I Love Love

you know it's very important that we do not take things like this for granted please just choose never to do that never choose to think such things for granted I love I said last week when we did a talk I said you know I love love I just love it and I'm by that I don't just mean everybody sitting around you know these I mean like you know like in love ins or something you know it's it's and wearing flowers and it's it's I'm talking about when people love what they do I love love in any form I love seeing

people that really love what they're doing I love seeing you know some of that's really loving a book they're reading it really loves their pet it's it's the love it I don't care about the pet as much as the love see I don't care about the stuff as much as what I feel and we all have to learn to return to feeling we really do but there's two kinds of feelings one has to do with ego human lack based feelings and one has to do with feeling fullness and that's the one I'm saying I love because that is the

one that's a reflection of love longing and lack is not a reflection of love it's a reflection of lacking love lacking love but I love I love love man I just I just love seeing that and feeling that everywhere I love people who are loving love what they do whatever the case may be and it's amazing because you know I sit and watch people that's a lot of how I learn I don't learn through intellectual means and reading and so forth I learned a lot by watching people from the first day we some of you arrived a couple years back

and we started getting some of you to help out the landscape day and while we're doing that I'm asking you you know some of you folks if you remember about your life so so how did you end up in that job how did this happen why did you decide to retire you know so forth I love hearing what makes people tick because I love people but also everything about life you know I look at that tree and wonder why it's growing that way and I tune in to and let it tell me why in a sense that's almost like shamanic

consciousness but it's it's you know to me that's it's nothing of an effort it's like why don't we not all live like that and choose to live like that and think like that and feel like that but it really feeling is a big part of it but not human longing emotion view I'm talking about an intuitive feeling more than the other kind it's an it's a heart centered feeling so I watch people and I listen to people I and it's amazing the things that you know I see somebody ever

at a festival selling you know some some sort of tapestries and it's one thing yeah I've got tapestries for sale yeah 20 bucks bye to you all given for a teenage and then there's another one let me show you something and as immediately I'm already a lot I'm gonna buy one I don't even know you how do you have a name tapestry but immediately I'm so appreciative of the love you feel for the craft you're creating and I think some people even can feel it from you and I think of making up a little weird because they

can feel it me a ship them you know like it's a childlike anticipation and I think they think that's strange maybe you know I a police officer you get a ticket you know the few times I've got tickets in my life I'm always off you know okay and shake their hand thank you you know they kind of I'm just shaking your head you know it's like well people don't do that but you can we can't do that because I actually appreciate who he does who he isn't what he does you know we don't have to look

at life from such a terrible perspective there's this as I said in the tirade the world that we see is not the real world but we will not see the real real world world without bringing love to the world and thanking it when you see it because when we think that the love that we see it actually anchors it in so I love love I do I love ease I love peace I love bridging conversations that look like they're split and nobody can come to peace on something and all of us can do this every one of us I love people that

take responsibility I love people that are they're tolerant that blows my mind you know to see how some people can just I don't mean enabling I just mean they remain at peace despite a conflict or a challenging situation but I love vulnerability oh my god that's the most amazing thing when when folks would just open their soul you know and in a way that it doesn't get trampled on when they open it it's so amazing that someone can say I've never told anybody this but may i yes and they open their

hearts and they share something so deep and you know you can go yeah I'm a counselor so I'm a spiritual counselor or I'm a psychologist or a social worker whatever you happened to be and you go what you're supposed to tell me those things and I write my notes and I have files people opening their hearts was not to become a piece of paper in a file that's not why they opened it they're like what would happen if I revealed some of my soul some of the less wonderful parts of my soul and they can

feel nothing but love when they do do you understand what happens is all the fears that were there holding and supporting that whole issue that whole resistance collapses because there was no nothing to substantiate the reason to be afraid you instead said oh I'm sorry to hear that and it's okay and your support and you gave them nothing but love in return in the human being people are running on like this adrenalin and all these unhealthy hormones and chemicals in their body just to be able to deal with what might

happen if they told somebody I love them I would I just I choose not to even have friends that would do anything less than that you want to be a friend honest vulnerable open oh no I can't do that great see you later then now we're acquaintances okay I'm good with that or whatever you happen to be on the planet that's great but for me to enter my airspace as a friend I can't it's not it's not in my consciousness you know it's I can't I can't bargain like that you know or if

we have that kind of that peace and honesty great and if it ever changes I'm okay I can step out of a relation just as quick as I can step into it but mine is not because you're cute because you're male because you're female because you're not listen you're not that that's not how I would choose a friend it's based on what I'm describing here the level of authenticity honesty vulnerability it's amazing to be in that kind of space some of you have probably experienced moments of that maybe some

