PEOPLE : The challenge of being at Home with God and living with our neighbor on Earth.

Hi everyone. Hope all is well. Welcome to my new podcast. This talk will be on the topic of people. Maybe a strange or unusual discussion or topic, but, then again, maybe not. I do think in many ways every day we talk about people, us, each other, everyone, anyone, and about all kinds of things, all the time-- all of us who inhabit this very human and at times challenging and hard to live and get through but also wondrous and sometimes wonderful insightful world in this vessel we call the human being. We have a lot of things to say about us, and I have my own I'd like to share.

This will be more of a plain speaking kind of conversation or sharing with those higher points and perspectives and higher level thoughts and insights I enjoy sharing and sprinkling in my messages and sharing with you all. But be sure it’ll be unabashed, unapologetic, uncensored, unfiltered, uncompromising, and I think unassailable, real, straight talk with no pulled punches. Have I left anything out? Oh, yes. And shared with Love.

This message or talk here might to some seem to judgmental and too human sharing and speaking and not too cordial, but really it speaks to, and tries to unearth, the greater of our human side although the human part is in there, too, and to a greater extent the greater of our ultimate reality. So it's a balance of realities and a melding and a coalescing of realities of seeming disparate perspectivies and Truths and forces finally arriving at the one.

My style or way, and my intention and desire, is to bring and put forward and share not only my life learnings and anything gleaned from my own experiences with our brothers and sisters on earth and my thoughts and viewpoints but also what I actually do know beyond them reaching upwards towards the realms of Truth touching the light of their reality back down on onto the world we know to extend its benefits of a higher knowledge and understanding and Truer Truths. I believe it's balanced and actually compassionate but also real and always insightful and always centered on the highest Truths and the better of informed reality. Like I've said plain speaking but at its most extreme and unfiltered and maybe hard hitting.

I think this is a worthwhile subject and a worthy discussion to have and it leaves very little stones left unturned with key points or things to think about or to consider in many ways always intending to head towards a higher or better Truth and the prize of a greater understanding and our True humanity and if only to bridge the gap between insight and indifference, and revelation and unknowing. And who we are, and who we are not.

I believe this podcast message delves a little deeper into the subject of our everyday experience in our human-to-human contacts than most or some and touches on and says more of what might not be said out there but in an uncommonly informative and maybe unusually but authenticly insightful way.

I think also it conveys a greater bearth of understanding that one can grasp then rising higher to the greater of of its Truth descending back down on onto its reality in the world and outside it. A big topic and objective? Could be. But things are really simple understandings in hiding, but then again so are we. But, guess we'll have to wait and see.

In taking a deeper and closer look in into what my sharing here really does say and hopfully says to you from and through me to you is that we are light and Truth and every day we touch it in some way and it touches us, as Life will always be child of the parent of this ultimate reality bringing understanding back to its True Home.

Many things anyway can be explained by an uncommon approach and unusual convention and conversation while also having therewithin clues or seeds of a higher offering and a keener perspective, contributing, therfore, to a larger discussion and ushering in selective and exceptionally informed thought opening the gates of uncompromised profound insights and realizations maybe even of exceptional revelations. This is my intention and goal and hopfully I can fulfill it to some degree or extent. You don't have to accept or believe all or any of it and this is healthy and a good thing. Our dalliances with the Truth and peace in our myopic and fallible considerations keep us from having either in our acceptance of the impermanence of both. But if we can refuse to resist our deciduous natures with the positive and not accept our perfidious natures as the Truth, we will have, and settle in, them and call them our own.

Taking this approach, then, I believe you can get something out of it and maybe use it to benefit your life in some way. And last time I checked I am people, us, everyone, too, and take my own cues in this endeavor. Guess you'll have to take my word on that one.

In the Conversations with God series of books (CWG) by Neale Donald Walsch God says,

'You have nothing to learn about relationships. You have only to demonstrate what you already know. Relationships are constantly challenging, constantly calling you to create, express, and experience higher and higher aspects of yourself, grander and grander visions of yourself, ever more magnificent versions of yourself. Nowhere can you do this more immediately , impactfully, and immaculatelythan in relationships. In fact, without relationships, you cannot do it at all.

'It is only through your relationship with other people, places, and events, that you can even exist (as a knownable quantity, as an identifiable something) in the universe. Remember, absent everything else, you are not. You only are what you are relative to another thing that is not. This is how it is in the world of the relative, as opposed to the world of the absolute---where I reside.

'Once you clearly understand this, once you deeply grasp it, then you intuitively bless each and every experience, all human encounter, and especially personal human relationships, for you see them as constructive, in the highest sense. You see that they can be used, must be used, are being used,(whether you want them to be or not) to constuct Who You Really Are.'

So, starting out here, a first few questions to ask:

Human nature: Is it human nature to be divided? Is it human nature to fear? Is it human nature to hate? Is it human nature to Love?

It is human nature to look for and to want and desire unity and to decide and choose against it and to look the other way, but it is divine nature to believe in man's Oneness with all. It is human nature to believe in man's fears, but it's divine nature to not fear and to believe in his safety and well being. It is human nature to Love, but also human nature to kill it. It's divine nature to be Love and to give life to All that is.

I like a quote from the great chinese, ancient sage and phiolosopher Confucius. He said,

"Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal."

If we can also start with an understanding, and to remember, we are people and we are naturally individuals with natural and purposeful but often overstated and overassumed and sometimes over inflated egos and preferences and desires and tendencies and gravitate towards or to what agrees with us and away from what does not and of course that involves with each other in our respective individuations or likes and dislikes as such simply put. I personally thank God for that.

Can you imagine if we were not so discerning at times and were all the same? God made us with choice and free will and different for a reason and says for us to be the same would be deadly. Somehow that makes sense. Change wouldn't otherwise happen because change wouldn't be needed, and as I've heard, change is nature's delight. God save us if we were a carbon copy of each other. Change the nature of God and you change it all, unnaturely, and the changeless change of Being and the potentials of endless change of every Being for the brighter, the lighter, and for the better.

If God made us all the same there would be no us as individuals, obviously, and there would only be one person down here and that just wouldn't make any sense, because where's growth, change, insight and revelation relative to anything and everything. Life and growth would stop or never begin and we wouldn't come to know who we are and what anything is much less ourselves because of it. God would of also had no reason to create different aspects of herself to experience and then to know fully and Truly the whole and absolute Truth of her Being.

With people there probably is no better place or no greater or better way or reason we show that we are not the same and that it bears Truth as long as our oneness in humanity is not sacrificed for this Truth.

People are Beautiful and Sweet and good-feeling and endearing and Special and one of a kind and memorable and, you know, just great. And people are are annoying, off-putting, not good-feeling, and weird and trying and unpalatable and dammed crazy and wanting and too many for any taste and nothing too good to want to remember or write Home about. God bless the world. Just perfect, huh? Ha. I'd like to share a great quote I found online recently I call The Panda quote.

"What if I meet people who don't like me or the things I do," asked tiny dragon. "You must walk your own path," said Big Panda. "Better to lose them than lose yourself."

That's the wondrously wondrous casm and experience and reality of being human in divine form and it can be a , sorry, was gonna swear again:)

This is a wondrous and magical world and one with mystery and intrigue and wonderful experiences just around the corner. So it seems we have some work to do here to ascend to and to grasp the Truth and the reason of and for it all and the Truth of US---the greatest journey and exploration of the Truth there can be and that we will ever know.

PODCAST 2

Needless to say we are an incredibly diverse people with varied personalities and characters and ways about us and with varying walks of Life with no two alike or the same that lends itself to a multitude and a smorgasbord of experiences with one another and perspectives we conclude about them. We like or appreciate them, sort of like or appreciate them, don't really like or appreciate or care too much for them, or can't stand the heck out of them. Or we are indifferent. Here we define or understand ourselves pretty clearly and assert who we are in relation to and because of them and call it the Truth, because, everything has to be, right?

Well welcome to the world we know and Love and sometimes Love to hate. And welcome to the divine, and not so divine yet still blessed and purpose filled dichotomy of 'Love of All' but not 'Love for all 'of being and living. You might ask can't we, or, aren't we, supposed to Love everything and everyone no matter what? Well, if you can.

Loving everything and everyone. Or Loving few and almost or nearly nothing. Some Love normally and not Love so much naturally and somewhat equally or in a balanced or normal way. But for a lot of us this is how it is; Loving everything and everyone or barely. Loving everything and everyone is a beautiful thing and Godly, but it's not always possible or even rational.

We are all too human and have a way to go with that even to touch it a little. And again Love for everything and everyone is not necessarily Love of everything and anyone. What's the difference? One is innate and natural and instinctual and who we are. The other is chosen because it has to be and often feels unnatural and is who we make ourselves out to be.

Lyrics In a song by the great song writer and musician and singer of country music, Tobby Keith says,

"Hate me if you must. Love me if you can."

You know, some things are just hard in our dealings and experiences with others that may seem reality and the Truth but may not necessarily or doesn't have to be. We are really ultimately our own Truth makers. Then we can ask what do we call the Truth and what's really real and what's not so True or not at all real. At times we just don't know. But a look within can tell us the answers to that.

We don't mesh or go well with those who go against our grain or rub us the wrong way or who just do things we don't like or that anybody doe, but that’s Ok. I'm reminded of what Jesus says a bit about this. He says, "These people walk in darkness. They need your light, not your judgement. Boy. What a statement and one to walk through and grab your gut.

We can have some of the greatest and the most special and most memorable times and appreciated connections and experiences with people that can put us on cloud nine for sure. Then there are the other ones. That's what makes life, so.....Enlightening:)

The reality and fact is we are asked and need to find a way to understand more who we are in relation to what's out there not just in reactionary or preconceived ways but in a True look at it. We want to and should by contrast of things, make a self statement of who we say we are but not at the expense of who we really are. But out there is a relative term because everything is really in one place and so are we. We are all surrounded by each other all the time, I mean, most of us anyway, and we all have to deal with and experience each other in some way on a constant basis like it or not however briefly. Sometimes involuntarily, sometimes purposefully. Sometimes by happenstance or accident. We are happy and feel good about that, or not that much, or, not at all.

