 The hole is greater than the sum of the parts, so the old saying goes, but the hole is real and the parts are not. And when you've been identified with the parts, it's really difficult. You know, it's unnatural to be identified with the parts. It's like having one piece of a jigsaw puzzle. That's what a personality self is like. There's a whole puzzle there, and you pull one little piece out and you go, it's fascinating, but it's really not so fascinating as the whole picture, as the big picture. And that's what we're about. You know, we're really about relaxing and relaxing and letting the picture merge together and come whole again. So, it all gets handled. The bills still get paid and we can do travels and work on materials and have time to chat with people who call from Pakistan and all kinds of different places around the world and are delighted, you know, like, oh, the guy from Pakistan is like, I can't believe you're calling me in Pakistan. And I said, well, yes, why not? And I talked to a friend in Arab Emirates, the state, you know, over in the Middle East, and she was like, oh, you don't know how much meeting you changed my life and this and this, but I don't want it to be too expensive. You know, it's like, don't worry about it. It's the joyful moment where we're rejoicing in God's love. You know, it all works out. But we really, I have felt in all of the messengers, we try to make ourselves extremely available to the extent that we can. And all of us have had periods of time where we've lived off, gone off in silent periods or hermitages. I've gone off to hermitages and lived in hermitages just by myself, and those were all valuable because it helped freeing my mind from, you know, thoughts and expectations and things that felt like unfulfilled things that were really just more thoughts swirling around in there that needed to be given permission to come up and just look at them and say, okay, these have still stress associated with them, so I'm willing to just move through this and let them go. And then when you do get the call to go seemingly go somewhere or do something, it's very joyful. You know, it's just like surreal almost. It's almost like you're in a painting or something, like what dreams may come. You know, there's all these vibrant colors and happy people and it just goes by so fast and it's like, hmm, that didn't even seem like a trip. You know, come back. They make jokes about me resting after I get back from like a two-month trip. They go, how, rest? They was going to rest because I just go through all my mail and then I play with the cats and then I go in my emails and start working with videos or doing something. But, you know, Jesus says in the Course, rest does not come from sleeping only from waking. So we're waking up. And then of course you would feel more vibrant energy when you feel you have a calling or you feel in purpose, you have this vitality. And that's good too, especially when you wake up in the middle of the morning and you've got all this energy and it's like, okay, Spirit, what do you want me to do? Work on a website? Email somebody? Or nowadays you could even call somebody because of all the time zones, but usually everyone's sleeping, so I just wait until six o'clock before they hear me on the phone talking to these other countries or whatever. You know, it's like, but just like with time zones, you pretty much could get on my Skype phone and say, who's online now? Oh, wow, over there. Australia, that's another day. It's already tomorrow, over there. Call into tomorrow. Not all year, this is already gone. It's already gone, right? He's really speaking to the past. Yeah, my mother, biological mother, she's always good about sending birthday greetings, you know, on phones and everything, but when I'm over in Australia, she's a day late. Didn't think of that time zone or that time date line thing. No matter how attentive you are, it's always something there. So anyway, it's we again, we open it up for everybody, whatever you want to talk about, any kind of topics, anything that's, we're here for at your service for this weekend and also beyond, so that if you only need to call us and talk to us, is there somebody there or somebody that can call back in a short time and we can do it. We seem to be able to do it across countries now with Skype. On Wednesday, Siri and I are going to try a Skype conference call with 15 or 20 people from, let's say, maybe Brazil and Portugal, you know. So there's always new kind of things seemingly unfolding and it's new for both of us, so we'll have to see how that goes. I have a question. You talked yesterday about that you have and you said it was an excellent TVZ that you had that you have no power in the world and you have no power over your thoughts that you only have choice over between two things, between your right mind and your wrong mind, between the Holy Spirit and the ego and I suppose back to thoughts again because they appear to be the most internal thing and also you mentioned fantasies earlier and so we all have these ideas playing out in our heads of things that we don't even imagine we want or to happen that suddenly appear to spring into our mind and I was just wondering if you could talk more about that because I feel I'm on the cusp of understanding my role with my thoughts as I perceive myself but I know I probably got a perception problem. Definitely, obviously I'm here. Throughout history when we think about spirituality that comes up over the centuries it's called temptation so that's an interesting thing and there's different ideas about temptation being tempted by power or money or sex or possessions or something that seems alluring and beautiful in the world or taste good or something that's generally the context when people think about temptations although there's much disagreement about that other people will say well that everybody lives with temptations and tries to manage and handle the temptations the best that they can it seems more like this management of do the best that you can with what you've got but in the course of Miracles Jesus says what is temptation the wish to make illusions real so that's an interesting definition he's not talking about all those other things he's saying what is temptation but the wish to make illusions real so then it's like wow the wish to make illusions real it kind of fits in with what I was talking about on the deck yesterday with there's nothing really wrong with the images of the world even though the ego made them the images really aren't the problem because the Holy Spirit answered the images with the real world he completely it would be like having a real acidic solution in a chemistry class and then you put the Holy Spirit in it and it neutralizes the acid like tons or some of these medicines will neutralize the acid well, the Holy Spirit neutralizes the belief in separation in an instant so it can't be that the images of the world are the problem when people say to me even with the body I'm so limited by this body I've got to learn how to get rid of this body it's more the Holy Spirit saying don't be so concerned about getting rid of it let's just work at clearing away your judgments and so that you can see the body and the world in a different light to see it from a different perspective in which there's no temptation to make the body or the world real because if it isn't real and you try to make it real then that's how you get into denying love by making up a veil and then trying to make the veil real so as I said the images really aren't the problem and the body is not the problem as much as the ego will project things and say I would have a much happier life if I didn't have to deal with this body and have any basis in a hourly moment to moment basis but the body to the Holy Spirit is neutral and it's just a device that can be used among all the other symbols to take you to the real world