of you a lot some of you maybe not at all like it's almost foreign to say yeah you know I've heard of that but I can't I can't tell people about my life there are things that have happened to me I'm too ashamed or I don't want people to know where they might judge me they might and if I were you what you'll find is talk about it less last week we had a song here and it was if you're feeling pain shout about it remember that song we were all sing along so it's like that if you're feeling that here's what

happens keep it inside and it is already death to you and not only is it killing you it's already killed a part of you because you have a naughty or a terrible secret of some kind it's already a darkness in a being of light not a great thing however when you choose to share it to saved and be vulnerable even if you do it and and it still makes you feel a little anxious but you made it 3/4 the way there the next time you talk it'll be even better than the next time even pretty soon you share it so beautifully

it has nothing over you anymore now you can just kind of share about it you know I I've been a peer teaching for years now and if ever there was a challenge of this kind of that kind personal is that whatever it happens to be I can share it as part of the service and you guys Michael yeah that was you know yeah he talked about that it's memory I just talked about it it's like death I get up here and I feel the food in my stomach and sometimes shed tears even because this is not like oh you know it's it's

vulnerability I have to step through it just like anybody else I'm gonna share this thing I have a chair before here it is and sometimes it's with a breath that sometimes a science sometimes it's here you know and it's really unique when you think about this I haven't told anybody as we're whispering over in this corner that I'm gonna tell somebody about this at my counselor but ever try and stand in front of hundreds of people and tell your most secret secrets your most you know this symmetric pains and

hurts it's a trip because all of them have emotion all of them have consciousness even as I share something there's this in some of them there's this tears and some of their eyes it's you know if you're up here unless you just look up and shut them all off and tell the story but that's not vulnerable and authentic it's at least an attempt and that's credibly you know it's really good worth credit but imagine instead of one person guys imagine doing that in front of hundreds and they might judge and

never come back they might think this they might gossip you know all kinds of things could happen but it's been an amazing test because for the most part most of you could that if I've ever shared a vulnerable thing like that for the most part you guys have responded with love and compassion okay so now why don't you do the same thing more often and you say well okay I would do that michael has great great advice I would do that if only I had a great counselor there's lots of them and there's chaplains no

excuses well but I don't have a family member I can talk to you then talk to sit alone the more we try it out and test it the more it'll go well and start creating more of it try out a chaplain and it'll become a counselor we'll try a sponsor it'll become a friend you got to come out at some point but when I say I love love up including vulnerability there is an extraordinary feeling and if I had to choose between having a partnership with one and truly deep vulnerability 20 I would check I would take the ladder

easily because that's so meaningful to people a partnership is something to enjoy you can have all kinds of great things about that but if I had to choose being a service and helping hundreds of people open up the soul thousands tens of thousands or whatever verses of my own personal partnership I would take the other I love I love authenticity and authenticity doesn't mean because some people think this is this is so typical new-age kind of groups but I'm just an authentic person so I'm gonna tell you

what I think about you that's not if it's authentic it could only come from your authentically loving self so if you're gonna tell me anything you hate about me don't tell me it's coming from your authentic self it's coming from your ego and there's nothing authentic about your ego it's manufactured and completely and so authenticity is it so I love authenticity real you know like heart space with people I also love and when I'm saying that look this isn't like a confession this I'm praising

goodness in this world but there's ego and illusion I'm not crazy that that's what the Bible said it was referring to when it said God is no respecter of man like well God doesn't like us that's not what it's saying it's saying God has no value or respect for the ego self because it doesn't exist that's what it means and I love males for but spiritually mature enough to process their stuff because for some reason it happens quite often that males get kind of a mate you're a male teacher up here

males give this thing like they grunt you know and have this thing about listening to a male teacher I love the ones that have been able to push through and just said because that means they're accessing the Divine Feminine of themselves saying whatever Here I am instead of no wait a minute you know I'm doing the male thing I actually had you know and this stuff is foreign to me because I can you know I just feel okay anyway remember last week I was sharing my my fairy stories so clearly very creature stories

clearly there is a lot questionable about that because people think you know Michael Scott you know of pictures and art in fairs and things that are more appropriate for like a 12 year old girl and yes it was some of my friends this company Eddings totally but but there are some things I didn't mega anyway but I love that I love that lightness and I think it's great when people could just be themselves and have that lightness be who we are you know and have fun and yet so that that thing that some sometimes

males get into if I'm teaching and it's a male thing other ministers especially if they're males there's more of a chance of them feeling a little funny if I visit their church and people like wow this was great there's this instead of nice that's fantastic you know I get I can feel that and hear about that sort of competent competitive thing and and it's not my thing and I don't know that much about it because I feel within myself I feel very nice arousing male parts female you know energies and so