This is not new, of course, or any news or is it really random and for reasons not always known or realized we are to get something out of it and our encounters and engaging with others to benefit us in some way even if it doesn't seem to benefit us at all or adds to us in any way if only to know more about ourselves or to appreciate who, if only for a moment, we had been blessed and fortunate to run into or experience and any others usually only down the road after some reflection and self honesty and some time has passed. Were all in, or we're all out. or, pretty far out, pretty much.

As human beings on earth we are innately and intimately creatures of comfort and well being and of self preservation and our own promoters of them and of self declaration. It's who we are in the world and how we find sense of well being and safety in a place seeming to yank at it at every turn as we navigate this vessel and ourselves though it trying not to go in the wrong direction while trying to find our little corner of contentment. We are always learning about balance and extremes.

That's why Life can hurt sometimes when we don't choose the better of them. There are only growing pains when growth is not happening. But the new day will show the the Truth of the day before. Everything has a solution. The only thing for which there is no solution is indifference. If there was nobody would care.

This is the common and familiar thread that binds us to each other and connects us all to each other and it's relatable in how we want to live and how we want to be and feel and enjoy our lives with few things to disturb or disrupt it. It's also reliable in its effects from the outside world and the affect it has on us when we marry the two in agreement with our wellness and valued peace. But if we're giving less than we're wanting and if we try to take what we want to fill what we don't have to give or offer we're not returning back to us we'll not have and will keep trying to take to fill the void of emptiness of not sharing and receiving.

This is not to say we have to be perfect in any of this just to the best we can with it because we can. If we were perfect we could not come back to ourselves and do better to show who we really are; because we, or anybody else, wouldn't know and couldn't appreciate it or know the difference just what it was til' it wasn't. And what's so exciting about being perfect. There's no surprises there or any revelations to really get excited about or to really hang your hat on.

It's interesting in the (CWG) series of books God says, "You don't need a desire for safety and security or the use of any kind of human force to change things but a change in beliefs. That's when outer peace can be found and experienced when inner peace is attained." He says that we can feel we lose safety and security using the human standard but using the spiritual standard never do.

There are some who think the world is going to change for them so they can still be who they are and not have to settle otherwise if that's who they're not. Or they let the world change them to fit its model they already assume. No, that's not how it works. You need nothing to change except to be who you really are.

Also, you shouldn't use or expect something or someone to do or be something that would agree with any false version of yourself whatever that outside thing or who that person is. It's not anyone's or anything's job to do that for any reason and you never have to allow it to be it. The only question ever asked of you is what are you in relation to this. And whatever it is just be and choose it, or, take another look and reconsider.

We are not all cookie cutters in our experiences or in our appreciation of and our approaches to things for sure including with each other and for some reason I feel and think this is good. And we're good at liking something of disliking it often with not much thought in between quite easily bringing in and expressing our feelings and emotions as our gage in the process because it's that important to us. But I think definites are wrong and that they don't work for everyone. If they do, that's an even greater problem. You know, the Truth never hides, but sometimes you go looking in the wrong direction.

We often swing from the pendulum of our emotions and feelings widely and too often in extremes rarely moderately balancing them for better than not reasons and for many different reasons. It can be hard to tell if or when we're right. But we still use them and just about go on automatic pilot with it all when it's natural. We're either hot, or cold, or luke warm or in the middle in our roller coaster or topsy-turvy human interactions, especially with those who challenge us on the far edges of them. That's just human nature and the nature of us.

But the challenge before us as a species and so as humans on Earth has been to remember our divinity and our origin and what it really means to be human as we navigate through and around and play with and into the human functions and ways of the lesser God in our forgetfulness of the greater Being and to rise higher into the greater of our identities, connecting stronger with the divine within and more Truly with the world around us.

Through our compassion and desire for understanding and our humanity we perfectly craft and cultivate the desired or optimal life through the will and our better intentions of purpose and the True soul and its higher Spirit, finding life's True meaning and True Being and Truest reality and all the good and holy and worthy in a sometimes bad and false and often too human world, but, also perfectly imperfect and majestic and wondrous world.

I really like the lyrics in a song by the Super 70s group Bread in their song Make It With You.

"Have you really tried to reach out for the other side."

In these lyrics you may see here the Truth about our connections with others and that it rises above the fray and above normal thought or perception or consideration and above our base emotions or feelings to the surface shinning a light on its reality and on us.

I'd like to share also here something I just happened to hear and run across listening to some music this morning from the 70s group Three Dog Night (TDN). It's from a song called Black and White with a profound message and lyrics that i think goes with this message.

The lyrics go:

The world is black, the world is white.

It turns by day, and then by night.

A child is black, a child is white.

Together they grow to see the light.

The realities we all commonly experience and desire to exerience and our opinions about it all has its ups and downs and it's good points and its not so good points and stands front and center with our intentions for them to appreciate and fulfill them, or to deny and avoid them including in our dealings with whom we co-habitate in this wonderful world of ours. Anything that disrupts or gets in the way of that will be a problem.

I think we naturally wonder sometimes though about our connections and experiences and relationships with people and maybe even about our humanity and maybe how we can improve them or at least not make them worse than maybe they are, or, leave them just where they are and not give much more thought to it that for a lot of people would be just fine. It seems this is most people anyway. It seems for some of us we have our work cut out for us and some work to do down here.

Most of us do want to understand our connections and want to know what they really mean to us and we want some kind of comaraderie and togetherness and some kind of social link or ability to do so to some extent, and for some, to cross the bridge from our tendency to separate ourselves from each other and who we really are to real connections and experiences that mean something that speaks to our real identities even in what we call a normal day with normal experiences with everyday people. Funny how we make hardest to do or consider what should be easiest to be and to welcome or entertain and to do. And sometimes we just want to keep people away. Yeah. Life is funny.

There are times that we just need a friend or some kind of significant aquaintenance during a hard or challenging time and during some dark time in our life. This is when the rubber hits the road and when you're at your end and you're open to almost any connection to relieve some hurt and maybe a sense of feeling alone. But they can come, and go, for some reason that can just make things harder. I do believe we can have or find them but I also do believe True friends are rare. They exist somewhere. But they're rare. I don't know if i've met many if one at all. This reminds me of the song from Simon and Garfunkle Bridge Over Troubled Water. It says,

'When times get rough

And friends just can't be found.'

I wonder if any can relate. Maybe we don’t have to wonder what the artist Bob Segar thinks about this. He 

has a song with similar lyrics or message called Against The Wind, saying, 'Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friend.'

There is something about these lyrics that ring True. And there's something about the human being and hunan nature that lends Truth to it and that finds it hard to be that True of a friend that may otherwise be one.

Something about a lot of us that is very guarding and that wants to be careful with, and not too accepting of, just anyone and those people we meet in our daily encounters or associations and just anything in our lives and in our day that offer false versions of itself. We don't want things that might upset our apple cart that may not be right for us or that goes against our happy place and our natural state of happiness or contentment if could impact us adversely in some way even just a little, especially if we've had enough experience to bear this out. But there is a profound quote that may speak to a greater Truth here.

The great Greek sage Socrates said,

"Sometimes you put your walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

So what this really means in my view is we're good at assessing, catagorizing, lumping, minimizing, often over inflating, over estimating, maybe over enjoying and appreciating and internally deliberating about people and experiences all the time and what if anything they mean to us. It could be the world prompting and encouraging it, or it could be could be nothing at all and just how we handle situations and Life.

It's though we have to do this in order to stay secured in who we are. It's something we put a lot of attention on and we put in a lot of effort even if we don't know or realize it but most of us do, I think. We don't really know anyone and often just casually but there could be some things that can make it worthwhile to maybe entertain whomever we run into. We often get into more significant relationships or things and have experiences with others while not knowing the whole picture and sometimes with unfavorable or adverse consequences. It's a human trait probably worth looking into and maybe adjusting or fine tuning for our benefit and anyone else's.

In The Course In Miracles Jesus says,

"The ego always speaks first. It is capricious and does not mean its maker well. He says the ego should be brought to judgment and found to be wanting there. He also says the second coming is nothing more than the ending of the egos rule and the healing of the mind.

But if there is something not agreeable with us or conflicts with our comfort zone or gets in the way of those better feelings and experiences we enjoy and can and want to have with each other with whoever or whomever that is if we run into someone that goes against our grain in our experience with them or with this they stay out of our space and we don't connect on any level or in any way many of us anyway. That's just a natural thing to do and what happens and I don't think that's wrong. Again, to do otherwise goes against our comfort and well being zones and our sense of self preservation maybe even our dignity. But not to say they can be any fan of ours either. As they say it's a two-way street.

But to say this is the all of us and the all of it and the highest Truth of the experience might be missing the Truth or the point here. Some of us are more inclined to cater to our lower traits and ways and superficial or reactionary in our dealings with people and we're strained to have any good reason for it or to find something better in us and having instead some false consideration or belief or thinking on it maybe stemming from some flawed character trait in us or from past experiences or history. A site called By The Mental Sorce says,

"In order to grow as a person a part of you must die."

Even the apostle Paul said, "I die daily."

It's interesting how we can argue for our side pretty Truthfully and accurately if we want to if we're on the side of us. On both sides of the coin though this can be a natural response to our perceptions and experiences with one another and always a reason for it. Although we shouldn't let anyone inhabit our world or our day that doesn't respect it we don't want to be taking up space for all the good we make for it and enjoy in it we can put in it instead. We should leave out what muddles and clouds it all and only serves itself.

PODCAST 3

Hi again. This is Spiritual Rocky with a continuation of my podcast on people. A little off the beaten path of the mostly divine and Heavenly conversations I can have here but definitely doesn't exclude it. Sometimes you just get real and talk about what alot of people talk about and about what's going on out there like in a conversation anywhere or a coffee table chat at the local coffee shop down the street with a good friend but with a higher view and take on it. This is what this is.

We as humans are a very interesting sort [I mean] a multifaceted, multi-ranging and fantastically varying sometimes overly self assured and opinionated variety of being with many aspects to us given by creator to fully know ourselves in the deepest and Truest and fullest sense and most expansive of ways and to know others as we would know ourselves.

