How to Combine a Spiritual and Material Life

Heather it's like my dad here we're gonna share one of our spiritual insights with Michael my dad today we're gonna talk about based on them this this comment that came in we're gonna talk about you know the possibility of having a spiritual life and yet a human life having spirit you know God spirit spirituality spiritual power versus the human life day-to-day like filming something like this and having a plane to go overhead you know it's quiet until you start filming right it's a good

metaphor of things in life you know you'd like things to be just sweet harmonious and all too often it's not that way you have feelings you have experiences it could be anything you could be wanting to watch your favorite spiritually profound a show on TV and instead it's replaced by some boxing match where people are pummeling each other you know it seems so contrary you could want to watch you know something that's gonna feed your soul and and it doesn't happen that way you could want to watch a program that we're doing here

that like we do it Sunday we have our Sunday sacred services remember you can join us there and you go to watch it and sometimes the technologies are down you know the internet or whatever so these things happen but there's also more and more breath of that there's more and more examples of how that can affect and affect our life when we let things infect us then they affect us and infecting us is sort of like saying they sneak in under the radar like an infection you know it sneaks in under the radar whether it's a you know a

virus or whatever it happens to be it's kind of just using a metaphor that these things someone's comment becomes like a virus you know and it just starts acting funky the way a flu virus could could behave in our body and you know so this person was asking in a sense I'm just paraphrasing and thinking that we're asking something like you know is it possible to to have in a sense the spiritual life and yet a material life and there are some very simple profound but necessary ways that we can explore that

conversation such as can I have a life of dedication and integrity a lot of people to get on the spiritual path they start getting very excited about yes you know my spiritual path you know yes integrity and soul mate no more garbage relationship so soul mates only and I want my spiritual path I want my soul's purpose instead of job job job career pressure you know so we all try to run away from that that other world the one of pressure and the one of stuff especially when we're introduced to either to the spiritual path or new

aspects of the spiritual path we really start to get very you know treat it very precious you know like wow I want this and so it becomes like a food to the soul and we're like wow and it's true even a Course in Miracles tells us that that's it's all that I just described in a positive sense is sort of like a they're all metaphors or parallels to your Christ self the Christ child within and the Christ child within the core of course and rekkles is saying sort of has to be treated like a baby and and

protected and brought into maturity so until it can stand for itself but at early stages even though the Christ child in a sense you could say the Christ is already light pure light in a material world it needs to be protected another way to say it is nurtured but it also is true that it literally needs our protection energetically emotionally now I'm not trying to make our Christ self into a victim or into something that's weak but in this world if we want to see the Christ self the god self maturing

and processing through typical day to day events then yes we sort of have to guard it now here's another way to say that you have a profound meditation this morning you wake up just in the zone you know and then you slam a finger in the door you know you know just hey someone calls that you didn't hope you know you weren't hoping that we'd call you know and and it really goes south on you and misunderstandings or a traffic ticket or whatever you know these things can really tempt us to hurt sometimes

it'll hurt us because it's the same old same old no matter how spiritual I try to be something goes wrong that's my being frustrated at an old pattern another way it goes wrong so to speak is you know you're really doing something spiritual and it's not the old pattern of it going wrong all the time instead you're really just focused on wanting you know just the high you know wow I'm just like that hi my meditation everything's just kind of going you know centered blissful you know wonderfully

and then something kind of steers it off and it breaks our heart because we were feeling so high so we crash the best thing to do is to somehow practice integrating the spiritual experience you have whether it was a good meditation whether it's a good week you're having whether it's a great month of course in miracle lessons or whether it's some things are just kind of locking locking in there just like your job your soul's purpose things are gonna soulmates you know everything's just really kind of going

well it's really hard to handle it when it kind of goes south but if we integrate the good if we integrate in other words instead of this is something many of us can make the mistake of doing it's like wow I'm doing I'm feeling great why ask yourself why because I met that person and they're just wonderful I made it about outside of myself you see or because that new job and I'm gonna get a raise it's still about outside I'm not saying you shouldn't have those thoughts at all I'm just saying

watch because the more likely the the the more I am putting this energy on something outside someone is making me happy my new job is making me happy I moved to a beautiful place look at wow wow wow the more I make it about the things of the world the more the ego has you could say permission or contract to pull the rug out from under and the higher you go the harder you're gonna fall now we all do this I mean it's you know if you win the lottery it's not like you're gonna go I am just gonna maintain my Center I'm not gonna

