 Yeah, there's there's no salvation in time. So some of us have run up with the cliches like save for a rainy day or You know the Christians talk about saving souls or saving people You know how many people are saved here and all this is and there's a line in the course that Basically says that Salvation is always of the mind and it is only accomplished through peace so You start to if you take that one line from Jesus and salvation is always for the mind and it's only accomplished with peace Just that one line from the course could free you from From all bondage if you really just to play it when you think about saving people saving the whales Saving the planet saving the ecosphere, you know saving money saving resources Saving energy, you know, I'm gonna want to have full energy for this thing that's coming in the future I'm gonna save my energy The salvation is only for the mind and it's only attained through peace So it's telling you the where so to speak or what what the focus on is It's just focus on your mind your attentiveness to your mind and only peace is the means to that salvation It's not about getting anything and And that's where you can kind of lose that ambition But when you start to realize that that getting offers you nothing that the ego is a getting mechanism And you don't want to identify with getting you know with Sundari's little parable of getting getting an answer getting a Medical solution for the daughter and all all these calls frantically to to get an outcome of Something conformed that was believed to be helped and then coming into that surrender moment like take this from me That that's where we get into the giving you can't really be in the giving and the getting simultaneously Because giving and receiving are the same so there's no fear in that but if you get into all I need to get something from this I need to get a particular outcome then you surely have lost the moment and you surely are stuck on the timeline Yeah, it's just this belief in sacrifice like somehow that letting go of the things of the world is sacrificial letting go of something that you've become accustomed to or familiar with or whatever in the The manual for teachers. What is the real meaning of sacrifice? Jesus says the teachers of God can have no regret on giving up the pleasures of the world if you really see what what that is you see that that Again, it's not a set cannot be a sacrifice to give up nothing and to experience everything But as long as you believe that nothing is something Then you will perceive the letting go of the nothing as a sacrifice So that's the convincing And again, the Spirit is the one the Holy Spirit is the one but but our seeming lives are just being used as examples You know, if people follow me around and see that I'm happy and joyful and everything and It's not occasionally when I'm around the world somebody will say Yes, yes, you're happy now. I could tell you're happy now, but what has it cost you? What? What do you mean? What what did it cost you? Surely you had to give up Something valuable to be happy That does not make any sense at all There is nothing that we need to let go of that has meaning You know, there's nothing that we have to let go of that is something It's simply the recognition of nothing now. I know people will talk about, you know Who's on lesson 133? I will not value the valueless and You can make a career out of writing books or doing workshops or talking about The sorting out between the valuable and the values But I'll tell you the Holy Spirit doesn't want you to make a career Out of doing this that the only purpose of sorting out the valuable from the valueless is to then Let go The valueless Into an experience You see how the ego will let you go with the first part Okay, we've been we're all pretty good at talking the talk, you know, you know, we've been around we've read the books We've been to the workshops and seminars some of this for a few Decades and on and on and on so the talk is there But don't you see how shifting gears into walking the talk would be to actually take the next Step we're talking about an internal step not an external step at this the step inward of actually letting go of the valueless You know, that's really what we're being called to when you're being called into the kingdom of heaven It's an honesty of like, okay, I trust And this is a blind faith, you know this is like You really really can feel it that there's a presence coming from this asking you to exchange nothing for everything You know, the presence of love is the one making the offering or the invitation so that to me is What this is about that's to me what my life has been about and everything has been about is about embracing the everything and seeing them nothing as a nothing That's not a sacrifice I'll tell you right now and sacrifice when you believe in it It's actually what what you're looking at it is actually you are sacrificing who you are because from From being in spirit truly there is no sacrifice So if you see sacrifice anywhere, it's just that you are misidentified you're identifying with something you're not And that's the shortcut Once asked you whether you can be a CEO and be enlightened and my question is can you have assets and be enlightened? That's good. I really did the same question. The answer to the first question was no The answer to the second question is no Don't hesitate Eternally doesn't hesitate to share the answer And you can't be in debt and be enlightened either Because it's the same It's all the same You can't have anything and be enlightened because the one who has will never be enlightened anyway It's enlightenment is not in time. You'll not find it there and having is a time a time thing You were there I gave a community talk on Saturday was it maybe a week and a half ago or something like that And I was quoting this line from Generosity, you know the 10 characteristics of a teacher of God generosity The teacher of God does not want Anything he cannot give away What would he want it for he could only lose because of it So the teacher of God does not want anything he cannot give away well You're getting into a purpose that's in your heart when you get into that because That purpose of forgiveness can be shared and extended freely And it's just a pure blessing and there's no loss involved in sharing forgiveness That's a beautiful idea. That's in fact Jesus says that it's the only illusion of this world That leads you out of illusions and I would say It's the only illusion that you can actually share You can't share any of the rest for by sharing Illusions sharing specific things. You are really just trying to share the idea that you yourself are an illusion So you see what happens we talked about minds are joined bodies do not when you try to share bodies I can typically happens in interpersonal relationships when you try to share bodies You believe that you're a body which is an unreal idea that God didn't create and you're trying to share it Here I'll offer to you And really you're keeping it for yourself like sticky paper You retain the awareness that you are a body when you try to give the body away You know you give but little away when you give money in the sense that In heaven There's this thing called pure giving or true giving and in this world giving involves dividing ownership If you have a lot of assets and patrice doesn't and you say I'm just going to give you half of my wealth And basically I'm going to divide my ownership I'm giving away half of it Now the world would say that's very philanthropic You that's Ted Turner ish With that generosity Jesus says no that is not generosity True generosity is the exact opposite of what you believe generosity is in this world the opposite Wow, this world must really be backwards and upside down if what goes for generosity in this world You know philanthropy Is the exact opposite when he's talking about the beatitudes Greatest gift you could offer your roommate would be Unconditional love and acceptance. I love you unconditionally regardless of behavior regardless of anything I'm going to love you regardless of anything Like jody's song regardless of what you I'm highlighting you no matter what you say or do I will forgive today no matter what you do or say Now that's a gift if you can live that that's giving And everything else that goes for giving is is not it And so then you don't even have to work. I mean there will be those I can philanthropy that will say I will engage in All kinds of ways to earn and get money money money money money money and then I will give a portion of it away Well, first of all giving is not partial You can't partially give a gift. You can't partially be pregnant. You can't partially give It has to be holistic It has to be with all your heart With no expectations of form. That's unconditional giving So we're looking at the contrast here And when I say you don't have to wait to the future to do this You have assets if you have debts don't Think that it's going to be solved in the future Like it wasn't like when I was going to course groups and I was thinking okay one day I'm going to be a miracle worker If I read this book enough years and go down enough course groups and conferences I hope I reached that point where one day I Have done enough And the spirit goes okay. All right. You're in It's like you don't have to wait To have the problem solved The power of now Is an amazing thing. That's all it takes is the willingness To do it now to be open to that and it's not like you're You're going to be hurled into reality You you will receive a soft gentle presence In your heart guiding you And that is the shift we're talking about that little tweak in the heart not some monumental form thing that you're going to do Where the skies are going to open up and Lights going to come down and the angels, you know, it's not going to be one of those kind of moments It's just going to be this shift in your heart It's it's a rebirth moment the christians call it like the being born again But we're not talking about born again in some kind of theological way You know like oh i'm born again. Are you saved and it's like If you have to ask somebody if they're saved That's not a good That's not really where it's coming from You can feel it you can feel the power of The power of your now moment Wow a bleem up now moment The moment of release And you can see if the ego tries to pawn it off into the future don't listen to it Don't listen to it