We’ve been given some great insights here about how humans could live if we were an awakened species, but the question now is, how do we make this work in everyday life?
If I’m in the fire department, I need to change my own behaviors before I can begin to think of producing some kind of change on the planet. Gandhi had it right. I need to be the change I wish to see. But I have not been able to do that to my satisfaction. I’m finding that information is one thing, integration is another.
The great sadness of my life is that I haven’t been able to fully integrate all that I have come to know and understand as a result of our conversations. I haven’t been able to make it a consistent part of my life. I mean, my daily interactions, not just my daily thoughts.
And here’s what I don’t want to do. I don’t want to share with others messages that cannot be actually lived and demonstrated. I’m not interested in pie-in-the-sky, impractical, unworkable, or non-achievable evolutionary goals.
Q : That may be so, and I am so very glad to know that, but I can tell you that in my experience this has been a huge challenge. I hear you say that I am Love, for example, and that we are all Love; that Love is what we're made of, that it is Who We Are.
Well, you know, I think I’m a loving person, I want to be a loving person, I try to be a loving person, but far too often I say something or do something or am something that is just plain and simply not very loving.
I want to get above that. I want to move past it. I want to go beyond it. I’m entering the first third of my seventh decade on this Earth and I’m really wanting to see more progress. How long, oh God, how long will this take?
A : You're being very hard on yourself. Many who know you would say you're a very loving person. And so is everyone who has been drawn to this conversation, or has found themselves following this dialogue “by chance.”
It is true, indeed, of everyone on the Earth. You are, all of you, my wonderful children, growing and becoming more and more of your True Divine Self every day.
You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love.