get too excited because then something will go along which is negative thinking you know I'm not saying that I'm saying just to be aware that when they do crash you might want to ask yourself are there any signs here are there any things I can learn from her look at that could take me a different direction and teach me where where have I invested too much in the outside because if I'm crashing it's almost always gonna be that somehow I was invested in something overly invested even if I run a couple of

workbook lessons together from A Course in Miracles it would be saying something like there is no love but gods and therefore there's nothing in this world that has any value and therefore I need nothing of this world and I want nothing of this world because God's is the only life there is no life but God's there is no love but God's there is no joy that God's there is no anything but God's meaning that only God is real the good news is that that God that is real is also within us so that means there's a

real life within that one cannot crash it cannot crash but if we make that inner life that spiritual powerful beautiful thank God's law of God's joy peace and all that if we take even God's a god-like experience and then we accidentally ground it into material things the egos hoping for that because it wants you to shift your attention your focus and your gratitude on to something material thus ruining our true connection that gave us the light in the first place love in the first place happiness today of a lottery today or

whatever you want to call it it's going to become objectified meaning on an object of this world instead of spiritual eyes the tricky part then is can I have all the good things in this material world yes does that mean you're just like ready to go you're just that's it it'll be blissful from now on no again all the greatest teachers teachings have explained you got to be in this world or not of this world but they also teach explain that you're in this world you're gonna have challenges in this world

there will always be suffering Jesus said Buddha said life is suffering the world is suffering a place of suffering it's like these guys who do not come across as wonderful motivational speakers right they would have never been acceptable and accepted in in some of the big you know like hey house publishers or whatever you know some of these places that that want to just have really positive thinking kinds of things and so on you know teachers or spiritual centers Buddha Jesus they would have never been acceptable even in most most spiritual

centers new thought centers yoga centers they wouldn't have accepted him because they would have walked in and silts still said the same thing the world is suffering nothing of this world means anything don't have that this world has no value because it isn't even real and you know that kind of spoils it for everybody because nobody knows how to live under those guidelines it's really hard to live under those guidelines so even Jesus and Buddha would have been booted out you know maybe that's where I

got his name booted out blued it out so you know it's it's like that the truth hurts but but the truth does not mean that we cannot have something it's just to not get invested somewhere along the line I did a talk and I don't know if it's a free talk on YouTube or if it's one of the talks on a DVD set that we have but I did a talk along the lines of the difference between attachment non-attachment and so on you know because there's a confusion around this to be attached and to be you know non

attached the difference between these because there's a there's a level of detachment which is too extreme attachment which is too extreme non-attached is in the center it's like it's it's neither I'm just in my Center I see that I have temptations to be attached into fact sometimes I am attached and I'll see through it work through it the best I can sometimes I'm gonna be extreme and go the other way and go I have had any attachments and try to try to detach from everything like a a cold attempt at preserving or

protecting ourselves to extreme because what it implies is something is bad and I have to guard myself from it sometimes that'll feel like what you need to do but it's still not the ultimate goal the unattach the center is always going to be the goal that's gonna be in my talks anyway so there's a beautiful blissful center that we find so in this world to be in the world not of the world to be able to see things of beauty trees and birds and people love events feelings children animals all the things of

beauty but essentially when as soon as you think that is my reason for being alive I live for rainbows and sunsets and so on you're wrong you're actually mistaken you're you're those things aren't even real and you're giving them value do I mean don't even look at him no instead look at him and say wonderful things like wow look at that sunset those colors go ahead and soak it in all I'm asking is that you add and that's just the tip of the iceberg of the beauty within myself

the beauty that God and I share that's all it's all I'm adding just recognize that all things beautiful are rooted within and all things not so beautiful are rooted within they're all going to come back to us one way or the other whether you like and let hate them they're gonna come back to us and our lessons our lessons to take something seemingly negative absorb what we can learn from it see what we can learn from it whether it's whether it's to release a hurt or whether it's um an insight

learn from it let go of the experience and absorb only the value you know you could say like like anything in life like nature recycling it's it's gonna take and recycle all it can from something that's died a leaf even it's gonna recycle what it can absorb and anything the other can just blow away whether it's even a seed drops to the ground the plant will grow out the seed falls away and the plant can take off once it cracks open its at the seed can take off and it's the same with us our

