Good morning.

Good morning to you.

Your challenge right now is to be aware of your energy, your love, your smile, even

while fatigue is present, even though a lack of motivation may be present, even though

there's thoughts about how you'd prefer to be in bed or on vacation or on a long weekend,

even with those thoughts present, even with Monday present, the challenges to not forget

who you are, even with all of this present, you don't forget your smile, even as you

return to work and the rest of the world returns to work, you return to the self, you turn

the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body.

That's where Manamaharshi, you cease thinking of yourself as that mind as those preferences

and you come to know yourself as happiness.

A group of Spirits said, happiness is not a feeling, it's the background of all feelings,

it's the background of Monday, it's the background of your desire to stay in bed all day,

it's the background of your mind, if you can keep your attention on the background, centered

in the spiritual state, during activity, while the thoughts are there, while the feelings

are there, while Monday is here, the more you will be able to smile.

So Gananda said, I am always there now, I have retained my smile, but to when it permanently

was hard work, he said, the same smiles are there within you, the same joy, the same bliss

of the soul is there, you don't have to acquire them, but rather regain them, you have merely

lost them temporarily by identifying yourself with the senses, with that body, but right

now you're shifting, from being that body to being the space that that body is happening

in your present right now, but you're not present as what you think you are.

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