 We don't really have control over the world. That's the big trick. You know, we think we have to control children. We have to control people managers and companies believe that they have to control the people below them governments Kings Queens believe they have to control their subjects parents believe they have to control their children managers have to control their workers generals Captains, you know in military have to control those that are underneath them. Otherwise people would say it's not going to work It's going to all go chaotic if there's not control, but God didn't even create control. God didn't create all these bodies God didn't create control. It's a mesmerism It's a tangled web that the ego has made up to keep the mind guilty to keep the mind from awakening and knowing it's true guiltless innocent reality the whole Cosmos was set up with a false sense of control and How glorious it is to start to realize as Jesus says in the In the rules for decision section. He says you have no control over the world you made Hallelujah Hallelujah, I have no control over the world. I made if you get into any effective spiritual awakening Mindset or movement like the 12-step program with alcoholics anonymous They have the beginning steps of the 12 steps is to start to realize you were powerless over our lives We were powerless over the alcohol We have to start to begin to first say that you're powerless before you can accept the higher power That will unwind you from that craziness The addiction really wasn't the drugs or it wasn't the alcohol. It was the stinking thinking It was the thoughts of the ego It was the thoughts and the belief of the ego that was the addiction Jesus Sermon on the Mount judge not let's you be judged the judgment was the addiction and And and whenever we got caught up into judging which our mind wasn't even created to do we weren't created to be a judge Judgment involves duality and multiplicity. Oneness isn't a judge of anything Love doesn't judge love simply is Byron Katie love. What is love has no judgments but the judgment was the addiction and then Once we accepted that once we've bought the bait of thinking we had to be a good judge Then we are off into a world of illusions and then we seem to have all these even physical addictions Jesus the ego will project it out. You're addicted to cocaine. You're addicted to Eating you're addicted to breathing Most people don't even talk about those We should have breathing anonymous All be oh Be a We'll call it be a breathing obsession What's your problem? I'm obsessed with breathing It just goes on and on That's our BO not body odor is breathing breathing obsession That's when you start to get to the thing. No, it's the thoughts underneath. That's part of a body Identification that's denying my spiritual reality. That's that's how it works. You could take anything You can start to see this is where the disorder comes in and so what is the answer the answer comes down to? guidance If the Holy Spirit's in our mind and the Holy Spirit says yeah, I can use whatever the ego made ego made judgment I'll use it I'll guide you I'll guide you out of the maze of complexity. I'll guide you out of the maze of distortions I'll guide you one step at a time one Seeming decision at a time like that prayer Since he was talking about I am here only to be truly helpful It's like all you're doing with that prayer is saying here. I am Lord. I am at your service Will you start to experience joy and happiness if you follow that prayer? Of course You can't help but experience joy and happiness because that prayer isn't isn't focusing on what you made or how complicated or how tangled your Earthly life seems to be the probe the prayer is focused on the escape from that craziness the escape from that distortion and There's joy in the escape Just even opening yourself towards the direction of the escape