 It's great in the morning we were looking at the idea of compassion, of caring, and it really relates to me the responsibility. The deeper you go, you start to realize that you really cannot be responsible for any person, or anybody, or anything, or any circumstance of this world. But you can be 100% responsible for the way that you look on the world, that you are completely responsible for your perception of the world, and absolutely have no responsibility in terms of specifics and form. That's a lot of mind training to reach that state, and what you're talking about is that daily the mind wants to flip back to, I'm responsible for whatever, for my child, for my parents. In some way I'm responsible for mother nature, I'm responsible for my body, for the health of my body. No, you're not responsible for the health of your body. Health is inner peace, and the body is just a reflector or a mirror of your state of mind, and you are responsible for your consciousness. You are responsible for that state of mind. You're not responsible for the projection. The projection, you know, the body will always follow along. The body never leads. The body never causes anything. The world never causes anything. This is like, you might say, a lifetime of lessons all packed into one clear super punch that knocks the ego out, because it's very subtle to believe that you're responsible for the things of time. Even behavior, it can seem like you're responsible for your behavior. You know, you have to be, you say, a responsible adult where they tell children to be a responsible child, and they're talking more at the behavior level. But what you do comes from what you think. And you may try to quit smoking, or to lose weight, or to tone your muscles. You may try to make a healthy body. You quit a lot of time and money and effort at trying to improve or maintain the body, but I'll tell you straight, it's the thinking is where you have the choice. You know, all the actions and all the behaviors that are part of the human condition are all part of a prearranged script, a destiny. Why can psychics sometimes read the future? Because they're not reading the future. They're reading the past. Often the Akashic records getting permission to look at different aspects of a long script of the past that's all predetermined, and when you put all of this energy into trying to make a better world, make a better body, be more responsible for your body, on and on and on and on, it's misdirected energy. When did anyone here ever try to change your thinking? If you try to change your behavior, that could be one whale of a battle, like quitting smoking, getting off drugs, getting off addictions. That's one whale of a battle, and a lot of us know that from we've gone through that. But that doesn't even compare to changing your thinking from egoic thinking to alignment with spirit. All that battle over letting go of that specific addiction has just been a lead-in to go for the big letting go, which is letting go of judgment. That the spirit didn't create judgment, and as long as we're judging, we still have this thinking thinking, we still have, or still messed up in mind, and the world is just going to be a projection of symptoms that are reflecting a messed up mind. So, if you really want to go for joy, love, happiness, that just is there in the natural flow, and there's nothing blocking it, there's nothing in the way, you don't have a problem, you can't find a problem, you've lost all your problems forever. Well, that sounds pretty good, and you have to come back to change your mind about your mind. It has to come back to consciousness. If you try to change at the behavioral level, it's really, I can tell you, it's really no change at all. Even if it seems significant, at times it does seem very significant. If you smoke for 40 years and you quit smoking, that could seem like a significant change of behavior. But the thinking that produced that fear and that uneasiness and that anxiety and that craving that was underneath for the nicotine or the smoke and whatever, that's not gone until you have a shift of consciousness. When you have a shift of consciousness, you will never be concerned about behaviors and the body ever again. Your body becomes in a state of whole consciousness. The body is a wholly neutral thing. It's just as neutral as, like I say, a pencil. How is your pencil today? It's still a pencil. I was like, look, who's asking? I mean, who cares really? But when we project all this health, projecting health and sickness onto the body, then it's a big distraction a lot of time and energy and effort put to the body. And it doesn't get you anywhere spiritually unless you have a change of consciousness. There is this guy a couple thousand years ago that was talking about forgiveness, Jesus. And forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness is the how. And it's just one word. You could probably come up with a lot of other words. You could call it feeling or whatever. But the thing about it is, is this forgiveness takes an actual emptying of your mind. Before Jesus was Buddha, and Buddha was right about this, he was about emptying his mind of attachments. Because he found that attachments were the cause of suffering. And he was talking about attachments and consciousness. He wasn't