forth but but one of these was an interesting story this guy comes up to me he's kind of one of the spiritual celebrities of Sedona and um and he comes up and he says hey Michael nice to meet you and he says um yeah I've been hearing a lot about you you know I said he said so I wanted to meet you I said well nice to meet you so I'm trying to get him nice and so we talk for just a second I said hey if you ever want to get together you know let me know because he's come up and introduced himself at that bird we're doing pretty

good and he says well I don't think that would be a good idea because you know we're both alpha males true story and then after they tell me this people that know me are standing next to me in our bomber say hi when that person leaves they know what they have to do well Michael an alpha male explain it to me because I'm like an alpha milk is that's a foreign concept to me it really is just bizarre I have no interest nor respect in spiritual hypocrisy I have known for it

you know when you see a lot of that in the spiritual communities and in this little town there's everybody claims to be a this and that the other and with such hatred and jealousy and competitiveness it's worthless it means nothing to me it's all this it's just a lie and yet I love I love the images of the old african-american woman in her Baptist Church who's absolutely into Jesus her version of gee I love that I love hearing that woman talk about Jesus which is a different Jesus kind of

relationship you and I might have I don't care I love her love for that I love the love Joel Osteen has in what he does I mean this is weird I'm kind of a new-age teacher but I put that dude stuff on my website tell people go check it out you're supposed to not do that because that's how I did you could be you think it'd be you know losing sales - Joel you know I'm supposed to mark my poll and not giving what's good is good and I love the guys sincerity I love his simplicity I love

them his little it's just it's kind of like some sort of spiritual mr. Rogers or something anyway love I love love and to me although that's very very beautiful and very powerful I have no interest in the garbage I have no interest in the competitive in the blah blah blah but I love the love my lovely the sincerity I also love the Buddhists that is devout that is clear and living the principles so it isn't the religion that turns me on or off it's the person people have said to me many times

Michael when you going to another sacred sites trips you know and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't but they oh so you've been here and there wow it machu picchu and great pyramids and this old Buddhist monastery in China wherever you people like to go I think that's great but I'm like it's the people I like if you and I go on those trips I like being there with you the buildings are beautiful and there's energies but if I were sitting there on my own I would like it as much I'm there to be

with people and I love when we can let go of stuff and pray when we can let go up stuff and heal that's what I did just because you moved to Sedona you cannot assume you're gonna be enlightened that's not what happens the rocks themselves will not bring you the peace Jesus summarized all that I'm saying here as those who love God with my family yes those who love God and do the will of God are my sisters my mother my brothers isn't that a beautiful sentiment statement very powerful think

about that it just cuts right through it all it's he loves love he like he loves seeing people that are devoted and real and authentic and connect to God mm-hmm I love seeing you folks I do I love seeing you folks the when you're sitting on the patio out there at lunch and smiling together and talking and sometimes shedding tears and being held and I just love that stuff it's it's just so real you know I love the devotion some people have when they they're coming and blowing off the stairs and everything for you guys

before service or doing all this work to to spread landscape mark you know before Sunday and I love that now you know some people might say well stack the bark down there and we give to it maybe next year you know next month or whatever it happens to be there's no my thing is we buy the bark we have it in before Sunday so that we can gift you guys with a nicer looking landscape to me this is a reciprocal thing and then you guys go Wow it's like giving your kiss kids something for Christmas or holidays you

know there's like this beauty to it you know the gifts are there to give and share so I'd like to see us stepping up and doing things that to me are honorable to you know the role we play with you folks here but it's really important as I'm coming to a close guys you can't just see the bottom and go oh look at that that's nice we have to breathe it in and start doing it ourselves we have to start demonstrating trust I love people that are devoted and I love and I'll say I love people that are

devoted enough to sit and listen to me teach because I love teaching it's a wonderful feeling wow this worked for you fantastic it's so powerful but I love them devoted to anything whatever it happens to be I love seeing the sincerity and devotion because people realize this is changing my life and you need to know even if there's 100 or however you know many people in the room but let's use a round number 100 people in this room you're listening and some of you are going yes and others are going to keep it just as

it in one ear and out the other which of those two do I love it doesn't mean I like that person more than the other I love why would I say I love that and not that because one's real and what's not one is going to change a person's life why would I love that they it's not gonna change their life the shallowness or whatever happens we love with that and people will say yeah but you guys have it easy all this Michael's talking about the cafe and the love and the sharing and the smiles you guys hug

