You are the answer to someone's prayer. That's why you have to keep going. You have to keep

getting up every morning and doing the work I have given you to do and doing it with love because

that's all that counts. That's all I see is the love that is injected into the project,

into the spreadsheet, into the email, into the networking, into the meeting. Are you aware of me

while it's happening? Because if you are, that's a brick. That's a new floor, a new level,

a new mansion, a new city, a new nation, yours. Do you see? That's the character that got up this morning.

That's doing the things.

That's desperately trying to stay aware of me, desperately trying to do this practice.

Or I would not be here listening to this message.

As soon as the practice is relaxed, as soon as it's not tried, it is lived, it is a fact.

That character keeps turning round and round, trying to turn back to love, trying to turn back

to me. But all of that turning, all of that practicing, all of that praying, all of the

chanting, the singing, you're watching it, you're aware of it, you're

aware when that character gets the idea to practice. You're there when it turns. You see the turning,

you see the forgetting, and the remembering, and the forgetting. You see the tears, you see the

joy, you see the hope, the faith, the felt faith, you see the progress, you see the rise,

the fall. You rose and you watch. And now that character won't seem to fall so far. It won't seem

to lose what you are. It will appear conscious, it will appear changed because of what you are

and because of what you know you're not.

Every thought that tells you you missed it or you're late or you messed it up, do you think

you're more powerful than me? Do you think I'd let you mess up my plan?

The seeming slip up or mess up or a mistake that misstep is a part of this,

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