We create and have a strong hand in all our experiences, in fact, we are the reason we have them. We create them in what becomes our reality. This is what we outline and detail and unconsciously call in to be our experiences in life as hard as that is to accept, always, which includes those we have with people on any given day. May be hard to believe but every experience and encounter and minutia of Life at any given moment is already pre-planned and written before coming down to Earth, We came from another place, you know. As they say, "It's written in the stars. But you can call it The Other Side.

We co-create with God and partner with her. That's in the Bible. The Fourth century BC ancient Greek philosopher Monimus who was from Sicily, actually, said, "We are miniature God's crouched in creaturehood." He also said "All is vanity." Interesting, huh. If you have a hard time swallowing the notion that we are any kind of Gods how can you explain everyday Life or anything, also, I'd like to share what Jesus himself says about this. He says in the Bible,

"Is it not written in your Law, I said, that ye are Gods?"

It's good to consider taking the compassionate and understanding route in our relations with people, because the road to the Truth will be easier and shorter and less filled with repeats and lessons to be learned. It can head off or stop at the gates whatever experiences we wished we could of reconsidered or took back. That happens enough in our day. But leave them out or discount them or disassociate yourself from this better approach to anything the longer the road to remembering who you really are and what it's really all about. This will be the rough and tumble and hard roads to hoe in front and ahead of you and the hard knocks it's good at giving.  

It’s good to say here insight of understanding and cause for pause are the balancers of unruly passions and missteps of thought and of Being and the equalizers for the moderate for the better and the Truer and for the call for the Truly seeing and believing. In other words don’t just react but try to know more than you know or make what you understand the least or the lesser of what you can know but the greatest anyway.

But boy, does it still ever amaze me, and does it amaze you we can have some of the most greatest of experiences and encounters and connections with all kinds of people anywhere and everywhere many times over worthy of our time and appreciation and our memories and best of feelings and worthy of our sharing them and just feel at Home almost Heavenly with them in almost every way and hardly a moment passes that we don't just feel darn good to be with and around these good-feel people. We may even have a Love for them? Wow. You gotta Love those. They shine a light on the Truth, simply put. When you consider the affect this can have on us and our lives and how we can feel all just seems right with the world and right with us.

I have a preety good quote to go with this. If you can tell I Love these. It's from the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. It says,

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."

But then you have experiences and encounter or experience others for whom you could not feel more differently or further from any of these feelings or experiences and prefer not to encounter them or have them around you much at all much less take up space in your life in any way that you could help it or could do your best to avoid it and not have happen; and you would rather have others in it to enjoy or at least to value and appreciate more and not feel so disjointed and, you know, blahhh and not so good about. They may even be co-workers. Interestingly these in our workday can be some of the best people or experiences we can know or have, and, some of the worst. surprised? But even these have purpose and give. Everything gives. And everything gives something and brings to us, us, in many ways in self awareness and self knowledge in joyful agreement, or if strickly going by the experience in bemoaning regret or sorrow.

You know. Let’s face it. Not everybody is good for us. With them it's not a lessons, or, grow from them or their experience, or rise above your feelings or perceptions kind of thing, but more of a definite got to stay away and not be, or have anything to do, with them kind of thing.

Some people are just that hard and not cozzy to be around and not good feeling bunch or sort we can run into and we tend to not like very much that we should not be around or have very much if anything to do with and who we should not consider or suffer too much at all, because they also inhabit the world with us which can be a challenge. But they don't have to inhabit our day or our life or affect our well being or anything else to the extent we don't allow it. Some people don’t like themselves or something in their Life and they’ll let you have it. That just is.

And some people are just into themselves but not in that higher, ‘I want to know me so I can know you better and be better with you’ sense which is Ok as long as they don't make you a part of that, because although it may not seam like it it can make for false communication and makes it hard to have a genuine and worthwhile relationship or experience with someone like that. Makes sense? And anyway that's their thing. You never know what's actually there and better to leave it to that person to work it out and not involve you with something that's pretty useless to anyone other than to them.

There are some who just don't come with good things and don't come with good intentions maybe even for themselves, nor do they have a good or decent way about them. Something about their character. There's a dishonesty and bad energy there. You might even say good is not in them and that they're just not good. It could be the Life path they've chosen, maybe went the wrong way or told the wrong thing or just keep going off the rails and choose and decide wrongly about themselves and others for some reason. Or it's something deeper and darker. But these are the ones who don't have a sense of humanity for others or for themselves on an extreme level or for just about anything in the things they do and the choices they make and the things they believe. Their actions and their ways say it all and a lot of people suffer and are mistreated because of it. This isn't being harsh or mean or hypercritical or mean spirited just an honest observation of a reality out there. Be careful where you tread with them if you do at all.

Sometimes it's abbrasiveness or rudness or accusations or insult you get from them or some other kind of mistreatment from others even from supposed friends and sometimes grave harm and destruction and vicious malice from those who don't really care what they're doing and the ones we care not to have anything to do with. They think nothing of giving you the worst of themselves how they are some seeming soul less or as close to it as you can get. If it's something in them and not some outside force or influence affecting how they are not to say it makes it any easier to deal with them you can't really do anything about that. That tends to be dyed in the whool and just in them and hard to have any affect on or to be more forgiving on anyone. Consider customer service people on the phone or people at the cash register or store “managers In convenience stores and how they often are. How many online reviews can you count or are out there that spell and bears this out most definitely. It’s so strange to me that they must think they own the company or that you’re harming them personally in some way. These not so with it people have to go to the salt and pepper league for more seasoning and have more work to do in their own person. They “forget” they are customers to but because it’s easier will suspend that thought for their sake or for some kind of stress releasing reason and sacrice you for it til’ you give them the 411 and straighten them out for your own reasons and give them a little of their own medicine. 

This is where Jesus shines a light on this with this quote. He says,

"It's not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him 'unclean' and defiled, but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean' and defiles [him]." I have to say though often it’s not what goes into them but what comes out of them that’s the reason they treat people the way they do. They should clean that up.

He also says to not let our brother be convinced of his insanity. Boy. Sometimes it seems they don’t need all that much convincing. He also says that we are a brotherhood and that we don't live alone. Wise and compassionate words from the master. You know, he also talks about special relationships which are those that we put into a box of our own making and essentially self conjure not based on anything else except on our judgements and superficial beliefs and perceptions about the person, not who they may be or really are.

There does seem to be something in some of those we encounter though or something about them you just don't want to be a part of or experience that compassion and understanding and a higher way and just good ol embracing and Loving and accepting humanity from good ol you will do anything for, but, you know, they might not like us much any either. They do seem to be cut out of the worst cloth though.

It's not always easy to know who these people are, especially if they are hiding it, but their colors can show up pretty quickly. Not everybody is genuine or True to themselves or to others. Sometimes it's not always easy to tell who is good for us, or not, but you know em' when you meet them and we will stay away. But at the same it's often friends who are not always what they seemed.

Sometimes you lose respect from people you had with them or thought you did if you had it. They suddenly change and are not who they were whomever that was when you first met. This is perplexing and can be unsettling and disheartening and it can happen quickly and what you may have had with them in a good and reciprocal way in nearly a second is gone. Maybe it was never really there. They are often friends, and, also family. PUT IN ADD NOTES ABOUT FRIENDS.

England Dan and John Ford Coley's song Love Is The Answer lyrics say, "People turn their heads and walk on by. Tell me, is it worth just another try?"

If you have had one of those friendships that suddenly turns for some unknown or no known good reason and you just don't know why or it isn't what you expected or what it was and you're not sure why someone like that would do that I'd like to give you some comforting and hopfully soothing words: It doesn’t really matter. You are worthy of friendship and are a treasured and worthy friend to someone more than you think deserving of you. There are those who are blessed and fortunate to be considered your friend and they yours. And they will tell and show you. About the others someone wrote online someone by the name of Deborah Ann Sheffield,

"A friend who becomes an enemy after a little misunderstanding has been an enemy all along. They were just pretending to be your friend." Too True to think about.

The famous reggae and great song writer and sage and poet of music Bob Marley said, "The Truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just have to find the one's worth fighting for." I would just add don’t suffer the other ones. And a quote on something called @wisesages says, "Never get too attached cause people wake up with different feelings everday." I agree with these wise words.

Some people will just toss you out or will not accept you because they're into the false and the fallible and the false about themselves because that's where they've taken themselves and where they are and where the focus has to be. You could say they make it their world and more than that, but you don’t have to be a part of that. You could be too much for their self illusions and their false world they make their greatest Truth, because they’re into the false and the false about themselves they can’t decide or choose against they won't sacrifice for any thing or for any reason because that’s where the focus has to be for their false, sacrificing world. But interestingly they can also be users because how hard can it be to be that when they already have the other thing going for them if, they “need” you. Many are working with a lower level sense of self and they don’t mind you being a part of that in some way.

So surely and ultimately they continue on this track and continue to hurt and hurt others subjected to it and continue to stay unsatisfied and unknowingly disillusioned but will make you what will definitely hurt and derail them and keep them from their Heaven and from ejoying their pleasures and beliefs that are killing them and really leading them astray, giving in into what doesn’t really help them in the long run as opposed to finally getting a sense of reality and peace. But it’s a hard sell that’s how entrenched it or that they let it be. But if they find others as the same it doesn’t matter and it’s all Heaven and True living without question for awhile. The world has a way to go to find itself and its True identity and its True peace those who refuse it in their world at almost every turn.

And if someone’s on the so called lower tier of society with some kind of perceived deficit or some society-contrived or agreed upon judgement or shortcoming or some kind of imperfection or something else that's just conjured up because it has to be that's in their mind that's not becoming to them, or, they’re just not like the regular people out there good luck to them because there's not a high or good chance they’ll get any better or more decent or more compassionate treatment or consideration. Hopefully someone gives it to them though. Not hard to do. I mean, cmon.' It's their inherent right. All our rights. But it says more about the ones not giving it or that have these severe judgements than the one or the ones not receiving it;---a lot more. This denial and discounting of another in this way is often one the greatest regrets one will have in their lives.

People come into our lives for a reason and we don't encounter the same exact person nor do we encounter anyone we didn't mean or intend to, as God says, "Thought is the parent which gives birth to all things." And we give birth to what we bring to us in the experience of ourselves through it. 