each other and all this and some people are watching on video going but that's easy you guys live in Sedona no they think what you live in Sedona you don't have to deal with this stuff I have to deal with they they don't realize that whether whether we have earned living in Sedona because of good karma or because of having to go through hell people that live here have definitely paid their dues right you know the rent is very high the rent here is extremely high and I don't mean just financially I mean

what you pay in your silk is when you come here this place will magnify stuff now here's the thing if you were just not at all awake you would do better here you'd have a more peaceful life in Sedona than if you're on the spiritual path because the universe is going to go hmm what are they about and the you know beings are gonna go they're not all awake okay they'll just blend in with the rocks you know just gotta walk around kind of mundane there's nothing that spirit needs to do to help you or test you

because you're going nowhere you're better off to be asleep and be here than to be awake because when you're awake spirits like laughs is great so they're actually on course here these people are rolling so how can we make this the best most magnificent spiritual experience for them you know so so be come to Sedona if people think it's just all easy and no it isn't you really you really are taken through tests you're better off being a that amassed don't put that on a bumper sticker I

know your travel brochures you're safer being moral but it's true you're better off just being like dense nothing going on up here because then nothing's triggered and magnified and you know what I'm really saying here is the opposite I'm really treating to the opposite which is my heart goes out to you and many of us to any of you and people even that visit do not be surprised and dismayed by what goes on when you come here and you go through a lot of tests it isn't personal it isn't

personal but we've chosen to step into a place that is just magnified energy and hyperspeed growth spurts so you go live somewhere else and lay low so how much you grow and how much intensity goes on here will depend on this how serious you are about your path and that is going to determine a lot you see for example if you start in this applies to living anywhere and I should make that clear I'm talking about Sedona as an example wherever you are wherever you live the more serious you take your spiritual

path you will be matched and then some based on you know in life's tests one very little grow very little you'll be given very little to test but then you're gonna come back and just constantly but they're on pause it doesn't make sense well it's safer but you can only do it for so long because every time we come to this world every day as well as every lifetime we live as though we're on pause so that we don't have to actually struggle with life's tests there is a tension building in

that pause button it's like you know parking on a steep steep steep hill with your emergency brake on one day might work but every day there's a tension on that brake that might give eventually so I would rather be a conscious part and have challenges testing me you know and so forth then to be dragged through it have a sleep we might as well just step up and do the work so I love love I love goodness I love authenticity and when I say I I mean love love love loves you when you're authentic when you're

real when you're committed when you're devoted love loves that and so every bit of you that you see doing that be grateful soak it in and if you want more of it so give more and say okay I heard this talk today there is good that comes from my being vulnerable and open let me just start doing that not that was nice hearing about that instead I think I'm ready for this as you come up and share in the ceremony that we're gonna have in a moment put full consciousness into the ceremony think about what it means and

put full consciousness into it and allowing it to rise the assumption allowing it to rise and it's also planting that seed in the water to germinate so that it grows into a fuller sense of Christ consciousness is that one making sense we're going to ask everybody to do their best to kind of hold presence when you're not coming up here the whole thing should only take about 10 minutes I think but you know do your best the whole presence and you can cuz you are the Christ you'll hold presence for the people coming through

the ushers if you'll help us we'll do this group than that group that this larger group here and we're gonna have some assistance helping us because they can be our you know there's spiritual things and they're up here holding presents while you're walking through so we'll explain it a little more as we go the last thing that I'm sharing though is just please remember to take everything you heard today and integrate it you know let let all of this change your life here's something of value and

let it change your life wherever you're living and wherever you go we have the choice to do this it's not just about two donuts wherever you folks are living that's where you start them and there are people like that there are people out there that are watching and they aren't and feeling they're the only ones with any amount of awakening and their family right feel for them and like hey we're here to support you some of us have been there are there or we'll be there some of them that's I'm the only

person like this at work and it's a bit of a drag working you know amongst groups or systems that don't kind of feel supported and others it's a whole town they're in that there's there's none of this there are towns on this planet especially throughout when we look at throughout the world not just this country but there are places throughout the planet guys they don't have shops you go by a crystal there's Mike there's men even health food stores in some of these places so what we're

bringing them might be the greatest smorgasbord of food or from all over the world send me emails of them shocked at how little there is available to folks so we have to change that not just you and I everyone out there listening has to change that they've got to figure out how to anchor more light in the space that they live in or keep longing for it and all you think what they do is watch videos here and never integrate anything we're sharing it's kind of a waste it's an amusement let go of the investments

we have in all this world especially reality shows stop don't watch you know just stop shift it all and put much more priority into spiritual living now please set her in a couple of breaths