Joy and Happiness

The world as we see it is not the world God created, that's to start. The world we see is not the one God created, so when we stand around praying for God to fix the world we see, it's as though we're saying we want you to to make the world we see into something that it isn't.

The world we see is one that we've put our layers of judgment and pain and hurt and illusion over that, so underneath it there is a light that is God. What we should be praying for is to see the world of God that's hidden from us when we see pain and war and destruction instead of telling God how we want to see the world do it this way God hey God listen we think there's a war going on we want you to fix that hey God listen I think I'm going through divorce I want you to get my partner to see things my way it doesn't work it doesn't work and yet

people have built religions around the idea that that's what prayer is that's how you get close to God by telling God what to do and instead how could you get closer to God than being one with God and you are one with God when you learn to say show me how you see the world let me see it as you see it then I'm instantly becoming the God that I'm praying to because I'm seeing the world as God sees it and when I see the world as God sees that there are veils that are lifted that's what the word Buddha I'm awake means the one who's awakened

it means wow got it oh cool you know they're all the same it means I got it I I'm awake I now see the real world and that's a world of tranquility remember the word bliss is synonymous with God okay God the Creator will call it the father the father is bliss hmm but the father is also creative power the mother aspect of God is love it's love but we're the child or children of God and when they say Jesus was God's only begotten son it means Jesus was part of God's only begotten creation God created

its children and it's all of us so we all hold that same title so God the Father is is bliss and creative power the mother is love but we're also part of all this so who are we what what is our name well we're the light of God in the beginning was the word you know and and and phrases like that it's talking about the word of God which is us but it also says let there be light which is us we're the creation of God so what other words are synonymous with us you know what one of them is joy we

are the joy of God the way a mother can say this is my joy this baby is my joy well we're the joy of God how is it that we can be so bummed all the time how's it feeling to be you know how's it feeling to be the joy of God oh not real good and you know it should be like we should be like like you know kind of hoppin where we stand like that excited we are the joy and we are the peace which is one reason why Jesus was called the Prince of Peace we are the the creation of God but our we're synonymous with the joy of God and the peace of God

so that means we're supposed to be living joy now those are divine words actually that joy is a divine feeling so I'm not saying that you should all be expecting yourselves to feel joy on earth joy translates to something called happiness so joy is a state of God consciousness that's our divinity and so does so his inner peace a peace that surpasses understanding means a divine state that humans won't get but we can have a human version of it and the human version of joy is happiness and this means this God created us to be joyous

and happy joyous and peaceful God created you know it's like saying the humans aren't gonna really totally get joy and bliss and love the divine but you get your versions of it so when you when you ask yourself are you really truly happy like where it's pushing the envelope to the the concept of joy most people don't answer yes to that question and if they do they usually mean a certain area of their life I'm talking about it more like the embodiment do you feel the embodiment of that joy now for us to understand what joy and happiness is to a degree we kind

of have to understand what it isn't and I have to say just right off the bat happiness joy and happiness are not the same as human excitement that's different the reason people do alcohol and drugs and other addictions is they're trying to feel even an ounce of the happiness that they forgot how to feel they're either trying to stimulate themselves to feeling happy or sedate the fact that they're not you see that I'm talking every addiction codependence and every addiction not just chemicals every addiction is either sedating that

I'm not happy now I don't feel so bad that doesn't mean I'm feeling good I just don't feel so bad and the other is no I'm actually doing pretty well I feel very good that's not joy the thing is joy can only come from a divine connection and Happiness can only come on Earth from having that connection so our feeling true happiness is an inside job it comes from feeling connection it doesn't come from anything outside so one thing that happiness to enjoy are not are things that come from other

people so you'll never feel happy and joyous in your life if you still are waiting for the approval of other people you you have to learn to not care what people think of you or think that when they don't give you what you think you want well I want to be happy and if you give me this I'll be happy is that a good deal I'll even give you what you think you want and then you'll think you're happy and that way we can both think we're not doing so bad would you marry me you know I do you've done this okay so we have some some

mind-changing to do we have some shifting to do happiness is is coming from connection with God and secondly if there's a second thing it's from living that connecting with God and then living our souls purpose it feels amazing when you're fulfilling your soul's purpose everybody in this room has had a moment where time seems to fly when you're what having fun right now anybody can have that happen even people that are not connected to God and feeling all blissed out and connected with souls purpose even humans that are