People tend to be the least honest and genuine with the ones they know the most, funny how that is. First with themselves, of course. They'll tell everybody else how they really feel unless you have those friends who lay it all out there and tell you exactly who they are. That might not be such a bad thing. Those they don't know or care for don't care either and so it's not personal on both ends and it's a wash. They will mutually be and tell each other what they really think and will say what they are and what they will be. No problem. Wow. No mysteries there.

There are people who just take on what someone else feels or how they think or what they believe even if their experiences are different. This is a curious thing but this can hide or make one not want to readily offer what they may be insecure about or what's not as good-sounding. Maybe they just want to be liked. Or, they just want to be with the in-croud. It's kind of common. But funny how that is, huh? They can even suddenly begin having the same experiences as others but I think they're just facsimiles or replicas if it comes from this place of need and insufficiency or lack unless they are genuinly very much alike and so the jump is not as great or as high to what the other person is assuming but maybe too far away from who they really are.

This might be the most dangerous because they almost, or seem to, give away or completeley dissolve and abdicate or relinquish their Being and identity and their individuality because of someone else (but you really can’t do that) so you really don't know who they are at all. Hard to have a meaningful relationship with that. I think there might be something missing in their lives or that they're not happy with or they just want to be liked, also, very often, to just go with the crowd. Not anybody’s business but, I think that could be what’s going on. There's a quote from Oscar Wilde that's fitting here. He says,

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

He also says, "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the Truth, adding, "A mask tells us more than a face."

These quotes are derived from a story called The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. It's about a prince who lived a life full of riches and luxury and privilage and who lived a happy life, who had compassion for the underclass and downtroden and impoverished giving to the common people.

Boy. Why do these sound so True though and such profound statements. If you just look around and observe a bit you'll see or notice a lot of conversations or just how people are out there like this that lends Truth to this and bears this out. Sometimes it’s amazing to me and makes you wonder why it even happens and why people can't be more individuals at least more than not and not be so reliant on someone else for how you feel or want to be. We need to empower and take that on more ourselves. No one else really can. A quote online I found says, “It is fortunate to be favored with praise and popularity. It is dire luck to be dependent on the feelings of your fellow man.” Also, from the great psychiatrist and philosopher Carl Jung he said,

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”

But, You know, we gotta admit, no one's completely clean here or completely incapable of being or acting this way for our own reasons. I know i have. And i think I still work on it. But there are degrees I think and sometimes greater degrees. I really don't think anyone is completely free from being this way, but it's something most of us don't want to be a part of and definitely not assume in ourselves for some reason. There are worst things in the world, but it's enough for me to try to not be like that or be around it too much. It feels a waste and not a sign of strength or of being genuine or an individual my greatest considerations, I think. I found a great quote from outlawpoets that reads:

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the Truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to Love."

The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky said, "The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any other."

If you are being genuinely who you are you may not be liked, I have found. It’s nothing about you but that’s just what some people do. You may have good qualities and good traits but it doesn’t really matter. For some strange or perplexing reason it may rub them the wrong way. It’s sad because the real issue is with them; and what they’re doing is hurting themselves even though they have a lower and faulty belief that it’s right and that they have it right and that suffering is for someone else to deal with. People are into clicks, I mean, so much. It’s all out there. It’s like a national pastime, seriously. Just crazy how much is out there. I don’t mean in the sense of having a nice group or a niche of close friends but the kind of clicks that exclude anyone not supplying or resembling the emotional and character support or even the characters as the friends in it whatever that is doing for them. To them these friends are almost Godly, but someone else outside this group is wholly non divine and unworthy and they will show them. It’s too bad to see that in them and for them. But i do think this relationship is not genuine and will only hurt itself or the people in it ultimately, because it’s not True. People are into their own world whatever that may be; a good thing, or not. I mean, we all are to some extent but I mean again in the negative, at the expense of anything and anyone kind of way. Emotions pretty much run all our lives for better, or for worse. They give, but they also take away. The ones who have the closest ties to others who supply what’s needed there however superficial and not really as helpful as it may seem to be will take precedence in their engagements with people over any real or worthy connection or experience with someone else who doesn’t but only offers maybe a new or Truer or more worthwhile experience if only to not be so dependent on someone for how you can or will feel.

There are people who will steer someone in the wrong direction in their conversations in what they say or want to influence someone by and it's enough for them to care about not considering who's receiving it but also not caring enough to giving or sharing any better since it's most important to them to only consider themselves. But that's the rub; they think what they say is better than what someone might otherwise hear and that it's just good. It's their world and to them it's just right. It's Diamonds in the sky or hot coal and fire down below.

On a site called @StoicTellMe it says,

"Manipulators often know us better than we know ourselves.

They know what buttons to push,

when to do so and

how hard to press.

Our lack of self-awareness

can easily set us

up to be exploited." 

USERS COMMENT.

People will carry on and complain about all kinds of things and dark and negative things in their conversations with others to carry with them because what else are they going to do with their time. Some people, if you let them, will expend their energy AND someone else's with the most superficial of things but most important to them no matter if it's True or not or really that revelant or what how it may affect anybody, because, honestly, it's not about anyone else in their discourse or chat and since that's not their intention or goal. Sure. Why not. But no thank you.

The greek sage and writer Epictetus wrote,

"Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others."

Couldn't of said it better. Even Einstein said, "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."

We have to absorb a lot of conversations and sometimes carry them with us, naturally, as we are sharing and communicating Beings unless we don't. This is not always intentional or out of malice from people but it can be tricky, especially if they are friends or what they are calling themselves friends but also it doesn't matter the end result is still the same. You have to be on your guard in a way with this and on stable ground and say, no!, to this when you realize or see what's happening or brewing if only to yourself not that every encounter or conversation has to be this way or frought with some fear or worry or intrepedation or in anticipation of this, but, you know, there's a chance you could get something you don't want or don't wish to take with you. There's a great quote from the Swiss philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau that said,

"People who know little are usually great talkers. While men who know much say little."Everyday I’m trying to say so much.

Yup. Agree. The Greek philosopher Diogenes said, "People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer."

Here's a kicker and a positive slant on this and a kind of backing for those people we're talking about. The great writer Fyodor Dostoevsky said,

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilage mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the Truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human."

I think there's a certain level of maturity or a call for it in conversations and in what's being said in them that can tell you a lot and about who's sharing. Conversations can naturally go all over the place and in all kinds of directions of course which is good and even pleasant and exciting at times. You can tell how and where it's going when you hear what's being said.

Aside from a normal sharing and good exchange the more intensity filled conversations are like rocket ships with after burners on with endless fuel but not clear or good direction. They often have a pushing, but then receding or conceding. A give and take, or take and not give. Or just giving, or just take, taking. It's kind of funny how we engage in them. There are also venting or over explaining ones or an all out drama and purging party into the soul of the other person. There’s so much of this out there. I would just be careful.

That's just what some do probably not on purpose, I like to think, but we're generally receivers and some people are almost all givers if you know what I mean. And as receivers we don't often shut down our receptors or turn the dial down or tell someone, "ummm, excuse me. That's about enough and a bit too much." I mean, hard to do, right? There are also some who have a language and talking way about them better left to bar rooms downtown or in the neighborhood or with drunken sailors or in their personal Homes than out in the general public or places where it's not appropiate to do so or where it would possibly offend others. Some aren’t, or at all, but, you never know. It’s just a self courtesy. It’s funny. People I like or I’m starting to like I don’t mind at all ha! Life is funny. But some people will just be who they are no matter what.

There's an honesty and a genuine sincere ness and a special ness and a balance in the better of exchanges with others and in the better of us instead of just false versions of the Truth and of ourselves, keeping the mirror facing away from one side with the hope no one peers into it too closely which a lot of us do, especially if we're being asked to look at or to change something else we want something or someone else to change for us instead.

But nothing changes when you can't or are unwilling to change yourself. That's the hard reality and something hard to face up to and the problem a lot of people have and have a hard time admitting and addressing the real thing they're not sharing or not being open and honest about at least to themselves. I do believe life requires patience; the patience to bring oneslf a little higher than one may be to realize greater Truths about oneself and others, and to just find a better way if one is willing to do the work and change things that are no longer working if that's something one would see.

The great phiosopher and sage and writer Rumi said, "Patience makes kings out of salves, and desires make slaves out of kings."

There's a self honesty some lack and that's why they can talk about a lot of negative things almost forever usually about someone or something else. It's out in our day, the work place, (btw probably mostly there) at special gatherings or events, parties, just about everywhere. It's almost an addiction. I have to say I've gotten to a point i don't talk a whole lot in my conversations with others like i used to and don't really like to and really try to avoid it. I do like sharing and connecting with people and all the great things with that definitely but keep it on an even keel and just don't do a whole lot. But what I do say I am as honest and as non misleading as as i can be and don't outright lie for sure unless I'm just not saying something I don't want to. I think if you care about the other person at all, and yourself, you should be as honest as you can be. I mean, why not go North instead of so far South.

Not being honest and going on incessantly about negative things may not hurt or destroy someone's day or Life but it doesn't have to be. It can, though, possibly alter or hurt the relationship in some way anyway. You can know or tell who's lacking maturity and self honesty and who's not so much. You can just get to know some people in this way.

We all complain some and we all aren't always that transparent or all the time in our time with others and may even veer off the Truth a bit, because perfection can be big shoes to fit into here but some of us just take it to another level, which doesn't do much good in the big scheme of things. 

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All relationships and encounters good or bad at their core really tell us more about ourselves than about anyone or anything else and for some that's a hard pill to swallow and a hard thing to take an honest and serious look at. I like what it says in the (CWG) series of books by Donald Neale Walsche where God says, "Empower humanity to reveal True humanity to itself. For when True humanity is revealed, it will be found to be Godly."

In some conversations we have there are those who want to know almost everything about you if not just everything usually just for conversation sake and sometimes just casually, but i got to also believe with some purpose in mind and for some for comparing and contrasting just to see if you might not be doing as well as they are and just to fill some time in their day. They really seem to have no other reason for it and have no reason or purpose to know all this maybe even to know hardly much of anything at all even spouses or significant others don't necessarily either to any significant or great extent or degree. I think that can tell you something. Have you seen or experienced this? I have.