soul we drop a body and we move on when a person says they leave their body they die and they're attached to their body or their physical life where they live in a body do you know I mean guys that's those are called you know souls that are attached their troubled ghostly kinds of people souls that are wandering the earth and not moving on does that sound at all healthy welcoming inviting I hope not but that's what we're doing when we have attachments and when some beings some souls that wander around this world and

wonder what they can do because they won't move on they can't just I I'm angry or I'm sad or I'm missing so I want to be in this world I love this world too mom attached to this world or whatever it is some of those beings even get get kind of up close and get what's called attached into our if they're at field or aura and those are called attachments they can be thought attachments they can be beings but they're not healthy it's not like you get to heaven because you go look I finally moved on and went

to the gates of heaven you know when I passed over I went on the other side and said I'm gonna expect to be able to go to heaven now because I'm carrying so many attachments and beings and activism you think that's how you get in no you have to be cleaned of all such attachments whether they're entities or whatever courage thoughts or desires you know Buddha explained that we come in incarnate because of desire and it was always misinterpreted to be and I mean even Buddhists often misunderstanding or misinterpretation to

me rid yourself of desires you know just detachment and Buddhism is often confused with detachment and it is not detachment to use a term that's used but it's incorrect but it does mean that if you when he says desire brings you back he's talking about attachments physical emotional psychological you know with psychic any form of of grief unhealed wounds are going to be forms of attachments because they're on your mind they're obsessions slightly obsessions or major obsessions addictions slightly

or major there's still things that need result until until there's nothing left that that creates a Velcro ish experience for me in the earth plane and some of us get it and complete that some of us get it and read ourselves in that and we still come back because some of us choose to help others get it so back to the main point which is all congruent with everything I'm just sharing here but you know a moment ago but can we have the spiritual life yes and the material life yes at the same time can

you be totally spiritual well yeah if your spirit and you're an ascended master then you have a spiritual experience that's great can you be totally material yes materialistic people that's just dandy - fine do what you want to do but the conversation is can you have both and I'm gonna say you you will have both you will never become even an ascended master truly until you have found peace and balance with both the material world and the spiritual there are beings that have not incarnated and

they're purely spirit that does exist so you can be that but that's it wouldn't apply to us because we incarnated angels and somebody you know most angels and all that and some humans are just stuck materially and that's all they think about but we will we'll never transcend the physical world until we become balanced you don't do it by detachment you do it by recognition of the truth of God and you say wow that's done right here right here in the tissue you know isn't this ironic I'm gonna know the

truth of God and respect the illusion so it's very it's a day-to-day process of Here I am pure spirit one with all this entire world and the entire universe in which this earth plane you know this earth world planet is floating around and it's imperceptible as a tiny dot within the universe this planet and then you zero in on one little place body and one share we're just looking so insignificant if you think about it but all of that is actually just one little dot within our mind we collectively are

the Christ the creation of God and we are in the mind of God we're you know it's not that we're separate but we use the metaphor of imagine imagine the consciousness not a body but a consciousness of God and it's beyond imagination if you want to give it a size it's a consciousness that's beyond vast and in that consciousness we're sitting and we made in God's image are like a childlike version of the same thing we're a you know like an offspring up like the baby up and we have all the

same traits so God has us in its mind and in our mind we have the same things loved peace happiness joy but we also added another thought it wasn't a real thought that it was a fabrication a wondering if its life what life would be like outside of love and then the whole universe exploded it's a little much but I talked about that another talks but if the whole universe explode we then flew into it landed and became little souls and then in little bodies thinking we're nothing but the truth is we're behind this whole creation and

until we recognize our part you know our value in all this are are we our role in all this we can never really be empowered you can sit and pretend to be in power you can even leave little affirmations you have cards I am fully empowered you know you can say it you can wear t-shirts that say but it isn't true unless you realize to some degree or another I really am behind all of this everything I see is a part of me reflecting a part of my consciousness the birds chirping in the background and the ones that have fallen from the trees

dead now I don't want to be part of that I'm only part of the birds chirping everything you and I have co-created stars being born and stars dying we've co-created addictions and spiritual insights our job is to say you know to not get attached to any of it and to not try to be detached because if we try to be detached it means there's a something that we're trying to lose on or ship up and you can't if you lose ownership you can only pretend to you never really can lose your power and

