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Kirk: It's hard to come up with questions after hearing from Michael.

Kirk: It's hard to come up with questions after hearing from Michael.

Elyon: I will comment that I observe that you are each deepening your sincerity and desire to spend time in stillness. You are meeting with reasonable successes. The reward of such undertaking is not often immediately realized. Just as an opening flower does not reveal its fruit for many months, so are the rewards of stillness. As you open in silence you receive spirit power, spiritual insight, and a connection. This connection is what Jesus spoke of in his parable of the vine and the branches. I applaud you for your efforts and encourage you to continue.

Elyon: I will comment that I observe that you are each deepening your sincerity and desire to spend time in stillness. You are meeting with reasonable successes. The reward of such undertaking is not often immediately realized. Just as an opening flower does not reveal its fruit for many months, so are the rewards of [[stillness]]. As you open in [[silence]] you receive [[spirit]] [[power]], spiritual insight, and a connection. This connection is what Jesus spoke of in his parable of the vine and the branches. I applaud you for your efforts and encourage you to continue.

Evelyn: I liked in the message how we were encouraged to promote goodness and not distract by trying to fight evil. That seems a more positive and realistic approach to improving things.

Evelyn: I liked in the message how we were encouraged to promote [[goodness]] and not distract by trying to fight [[evil]]. That seems a more positive and realistic approach to improving [[things]].

Elyon: Fighting evil often undermines its own purpose, for it ends up fostering evil in the very conflict it creates. Promoting goodness may be likened to sounding a horn in a silent room. Immediately the silence is removed. This is how goodness overcomes evil. It is attractive and anyone who may discover its potency will readily adopt it. But if one is only taught to battle against evil then many of the qualities inherent in that evil are reproduced in the actions of the contrary force, and that is not goodness.

Elyon: Fighting evil often undermines its own purpose, for it ends up fostering evil in the very conflict it creates. Promoting goodness may be likened to sounding a horn in a silent room. Immediately the silence is removed. This is how goodness overcomes evil. It is attractive and anyone who may discover its potency will readily adopt it. But if one is only taught to battle against evil then many of the qualities inherent in that evil are reproduced in the actions of the contrary force, and that is not goodness.

===Closing===

===Closing===

Kirk: I just want to thank you for driving home the importance of stillness. In my life without your help I wouldn't have seen the importance of it. I'm grateful.

Kirk: I just want to thank you for driving home the importance of stillness. In my life without your help I wouldn't have seen the importance of it. I'm grateful.