You know, it's interesting though. In these kinds of deep and very close and Loving relationships you can share relatively little and it can seem like everything. And in other ones share a lot and it can seem you hardly said anything at all but feel it was too much. But I do believe nothing need be said that can be or that is already known. And anyway fewer words spoken in speech leaves little room for errors in Truth and more room for what need not be said in regret or in vain or unecessarily or falsely.

But when you give up the ghost that much with all that and all that is private and significant what does it really do or offer but just information someone who doesn't really need it or maybe even really want it or who doesn't know you too well could take or leave it but likely just leave it and doesn't need to know about it anyway. And what else do you have to say that they'll accept or appreciate or like anyway. It tends to all go into the 'oh, well, that's nice.' Or, 'so what' to themselves. Then you've given away something needlessly. I know it's often not on purpose and we just get on a tangent and talk and reveal but it does happen and to me for sure. And shortly after regret sets in and I think, Ahh, man. I didn't need to do that, you know (chuckle).

It makes you wonder why say it at all. Usually random strangers don't pry as much I think just for the heck of it. It's usually the ones who know you a little more than this who do it. But you would think they would be more genuinely interested. Then you lose any signifigance or revelance you may have had with them. Our great 40th President Ronald Reagan was quoted as saying,

"Don't be an open book for people, don't tell everyone your secrets, as your own. Don't open your secrets to others, because people respect you less after getting to know you."

You know it's like they want to know everything about you but at the same time know less about you or not really at all so they can move on onto the next new or big thing or just something else. Funny how the human being is. Sometimes it's just innocent and idle chatter or conversation but not always and for some reason I have a problem just idly talking and sharing just to fill someone's time or mine unless I'm really into the topic and there's something worthwhile or worthy to share or hear on both ends, but then again try to watch sharing or saying too much. Take this quote which takes it to extremes but rings a great Truth to it.

Epictetus said, "A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words." It’s also said it strengthens authority, and also, no one can attack or judge or chastise or belittle something they can’t hear when that’s all they can do.

On a more innocent and personal reality front and level people just sometimes want to look for or find in you what they don't have or can't find in themselves. In reality they really have it. That's unfortunate and a bit sad but you can understand that. But The great ancient chinnese sage Confucius said,

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."

But at the same time many of us will hear really only what we really want to hear even though what we actually hear may be a little different or very different. Simon and Garfunkle's song The Boxer says,

Though my story's seldom been told

I have squandered my resistance

For a pocket of mumbles

Such are promises

All lies and jest

Still a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards the rest. They also say in their song The Sound of Silence, “In the naked light i saw 10,000 people maybe more. People taking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs, and voices never shared. No one cared.”

The type of relationship you could say or assume it would be natural and good and even right to share so much of oneself maybe even just about everything and have no reservations or qualms about doing so to leave no stone unturned in getting to know someone would have to be in the romantic area as in with married couples for example also with significant others and maybe with exceptionally close friends. But even with spouses where closeness and intimate or uniquely True connections reign supreme and are a given some things left unknown or unsaid or so called secrets might not be such a bad thing as long as they're not the type of things that can harm or destroy it and may even add to the mystery and romance in a positive and meaningful and beneficial way and to the relationship itself.

There's something about saying everything to anyone that doesn't ring beneficial or productive for almost any reason at least to me. You probably don't want to know someone that well. If you notice some exchanges with people with someone just going on with someone talking and sharing a lot of times just about themselves maybe wanting some sort of attention if this goes on for a while the other person will just tune them out; I’m affect, ignore them, unfortunately. I call it burning up your star. You know we all have one at least for a little while.

Often bordom and just venting to someone that will hear or keep hearing and to seem revelant at least to themselves is the reason for all the going on and on about almost anything which costs them almost nothing and little to give and never as much as it can cost you to receive or to hear, but can still cost them enough in their real Truth and their sense of self honor and self respect and maybe in what they really want to say. For you though it can be a lot and cost you your day, if your're lucky. People will give you all that they can't take in hopes that you do or at least share some of it for them. It's not their role or someone else's though. This is the nature of people personal or every day relationships aside.

They have to talk and it doesn't matter to who or to what or the affects it can have, and a friend is the perfect place to put it for them, which challenges the word and maybe even their definition of a relationship. I think you can call it a friend of convenience--real convenient. With friends you can be subjected to their moods because they feel they can be how they’re feeling with you, which is fine just that sometimes it can turn into the extremes and be unwieldy and unforgiving if they are that free flying and feel that comfortable with you or for some reason don’t care how they’re being at the moment which is never a good thing. Also for some strange reason some can just start battling you. I’ll never get that. At least with strangers or the ones not considered friends it’s not personal. There’s something to be said even with friends to be more measured and to not subject anybody to this and to be more careful or considerate with people in what can be released unapologetically on them that can affect them in some way. With the more less aquainted types there will probably be a mask one will put on so as to appear differently and maybe to not be so embarrassed by it all. Hard luck for the friend, though. I can’t finish this thought here without saying there are friends on both side who don’t care. There’s a quote from the great ancient sage and writer Pythagoras. He said, “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” I don’t think I know many who would disagree with that.

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Some of us are just replicating or rehashing dramas and past histories and hurts and creating defenses for, and because of, them and we can count on this being in our relations and encounters with people. It's unavoidable. We can create a persona and attitudes and our ways as a result of them. It can be as simple or as innocent as this so we should try to understand this and the human in all of us and to have patience but it can still be hard to take on and to take no matter if we share the same boat and sail along on this same great sea but not always in the same direction.

I've come to learn and observe a lot conversations are one sided where one is getting the most out of it or sharing more and the other maybe some or not as much or are just putting up with it as someone goes to town with them on almost everything I always wonder if someone has to know all that as if they have to do something with it not that they have to or that this is the intention just conversing but i still just wonder if it's necessary and if it has much if any other purpose than just to know someone a little more than they may have been previously. It depends on the relationship of course but i still question if it really needs to be or if it's that necessary and possibly exacts a little toll on your good ol friend or whomever it is. They might not even be telling the Truth very much (chuckle). You know that's preety common out there. There's a profound and great quote from Mark Twain. He said,

"If you tell the Truth, you don't have to remember anything." Boy. Isn't that the Truth. Then why does it seem many people remember a lot of things but can't seem to tell the Truth. We can also be who we're really not in our engagements for innocent and natural reasons and not for any bad intent while there are some of us who are more less or not well intented or nefarious and more disingenuous in our dealings or associations with others. The writer Frank Kafka wrote,

"I was ashamed of myself when I realized Life was a costume party and i attended with my real face."

The Truth never lies unless you lie about it and make the lie the teller of all Truths. But man lies about what's real and True or what's false all the time and makes hiself false even to his own self and Truth what he refuses to know or believe and what he refuses to be. Apparitions of Truth and phantoms of reality as manifestations of the unreal and ghostly are his tools for living and for creating a false Life and makes it his greatest claim of Truth in a world he makes what he can only see and believe in. People try to keep the Truth from not being a lie, and a lie, the Truth, and make the lesser or what's not True or much good at all the best thing they can want to say or think and gather all who would agree so they don't feel as alone or wrong; but they only always keep company with what they don't know or what they refuse to believe so they don't have to be.

The Truth is Truth is God's and man's in his True form and his discipline for reality for unreal eyes for the world and his sense of reasoning that false visions and understandings may not be made True but fall to the light of Truth and to the clarity of True Being and the honesty of True seeing and believing and knowing for his salvation.

Good associations and relationships reciprocally offer genuine symphathies and good caring about the encounter and the exchanges one has with another and sincere understandings and the good, 'I hear you, and I'm right there with you', offerings and the like and they don't feel or seem false or untrue or disingenuous. Those are Beautiful. And good friends are not fly by nights where one day youre in, then the next day, you're out, when someone else takes your place whatever that is and whomever that is for whatever reason that is. That's not a friend or a friend of mine. It's a 'thanks for this moment or two that seemed like friendship but time to move on and just wait til the real thing comes along.

Someone else is going to fill what someone wants to let you think or believe possibly was it or True friendship and will give you what's True and real and good. Someone always will and can. Or maybe they're not trying to do that at all just being who they are. Might be the same, though. Or, it's not that at all just a nice time shared with another. I remind myself no one owes anyone anything just be careful what you give or return or get back for nothing. God has a great quote in the (CWG) series of books. It says,

"Expectation and need kill relationship."There's another quote I can't say I know who the author is but it reads, "Always be ready to survive alone some people suddnly change. Today you're important to them tomorrow you're nothing to them, and that's real life." I believe that's True.

"A real funny quote I have to share here while it is in a different context and a bit stronger and more direct than I would say something similiar to it but says,

"Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." That's from Mark Twain.

I'm sorry. That's just funny to me. But True, I may have to say. Do you have any experiences like that? You do though have to start with understanding, because it's easy to be wrong and miss the mark here in our relationships with others and because if you don't at least have that or try to you really have nothing to contribute to or to really say about it other than ego hurts and considerations as valid as they may seem maybe even be, and so really, what do you have. We can put ourselves in their shoes even though we don't want to wear or have them and they can be a tough fit. I'm reminded of a great quote from Diogenes. He said,

"You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself."

Jesus by the way also says,

"You all make the same mistakes." Not going to argue with the master.

Do you know that even in Heaven we don't just hang out or hang around with just anyone. They say our personalities and likes and dislikes naturally take the trip or the ride with us when we move on to the next adventure and are stationed for awhile in paradise. Can you beat that.

It's not that we carelessly or callously just disregard or maybe even discount anybody up there or judge them unfairly for sure like we do down here, but the basic us is still us up there personalities and all and so we do prefer certain people in our circle of friends and who we run with up there and shouldn't feel so bad we have our preferrences of who we engage with or like to be around down here. If we didn't we would have no identity. But, it could be we don't know them down here because we don't know them over there. Maybe that makes sense and is the reason for it all.

Everything is a claim of Truth personally, or otherwise, and a point of reference or a point of perspective and self objectivity in our self realization or self statement of who we say we are (or some version of it). It's also a statement on what something or what someone is and a point of view about it whatever that or they may be. We then think we know who or with what that is which justifies who we think we are and what we're being and doing and what we want to be in relation to it all. And whatever that thing or person is to us, it' is. But that's the kicker-- Is it, or the Truth? Don't know. Or is it the false and furthest from the Truth. Also, are they, or is it, it and do we know and are we being who we really are and what we really want to be because of or maybe even despite it.

