 Our natural state of who we are has got created us this sacred, but to me, nothing of the earth is sacred. Where I could say that flipside is in the state of mind everything of the earth is sacred, you know, because it's all inclusive. So you could say it either way, but it's like this state, no thing, no individual thing, you know, no person, place, thing, object. I'm not really into spiritualizing matter and turning some of holy water. I've got holy water here, you know, like they have in the Catholic Church, you know. Really, I'm not in it. I mean, I go to, they have me speak in all kinds of centers. I was out in Los Angeles at the Sai Baba Center, and they get to choose a Sai Baba, and flowers, and came and sit in the chairs. That's the flowers in there and the fruit, and it's like, what's the fruit for? It's like, well, it's an offering for the Master, you know. I don't think he's really interested in the fruit. You know, it's a state of mind that's not personal, so we don't need to have these personal kind of gurus and look up to people, as if there's some that have got it and some that don't, because that's not really what the state is. You know, it's a state of perfect equality where we're all in it together. And that's the feeling I have, is that, you know, of course in that state that no one's ahead, no one's behind, there aren't beginners and intermediate and advanced, it's all the same thing. So to me, that's what the state is. It's a state of perfect union, perfect connectedness, and it doesn't have these little degrees and gradations. And that's also why there's perfected vulnerability, because if everything is connected and everything is one, then what would attack even mean? You have to have two to have an attack. You have to have an attacker and an attackee. But if everything is one, then it just means that invulnerability is natural, because there is no attack. So that's what the topic is tonight. I want to just pause for a moment and see that this is all resonating, or if there's things that are like, ooh, ooh, ee-e-e-e-e, but this is different than what I thought I was going to hear. If there's any questions or comments or things like that, then we can use this. Can you be disrespected about yourself? Yeah, it's like as you go on the spiritual path, that's where you really, really start to get down deeper and deeper and deeper, because the ego will try to find anything to be insulted about or feel like it's being mistreated in some way. All sense of victimization is based on the beliefs that you can be unfairly treated and certainly being disrespected. And once you kind of get past a lot of other things, then it's like the ego is kind of like that spider sitting back and just a look or a glance or a facial expression can be like, how dare you? Or maybe you're expecting a comment or you're expecting something to compliment or something like this and it's not there. It's the absence of it. Again, it seems like an insult or a sense of being disrespected. It's like I was just down in Argentina last November and these two women had been classmates when they were 17 years old and they are now in their 50s and they re-met in one of my gatherings. And so they've connected and they became really close friends and they call each other and they have breakfast together now and they chat and they have tea and they were my translators when I went down there. So that one was on my one side, she was like translating everything that I was saying to the audience and the other one was on the other side and everything that was spoken in Spanish, she was whispering in my ear giving me the Spanish to English translation. So we did 15, 20 different gatherings and it was this miracle where everything was flowing, flowing and then one of the gatherings, one Patricia, the one who was translating over here for me, she saw some people that came in to the gathering and she recognized them and she knew who they were and she just was like looking and she told me that she was insulted that they were walking late to the gathering that they were extremely disruptive and she said the one, she said I knew him, I knew he's not sincere and he's not devoted to anything so I purposely didn't even send him an email because I didn't even want him there and my other friends, my best friend, she must have invited him and brought him in and they walked in late and she just continued translating, she just was... and then he asked a question of me and I answered him and he kind of kept at it and she told me later she said oh he was toying with you, he was trying to trap you, he was trying to set you up she was just seething, just trying to continue on with the translation, just seething that this man would be trying to trap me and trap me and trap me and then they got up when the gathering was still going on and they left early she said oh she could hardly stay in her chair, you know, that they... how they even got here without the email and then to come in late and then to do the trapping questions and then to leave early, she was just really insulted and so all the way home she was just like oh I was so angry David, I couldn't believe it and she said, didn't you see any of that, don't you intuit that, didn't you intuit any of that and I said no, no, I thought he was so sweet, you know, it's just... I mean you're in that state where all you want to do is give and you're not looking for anything, you know, you know I was in a cafe today talking about this with the waitress who was preparing the food and there was a woman reading a book off to the side and then before we left she came up and said I want to come to the gathering and I'll be there late and so on and so forth and so put down a name and we called her and told her where it was going to be and everything but it's like, you know, the best part of it is that you don't have to plan it or figure it out you just show up, I always just show up I mean it seems like physically I always show up if they put my name on something and say I'm going to be there, I show up and then emotionally or with my heart I show up and that's it, I mean that's as far as I go with it I mean I don't pick the words to say I don't have to figure anything out figure the questions out or figure anything out I go there to give and there's a line in the Course in Miracles where Jesus says that in any situation where you perceive that something is lacking it is always what you have failed to give that's what is lacking in any situation what you have failed to give well that's, when you look at that that's the way out of feeling disrespected is to show up with just the willingness to give and you have this wellspring of love inside of you that just wants to come pouring through so it's not like you have a shortage it's like having the ocean in your heart and wanting to just pour out the ocean and so I think for me that's where it went from a spiritual practice into a state of mind