Welcome back to daily breath. This is the Pac-Shopper. We're going to continue our journey into self-realization and expand on the

four paths that I have mentioned,

being, feeling, thinking, and doing.

Remember that the goal here is to find a path back to the source.

You need to let life settle down to where it wants to be.

So in this spirit, what I want to remind you is that there are many levels of experience from

gross to subtle.

Gross experience is perceptual activity which we interpret as the physical world and the physical body.

But there are subtler levels of existence. So as an exercise today, let's start to begin to

observe when you touch upon subtle levels in your own awareness.

And we can compare them to the grosser levels.

So here we go.

To love someone is subtler than to resent or push the person away. Once again, just

pay attention to this one idea to love someone is

someone is subtler than to resent or push them away.

It's also easier to love than to resent.

To accept someone is subtler than to criticize the individual.

You know, when we complain, criticize, condemn, or play the victim, it's not because the other person deserves that.

That's the way we were conditioned to respond to situations, and that

conditioning goes back a long time to our childhood. To accept someone therefore is subtler than to criticize

them. Before you criticize somebody, ask yourself, is it necessary? Can I not accept them? And what's the big deal if I do accept them just as they are?

That's the highest forgiveness, to accept yourself and other people just as they are

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