doing something remotely interesting to them or fun to them time can fly imagine taking that and multiplying it by a thousand by a million perhaps that's what it really it can be like for us that everything time can fly yes but so can everything else it's almost like you're in timelessness I call it a miracle bubble multi-dimensional consciousness simply because which means you don't tie your as quickly you don't get as weary you don't get as blocked and you don't buy into as many problems in this world I'm kind of too busy being

happy silly me you know that's that's kind of the answer you would give the world you just you know you're feeling bliss and if I'm not feeling happy and joyous it's important to remember by default you're depressed if you're not feeling happy you're automatically depressed because not being happy is very depressing but understand when you think while I'm not feeling happy but I don't feel depressed you are depressed by default if you're not feeling happy or automatically depressed you just may not know it yet but every time that we

try to seek happiness outside through the approval of others and so on as I mentioned there actually will come emotional hangover for that there's hell to pay in other words even though you know well I didn't mean anything bad but I was just kind of you know I I was hoping that this person would give me approval I was hoping that that person would like me I and so on every bit of that we all find ourselves into a karmic contract when we do that and yet I'm not saying you're supposed to become cold to people detached from people it's just

that we're supposed to learn to be interdependent we're supposed to be so full of joy connected with God and happiness on the human level that our cup runs over so if when you find yourself needing someone else to give you some of that approval what it says is I'm empty and I'm afraid or I'm desperate that that thing called emptiness is very scary and very dangerous as soon as we start to fill empty I always use the analogy you're like the the astronaut imagine the astronaut or deep-sea diver they go out

of their capsule there's an airline that gives them oxygen and then imagine somebody accidentally she closes a door or something on that airline that astronaut or diver isn't going guys is amazing I'm feeling such tranquility as soon as they sense as soon as they sense a lack that they are empty they're feeling the more that what's gonna happen is they start to feel desperate for air and that's what people do with romance if I lack an awareness of my own value I don't just want to have a partnership I need a partnership and

that is very dangerous because whoever I find is basically in a no-win situation whoever I find is out Creek because your assignment is to fix my airline what do you think what do you think in spiritually analogy what do you think the air is the presence of God our life our source of life so you go and marry some whatever hook up with somebody or partner with somebody thinking I'm feeling a bit desperate and you'll do because you know you've make me feel a little excitement you told me I look young you told me I have a great body

you told me that I'm a wonderful person or whatever it is you feel this little bit of it's like a little more air but it's only simulated air it isn't the real thing all that we long for in each other can only come from God and then that always depresses people instead of them going that's it Wow that they start to get kind of bummed you know because oh isn't that there's something wrong with that sentence and I don't know what I don't like about it but I don't like it that all that we want comes from God

well if you track it you'll find that it brings up memories of being like nuns and priests and so forth in the past where you said all that I would like comes from God which means I can't have money or sex or anything else that's worthwhile on planet Earth I'm just gonna kind of live very meek and maker that's just an old program God didn't tell you that being connected to God is supposed to mean you're supposed to be all chaste and celibate and broke God's like you know if I was there I'd have a good time man

if I were you I just sayin you know I mean have fun but what you do do with love that's all you know can you can you have some wine and enjoy wine as though its water or do you have to get drunk see when you have to take things overboard something's wrong inside can you can you have relationship without smothering a person or without clawing into them can you do with it can you do it without desperation that's kind of what God would say to us I want you to be happy happy religions never never taught us that and we've had religion

for many lifetimes but think about it guys the thing that we trusted to be our connection to God failed to tell us what God was wanting to tell us that makes no sense that's a good conspiracy story you know the greatest and in history that that that which God would want us to know was not told to us well what is it it's a big secret so you guys you know you have to get ready and then you have to do five Hail Marys and six push-ups before you earn the right to know this secret you know what is it tell us oh and you

have to chant so many lifetimes and breath we're and pranayama and put your eyes to your third eye and you know roll your eyes back and water only don't eat don't you know so that you can learn the secret and what is the big secret and what's the big conspiracy that God wants us to be happy you know instead of and God wants us to do this and what God wants mantra six hours a day and God wants you to do this and God want you to do and so on and so on God's saying wow how did you guys come up with all that in God in

