 Can't be that that there's a problem with the answering of the prayer It's really that if the prayer is limited if the prayer is improve my human condition The prayer is Is not gonna happen make me a better self get me a better relationship get me a better job Get me better look at right a better body a better bet is a younger body of this of that a car or whatever If the prayers are limited in terms of time and space then the mind receives exactly what it asks for But what we're saying is it's asking for far too little. It's asking for nothing It's really asking for nothing at all. That's putting it very frankly and bluntly. You can't it's You can't be given nothing. You can't be given nothing So the prayer of the heart should be just to open up and to receive what is always there what is here now Yeah Yeah, really prayer is just being yes. Yeah, yeah Nothing to ask for no That's why there's another hook right ego. He's still He's still a no means that be vigilant. Yeah, right there it is hook hook hook hook Difficult, you know as soon as you get into the the process thing, you know Then it can seem to be difficult and one of my just joyful things in the courses Just it says the ego likes the idea of a journey home back to God For it can make the journey seem difficult So this is what is is very sneaky about the ego It's like a process a journey back to God But why is there a journey back to what you truly are if you already are it now? Then the journey is the illusion. Yeah, so everyone that's concerned about what have I got to give up to wake What do I have to give up? We say a resounding Nothing Give up sacrifice give up nothing. Yeah, give up give up Nothing to receive everything. I mean that doesn't sound like such a difficult thing to give up nothing to receive everything That seems like a pretty good deal If there were deals no stock yard right no whippings, right? You don't need a sale for this one No cutting off my hand right all my fingers Wow well We're there it's happening and That's what this is about Experiencing it and sharing it that knowledge with a big K that knowledge When you say the course to my friends, I'm sure no This is a course in miracles because I noticed that we just yes the book It could be a universal course somebody was asking me lately, you know, are you a Christian? You know, are you a course of miracles student? What's that? Are you a course of miracles teacher? That's still separate isn't it really when you think about it. Yes, it's it's you're identifying with something special Are you human? You see where this goes, I mean you this is so vast this is so Expansive in everything that it's it reminds me of that Lesson simply do this be still play aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is all Concepts you've learned about yourself, you know empty your mind of the good the bad the right the wrong the concepts of dreams the wishes the dreams the wishes the improvements, you know the Every concept if onlys of time and space. Yeah The tomorrows. Yeah, you know the idea to is that Everyone says let go of the past let go of the past let go of the past and then Place the future in the hands of God, but they're the same thing I used to call it in a joking way the past past and the future past if it's a story It's one thing. Yeah, if it's a story. It's one illusion and one image and Why could the mind divide it into past and future? What makes the past different from the future? Except these are this is more duality. This is again placing time and in the category of of Tunis of duality and thinking that the two parts are actually different But the future is the past and that's why this world was over a long ago because the world is just The past repeated over and over and over in a loop Like on Groundhog day. Yes until the mind reaches a point of change and Realizes that it wants a new purpose. It changes its mind about itself and it finds itself outside of the loop So the the future, you know a lot of times this talk about things will get better in the future And sometimes people will say David. Do you think the world is getting any better or is the world getting any worse? But if something is singular a singular illusion if something is an impossible situation How can you have a better or worse? Impossible situation or a better or worse illusion Yeah, that just would imply that there are better illusions and worse illusions And that would mean that the mind doesn't think that they're illusions. Yeah, that's interesting You're thinking about the cyclical part of the ego. It just keeps rotating around and around going nowhere right going nowhere spinning into oblivion and If the mind believes in the reality of that loop then it can seem like hell because there's Frustrations, there's fatigue. There's guilt. There's shame and it's buying right into it But when you say game is over It's all over now the games up ego Then you accept yourself as God created you that is where the the joy comes in and you literally have no problems Yeah, and The experience of that joy just it's we even those words what you just said You can't explain it right, you know, it's like saying it's just Experience it and that's it. Yes, that will cover it. That'll cover the waterfront. Yes completely internal It's it's a it's a experience of just silence There's no explanation. There's just a sense of beingness of is this that's what it is and the words after a while You know, it's like we were talking about being in a song being in a note You know one note. Yeah, it just resonates and resonates and just goes on and on and on and on and on that with overtones overtones and That's maybe the closest approximation, but this doesn't involve dissertations and Thesises and theories and theology. Yeah, this is everything is very simple because it doesn't involve any of that