ownership so if you want your power back you up to have ownership and ownership means of both positives and negatives of everything you see it is a part of us nothing I see in this world the world I see means nothing and has no value and again work look lesson from A Course in Miracles has no value because it isn't real it's not no value because I'm trying to fight it fight it off end it off no it's just it's not real but my job is to find peace be in the world and out of the world how can I find peace

well mostly through forgiveness mostly I don't mean just forgiving people you have it struggle with forgiving like when you you see a dead bird and you oh that's terrible oh it's probably the pesticide they spray and on and on and on that's not actually true nor healthy what we're gonna be asked to do is the recognition you know Wow so sad that that bird you know dead gosh I wish it hadn't died I feel bad for it you go through all those normal human things perhaps and then but isn't this interesting because life and

death incarnations reincarnation happy sad ups downs these are all in my mind so I don't need to forgive the person who made the stuff that might have killed the bird do that if you'd like I mean that can't hurt but at the end of the day I have to take ownership before I learn to help my power because if ever I want to create a power that says there will not be animals that die and the lion will lie with the lamb as we hear about in the Bible in an inevitable outcome of life one day that will happen

but for me to get to that I have to first own my power and for me all my power I have to take ownership of the other things that I've created so that I can reverse them by forgiving them so I say there's the bird I feel bad about that I wish people wouldn't do this and that I wish another bird hadn't killed it or whatever killed it I'm angry at I forgive the birds that killed it I forgive the animals guilt I forgive the cat that caught it and killed it I forgive the people that you know created the pesticides that got

into the bugs that the bird ate and then died from you know I forgive all of that but I also take ownership and forgive myself for believing that I'm separate from God and that I need to see any reflections of that to teach me like the bird being dead it's a reflection of death which is a reflection of lifelessness which is a reflection of godlessness and I was mistaken and then I forgive myself when I do that I start to realize that you know over time if it may be the first time I do it over work maybe the hundredth time but over time I

start to feel more and more waves of of reality and connectedness because what starts to happen when you practice one plus one is two two plus two is four become ever better at math and to say you know at least at addition and when I practice recognizing the truth like that bird symbolizes something and I forgive those people and then I forgive myself and then I realized and God is but love and therefore so am i when I start to realize that I get better at it it starts to become my reality and I start to more and more not feel attached nor

the need to detach more and more I start to feel the truth of God and the connectedness of all things so in a wonderfully roundabout way I'm coming back to the main point can we have a spiritual life in a material life yes and but let's really humanize this what happens then when you have really really seemingly fun spiritual people in your life it's the same as the dead bird they're dead spiritually seemingly anyway and I feel bad for the people that tormented them and I need to forgive those people to tormented them

into becoming unspiritual people then I need to forgive those unspiritual people that are just kind of rude and obnoxious to put it bluntly but then I need to recognize and they symbolize my belief in separation from God from love and I need to forgive myself as well the more I practice this then the less often I jump into the you know the judgments in the first place the belief that these people are obnoxious now this is giving you the spiritual solution it doesn't mean you're supposed to stay there and

just pound your head into a wall thing I'm not spiritual enough because these people still annoy me sometimes guys leave sometimes walk away because even spirit who wants you to forgive everyone eventually encourages you to get the right space to be able to do it sometimes it's easier to forgive someone in your own little apartment where you can barely afford furniture than to be in a wonderful prosperous relationship where somebody's wealthy and you have cars and so on and yet you're miserable

sometimes you just you know the most important thing is your spirituality so what can I do to feed my spirituality any faithful tips it to it can I be spiritual and have a family you know yes and kids yes but it's all easy to do at first for many of us but man eventually your partner starts getting annoyed because of your spirituality right that's a drag your kids start getting into addictions that's a bit of an inconvenience on your spiritual life and path and it's gonna happen one form or another if it's not your family or

kids if you haven't had them it work or your health your body you could be real spiritual and you could have you not even have had children so therefore no addictions or you Adam and they didn't have addiction and you have a supportive partner or don't have one at all that's why and you just feel great and you have your souls purpose everything's Just Peachy and then you know wait till you hit menopause you know huh Wow you know rude awakenings wait till you you reach an age where bones become more

brittle you know all spiritual I start every day on money finding them and you know eventually your chant changes from um Monty potty humor - I can't believe I can't get up you know I'm in my Lotus position and one day I can't get up I can't believe this how did this happen I'm all spiritual actually build a chant my bones into health you know and so forth and it it's all that happened is you know the song your day will come you know that kind of thing it's like that it's it's inevitable it's gonna

