 And he says, yes, I did. And these judges, do you know that by writing these things that you've broken a law, you've broken a British law, and you are guilty of sedition by writing these things about freedom in this magazine? And Gandhi said, yes. And according to your laws, then therefore, kind of like, do with me what you will. He put his hands up like this, almost like, I'm not changing my ideas. I wrote what I have about freedom. And if that seemed to break your law, then here I am. Go ahead, do what you want. And basically, what that was basically saying was Gandhi was saying, I have a principle in my heart that I know to be true. And I'm going to stand by my principle. And you can do what you want. He was basically saying to the world, do whatever you want. I'm sticking with my principle. You're standing by the Jesus. Yeah, same thing. Do what you want. I'm standing for love. I'm standing for peace and nonviolence. So we're at the point now where it's like, you're starting to really start to see that it's not outside yourself that has to change. It's not something in the world that has to change. It's a decision in mind. If I'm feeling upset, it's because I'm choosing to feel upset, not because something in the world is making me upset. If I'm feeling chaotic, it's because I'm choosing to feel chaotic, not because the world is chaotic and the world is making me feel chaotic. Or it's like, when you go to a movie, sometimes people say, did you like the movie? Was it a good movie or a bad movie? There you go, right away. Was it an action movie? Was it a mystery? Was it a comedy? Was it a romance? Did the movie make you laugh? Make you laugh? Did the movie make you cry? Make you cry? You hear the causation is, was it a sad movie that made you cry? It's all backwards. This whole mesmerism, if you listen carefully to the conversations of the world, everybody's either getting credit to things for the movie made me laugh, or my partner, my soulmate, puts me in ecstasy. No, I'm sorry. It's not the soulmate that puts you in ecstasy. You choose to put yourself, to let your mind soar into ecstasy, but it's not going to be the partner or going to be the circumstance. It's not your valentine that puts you in ecstasy. It's your mind. So we're really having, this is really explaining a turnaround here. When I blame, fear, something in the world, it is to avoid seeing that the upset and resolution, as they really are, a decision in my mind and to instead maintain an image of the self-concept. So every time you feel like the world is doing it to you, all it is is you're wishing to maintain the ego's self-concept that God did not create. That's really what's going on. If you cut through all of the seeming complexities, if you make it real simple, that's what's going on. This mind trick seems to displace guilt and fear, but actually maintains feelings of upset. So how the people say, get it off your chest, you'll feel better. So you get it off your chest and you yell at somebody, and do you feel better? No, you don't feel better if you look at somebody. You feel guilty. You think, you say, why didn't I do that? But the whole idea of get it off your chest, if it gets into blaming or yelling at somebody or whatever, I'll give them what for. I'll tell them to their face, I'll show them. They're going to hear from me. You can hear those thoughts going on in your mind. They're going to hear from me. It's like pushing it out, pushing it out. And if you've actually got something where you're blaming yourself, the mind trick seems to maintain the guilt and fear rather than displace it, doesn't it? It keeps it going. Yes. So for example, if you seem to project the guilt to your body and the body seems to develop symptoms, that just keeps it going. That's not going to end the guilt. Then you feel bad, especially when you get into metaphysics. You think, I'm doing this to myself. Now I've made myself sick, but that doesn't feel good. Nobody likes to think. And it's almost like, it's like suicide. People don't like to talk about suicide. It's one of those things, the press, the media. Nobody likes to talk about suicide. But you might say that every time you experience any kind of upset or doubt or discomfort or pain or suffering, it's just a version of suicide. It's a version of killing yourself, of like trying to murder your Christ self, your spiritual self, push that out of awareness and maintain that you're something small, you know, that you're an ego. So it's a form of suicide. Every time you blame yourself or you take something personally or you take it, whether it's this self or other bodies. But what we're saying here is, number seven is saying, it's a decision that you're making in your mind and you must get back into your mind and choose again. It's not going to help you to project and it's not going to help you to repress, you know, try to smooth it over and just smile even though you've got this emotion going on. So this is great. This mind trick seems to displace the guilt and fear, but it actually maintains the feelings of upset. To blame or fear an image of self other the world requires that I believe I am limited to a body and a world of bodies and deny the spiritual abstract reality of my being. As a first step in letting go of all upset, I want to see in my mind what I thought was outside it. Being upset about A, so now you get to bring it back to your specific thing. Being upset about A is only another attempt to make C the cause of my guilt and fear. It's a trick. He goes like saying, yeah, you're upset. You've got good reason. Give them what for. You tell them. And that's enough. I'm drawing the line. I'm not going to take