me God saying in God in me there's just being there's no effort there's no doing there's just relax into the truth of who you are well who are we God said you know we say to God your love and your peace and your joy okay so how do we feel love you mean partnership know start with yourself why don't you feel joyous on a regular basis well you know because a lot of times when I feel joy there's always somebody there to shame it somebody to tell me I shouldn't be feeling so joyous I felt joyous when I ended a

relationship that was abusive but then my parents told me I was wrong for ending it and then I felt joyous when I left the one job that was all about just the income in retirement for a job that paid less but I loved doing it and everybody told me I was crazy I needed therapy is he and and that's in God's going but why did you listen to him and that's a good question why did you listen to why did you ever listen to anybody that was counterproductive to your ability to find joy there is a reason yes they're naughty people for

doing that to you I know they're bad bad people but you know naughty but but why did you listen to him don't forget your responsibility on this on this planet people will say things that aren't empowering and they're not loving but one has to ask oneself why did we even listen and it's because I chose to forget who I am and if I forget to you know who I then I'm more susceptible to hearing what other people want to tell me I am all I can tell you what you are you're you're a nice person in general but that

was really a bad decision and you really should have done this and now what are you gonna do you know at the end of your life you won't have somebody to grow old with and you should have stayed together on behalf of the kids who would need therapy anyway you know so the world really has no good advice it can only look like it once in a while but the world is really often reflecting our choice to be alone and afraid so God is saying how can we get you to just accept peace and love again how can we just get you to feel joy and we can start with

the very basics guys jobs relations things that are not congruent with joy start letting them go I mean I've used examples many times and talks but you know why would you keep photo albums of creepy people just you know just let them go all good memories what kind of memories you know but you know what's amazing the others they're not great why would you want to keep that oh just you know for depressing days you know so if you're getting the idea that it's not great to hold on too depressing memories and a photo of all

the people you know who betrayed you you know there's another one yeah you know what they did oh let me tell you you know if if if you can see the the ridiculousness of carrying that keeping that kind of memories and photo albums then what's going to happen is you're going to start seeing the ridiculousness of keeping them in here and in here when you can see because the outside doesn't cure the inside but the outside can send messages to the inside so when I clear out those photo albums it's a message to myself are you ready to let go of the

inside as well and yes I am so here I am Divine Mother my the divine mother is my healer she's my teacher who's so Divine Mother come to me Holy spirt her any word you want to use for come to me and heal me enter my mind and help me to release the thing that do not reflect my holiness weight not everything that doesn't reflect my how about just things I'm thinking about and giving permission for today because some things I want a key case I need them that's what happens soon as you start surrendering the egos going I

wouldn't let it all go just keep some of it you know what are you going to have all this empty space you know like don't clean out your whole house of junk and your whole garage keep some you know so you you know you have something to be annoyed at you know something to trip over when you walk through the room that is the ego and it convinces us that there's value in holding on to hurtful things so we have a destiny guys in our destiny it has nothing to do with you know I'm not even going into multi dimension and this dimension and that

light beings and all the good cool things we can talk about that happened between now and our complete awakening but what I'm talking about is the most essential and the simplest to achieve which is the remembrance of who we are we're the joy of God God is saying to us you are my joy you're my bundle of joy I really love having you I just don't understand why you're always sad and I don't mean sad sad literally but it the sad state were in how could you possibly be struggling financially when I've created you up wealthy and abundant how

could you be sick when I've created you hole how could you be anxious when I've created you the embodiment of peace how could you be sad or depressed when I've created you as joy it should be obvious with all that in mind that our job is to get out of the way our job is to learn to heal those pieces that's our function on earth forgiveness healing you can't sit around and just chat your way into heaven I know some people think you can go ahead and chant your way into heaven but if you have unhealed wounds they're just gonna keep you tethered here anyway

tethered to illusion and pain so you just chant yourself into into some you know blissful or pseudo blissful state but you're still going to be called to look at your stuff essentially called to look at your stuff I shared a um my online course that we started this last week the online heart of A Course in Miracles course and it's still you have time to get into that if you'd like to join us but in that online course I said this and it came to me just as I was talking in that moment I said you know people are sort of thinking of of