happen things will even if they have to wait a while they're gonna try something's going to come up to test you to test me to test us all of us we're all gonna go through those things inevitably and it's like the egos just you know I will get my chance I'm gonna get you eventually I'm gonna work you man I see that you're being all positive and but I'm gonna either hit you today or tomorrow I'm gonna hit you with something I'm watching to see what you're attached to

and that includes what you're proud out because because pride cometh before a ball so if you're all proud about how you know your spirituality did this for you and you don't have any issues and you know you you are wealthy great but something's gonna happen because our job our most important job and really the only function on this planet is to wake up and the primary way to wake up is through forgiveness the way I described forgiveness a moment ago and for you to practice forgiveness would mean that there are going to be

some things to forgive and people to forgive so the annoyances are part of the plan you could say they're not God's original intention for us but since we created these things God's like well it's making it to something constructive called forgiveness and then awakening as far as God's concerned it never intended us to go to sleep in the first place but we made free will you know used free well to go into a sleep state of fear and anxieties and troubles things to learn from it things to wake up from so

you know I would say guys you can have devotion you can have integrity be careful not to become so spiritual that it's dolts starts to become a prideful spiritual because this is back to that original question to where it becomes a prideful spiritual to where you go to somebody like Michael you know you call me for counseling or advice or feedback and you say but but I'm spiritual what do I do about the non spiritual people which you're right I get what you're saying you're you're accurate in one

sense and you say I I just want to have integrity and my business partners don't have integrity or my partner doesn't have love they're too judgmental or you know I get it you have people in your life or events in your life that contrast your intentions and your spirituality I get that can you have those kinds of people in your life and still be spiritual yes that's why that's how you become even more spiritual is working through things like that but still it is annoying and sometimes you have to draw

the line and say you know I'm not gonna do this this business venture with this person it's just not working we kind of split two different directions you never hate them try not to judge them try to affirm that in them there's the same light as you have in your you know holier than now sometimes thoughts are behaviors but really on a humanistic level I'm trying to get to that too I do feel for you and I I understand it it is a major struggle you'll have friends that don't seem to share the same beliefs you'll have a

partner sometimes they won't share business partners jobs that don't they simply don't resonate most of us spiritual people included the highest spiritual people but most of us on this planet if not all go through that guys I know it's a contrast and I know it's annoying and I know it's hard to deal with but it is a fact of life you're not here to be blessed out like Yogananda taught this is not my home he said tell yourself that when things go wrong this is not my home that's why things are

going funky so understand that me and we think well but but I want it to it be a wonderful life I don't want what you're really trying to do is avoid your spiritual practice by getting caught up in everything going well for you then that's trying to make this world into perfection that it isn't it has no ability to be perfect so you have to accept that and people did die and your heart did get broken and you were betrayed and so on and you have died and you have had losses and you've had

moments that you thought were great and they passed away and faded eventually you could have the most wonderful wonderful soulmate partnership that the world has ever seen and you're still gonna die or they're gonna die and you're gonna feel loss and sadness you could be wealthy win the lottery you're still gonna die because this world crucifies you and tries to make you lose hope our job is not to get a perception that our life is better because things go better we're supposed to have a perception or a reality so to

speak that that my life is okay no matter what seems to be happening because my life is an inner life it's not the outer life it's an inner life so I'm going to pursue that as my might focus when things go well on the outside don't get too haughty about them don't get too proud about them give thanks because they came from your healthy choices when they're not going well give thanks that you can learn from them and turn them into something constructive of forgiveness or whatever it happens be a

lesson you know whatever it happens to be turn everything around to your advantage and keep going and when you're really struggling reach out for some other support let people pray with you let people talk with you talk you down so to speak you know talk you down meaning from from the ledge you know and into sanity back to a little bit of like okay a reality check I mean this is for all of us to understand you know we have to bring a new self to the world we have to bring a new you know you're struggling today

let's say it's about prosperity you were told you're gonna get a new job and you got all excited about it and it fell through god I was affirming I was praying and I was doing my prayer will and treasure map you know and lighting candles and doing all these rituals to have a new life a new prosperity and it opened up and then they gave it to somebody else heartbreaking man it's frustrating but I still go back to what I said a while ago I probably still want to check in and see the only way I can crash is if I

