But I love how the Course is saying like, “You are the light of the world and you bring the
light with you.” So I don't ever avoid any place. You know I used. I used to. I would love to go to
shopping malls and a friend of mine would go with me and we would just go there to just
pray and bless everyone and hug people, and pour out all of our love from our heart,
as the light of the world. Meanwhile my friend's girlfriend she said, “That is the haven of the
ego, you must avoid malls at all costs.” And I'm like I’m not interested really in avoiding.
I want to love. I'm not interested in being loved, but it's important for me to love, to use every
situation, every opportunity as an opportunity to share the Beatitudes, to share the love,
to bring the joy, to bring the light, to bring the lightness, with me wherever I go. On a train ride.
I'm coming down here, and I'm in this Volkswagen van coming down here from the airport. From
Schiphol airport, and I'm in the front row. I've got a whole couch to myself with the driver so I'm
like stretched out on the couch, and he's like, “You don't have to wear your seat belt like that
but that's okay.” Because I've stretched it all the way across to give me lots of room there.
And I have a great talk with the guy. In a while he's talking, talking, talking with me and then
he starts. He just brings up Buddhism, he starts talking about Buddhism, he starts talking about
different things and then he says, oh and I'm Catholic. Really, and then we just had the best
interaction. It was a holy encounter that lasted two hours coming down here and he's telling me
his whole life story we're just having a ball in there. But I'm here to connect.
I don't care whether the topic is science, you know, I like science, I'd like to take it up into
quantum physics, and talk about the quantum field. Religion, I have nothing against religion. I think
religion is peace of mind, and I love having religious discussions and meeting missionaries,
and people all over the place. Ministers on planes and whatever. Atheists, I adore atheists,
we have so much fun. I think if they ever have a convention, worldwide convention, Atheists Unite,
they should invite me to come. Because I'm just gonna love them up, and I just love them. In fact,
when I'm talking with them, you know, they're talking about God could never do this I'm like,
right. And God could never do that. I'm like absolutely. I'm totally with you. And, and
God would never have to do with, like, separating people and this is for God,
and this is against God, I am absolutely with you. I have a wonderful talk with atheists everywhere
I go. This is like an infinity, because what does Jesus say through his Course in Miracles,
his Psychotherapy Pamphlet, his Song of Prayer. There is one point where Jesus says,
“Belief in God is unnecessary for God can be but known.” Score one for the atheists!
And then there are others that, that have strange ideas about God. And a very anthropomorphic you
know that God sounds very much like a human God, and that's the God that the atheists can't buy.
Zapping tribes and getting angry and they say, “That's ridiculous, a God that gets angry.” I'm
totally with you, I totally. I'm totally aligned with you on that. And the point of our journey of
forgiveness is to feel the connection and feel the love. To not try to separate. To not get into tit
for tat over both beliefs or theology. If there's only one belief, Jesus tells us that takes us back
to heaven, and that's forgiveness, I'm interested in joining in the experience of that belief.
And to me, the way that I do that is I pray before my encounters. And then Jesus just gives me the
words to use. And he'll put, he puts words in my mouth, and they get all excited and light up.
But it's all involuntary. I'm just have the prayer of my heart, to connect with everyone. I want to,
I have no enemies, I'm here to connect with everyone, everyone that I meet,
everyone that I think about, in my mind I'm there to connect with. That's the only purpose
of thinking about people is to connect with them, in a sense of, of true deep equality and love.
So we're here together to, to come into an experience together.
And for me that is the most important thing. We're not here to debate theology. We're not
here to compare and contrast the course with the Bible, or with the Kitab or with the Quran.
We're not here to compare and contrast different versions of the course. We're not here
to compare and contrast pathways that are said to be parallel to the course. We're here to practice
what has been given to us. And by putting it into practice, by really giving our hearts
over to it in a very devoted way to go into an experience of that direct connection with God.
God can be reached directly, but it also requires that we be devoted to that
purpose. We be devoted to truly practicing forgiveness with everything that appears.