Awakening as almost like a race I'm growing you know I'm really growing and it's a goal you know and man I've read more books and I'm growing look at you you're you're back here you guys and I'm over here on the race I'm growing to God look at me I'm enlightened and what we think is that we're gonna get there and other people we've been doing yoga with and chanting with they're back here somewhere or especially the people that don't do any of that they're way back

here so I get there Wow ha now I got the little Buddha button and and you know I'm the Buddha I'm awakened and look at me ah and then when you get there BAM you reach the finish line they're gonna say where's the rest of you and you're gonna answer well they're back there and you think they're talking about the rest of the people they're gonna say where's the rest of you while they're back there no no the rest of you what do you mean I'm here and they're not you missed it

what they're saying is where's the rest of you because you're all one if you think you can reach enlightenment and other people aren't reaching enlightenment you missed the point anyway because they're you the person who's most belligerent the people that are most resisting are their awakening is still a part of us we can't go I made it and they didn't it's all or nothing the LORD thy God is one so you can't find joy alone so one of the ways to feel joy and happiness I said is connection with God but then I also said

fulfilling your purpose on earth as well but the purpose on earth is not only practicing forgiveness regularly but the other thing is to bring it to the world god I feel so much joy and then you you know drive down the street tunnel vision you know unlike those people look at them they're miserable but I felt great you can you can't really feel joy without bringing it to other people it's never a complete cycle of cause and effect if you don't bring that to other people how can I bring others joy today not how

can I preach it to them not how can I push it on them how can I bring the presence of God today so I recognized you know we are the peace and the joy of God but it's we all of us so instead of some of us are going to ascend some of us will not some of us will be raptured some of us will not some of us will get it some of us it none of that's true it's all or nothing yes in the illusion of time some of us seem to get there more quickly some of us seem to awaken more you know more just a shorter route in a sense it's in time they seems to it

seem to have gotten it sooner but times an illusion the bottom line is instead of thinking how quickly can I wake up we should be thinking more in terms of and how many can I bring with me now remember I don't mean at the preachy sense I'm talking about through having an effect in their lives if I tell you about happiness and joy and you go wow that's really convincing talk then I've done a good job but if I bring joy into your life I've done a great job if I can remind you that you're worth it worth feeling peace and joy where you might

not have been feeling that before if I can bring happiness to people you know that's that's fantastic it's almost like providing Christmas every day how can I make a difference remember the symbol is of symbol symbolism of Christmas those presents under the tree it's God's presence not gift presence it's God's presence that we're supposed to put under that tree and the tree is a symbol of every person on the planet how can I bring you a Christmas gift today which means how can I bring you the presence of the Christ

today in the middle of summer or sort you know we're talking about Christmas but it Fitz because it's not an annual holiday it's an all constant inner experience so the world is is going to continue to be tested and I believe that this is going to keep pushing the envelope because something big is going to be happening soon and consistently because human beings think they're here and they can just sneak by day-to-day some thinking that at the end of their life it's all over others thinking well I'll get

another shot next time around I would not choose to live ever as though I've got several more lives to get this right I would just choose to do it now and be careful because some of us go well you know but I've got grandkids not for long because one of you will die and you'll have to deal with not having them anything you're attached to on this planet anything you love more than God itself has to be taken from you to teach you that there is nothing else but God and this all sounds religious and it isn't it's inner spiritual experience

and it isn't God taking things from us but I really love my house you're saying that I've got to lose it no just don't think that it something outside yourself or someone outside yourself has any real value if you love your grandchildren love them for what they symbolize to you and love the symbol love the love what happens is people actually use other things as an excuse well I would put more time into to going to Sunday services but that's the day that you know I get to see my partner well then bring him here bring him somewhere that

involves spiritual growth I've said this many times you know well Sunday's are the day that I go bird-watching trust me trust me spiritual growth is more important than your bird-watching but go and learn something on a Sunday integrate it and take it to the birds because you'll do them more good bringing this light to them than watching them so through a telescope or whatever binoculars I mean God anyway sorry but man humans um every time we live in alignment with God we're becoming the thing we just