your stuff anymore. You're the blame. And I'm putting a stop to it right here. But that, that, attaching that A to C is still only trying to justify that. I think, you know what, that's the point. You know, when you sort of say you've projected onto the body and you've projected onto the body, you've both dared to do it on your own. That's kind of like the good point. You know, you've both kind of used the body of David or the body of Chris, kind of, you'll notice it a little bit, but can that sort of separate yourself out from the body that he's thinking? Yeah, you can talk about it. Like, it's like Krishna Murthy, when he was talking, he wouldn't, he wouldn't even say, don't take what I say to be the truth. He would say, don't take what the speaker says to be the truth. He was so far back and so detached from Krishna Murthy that he wouldn't say, don't take what I say to be the truth, find out for yourself. He would say, don't take what the speaker says to be the truth, find out for yourself. So he was really pulling it back into the mind and he was asking everybody else to do the same thing, you know, to find it within their mind. So it's pretty strong when you really look at that. Now, we're gonna finally get another letter here. We've got A, B, C, and D. We're ready to bring in E, E for expectation. Now we're getting down to the release point for getting to the point where you can start to really release it from your mind. Number eight, upset seems valuable and justifiable when A runs counter to what I wanted. So whatever that scenario, situation, event, or person was, you have listed in A, you could say that upset seems valuable and justifiable when A runs counter to what I wanted to be around the smallest things. You go to a restaurant, let's say, and the reason you go to this restaurant is because they serve your favorite food. That's why you go to the restaurant, you know, or because they have fast service or because they have inexpensive meals or something, but let's say it's your favorite food. So you go down to your restaurant, you're sitting there, you're almost salivating in anticipation of that plate coming with your favorite dish and the waitress comes out and you order it and then she goes, oh, I'm so sorry. We don't have it. But I come here for the very reason that you serve this food, it's my favorite food. You can see if there is an expectation that you would go to this restaurant and be served your favorite dish and you would get upset, it's because something in form has run contrary to what you wanted. They're not supposed to, the scenario, what, you're not supposed to come out and tell me no. I've come here 100 times and you've said yes and now the 101st time, that's a no. Oh, you feel your heart drop. You don't have it, you don't have it. So it could be something as simple as that, that's why we call E for expectation. And E is something what I wanted or expected, that's what we're calling E, the expectation. Is an action situation event, it's something to be different in the script. If you really wanted to put words to E, I expected something would be different in this script. Whatever. Whatever seems to be occurring, you're saying, I wish it was different. This is your ideal way of thinking. Yes, yes, you've got some ideal and the script is not meeting that ideal. It happens like in relationships. Let's say you marry somebody and you think, wow, they really look good. I like this image now that I'm associated with. I'm happy to call them partner. And then let's say they put on 150 pounds or they seem to develop a Tourette syndrome. And they're just swearing at you. Blast your mouth, mouth, mouth. Oh yeah. You're just thinking, what? I married a partner and now they've got Tourette. What did I say? The deaf do we part? Oh my God, what are you gonna do? This typically happens in relationships and it may happen like in job scenarios. You take a job and you read about the job and it looks like it's a pretty good job and then you get into the job and maybe it's more boring, it's more mundane or maybe there's coworkers that seem like they've been sent from the devil to sink your boat. And you think it looked like a pretty decent job but I mean that's why I interviewed for it. It looked like better pay and it'd be all these fringe benefits and I really thought it would be a good job and now it's not meaning up to my ideal. It's turning into a nightmare. It's because your expectations for that job are not being met. So you can see that E is very important on this worksheet because what we've done, all this work here on page one and now we're into page two was just to start to get in touch with E. What is the expectation I had down there? It is not being fulfilled. And E is whatever it is, action, situation, event, person. I still believe in some form of lack, which is D. So I think I need E to be happy, complete and at peace. Now we're getting down to the real nitty gritty. I still have a self-concept and identity image that I believe is lacking and I think I need E to be happy. I think I need an outcome. I think I need the world to turn out in a particular way or the script to go a certain way for me to be happy. Is this belief in lack and the resulting expectations more important to me than peace of mind? That's a real interesting question. That's when you really get down to the rubber meets the road. Is this belief in lack and the resulting expectation more important to me than peace of mind? So the future is only based on past and you let that go just as much as you let the past go. Yes. Yeah, that's it. That's where you come to atonement because in the course of Miracles, Jesus actually says atonement.