I'm rereading the notes I wrote in a little book that I read from 1971 to 1991...my notes are enlightening to me. For instance, in 1989, I had underlined in the book the sentence, "Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear."
I suspect, when I underlined that in 1989, that I understood that, and I thought by my understanding that I got it. Clearly (I say today) "watch for" was what I got, never realizing that meant that we need to ever watch for all those things.
The core issue of our lives, then, is we watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear because they are there...not were, are. They will be there until three days after we're dead. It is what we do with them when we find them yet again that determines our happiness or unhappiness.
Our level of happiness is determined by how completely we show forth peace, joy and love. It is in that act of giving that they grow within us...to share again.
Thank you.
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