chose to be L in alignment with guys every time we choose to align with God and then bring that to the world do you understand that you became that thing by living it you became but every time you don't live in congruence and in alignment with the presence of God you're taking away from your spiritual Center your spiritual growth everything is like that we're either growing or not now of course there's lessons even when we're not growing but that's like saying I'm learning the easy way or the hard way

why would I choose the hard way why would I Nick let doing things that I know are good for me only to have it come around because it'll come around again it spirals around because your soul knows something's good for you so it says would you like to do this the easy way or the hard way growing is good for you let's go oh no no no I have my bird-watching I have my such-and-such today's the day I scrubbed my yoga mat you know or whatever it's like scrubby yoga mat and go to the surface although I don't have a car then

turn tune in online oh that would mean my turning on my computer takes time it's got a boot up you know excuses and it's very revealing it's very telling when we make excuses for not living a court in accordance in alignment with God so as I'm coming towards a close imagine this kind of a metaphor we think that the life is a duality which it is but we think it's a duality between choosing God and then choosing distractions which it is but it doesn't look like this God distractions then we're making God part of a duality

picture it this way God distractions God is our Center distractions are on the right and the left wealth is a distraction but so is poverty trying to be perfectly healthy is a distraction but so is sickness God's in the center which means what semi health no it means being blissed-out being centered in joy no matter you know yeah I lean a little towards on health today vitality tomorrow and I stay centered and not invested in it so relationships would be swinging over here I've got a great relationship we're so distracted looking at each other's eyes that we never do

anything spiritual because we're so in love no you're not you're in an addiction and you'll figure it out soon enough soon as they do something you don't like and you start using phrases like they're not the person I thought they were that's because you were insane and insane minds can't think very clearly stop looking in them in the eyes with such addiction instead instead slow it down and communicate and where's God in their relationship do you talk about God well you know I just accept them as they are and they're not really into

that and then they kind of make fun of me for my spirituality if we go into it so you're telling me you're bargaining which is one of the symptoms of codependence good for you you know you're just swinging way out here humans are all swingers in the worst kind of you know kind of the sense that you know the swinging way over here into the manic and way over here into the depressive it's all still outside of the alignment so you're centered in God and imagine you still move a little there's a date a little more up a little more

down but you stay in the center and nothing moves you nothing is capable really of moving you outside that Center except yourself we can choose to slip into they really intense hyper everything the hyper everything hyper well hypo sexuality hyper addictions whatever and then we can also slip into this lonely neither of those is God believe it or not God is right here in the center saying you might not have a lot of money but you're still centered in peace and joy you might have a lot of money but you're centered in peace and joy you don't swing over here into the

dependence of them you don't swing over here into the extreme versions of the need to have them or thinking you're accomplished when you gain it thinking your failure when you don't have it your test is here not out here the test is that it's harder to stay in the center than it is to swing out to those extremes you can be broke financially go rob a bank now how do you feel enlightened you're not and you can be wealthy and lose all your money and go there now I feel more like a priest and a nun from a past life is that more

spiritual God's like what's wrong with you people right here come on you can do it and all we do is past that phase you know while we're swinging towards another staying there staying there oh my gosh that's the real challenge that's the real test it isn't what you do out here man it's holding that Center try it for an hour then move on up to a day and a half you know grab that Center and do the best you can to hold that Center and again this holding the center does not mean repressing your feelings holding the

center does not mean you know mustn't feel now you're becoming religious again the ego will infiltrate everything I'm talking about I can say God is the set of you know the presence of joy so press start practicing feeling happy and joyous the ego will still infiltrate that and find a way to try to misinterpret joy and happiness how can I hold that Center in everything I do the egos right there trying to pull me off send her the Christian version of the devil made me do it but whether you call it a devil whether

you call it an ego it's not God and being with God does not mean being all stoic and serious and sex less and money less because that's another extreme of the ego again see it for what it is we have past lives guys where we've been programmed with things that are not of God why would you want him then what do I really choose the will of God we don't even know how to interpret the will of God without having a serious connotation to it there's a really great life and then there's the will of God that's what we

do that's what we do we equate it like that we say Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane and he said all right just in case you missed this Lord I'm just letting you know we're at this moment where I'm about to be arrested now there's still time to get me out of this I could I could leave the garden sneak off head for the South of France with Mary Magdalene could be cool now let me check in or crucifixion hmm wait no south of France crucifixion south of France strong crucifixion are

