There is a difference between saying that there is no problem and believing it. To claim peace when none is felt is like standing soaking wet and denying that it is raining. It is not enough to mouth something. One must fully accept that they can live with what is happening. The objective is not to pretend that things are fine but to permit yourself to see its reality. To be able to deal with that reality is what is important.

If you see everything in life that is not idealistic or perfect as a big problem, you are never going to be happy. Handling something in life without seeing it as an assault on you is the beginning of a truly happy life. Things happen. Sometimes you create them and sometimes others do. To live is to experience. That means both the expected and the unexpected.

When something happens, forget what you expected or thought should be. Look at what is. That is the only thing that you can change. You cannot change fantasy. Look at the reality of the situation and seek to change it through new vision and perspective. Old tricks may not work on new circumstances. If you do not limit yourself to set ideas you will be amazed at how you can alter the new space toward a better one.

Ask yourself if your process is ego related or reality related? Then, understanding that, move upon the situation.

Remember always that within you is the power to accept and to change your life.

I want you all to take that statement very seriously. Because the way the world is functioning right now, the way that things are going, no matter where you look, no matter what you touch, something seems wrong. You pick up your newspaper and it can horrify you or you can listen to your news and it can horrify you.

The point to remember is this — there are many things functioning in the universe right now that seem to be very negative but in reality are the harbinger of peace and the harbinger of good. In other words, something is being brought out to be eliminated, brought out to be skimmed from the surface. It is sort of like when you lose your temper and then when it’s over there is peace inside because you have burned it all out. Well, the universe is doing that now and all that apparent negativity seems to have no balance — which is not so — it does have balance. But you don’t hear about the good things. You only hear about the negative.

And as a result man begins to build within himself the thought that he’s got to watch everything he has and be careful that he’s not having something taken away from him. As a result, he stops differentiating between a casual irritation and a major trauma. He begins to see everything in his life that isn’t exactly the way he wants it as something being done to him and that he is being attacked by life and everything is seen as a major trauma. You cannot weigh all of life on the same scale. That’s why they have different weights, so that you can tell what something really weighs.

What I am going to ask you to do in conjunction with this lesson is to begin to seek the gifts that are given to you every day. I want you to literally count the gifts that are given to you — the smiles, the joys, the fresh fruit, the what ever. See that life is giving you a great deal and that if you miss a bus, it isn’t the end of the world. There will be another one along in a few minutes. You see? You have to begin to be very sure you aren’t letting yourself be sucked in to the “nothing good ever happens” syndrome.

It is a time, in this point in time, when the Solstice and Equinox energies are weaving a web of commitment and team work between nature and man. The air you breathe is asking you to accept it more fully. The earth you walk on is asking you to accept it more fully. And the object is teamwork.

So — Bless, Bless, Bless.

I must commend you, Swami G. That was his statement — “Bless, Bless, Bless” — always.  So bless this earth and all within and bless yourself and all within as well, for that is the true teamwork with the Father. And that is what this point in time is all about.

Enjoy who you are. Don’t try to be any body else. Accept the value of who you are. Don’t let any body take that away from you. After all, you are the only one who knows who you are. And again, remember always that within you is the power to accept and to change your life. You can only change yourself when you accept yourself as you are. When you accept yourself as you are and are in touch with yourself, now you can make the changes in your self. You cannot be sneezing and blowing your nose and saying, “I don’t have a cold”, that’s denying what is. Once you accept that you have a cold, you can change it. Nothing can be changed when you are denying its existence. That includes anything that is in yourself or in anything that’s around you. Until you accept it as it is, it cannot be changed.