And that's the thing. It's hard to tell when all we have or assume is just what we think we know or believe. What's missing is our root or innate identities and our best foot forward that has more information and a higher and clearer viewpoint and Truer perspective rather seemingly random thoughts or perceptions True and as they may seem real or are that keep us a step or two backwards from knowing much of anything at all that would liberate us from ill begotten beliefs. But when we have it right, nothing else matters and we are right on and we will feel good about it.

The reality and Truth is the Truth will be denied by the false or the false believers or those who come across falsely and the ones who make only what they believe the God-sanctioned and only Truth, which it can only be for them with little room for anything else or what might be better discerned or considered. They will say it's the God-honest Truth but have the Devil in the details or not far away. You can hate the Truth but don’t Love the lie because it won’t Love you back then your great Love won’t be.

Thinking a little deeper and a little more broadly in our day-to-day humanistic thinking we have to be examples of a better way not just judge what appears to us otherwise. Discerning, not judging, is how we can allow ourselves to know more than we know and be free from the unforgiving entanglements of being wrong.

We have to say the world is judge, jury, and executioner but is the only one on trial. And i think it serves to say we shouldn't war with God in our fight with the devil. Our war is with ourselves and our fight for peace within. You can't have a partial allegiance to the Devil, which, by the way, doesn't exist and is just the choosing against the good and opposites of Truth and peace and reality, and equally to God and his Truth and Loving peace. It's whole or complete, or it's not. And if it's not better hope it's on the side that burns and hurts less and offers more light and the good.

On behalf of the Truth and all those worthy of it in our associations and our True connections, our better half is the whole of us and the better and most complete part of who we are. If we can't at least respect the respectable or be kind to someone or each other other than to ourself how much greater can we do, or less. We can be the next target and can only expect repeated offenses. I just want to be the kind of person who is kind to people and I want them to feel good with me.

Our enemies or our friends will be as familiar or as close to us as we choose to be to them or as we choose them to be to us. But then again you have to wish your enemies well. How much less can you do in the world. And how much more can you say about you even if sometimes they’re your friends. Most times we're not doing this. 

More times than not, I think, we try to affect how someone is with us or we try to make them nicer to us or we just want a decent or good experience with them as they say you train someone how to treat you. I think that was Wayne Dwyer. But does it always work? And you can't make one civil or make them how you want them to be in one aspect if that's not what or how they want to be or with you and when to them being civil or being any different than how they're being or how they are is to dishonor their fears and their judgments even themselves. It can actually seem an act of civility to themselves to not do that if they deeply feel and believe this then all you can do is let that be.

Fear rules many out there. But if there is fear how close to the Truth could it be, especially if their neighbor or others honor or agree with it or co-justify it in their joint fears and then make them seem more True. That's probably not our role to do that or anybody's. Then you have to fall on your sword for the right thing and let it be what it is as long as you don't lose yourself in the process or in the experience of it. We don't want to hurt anybody much less ourselves.

There something Jesus says in The Course In Miracles about fear. It says,

Perfect Love casts out perfect fear.

If fear exists,

then there is not perfect Love.

But

Only perfect Love exists.

If there is fear,

It produces a state that does not exist.

In defense of our enemies in a way, though, or those whom we have no real relationship, there's a Harveymindset quote I'd like to share. It says,

"You biggest hater is never a stranger."

He also says,

"My Life became private once I realized that it wasn't my enemies that hate me the most."

Interesting.

Warring is self-warring and warring with the world but only one suffers because when judgement brings down the good and raises everything else it renders itself the all and everything but gives and leaves nothing but the dead and the dying and the one at war with hiself the most hurt.

If there's something for us to forgive or to let go of a couple of quotes would be good to put in here:

The Buddha said,

"To understand everything is to forgive everything."

And the great Lebanese writer and poet Kahalil Gibran said,

"When we cling to one thing, we resist another."

Every answer is compassion and understanding. And every question is a comparison to the answer of what could be it in its question for an answer if it's not just the question but also the answer without question and what brings peace and True understanding not more judgment or more questions with hidden answers in the choice to continue not knowing.

Release is Truth. Unbind the only reality and be saved by yourself and what is. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote:

"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature moulding men." Great words.

If you're giving less than you're wanting and take more than you don't know you need and take what you want to fill or add to what you don't have and don't care you're taking without giving what you're asking for can't be given and you can't receive it. This is a natural law and has real affects in the real world. We're always trying to fill a void we're not trying to fill first to avoid the chance or possibilty of emptiness. Socrates said, "Every action has its pleasures and its price."

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We have to say and can't deny we are a remarkably discerning and persnickety lot, and fickle, you can also throw in there, people it seems more and more so these days when it comes to our experiences and interactions with people and the more we live life the more it seems a given and necessary, (or we think it is) to keep ourselves away from certain people and anything that rubs us the wrong way and to separate ourselves from anything too different than who we are or who we know or believe ourselves to be and anyone not like us cataloging, assessing, and then concluding hoping it does us the best good and the least harm.

So with this I guess there's an understanding but also a separation from the undesired and non compatible. We take it as Truth and embody its Truth and become its Truth holders head strong to not veer from it but only embody and assume the false in us which is the closest to Truth as we can get. But are we the sacrifice along with the Truth of our Being and the sense of the God in us? If so, then we have split us into many different things away from The One True source and One reality of the All. Why we often suffer.

But if we create peace we can undo suffering. I think this reminds us that reality is not always True and ultimately not up to us. If it were True nothing would be and we would of destroyed ourselves a long time ago. But since it is, it will always be and will have to watch out for totally doing ourselves in.

We go around in Life head down and surging forward seemingly self aware, and you know, "with it" but very self convinced and self agreeing engaging, not engaging, entertaining, not entertaining, picking and choosing, liking or Loving, not liking and not Loving, maybe hating or feeling displeased centered on and going off of this with things all the time. It just seems part of who we are and part of Life. Inescapable, we believe or think.

I don't think we think much about it in the sense of if it's right or the Truth or check ourselves with it in any real way that could tell us something more if it's not just ego thoughts or considerations we give play or ascribe importance to and not something more worthy of our time and attention and appreciation, or, do we think about it for any reason. It's in, or it's out, naturally, and sometimes our actions show this hinging on and stemming strongly from our beliefs which could backfire and become dyed Truths hard to wash away or undo. Jesus said. "According to your faith, be it done unto you."

So the possibly standout or obvious and or maybe pressing question is how do we reconcile this natural way we tend to be with our True way in Spirit and in God and come to some kind of greater understanding or awareness in our pursuit of the ideal and the good for us, and for everyone. I guess one way is to not fight it but to understand it and to know reacting in moments of judgement can hurt the process and reaching the Truth and to consider what Jesus states that the Truth makes no decisions, for their is nothing to decide against.

Our great founding father of The Declaration Of Independance, Benjamin Franklin said some beautiful words:

"Be a war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

But courtesy and understanding are hard won virtues when what we want or assume is greater or more important than any Truth we'll know and more than any other consideration we can think of or want to say or believe. But friend or foe many people look for others to agree with their false selves in illusions of peace and self and wellness in their presuppositions or judgements or in their suffering. If you try to give them the Truth they will not want it and will deny it and themselves and you and just about everything.

Some of us are not this way and connected to their True selves and feel and are more easy going and accepting about the world around them and the people in it or about their experiences and the differences we can feel with or being around other people and the blocks we can have with them; and they're just beautiful people, shinning with the light of God and compassion and acceptance and their Godliness they carry with them and running into them is like a soft shoe on a Sunday morning with a pleasant and pleasing smile on its face. It's literally in their face and shines through their Being and being with and encountering them is the epitomy of Nirvana on Earth. They know we judge too much and judge the heart by what we see not pausing for a moment to see or understand what may be actually there that we're not seeing and trying not to understand.

Their keener insight tells them we don't take a moment to see or understand where we might be off track in our perception or thinking in our associations and that we don't easily consider what we can know and come to a greater reality about and that we should not be blind to the judgement, or to the True vision, of ourselves and the purer vessel and innocence of the light of its Truth.

These sentinels of the Truth and the good and holders of kmowledge for the better know that all can seem as it not is and that one can see oneself as one would see you in them or as one can see them in you and believe they are as it would be seen and believed so a reflection of the Truth or an illusion of the false and stark contrasts that only the false and the illusion of its Truth can offer. They also know only in togetherness can we know the Truth of when we feel we are merley separates parts and that only in our separate ness can two know THE ONE.

In and by their elevated being and keener and higher insights they have through their time and experience found and come to understand Knowledge through contrast reverses time and rights wrongs nor assumed right of natural course by it and that sameness doesn't always make for greatness and also that it makes the future what the present can be. They also know it doesn't take a lot of energy just to be who we are. Some are just regular folk. I'll tell ya there are some special and great people out there and we're blessed to have them and to run into them or just to see them. They seem rare. But a quote from the writer Albert Camus says it perfectly. He says,

"Nobody realizes that some people expend a lot of energy just to be normal."

Most of us often don't wait long enough to see if someone is good for us or worth our experience with them or to allow ourselves to wait and see if we have valid or right assertions about them or if what conclusions we draw are True or bear themselves out, or if they're valid or True at all. You know. Sometimes we have better things to do. That's just how we are a lot of times. I know we're better than this but we're really for the most part reactionary beings with some uncommon exceptions. We can have some tolerance for things on our good or better days but sometimes keep it close to the vest and keep whatever it may be at quite a distance and we make sure it doesn't have much to do with us anyway.

In my own mortal form and in my experiences I can be challenged to rise above my imperfect perceptions and thoughts until I find that knower in me who counsels me on more heart-centerd Truths and on reality and informs me of the higher way to go to get to it and to realize who I really am. I'm always thankful for this.

There can be times we're more easy going and accepting but some things are just not an easy sell for us. We can learn more about ourselves, especially if they're not but that takes more time usually and a higher approach and consideration and higher perspective usually not kin to some people and a mindset and an awareness of Truth within.

Sometimes it's not up to us but to Truth and the Universe and the greater good to find those gems of Truth and understanding and insight into the blessed and valid and honorable. This is funny because we are all of it. Sometimes some people are not our cup of tea or what we actually want to have in any kind of experience or relationship, but still we go on automatic pilot in our choices and our desires for the preferred and the staid but maybe missing the good and the better than we thought.