you watching Lord the body knows you know besides I mean the beach sunshine the elements the water the earth who would wrong that I'd be hanging out at the beach and getting a tan and you know feeling the yelling I can pray to the Angels of Water and Earth and so so it seems to me I can even spiritual eyes the idea of going to the South of France this isn't what we were taught and then but Jesus says but let your will be done which ended up being crucifixion so we were programmed with the idea that we have really great ideas about our life

and then there's the will of God which is crucifixion you know Lord I would love to have a great relationship but let your will be done look at what that even says you know let your I would love a prince but a toad is fine if that's your will that's that'll be fine it is not okay someone lied to us and for lifetimes and throughout history we actually believed it and you wonder why it takes so much seemingly so much effort to break those patterns because they're so ingrained and so entrenched we're

talking about however many years you believe Souls have existed but let's just use a round number and say a million say a hundred million say a billion that's how many years we believed that it's too difficult to reconnect with that Center that's how many years in program lifetimes and every lifetime you've ever had you didn't just have one in every lifetime you had hundreds of thousands of moments of being programmed that you're good is impossible that really God doesn't want you to have ease all the money growth

doesn't grow on trees ideas that life is a challenge and this is not true Jesus says in the teachers manual of A Course in Miracles when you try to change your life it should be painless but it never is what he tells you it should be painless but it never is and why because of our tenacity and holding on to the thing we're supposed to let go now what's the thing I'm talking about not an object it includes objects our belief systems guys this means that we're holding tenaciously to the belief that we deserve less than happiness and then

you go oh come on I don't believe that I believe I deserve to be happy if you totally believed it you would have an overabundance of it every single day and it would overflow to the people around you every day it wouldn't be there on some days in there and not there on other days and it's important for us to stop and ask ourselves you know why is it I'm happy now and then and then I'm not stop and look at the days you are happy and be careful are those the days you get your way egotistical ewwww well those are the

days when my partner remembered to tell me I was cute without I would say to them do me a favor I'm gonna fast from being told uncute I need to fast from that's what I would do I would say I want to see how I feel when I'm not told that you know I want to see how I feel when I'm not praised it worked not because I want to feel bad but I want to know if I can feel this good all the time and not just when I'm getting ego strokes that's what I would do I'm not saying you should do that I'm just saying that's what I would do it's

worth checking out if you only feel happiness sometimes I would be suspicious about that it could be because you're aligned sometimes that would be good news but I would want to know if it's because I'm aligned or it's because I'm getting ego strokes can I wake up and stay aligned before I get out of bed most of us can't even make it feet to the floor before we're already out of our mind but can I make it there can I make it from there to the shower can I make it from the shower to the kitchen can I make it

from the kitchen to the car how far can I go without losing my Center and the center means a state of love every time I'm walking to the kitchen or I'm walking to another room let's say there are thoughts that come to mind oh there's more aches in the now when I get up and move to another room oh I'm aging how can I hear that and think of the voice of God at the same time it seems impossible but it is possible it's possible to notice yucky stuff of planet Earth and stay centered you know how laughs laughs at it man

this is cool whoa Lord this is pretty weird I know that I'm a perfect only Bing and yet doesn't damned if I don't feel a bit of ache when I get up now and then that's the only way you can do it that's the only way you could you you're not supposed to go this isn't happening this isn't happening yeah you know that's not it you know and it it's not just like walking oh you know look at me I'm walking gracefully when there's aches here and there nor is it to condemn yourself for feeling those

aches know the truth but respect the illusion and be able to laugh be able to laugh at it be able to say God look at there's a car I wish I could afford that kind of car we'll look at the neighbors got a new car stop and recognize actually I'm capable of creating and having anything I want and isn't it funny isn't it funny that I believe that that's not possible see it and own it and call it humorous I know it sounds weird but it's very healthy and good for us call it humorous you know why because humor is usually not consistent with the

word serious so don't take it so serious that you look like you're not the holy being God created that's a good start trust me it's a good way of looking at these things I you know I personally I don't feel like I hate anybody and we can all say that but it's it's really check-in you know I don't really feel like I hate anyone but there are times while I wear I will jokingly make comments that sound like that and if somebody listens out of context they might go WOW but you know because because I just find us the human race to