talking about, he wasn't saying, I've got a bulimia addiction going here, or, you know, I'm addicted to this drug or this food or this, he was talking about consciousness. And so was Jesus. So what you start to do is it does fit into Susan's story about trust in the sense that the only way you can forgive is through trust. And we're not talking about trusting in people, trusting in the flesh, but intuitive trust. The same kind of intuitive trust that takes you in as the concepts that you believe were valuable in this world, the concepts that you believe you could possess or control or manipulate. When you're in love, of course, there's no problem and it's great. It's wonderful. So it's when that out experience comes up. And the temptation when the out experience comes up is to look to something in the world and say, something's off, this is out of whack, this relationship needs to change, this weather needs to change or something needs to change. And so the simple definition I'm giving of the how of forgiveness, I want to attempt to define truth or love, but the simple definition of how is when you're out of this flow, you believe that something must change except your mind to be happy. And when you're in the flow, you don't have that thought at all. There's no thought of anything having to change. It's just absolute total acceptance of everything exactly as it is. The only time the out comes in is when you perceive something that doesn't seem like it's right. It seems like it's out of sync or it's out of control or it's other than all that is. And that's the problem. So in one sense, we're trying to open our minds to bring everything back in. You could say back to the heart. Everything back to the center or back to the mind, whatever you want to call it, you have to bring it all in and see that there's an experience that there's nothing outside of you, that you are everything and everywhere and always have been. And only this trick of tininess is what it feels like to be out of it all. Or responsibility. Kirsten brought up the thing, responsibility. How many times are you sailing along in the day just in the glory of the flow and then you just have a thought that you didn't do something that you should have done or that somebody didn't do something that they should have done. The should, should, should all over that one because that's that little blip of something should be different. It's just a judgment that something should be different. And all we're talking about is coming to a place of complete acceptance. Absolute complete acceptance. And also knowing that the Spirit in us is going to take us step by step into that place of complete acceptance. We don't even have to figure out how that could happen. We just have to be willing to follow that and be intuitive. This idea about being responsible for other people, if you look at a lot of the jobs in this world, it's part of a system of what we call interdependence where there's a lot of reliance. Just like if we look at nature and we look at the cycles of nature and how nature and the ecosystem and everything, all those steps that we learned, none of us were taught that that's a lie. That that's a total lie. None of us were taught that these interdependencies that are part of family systems, that are part of governments, that are part of churches, none of us were taught that these interdependencies are not true because there's a lot of guilt tied into these interdependencies. And what I'm saying is the only way to transcend these interdependencies is through training your consciousness of coming inside and seeing how powerful your mind is. When your heart is open and everything's flowing, there's no interdependencies. You're in the flow of life. You're in the flow of everything is perfectly taken care of and always has been and always will be. And doesn't that feel fun to know that it's like being a free spirit, truly a free spirit, everything's taken care of? So a lot of people have childhood memories of when they were just playing on the beach or playing in the sand and they had a carefree life. And then they think about how their life is as adults and they think, wow, it's so stressful. I went through all those experiences and I kept questioning those beliefs and saying, is this really what your will for me is? Is this stressful, weighed down, heavy way of being? Is this your will for me? And I kept getting, no, this is not my will for you. I want you to be free. I want you to be worry free. I want you to be care free. I want you to live a life where everything is perfectly taken care of without your effort. No personal effort or personal will in trying to maintain this vast state of mind. So to me, when we talk about miracles, that's what the miracles are about. The miracles convince you that everything is taken care of. You are in your function and your function is to be happy. Make no mistake about that. God wants you happy. If you were in your function, everything else is taken care of from that function, through that function. We call it divine providence. And I've been having fun for about 20-some years with it, playing it, fesking in it. It's like you can dance in it, you can sing in it. Your heart is gleeful and you just want to shine and share that joy and that happiness. And that's the how.