overly have inflated and and rose in an inappropriate way I'm not saying it's wrong for you to be happy I'm saying you got to watch if you might have gotten a little bit attached to the vibe the feeling attached to xik my reading did work now I'm spiritual see my candle lighting it worked you're still being outer oriented and the lesson is no you didn't get it it's you it's you your consciousness is changing only be grateful on that not the candles and the external things be grateful that you're

changing okay fine I'm gonna focus on changing I'm I'm glad that I'm different and I'm more prosperous I didn't get the job now I'm still crashing but I was focusing on consciousness no you were focusing on attaching that you're getting the job proved that you were more spiritual somehow you're supposed to just know that anyway just know that rise or shine you know a rise and shine or or crash and darkness it's it's okay whether the Sun rises or sets I'm still okay it's an almost

impossible level of consciousness to maintain but we have each other to remind ourselves through those dark moments and most importantly call on Christ call on God call on angels call on beings of light to help lift you and support you but remember if you bring them a victim that needs supported it's a little harder for them to help you because they cannot support victim consciousness you can start off in victim you can say bloody hell man I'm hurting and you can say all that and they're hearing you and they're

supporting you but they're not going to enable poor you and try to get revenge on somebody for you or something Makemake you they're not gonna love your ex any more than you or any less than you just because the ex might win the win out is in the divorce settlement they're not saying oh can you believe this you know hating the person they're just simply gonna say how can we help for everyone to experience the most love possible now you would understand that angels would want to do that right so my

teaching is that we're supposed to become more like angels not call them angels more to become more like them inevitable I mean that's the ultimate goal so start acting like them love the same way they love you know you still have human struggles bring those struggles to the altar of your heart every day and surrender them let them be lifted and transmuted transformed you know I would just say in a sort of a closing few thoughts hopefully this is all really clear and and is grounding for you because again part of what I'm

saying is not just the philosophical but the heartfelt the heart fell oh my god the frustration of dealing with day to day life I got on the spiritual path everything was going great and then someone passed away how could this happen why did this happen why did a spiritual mother or dad or uncle why did my spiritual friend pass away you know they were so loving they were sold you're being tested and they're being tested you know the graveyards are not filled with bad people just dead people it doesn't disturb death does not discern

if you're good you don't die or whatever it doesn't work that way tests of this realm come to everybody that lives in this realm I just want to be done with tests I want to then don't be in this realm okay how do I get out of here oh yeah you know some people are gonna think escapism whether it's suicide or whether it's trying to go up to live it up in a cave away from everybody doesn't work it does not work escapism and detachment they do not work so how do I maintain bliss how do I have what

of course a miracle says is a happy dream it's still a dream but it is where you are entitled to a happy dream it is inevitable that the nightmare of life is going to turn into a wonderful dream still a dream and then the wonderful dream will eventually surrender itself to oneness with God so we all are moving in that direction so as I'm closing I just want to add that it's not just a philosophical detachment non-attachment you know attachment concepts or that the idea of life is twofold of tests and

lessons and so on I'm also trying to get across this and I have to save this for last because otherwise everybody goes I want the good stuff which I'm talking about you are entitled to a happy dream and the more you practice love and forgiveness the more you practice maintaining your Center the more you practice not getting attached to things outside being the cause of your highs and lows then more and more Center is found and the more we're in our Center the more we are able to co-create with God the only good life you can have the

only good stuff you can have it has to be co-created with God anything that comes from our little self is not only going to be more likely gone sooner than it would have been otherwise if we co-create it with God but it also if we're creating it with our little self it puts a negative karmic feeling to it in other words you don't get to maintain not only the item but you don't get to maintain as long the feelings of love around the item you know in other words the peace instead of peace there's I

have to protect it I have to keep it I have to you know hold on to it so instead to have to have things peacefully what I do is I find myself the more I received anything I give some of it away tithing for example is a good way to demonstrate that that's partly what tithing is about so I look at it and think you just just keep giving it's a good way to now some people went overboard and went detachment and keep giving everything away and and and not having anything of beauty or value but they're going overboard to either be

afraid and and make sure they're detached by giving it all away or they're trying to earn God's favor by giving everything away constantly and that's the kind of the old way of the some of the Mystics of old that took things too seriously so instead that's you know that's too extreme there's also the people that consumption sand they own and they grab and they possess everything look I'm prosperous big big spiritual New Age authors that are prosperous they have glass you know she glasses the