be silly and funny and so some here that out of context you know like when I said a little while ago man humans you know I I love people but I also can see how ridiculous people can be but I never lose the love if somebody who's done the absolute most harm to me verbally or in any other way we're broken down on the side of the road I probably still pull over and say do you need help because I can play the game I can say God that person's annoying or god I can't believe that person did that to me that's so bizarre

the difference is I don't take it seriously I might even act like I do but I don't I don't I know in my heart there's a different feeling that sometimes what I'm saying with my words there was one person that was adequately annoying that I met here in Sedona it did some really kind of you know yucky things and they were broken down on the side of the road and I had a couple friends in the car that we're here for attending a workshop I think and we were driving and you know they could see I Drive by and there's that thing in me I

just kind of shake my head because I'm laughing at myself you you know you're gonna go back yes Michael I know we're gonna you know but you know what they did yes I know it they they you just have these beautiful dialogues and I turn around hey there how's it going this person just went and it was so cool because they were then in a process of how embarrassed you're pulling over to help me and you and I both know what I did and I'm like yeah that's not the point do you need help you know and then it's making a call and getting some help

you know and getting them to the gas station and this and that and the other and it's it's God first guys it's all it is it's reality first you know that's all it is now if the person we're doing harm and I speak up and I say knock it off what I'm doing is playing a role to speak to them and say stop doing this some people then say oh he's angry at that person like Jesus turning over the tables in the temple and people go ho g zhis got really there he only was making a point he never lost his Center try it out try out

the ability to hold your Center and then let yourself play a role know the truth but respect the illusion you see that's the mastery again to do what needs done in a given moment know the truth but respect the illusion it's so beautiful staying in Center and yet playing a role on the stage how can I help today you know that's the real us coming through and yet if the person's being harmful saying that's enough it's the look it's the look you said like you know you're raising your kids or whatever it's the look you know and inside you're like I

hope this helps but it looks like you're angry you know that's where that musician sting he used to pose in all these oh he's so sexy look at him you know he stood all these poses back in the you know eighties 90s or whatever during their heyday the police you know and he said where did you get that that Stern sexy masculine look he said I was a schoolteacher that's all it means are you serious you know it means knock it off and yet it supposed so the child of God strikes it strikes it's all you're doing is striking the

post know the truth but respect the illusion play the game you know be able to play the game be able to say no firmly Jesus tipping over the tables knock it off what are you people thinking you're supposed to be about God and you're not about God at all you're in God's temple and God Jesus wasn't making the room the building a special place he was saying your minds are what's special or holy not the building not the rocks but what's going on in your minds do you guys realize you're in a symbolically holy place but your minds

are not at all in a holy space you're actually thinking more in profit it's okay to profit go into the marketplace and profit if that's what you want to do but don't confuse the two don't don't bring ego into the place your last chance of holiness because for the people a holy sanctuary was where you go to experience God if you try to bring ego that thoroughly into a God space what have you got left would think about it what have you got left so people are very addicted to finding distractions how can I hold my Center

how can I keep that Center try this out how can I keep that Center how can I bring forth the the Trinity of God in my being the the creative power and bliss of the father the love of the mother and channeling it from those two right down into here into the son or the child of God the Son of God I uses just a metaphor but into this holy child of God how do I take this presence of the father mother God into my daily life and we think it's about well let me try this in that start with acceptance God created me as holy I am very holy now I

just have to start acting like it and it doesn't mean the way we were taught religiously it's more by allowing yes you do also have to uproot the distractions of the Eco meaning the thoughts of you that aren't very good and the thoughts of other people that aren't very good so I'm encouraging you to know the truth even when you're annoyed by people Center into in the God in me I do not hate this person I am not annoyed in the God in me but on the outside is there something I can do to

sort of let somebody know that such-and-such is not okay and it's you know sometimes you you even slip a curse word you can even do that and hold center believe it or not as long as you know who the I am is as long as you don't lose sight of who you really are the others an actor and you let it play the roles to most accomplish what needs done today when crease is not said and I've quoted many times but when Krishna said sometimes you have to go to battle he was never talking about letting your

