i assure you that the spirit loves you
so dearly and the spirit
and and all the angels rejoice at every
little effort you make
to forgive at every little contribution
you make in your mind to forgiveness for
for the whole there is great rejoicing
even for the tiniest one you shouldn't
be concerned
that you're not worthy to do this you
shouldn't be concerned you haven't
haven't really you know given given your
life over or done this you shouldn't
compare
yourself to anything all those things
really don't
mean anything they don't amount to
anything
i mean there's a lot of cliches even
that that we grow up
hearing uh and and even the cliches
aren't
aren't true or aren't entirely true and
they need to be tweaked a little bit
and that's why we have these conferences
and these interactions it's
it's fun to come together i love going
all over the world and meeting people
all over the world
because i don't believe in problems and
sometimes they tell me they
do believe in problems and i say well
let's just
sit down have a heart-to-heart talk and
we usually end up laughing
and and you know they come around
to my point of view that there are no
problems or at least
momentarily they're willing to
merge in happiness because because they
want to be happy
they want to feel the love so we you
know i've had so many
dinners and lunches where i just sit
there and
i was traveling one time through
pennsylvania and a woman called me up on
my
cell phone she said where are you i said
well i'm i'm coming through this town
i'm coming across
from wheeling west virginia and coming
across the
the bridge to uh into ohio she said oh i
know this restaurant
take this exit and i'll meet you for
lunch
i said okay so i drive over the river
get off at the exit come i go to the
restaurant
i'd never met the woman before she oh
let me give you a big hug
oh come on let's go over let's have
lunch okay okay so i sit down at the
booth
and she leans in the booth and she says
what are you experiencing right now
and i said that it's just
us it's only us and
and the whole world is with us
but it's only us it's right
right now this is i said it's so
wonderful it's so
she said okay you want to order
something so yeah so we talked
and then i said i said just imagine if
you could start
thinking that that there is a no world
apart from your thoughts like for
example let's use
us let's say that this barn
and this stage in this room imagine
that you can you can look around you can
perceive the lights and you can
feel the temperature and you can look
around at the bodies and everything
but just imagine that there was nothing
outside of this room there
if somebody said amsterdam you would
say no there is no amsterdam but what
about the united states no there is no
united states
china no there's no china the moon
no the sun no it's not doesn't
because everything is just a thought in
your mind remember it's all a projection
and ideas leave not their source so you
have got
with you now a world of ideas
and you may think that there are actual
cities out there and actual people
and actual countries and you may think
there's an environmental struggle going
on
and political struggles and and warfare
and all these different things but
jesus tells us in lesson 132 there is
no world apart from what you think
so you can imagine things but it doesn't
make them
real and you can see how relaxing that
gets
when when john lennon remember when john
lennon make that song
imagine i was just i
had the biggest smile on my face when i
heard imagine
imagine there's no country i wonder if
you can i had to
i had to play that a few times okay i'll
try
there's no country starting to feel
better
i had projected a lot of things on to
those countries
you know imagine there's no government
you know imagine that this is a world of
imagination and it's
just in your mind and the only way you
can heal it is by
bringing it back to where it seems to be
then you can let it go but you can't
let it go if you think it's out there
you know all you can do is point the
finger and blame and
this should be different and i don't
like this politician
and why are they doing this to the
animals and why are they doing this to
the
the environment and the ozone layer and
why
why why you know you have a choice to
project
and get all in a huff
what was the beatles john lennon
strawberry feels forever
there's nothing to get huff about
you either get into a huff by projecting
or you see there's nothing to get
huff about hung about i think it's hung
you don't you don't have to get hung up
hung up so for me
that is a way to start to bring your
mind closer and closer to your thoughts
and just start to look at your thoughts
and start to really think to yourself
are these thoughts really contributing
to my happiness and my joy and peace of
mind
or not and perhaps
if the thoughts are not feeling good and
joyful in
contributing to your peace of mind you
might consider letting
letting them go because
our workbook lesson today if you follow
along day by day is i can elect
to change all thoughts that hurt
you can do that you actually can do that
with everything
you can all elect to change all
thoughts that hurt doesn't that seem so
intuitively
helpful to know that if if you had the
power to believe in them you must have
the power to
to let them go or to not believe in them
anymore
you can reverse whatever seemed to go on
and
you don't even have to be concerned
about how long it took
to become so seduced with these dark
thoughts you you don't even care how
long it took to get this way
you just want to be free of it you want
to come to freedom
and you come to freedom by letting go of
those
hurtful thoughts attack thoughts
judgments grievances
there's just no point in holding on to
grievances
when they're taking away your precious
peace of mind which is natural
you know there's no point in hanging on
to those anymore
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