costum ten grand al diamond studded and they have the finest you just suits and whatever they say we're we deserve prosperity and we do we do we can have a happy drink but attachments and detachments you know it's really such a beautiful center at a sweet spot in the middle where where we go okay I'm gonna allow myself a nicer car and you have that that then you know a rockets thrown up on it you know from a car that's driving by and the wheel pops a rock you know off the pavement and onto your car and it scratches it

and you feel that oh my new car now you'll know it was not co-created from God because there was some attachment to a perfect paint job or whatever so you know I got a car a few years back you know and I think it was maybe the first time that I ever owned a brand-new car and you know had payments like anybody else and all that but first time I think I ever had a brand new car and I think within months I was in a parking lot and I was real slow maneuvering you know but the this car would backed up out of its

parking spot just gal young gal and she backed into the front of the car and it didn't damage anything other than that the the more decorative kind of things in front like the the fender whatever you know the bumper or something and you know got out looked and she looked and she was just so beside herself oh my god I'm so sorry you know and in my mind now no mind you my action I can I can exchange insurance I can sue her I can do all the things that humans do I can also just ignore it what you do is not

gonna determine whether you're centered in God just like having to do a divorce you don't say divorce is Pro God or against God yet nothing is of God per se in this world it's the spirit in it that is of God if I were to sue this girl or or even just do the just thing of getting your insurance to pay for the fixing the car that's fine but it's the spirit with which you do it are you doing with a certain been victims are you frustrated about your car getting scratched even without vindictiveness are

you charged about this are you heartbroken all my car will never be the same even if they polish it and paint it and fix it up I'll know that you know it's that that's obsessive man in its attachment but it also doesn't mean you let everybody bump your car and ruin your car and you know and and I'm just spiritual I mustn't do anything because I know lots of spiritual spiritual people and in divorces who said I just gave them everything because I'm spiritual and then they're broke you

know and heartbroken that's not that's not it it's do everything with God so what I did in this case was I think in terms of the greater good all I also was aware like I'm sitting there like cloud this funny it's a good test loved having a new car and whatever and this person you know is all upset but they're just mirroring things and tests for me lessons for me so I just went ok no problem it's ok it's just a little scratch or whatever a little dent or whatever think it was and they were oh

no really I said it's ok for me Michael not for you for me Michael on that given day I felt really really happy as an effect and that also tells us whether we're doing the right things and whether in our right place I felt really good about relieving this person of this fear that she was having in that moment you know I felt really good about that that would told me something also there was the lesson of in case I had in the attachment to this how are you doing Michael how are you with just at that you know new car let's test it and it's

a test drive so to speak and and I felt good it's like oh well and so get inside and out up and down front to back left to right looking at it from all angles it was fine it was it was fine to the to say let it go on another day it might have been better to do a different thing that's for me though you might have needed to do the exact opposite meaning to take some action but not ever to hate so please don't think that there's a spiritual action and a non spiritual action a spiritual relationship and a non spirit

relationship a spiritual conversation in the non spiritual it's what you're doing in because you could be firm in a conversation and be centered you can also be very calm and quiet and be centered you can be firm and totally out of your mind and your ego and you can be calm and quiet and still be in your ego it's not the external action or things or or whatever of this world you know birds are not innocent and cats are evil just because they can't kill the birds it's not like that all these things are

reflecting our consciousness so if you're all messed up in your head about the poor bird and that's something for you to learn and the same goes you know because there's something might attack and hurt the cat do so you stay out of all that I'm not leave I saw a critter trying to kill another critter I would have to ask what would I do in this moment and you can say oh it's nature it's a guise its nature that's reflecting a hurtful hateful carnivorous egotistical consciousness so does that mean you keep

that animal from killing another animal because it could starve itself I didn't stop - I'm not telling you to do either one I'm saying you need to look at your consciousness when you see these events and if I'm in my right mind in my Center itself I could lovingly gently authentically spiritually stop one animal from killing another one human from harming another and be able to be in my Center I could also witness such a thing in nature just the same as a tree falling off the limb falling off a tree it's the same as

an animal falling to its death our job is to be centered around it not detached not attached but centered so please get the spirit of what I'm saying in all this it's the spirit with which you think the spirit with which you do things the spirit the intention behind it and if you make as spiritual as possible your intentions and your integrity and so forth behind things that's the greatest goal the spiritual life will not come from you snipping away exercising all things that you don't like out of your life they're