center battle he was saying hold center and then let the outside look like it's going to go through the battle let it do what it's going to do that says most congruent as possible to your Center when you know something's right go ahead and act accordingly on the outside and sometimes if you're a if you're a vet or if you're a soldier then you're doing it out there sometimes if you're a ball player you're doing it there and it won't always look graceful on the outside but people will not know how much center you have on the inside they

won't always know and they don't have to know you what you have to do is you have to know I pray this is making good sense guys because it's really essential stuff holding our Center through all things through all things learning not to let the world teach us to shame ourselves because we've done that plentifully okay let's share a moment of meditation centering centering tune out the world and all its stuff reflect back at some of the things we've covered joy comes from a connection with God and every day we are tested to stay centered

and connected and there are days we allow ourselves to steer off-center but this is called a choice we made think about that if I allowed myself to go off-center it means I chose to let that happen it's never beyond our power it's impossible and that means if I chose to allow myself to be off-center it means that joy is a choice and happiness as a result of joy so it means if I'm not happy it's because I'm not choosing to be in a state of God or a state of joy that's not to make us feel bad for the choice it's to make us feel empowered

that we can choose again remembering joy and happiness come from us from inside it never comes from other people other things outside of ourselves it's important not to confuse joy and happiness with excitation and stimulation these things come from nurturing a consistent connection with God and then doing our souls purpose which is manifesting the love of God in the world and then to maintain joy and happiness we have to bring it on we've got to bring it forward in the world we have to understand what joy and happiness really

is and that it doesn't come from anything outside we have to nurture our connection with God and we have to share the love the peace the joy the happiness with others and then it pretty much locks in it's just that we have to do this on a consistent basis now take a moment and think about a time when you brought joy and happiness to other people anything you've ever done that brought joy and happiness to other people and if you can't think of something first of all you're under estimating

yourself but it could also be that you don't feel you have done that in a while and you can't remember anything then try and if you can't remember anything just trust and know that you've done so so imagine it from there but think about anything you've done I don't mean to excite someone or stimulate someone whenever wherever have you brought true authentic joy and happiness to a person become aware of that for a moment you can think of more than one if you like but no more than a few so we don't get overwhelmed here how

where when with whom did you bring joy and happiness and then soak in that memory what was it you did what was it you did and observe the effects not just the hey thank you for that try to observe energetically clairvoyantly the emotional effects you brought that person try and imagine the burden you lifted and how that might have made their life easier today and then think about this isn't it likely that every time you brought joy to another person isn't it possible isn't it likely you were doing the very

same thing that angels do so why would we separate ourselves from that and think we've done it we've done anything less that's just more ego-centered feeling that person's gratitude and then understand this as we're closing heaven is a state of joy and you're now seeing how you brought joy to other people which means karmically speaking the good you've ever brought people and then it's not just one it's every lifetime that you've ever brought joy and happiness to others it means you brought them a

little bit of heaven on earth but what heaven is going to be to you is not only going to be what good others have done to make you feel joy and happiness but it's going to be the karmic effect a wave of gratitude that people have felt for every time you've made them feel help them feel joy and happiness picture this a wave when you go to the other side there's not an actual linear place called heaven waiting like a a building a structure if nothing else in for lack of a better phrase for now it's a feeling but what feeling will heaven be

to you on the other side it'll be all the feelings of happiness and joy you've ever brought to anybody washing back over you and multiplied recognize therefore the value of bringing such good happy joyous thoughts to people and look at how it feels to bask in that energy humans learn to say hi there they learn to say thank you words look into the feeling of it what you've really done for a person how amazing when you you pay a bill for them you hug them when they needed it you know you lent an ear when they

needed somebody to speak to you gave a hug when you could give a hug and so on and so on even making them feel a sense of lightness by a little levity in the right times and moments that becomes good karma and it's worth feeling gratitude for so in that sense we're giving thanks that this is abundantly present in and through us as us and it's never wasted we bring this joy to other people and it comes back to us multiplied so keep bringing that goodness which also amounts to good karma but that's not why we do it we do

it because it's who we are slowly breathe and integrate back into your body try to never forget these concepts shared in the meditation that that's how easy it is for us to reconnect with spirit with God with heaven by bringing heaven to other people through actions that bring joy and happiness and gradually stretch out please good