Everything is a lesson in understanding and the compassion and Love we have for others we give or gave to ourselves. It's a good feeling. We either reach for it and have it, or we stay in the darkness of not knowing and miss what it's all about.

People come in all sorts of types and personalities and characters and some have some work to do there. People may just come off in a bad way for us and play off of us usually not for good reasons either in what they say or do or what they appear to be or try to hide from the outside but may also have or be it inside.

It could just be a bad day or a number of things or reasons why they are how they are, but, who knows, you know. It could just be the world itself that is the culprit or affecting mechanism for how many people can be. The world is still attracted to the unattractive or the more unbecoming or unsavory aspects or parts of itself. It's out there in almost every area of society and daily living. I have a quote from what's called Maquiaveli's Laws. It says,

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar."

There are people who are distracted by things, the world, other people, but mostly by themselves, which, can only be that. And so some will just toss you out or not accept you because of this, unfortunately.

God says in the CWG series of books by Donald Neale Walsch that we are saving ourselves from the oblivion of non-realization. But everyday people try to keep the Truth from not being a lie, and a lie, the Truth, and make judgement and misunderstanding the best and most worthy thing they can think to say or care to believe and try to keep the least, or the lesser, and what's not True or much good in their minds and hearts and gather all who would agree so they don't feel as alone or wrong. That's just the human way of thinking. If it's hard to get past our judgements or thoughts or beliefs we can keep in mind the lyrics in the song A Fool Believes by The Doobie Brothers:

"The wise man has the power to reason away."

Often what's missing in our higher points of view or Truer and the higher planes of Truth and higher perspectives is our True reasoning and True and higher knowing or understanding and our True connection with ourselves outside but also within ourselves. This of course transfers to others. This is what we are all here for; to remember and recapture the greater us through our experiences and daily lives.

Often that is what's going on and what needs to be addressed. Really, just being us. Who we really are. That's it. Everything just goes back to us. That's where it all started and where it's going anyway; to save ourselves time and to save ourselves from ourselves and from, as God says in the CWG series, the oblivion of self knowing or self realization, which how Jesus would put it being the Love that we are. An interesting quote from the writer Albert Camus says,

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

We shouldn't turn our heads or turn in the direction away from our True self. That's not the way to go. If we do, we should take that sharp corner or turn and head back. And when and where we can we should turn back turn to it and reconnect. We shouldn't be half a person but the whole of what we are meant to be and are. That's saving ourselves from ourselves. The fact is sometimes you have to try a little harder to come to something greater or Truer and then hardly try at all. Always understanding is key. The Buddha says,

"Understanding is an art. And not everyone is an artist."

But Many of us really do try hard to find the likeable and the agreeable in people and sometimes we try hard to not to try to find it. We can find ourselves also not caring too much about it or a whole lot of the time and about the person involved and don't try to not work so hard against it if something we could be of the mark about.

We are challenged and struggle with finding that greater Truth somewhere and those Truer or more positive aspects in those we meet you might say those things maybe hidden but nonetheless there. We don't suspend our beliefs or pre-conceived notions long enough to find them or the Truth and to know what it really at hand and what we've denied of it.

We are also often not fond of anything that challenges our nature and our dyed-in-the wool ways. You know, everybody's got em.' Some of us are not honest or genuine (except when we're being at our worst, but that's a different type of honesty or genuinous and not the good types) or are we always right- minded people and see almost everyone and everything in a negative light and make almost everything negative with no, or hardly any, shades of positive Truth, nor do we see the good in very much at all. We can make almost anything the least or the lesser in our minds and our object of judgement proof of it and our false assumptions their greater Truth. Can you imagine that? Making Truth only what's false leaving the Truth to suffer itself but not by itself.

Our challenge and role is to not stand in judgement so much because how much good can that really do for us and what positive and better experiences can we have if we don't as much as we do. And if we don't reconsider our considerations what could we be missing on. It could be almost everything.

Better for us to stand in the ease and Truth of our Being which may involve another but definitely involves us so a positive by itself. Jesus made this point perfectly and point blank and profoundly and starkly saying,

"When you judge you have renderd your own judgement."

Who wants to be the brunt of that and go down that road. It can be a HELL on wheels, I can tell ya. Sometimes you have to be blunt when you have to know the Truth. If you don't get over yourself first, because you should, you'll never win anyone or any experience over or yourself if just for yourself for any reason and then you can't really say what was the problem or what the answer really was.

We need to magnify the Truth and ourselves and minimize the false and who we're not we know so well inside that we may know the the Truth of us and the real clarity and the real charity of things so that we won't be subject to what rules it or us or the Truth and its persistant and unforgiving ways.

Agreeing with the false self is the poison that never dies and the passion that kills that the suffering may live and the false may thrive. True thought brings clarity into the minds of confusion or doubt and True sight to the void of unknowing lifting darkness out of the shadows and out of mind and into the light that there might not be death but True Life for the living. In the end it all comes down to Truth. That should make you feel good.

But, compassion and understanding and the Truth of anything takes time especially when we're not being them or it for ourselves. There are a lot of people battling a lot of things out there but really only themselves. The more you know about yourself the more you know more and about anything.

The great comedian and actor and soul and Spirit, Robbin Williams said,

"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always."

Something to think about, is:

The first charity is for the self. The second charity is for the good of the many. The third charity is for the good that should be. The fourth charity is for the third charity which makes the first the one to choose and to give and the one above and for all.

Here's a little more balancing for this discussion. It's said if we Loved everyone and everything for its own sake we would not be balanced individuals and that something would be sorely lacking here or in our personalities and not complete in us and even awry in us in some way. Makes sense to me since our souls are not one-sided or one-dimentional and because of the fact we wouldn't be here if we weren't ever in the process of understanding ourselves individually but also in our oneness with all Life and Being in our ongoing work of self identifying and rising to our True identities realizing losing or not having worthy connections with others doesn't have to mean losing or not having our connection with ourselves or with the oneness we share with it all. We used to all be One, literally.

I'll be the first to say it's not always easy to tap into what it's all about and not be so human with it all and how we can be in my mortal form, but i personally always come back to my real and only Truth and my real self often quickly after a little soul searching and deep and heartfelt self reflection.

I'm just geared this way but do have my challenging times. Hey. Even Jesus is said to have hated the pharisees. Hated. Absolutely couldn't stand them. But no one can say he was not All Loving and innately accepting and understanding in his absolute form. Take that as your example.

Good may not be in all people, but the good knows the good and where it could be found and that that can be in people. I can tell you in my Life i have not had many greater regrets than when in my own day to day day when i thought or believed or felt a certain thing about someone in my experiences or engagements with that person when I thought i was right I was wrong. You instantly feel the aching pain of the separation from your True self and your innate Love and compassion and True understanding and where you went wrong and that just hurts and you feel the mistake.

I haven't rejected or regreted all my experiences this severely or all my less than optimal or less than good feeling people in my day but I tend not to egage them for very long and my less thasn temperate experiences or dealings with them but the ones I have have been enough for sure for me. Don't we want better. I sure do. We shouldn't suffer everything or everyone. Although no one came with a forbidden sign on it--unless it's hidden which that's always possible but that just means take note, or, beware. We don't often choose freedom--the only choice with options.

So, conversely on the opposite end of the spectrum or really for any reason when what we feel or experience is more valid and genuinely honorable and more right than not we can wonder how can a soul or being from the creator of all Love and all togetherness and Oness and understanding be so split and so particular and separating in our natures and in our ways as to whom we consider worthy of our affection or time and attention or our appreciation preferring one over another or others more than some others and not be fine or Ok with everyone or just anyone and not be so polarized or delineating in our choices and preferences with people and in our connections or dealings with each other when we're all ridding the same horse on a one pony carrousel even though not everyone sees the same pony and not everyone wants to be in the same park or on the same ride.

It's funny, blurred lines are different in their realities but are the same in their Truths. If they seem different and not the same or not different than the other it's because their respective realities don't agree with their Truths and can't then be brought together by their Truths and so appear to be polar opposites and one counter to the other and set apart. But they are really potential bridges in the gap of their difference where tangential lines converge in their Truths merging with their ultimate realities outside but also within the one True reality. As the divine saying goes:

"As above, so below.

As within, so without."

It should be noted all experience is not Truth if it's taken to be only from its experience and anything separate or assumed separate or too different from it is what it would not keep that could keep it whole and True and free even without and despite it. If an internal and deeper observation and more inclusive approach outside the experience or the world of the superficial but within its source and the heart of its creator is not fully discerned or at least entertained, then judgement and false belief will rule the day and the experience and all its perceptions and will make the call and leave inclusion and understanding and reality a relic of True experience and True knowledge an artifact of days gone by.

Ok. After getting past and trying to understand all that we have to start with understanding or realizing a few Basic or simple things first, because good sense doesn't fly in the face of Truth; it makes it; and makes what's right in the right minds of the good and the sensible and the right what is right and good and sensible. This can be confusing and a crazy go-around to the Truth and what's real but worth the pause or two to figure it out and get it right if only not to keep learning lessons that don't need to keep being learned.

With some circumstances if you don't get over yourself first you'll never win anyone or anything or yourself over for any reason. Agreeing with the false self is a poison that never dies and the passion that kills that the suffering and the unreal may live and the false may thrive though they may die. In the end everything comes down to Truth. That should make you feel good.

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The great writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is quoted as saying, "I Love mankind, but I am amazed at myself: the more I Love mankind in general, the less I Love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons. I become the enemy of people the moment they touch me."

The American author Charles Bukowski said, "People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

These quotes don't sound too kind or compassionate or understanding about our fellow man on earth but they are honest and wrought with Truth and profound and evidential in our reality and in the core of our Being ring a Truth and who can honestly say they haven't felt or thought any of it in some way or fashion. I have. There could also be a simple and rational or logical explanation for the disparity between these different feelings and experiences we have with people. Maybe the simplest one is we are Loving and appreciating beings, but we don't or can't like or appreciate everyone in our mortal form or maybe in any form. That would make us strangers and indifferent to our own souls and to the reality on earth that sets us apart outside the Oneness of our Beings on earth as it is in Heaven.

