do with my life. I want to help people become re-acquainted with themselves. That feels certain within me. So what You talked about is a way of doing that. If I relinquish myself of my agendas, of how I see a person, so I can reflect back to them their own connection with spirit.

MICHAEL: Well D, let’s see if we can kill two birds with one stone. (laughter—Yes, they are related) Yes, we can put part one and part two together. You have the right orientation of how not to buy into other people’s stereotypes of you. Here you are escaping a subtle net they try to throw over you, first by not seeing yourself as they see you—and this is largely a matter of forgiveness. Forgive them for this may be to a large degree unconscious—they know not what they’re doing. Put a little more effort in being a person to them. Offer a bit of your personal life, some interest or hobby. In other words, give them something of yourself you think they might be interested in.

MICHAEL: Well D, let’s see if we can kill two birds with one stone. (laughter—Yes, they are related) Yes, we can put part one and part two together. You have the right orientation of how not to buy into other people’s stereotypes of you. Here you are escaping a subtle net they try to throw over you, first by not seeing yourself as they see you—and this is largely a matter of forgiveness. Forgive them for this may be to a large degree unconscious—they know not what they’re doing. Put a little more effort in being a person to them. Offer a bit of your personal life, some interest or hobby. In other words, give them something of yourself you think they might be interested in.

Student: When You say we can’t know what we will find, that’s where the faith is. But we know that whatever we find will be profound, and will be for our good.

Student: When You say we can’t know what we will find, that’s where the faith is. But we know that whatever we find will be profound, and will be for our good.

MICHAEL: Yes. But ironically, this is why meditation, or stillness seems so pointless to some folks: why should I sit down and do something when I deliberately can’t know what’s going to happen? It brings all their general anxieties into crystallization, and they don’t realize this is also part of the point: so they can deal with them—consciously. Other times it can precipitate so many good ideas of things to do, their impatience gets the best of them after a few minutes and off they go to do something. Just being still is directly thwarting your animal impulses to be busy—or asleep. To do nothing—highly consciously—brings you immediately face to face with your animal heritage. To an animal this represents a kind of death, or paralysis. You might think of some poor animal with a broken back trying desperately, highly consciously, to move, yet unable to do so. This is what stillness represents to that aspect of your being. And to your normal state of consciousness in which you are identifying with the current thought passing through your mind, to detach from thoughts seems impossible.

MICHAEL: Yes. But ironically, this is why meditation, or stillness seems so pointless to some folks: why should I sit down and do something when I deliberately can’t know what’s going to happen? It brings all their general anxieties into crystallization, and they don’t realize this is also part of the point: so they can deal with them—consciously. Other times it can precipitate so many good ideas of things to do, their impatience gets the best of them after a few minutes and off they go to do something. Just being still is directly thwarting your animal impulses to be busy—or asleep. To do nothing—highly consciously—brings you immediately face to face with your animal heritage. To an animal this represents a kind of death, or paralysis. You might think of some poor animal with a broken back trying desperately, highly consciously, to move, yet unable to do so. This is what stillness represents to that aspect of your being. And to your normal state of consciousness in which you are identifying with the current thought passing through your mind, to detach from thoughts seems impossible.

MICHAEL: Yet she has been surrounded her whole life with thousands of examples of motherhood. These are in her soul, if she could only tap into them. Strange as it may seem, stillness takes nerve, determination, faith, persistence. These become real abilities you only get by exercising them.

MICHAEL: Yet she has been surrounded her whole life with thousands of examples of motherhood. These are in her soul, if she could only tap into them. Strange as it may seem, stillness takes nerve, determination, faith, persistence. These become real abilities you only get by exercising them.

If you review Our answers to questions over the years, one thread connecting them is Our encouraging folks to turn about and open themselves to the future, orient themselves this way, not with specific expectations from the past, but just with enthusiasm and hopefulness. They need to trust in their own abilities and adaptability’s, and in God’s creativity renewing the universe moment by moment. With others, the more you can be this new phenomena, an unanticipated, spontaneous person right in the face of their inability to be so themselves, what a precious gift you’re offering them. Don’t forget to tease.

If you review Our answers to questions over the years, one thread connecting them is Our encouraging folks to turn about and open themselves to the future, orient themselves this way, not with specific expectations from the past, but just with enthusiasm and hopefulness. They need to trust in their own abilities and adaptability’s, and in God’s creativity renewing the universe moment by moment. With others, the more you can be this new phenomena, an unanticipated, spontaneous person right in the face of their inability to be so themselves, what a precious gift you’re offering them. Don’t forget to tease.

Student: OK, but if You were not just transmitting through J, but were here in all Your glory, we would stay here all night. (much laughter)

Student: OK, but if You were not just transmitting through J, but were here in all Your glory, we would stay here all night. (much laughter)

 

 

MICHAEL: My sons, I am here all night, for you: any time, any place. This is My joy too. (Thank You, Michael. Thank You, Father) You are so welcome. I hope I’ve given you a few more hints and examples of how to find, and be in My peace. Good evening.

MICHAEL: My sons, I am here all night, for you: any time, any place. This is My joy too. (Thank You, Michael. Thank You, Father) You are so welcome. I hope I’ve given you a few more hints and examples of how to find, and be in My peace. Good evening.