gonna be there and if you get rid of one something's gonna replace it to test you again because that's this world the only way the only immunity it is to not be of this world and I don't mean flying away somewhere you know out of this world I'm saying we have to actually heal our consciousness and transform our consciousness and our relationship with this world then the world will change so hang in there when you have challenging people remember I have a talk too on how to deal with challenging people but hang

in there with these things hanging with the challenging events jobs and whatever do your best to bring transformation to those things and when it just can't happen when being spiritual pushes buttons too much maybe you need to step back so that you don't overly trigger people I'm not I'm not saying that it's you know to run away from people being triggered because sometimes your goodness is gonna trigger people that's their thing I'm not saying avoid being in your truth I'm not saying that either

I'm saying when you use your truth to beat people up and it triggers them that's not healthy you're going overboard and you're being self inflated so I would just say do your best do your best to bring the light where you can bring it I I - I too would love to only have wonderful spiritual loving surrounding all of us feel that way but I just do my best to handle it when it's not that way and people that know me well I think people have know me the best somebody can say they know me and they might then they might not

and same with you but the people that really do know me not the ones that think they know me the ones that really do know me boy there's certain thing about me that they would see that most people would not know and it would be the how how even when challenging situations are happening how I do my best to you know hold Center and you know it could be something totally going funky and I mean there's moments when I get frustrated like anybody but in some of the most challenging situations it's surprising people you know feel quite

surprised that I can I can forgive I can hold Center I can do my best to bring peace to situations that you just think you know I thought for sure Michael would not be okay with this situation and would you know rise up and put somebody in their place and be firm and instead he's being gentle or vice versa sometimes they think I'm gonna do one and it's another because I am grateful that I dedicate my life to doing what I feel guided to do instead of compelled humanly to do and it really does make a difference so that's my

advice to you in all things alright I know it's difficult I do I do I do know that it's difficult to lose a loved one to lose a job to lose anything you know I know and I myself go through these challenges where something seems like it's gonna go just really clicked and be smooth you know and in challenging things happen you know I've met wonderful people you buying a home and you know meet a realtor and you go while the Realtors in their zone and they happen to be spiritually in my case I could say oh they they happen to have a

book of mine in their car or wow what a great synchronicity and you think all things are gonna line up and then something just strange happens I had a realtor once get just completely frustrated because um I was asking them to take care of certain things do certain things in the contract a certain way and they were like no I don't I don't like that I don't believe in that I said well but it is doable it is allowed it is normal and but they didn't they just personally didn't agree with it and they wanted to push me into doing

it their way and they got ticked off and you know were they were a student and all that they disappeared from my life never heard from them again because that's a tantrum because they wanted me to do things their way and it's not gonna always happen I still will be true to what I believe is right and so on and you should do the same and not everybody will dig that so if you lose some things here them some things go south especially when they feel like they were going so beautifully imperfect the synchronicity of this Realtors you know

getting in place and putting in an offer to being accept everything just so perfect and smooth and then to see it go south it does sometimes break my heart and you know because it was so nice at Abba a friend who missed heard you and and misinterpreted something you said turn your back on you it's such an unnecessary thing because we want things to go really beautifully and when they are going beautifully those are the hard you know if it's already going terribly you know that's fine but when they're

going beautifully and then they turn my attitude is like oh my god did you not see how well things were going in and we had such a beautiful thing going and then you let something inaccurate throw you off or something you assume to throw you off or something that you just let throw you off whoever the person is it's it's such a bummer because the world has so much garbage we don't need to contribute to it so what's something that seems to be so wonderful goes so poorly it's for me anyway it's in a

little bit of an extra test an extra challenge because of all that if the reasons I just shared and you know it's like wow I mean it's just a challenging thing but where we're not in our true home this is a place of that was created out of belief in separation so it reflects separation constantly in life love relations business and it's so on so please just do your best to be the presence of God everywhere you are and just only do your best when you slip and can't get it today just forgive

yourself and recognize all the angels are with you going it's okay pet you know patting your head you know and it's okay we understand that was a tough one for you yes it was you know and you can wish it didn't happen that doesn't change it so just do your best to find Center again as soon as you can all right god bless you all and thank you for for listening and campaign spending some time on this program