We don't really have a responsibility to anyone save for the responsibility we have to ourselves that we might extend to another and to make every moment at least as good and definitely not worse and maybe even better than the last and to make ourselves better in the process and in the long run.

So we have to ask ourselves what are we giving in to or are we giving to it or to ourselves or making it what it should or could be and that includes good things with many we may be involved with because of it. In the best of cases or scenarios or situations with others if you give what you want you won't have what won't be given to you or that can be taken away or denied, because being selfless you will receive the given and when you give will receive for not just having taken.

You know, courtesy, honesty, and understanding are hard won virtues when what you want or assume is greater or more important than any Truth you'll know or out there and any other consideration you can think of or want to say or believe. In our calibration we will find the cause of all the living and the reason for all the dying.

You know, I can't sit here and say there are not some people who are just not the good feel or good energy type of people. And i can just sit here and not agree with myself, especially if I think I'm being too judgemental. But they have an almost disregard and callousness and disingenuine ness and uncaring way about them that's very off-puting, maybe slight, but there. Sometimes not so slight.

There is palpable indifference with them that's noticeably cold and self serving in the negative sense.They might even be what you might call friends, and these can be the hardest to deal with depending on what kind of friendship it is or that you have. Believe it or not they can also be family, because they are also people. How's that for a kick in the teeth.

There are obviously alot of different kinds of people out there and some simply don't agree with or energetically match up well or gel with others very well and vice-versa involving personalities, different psychologies, postures, life experiences, life choices or beliefs or ideas, varing likes and dislikes and strenghts of being and character and good will, quirks, even looks, but not just physically or in a vain way and to be with or around them is more of a disharmonic rankle or a rake through the coals or a hard row to hoe than a feel good or healing type of thing or anything or anything good at all. Gee. You think? You can't throw in the wrong ingredients in a salad and toss it around and hope something good or good-tasting is going to come out of it or think it'll be worth sitting down to and that it won't upset your stomach or disagree with you. It could and probably will. I think that's just natural.

But simple acceptance can go a long way to at least lessening or stemming the tide of the extremity of our differences or preferences or of our opinions of others, especially when we accept ourselves as our example and first cause, for acceptance of, and peace with, oneself is acceptance and peace with all. Pretty much. On some level if you don't accept you cannot deny. And if you deny you have to accept and be on the wrong side of that. And also, Jesus says we are a Brotherhood and so we should start there with any considerations at all.

There are just one hundred causes for anything and only one is the Truth and 100 percent of them. If there are simply just too many people out there by itself for us for our tastes I'd like to share what a Spirit guide of the late Sylvia Browne said: "If you don't like to be around a lot of people you're not going to escape it in Heaven. There are a lot of people there, too." Well noted. By the way we don't have to be around or engage anyone up there for the same reason(s) down here. Logic and good sense and Truth and freedom reign up there just as it should down here.

I think we can all remember those Sweet and Special times we've had with people in younger days or just days gone by when we knew it was there and didn't need to try; the height and natural lightness of ourselves and that Homelike connection with someone that was just natural and appreciated and good for us but also just knowing it was there and that we were experiencing it. This, is a worthy goal or place to reach again.

On the flip side of those we don't care too much for or who don't care too much for us when you meet or encounter a special or unique soul to you you know it. They're not hard to like or Love even or to Truly appreciate or to be around. They're like Love potions of humanity that sweep you up in its elixre of freshnes and Beauty and soul nourishment and healing. But they tend to not be the ones with the most revelatory or surprising experiences for us to learn or grow from other than helping to bring to us the realization and the fact they are there for us to bask in and enjoy their company and our connection and experience with them and from our experiences with them in the moment we have them maybe others whom we discounted may have some of that in them just delayed in their True offerings and blessings for us.

But differences aside it's also more nuanced and a bit more complex than that and more surgical and enlightening as to why we jump up for joy, or want to lay down and die, with some people and its potentially filled with surprises and beneficial insights. And let's be honest and let's not forget there are some very bad and unpleasant people out there we want and should want to have absolutely nothing to do with, at all, for any reason. They're not here to be anything but that, and they're good at it. And we should be good at staying away.

Not everybody holds or honors another's Truth, because the Truth they hold and honor is theirs and theirs alone only they can acknowledge and honor or appreciate, which may not be of or in another. But if we're talking just about respecting and acknowledging anothers' Truth for its own sake that's a different take and whole nother matter and another spin on it, especially when it really matters and when it may actually be close to our very own. Only God holds and honors all Truth as his very own. Not having this put in the discussion would be to not be complete in reality and to not agree with and to dishonor Truth at one of its Truest and highest of levels.

I, myself, a writer of the most lofty and beautiful and appreciating and Loving things about humanity and people in general have had some of the most beautiful and incredibly special and memorable and maybe just very pleasant experiences with people but sometimes you wouldn't know it. Or I wouldn't know it when in my mortal form i encounter or experience just one uncomfortable or less than good experience with whomever and I right it or them off without hesitation and no more questions asked.

I have had more than my share of difficulties or issues or tough engagements with others in my day or world and have not always tapped into or found in myself the kinds of purer, less judgement-filled or tinged feelings and emotions I can have in my higher planes of identity and being. With these kinds of experiences or people sometimes I don't feel not so elevated at all in my thoughts and approaches towards the human being in us all and so can feel pretty close to what Fyodor said in his quote here. But that's Ok. It serves and it's good. And that's why I can come back to what I really feel about them or my real self every time unless it Truly is something else.

As I move along in my Life and Spiritual Life I do reach higher places or planes of understanding grow my patience and compassion with things so I seem to find less and less of these experiences and feelings. My separation is shorter Lived and I soon come back to myself as long as I don't allow the thought or the actuality someone is taking me away from me.

If we were perfect, if you call perfect in regards to, and in the context of, this discussion perpetually liking something for the sake of just liking it for any reason even if it's not for what something actually is or what you actually like, perfect (or if we were one dimensional or superficial or not real) we could not come back and do better to show who we really are if it was something genuinely agreeable with us; then being more glad and appreciative about it than otherwise would be the case. That's the process of evaluation and evolvement and enlightenment in the form of revelation for the Truth that Truly matters. True thought brings clarity to the minds of confusion and True sight to the void of unknowing lifting darkness out of the shadows and out of mind and into the light.

Thinking a little deeper and a little more broadly on this important subject but also hinging not lightly on core beliefs, there might be an opening to awareness and insight and maybe even a revelation to maybe the greatest Truth there is and a lessening of the ego related things challenging us to rise higher in our sometimes trying and emotion-provocking experiences with our fellow man or woman on earth when we feel as if in Heaven on earth is not what it should be and more like Hell down below. As we do meet and experience those Special ones we definitely run across those, well, not so special ones.

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There are times when we draw nearer to something we come to find what's really there and who's really there and it could be beautiful and Sweet. No mysteries. No surprises. No guessing--it's right there front and center. It might be the opposite and we don't care for it. And we could be surprised maybe everytime, in fact, I think it is everytime. You see, this is when we know or find where the Truth was all along and what Truly touched our humanity or informed our humanity and what we were blessed by even though it may seem like a miss and a miscalculation and a damnation not knowing or realizing, possibly, it was a little slice of Heaven.

Agreeing with the false self is the poison that never dies and the passion that kills that the suffering may live and the false may thrive. True thought brings clarity into the minds of confusion or doubt and True sight to the void of unknowing lifting darkness out of the shadows and out of mind and into the light that there might not be death nut True Life for the living. In the end it all comes down to Truth. That should make you feel good.

The Truth will reveal itself. It will only hurt those who Loved the false and who made it a part of their way and of themselves and who gave to the least of their reality and the least to themselves. Or it will liberate and inform the crooked where they were off the mark and where their path and parchment of the good Tuly lay and marks where their peace is at Home there.

This has been the plan all along--to foster and enliven the best in and of us even by those we rather not have involved in it with our plan to ascend higher in ourselves in our broader collective lives as humans beings of source and to create this in reality and in our reality more than just believing or knowing who we are on Earth but at the highest levels and thoughts and knowings of God when we were in the mind of God but not yet outside it but yet also beyond it when we would Truly know her's and our ultimate reality. When we touch that in ourselves with and because of another you know it and will touch the very hand and heart of God.

There was a time we were just, as God says, candles in the Sun and knew we were the light but could not fully know it or appreciate it since what we knew or believed was all we were and all there was. But If all we knew or believed was what was was we could not fully be who we are and so would BE not and would be unable to realize or know more, because there was nothing else. That's when man had to experience beyond what it knew and believed it was for God and herself. And so man on earth became the divine vehicle and the only way to cause this to be.

There are no two same flowers in the same potted plant but they grow and give life to each other and each is given by grace and Love the blessings of reaching for the stars.

Through divine revelation and insight the search for, and finding Life's True meaning and True Being and all the good and holy in a bad and false and inglorious world and humanity and the lesser of humanity, can be shortened and eased up a bit when the human agenda switches gears and its beliefs of self and gives way to its higher essence and perspectives and to what it really means to be human and a lighted being of God and finer body and Truer self then reaching higher and looking up to Heaven for its greater identity and Love.

The great statesman and Roman Emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius Antoninus said,

"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them

or bear with them."

My last few words here on this topic and a few more quotes:

We will be known and appreciated by and for our humanity not by our divisions. We will be enlarged by our extension and our True creations through Spirit and diminished by our contraction and loss of sense of self and what we create from it. We will be the Love that we are or forever be unknown to ourselves.

God says, "I've sent you nothing but Angels."

The great sage and philosopher Rumi said,

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

Sometimes what has caused us to go no further than where we are and what we have considered and what has been the cause in the matter is Loving ourselves, otherwise how could we appreciate or fell better or good about anything.

Another great sage and the Lebannese philosopher Kahlil Gibran said,

"And God said "Love your enemy," and I obeyed him and Loved myself."

Lastly a quote of mine from a while ago:

"In Love and Life are dreams planted in hopes of their fulfillment of a covenant made long ago. It is to prosper in Spirit; and with Love's guiding hand does a soul find its Heaven in all it saw in all Love's land."

So the end of this podcast message.

Let's Love ourselves.....

Problem solved.

Blessings and well wishes, always. Til we meet again.