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I can never remember a day in my life
that's been easy.
And the question is how do you open your heart when things are difficult?
You have all the tools. You are going to be tested every day of your life
to see whether or not you can sustained an open heart.
You have a mind. Instead of using it
in a way that's a projectile going out into the world and trying to analyze things that
are completely absurd and make no sense,
if we use the energy of mind
and bring it into the third chakra the energy of mind will open the foundation of our being.
You can't open your heart
if you're not centered in the foundation of your being.
You need, in other words it's like a flower. A flower needs a stem, it needs roots.
Understand?
We think we can open the heart without having a stem and roots.
Not possible.
We think that we can build a building starting on the 4th floor.
You gotta have foundation inside.
The proper use of the tools that we have, the mind
the breath, the will,
the chakra system,
that will build the strength inside ourselves
that will sustain an open heart.
And the real test of whether you can open your heart is not when you win the lotto,
I mean any idiot can open their heart when they just won 27 million dollars.
The real test is
when you're dealing
with all of these events that happen in your life, some of them are hard
difficult, easy, hard, understand? that's the real test in life.
And I know that there are two places that are constant sources of tension.
One of them is money
and the other one is relationships.
I mean those two places will test you the rest of your life.
And I don't care how much of it you make,
and how long your relationship is, it will test you the rest of your life.
And they're healthy.
Understand? because they will tell you how enlightened you are.
They will tell you
how far you've come in you know evolution to God. If you can keep your heart open
while your family is just *** and complaining all the time
and you can love them
and give them room to work out their lives it means you have really
evolved to a very high place in yourself.
If you can keep your heart open when business is ***
it means that something in you has evolved to a very highly placed inside yourself.
And you will be tested by this every day of your life.
Every single day of your life you'll be tested by this.
And I find that these tests are important
because they tell me how far I've grown where I've evolved to.
What I can handle in the world.
Can I deal with tension, can I deal with other people's craziness.
as I said earlier today, you know, craziness is not going to go away
that is some delusion that we live under, someday the craziness of the world is going to disappear.
Well you know I can't remember a day in my life when the world hasn't been crazy.
I can't remember day of my life where I haven't picked up a newspaper and there is
not a war somewhere on the earth.
Or their not talking about people dying of hunger and poverty
insanity in the world. I can't remember one day in my life.
That doesn't go away.
You know at the same time
I don't meet very many people
who are capable of sustaining an open heart.
And because the world is crazy
it doesn't mean that we have to be crazy.
Understand? it doesn't mean that we have to be miserable.
and in fact the best way you can help another human being
is by learning to be centered
learning to keep your heart open
having the wisdom to be guided by spirit
And then having also the wisdom to be able to be compassionate the way you deal with other human beings.
There's no better way of dealing with
the insanity of the world than learning how to keep your heart open.
And this is something you can learn.
It's not some big mystery.
It's something that you can learn.
The mystery is why people don't do it.
That really is the mystery.
I mean we have all the tools
we have everything that makes us capable of doing this.
And I always walk around in New York city and look around and, you know,
I see the deadness in people
I see the unhappiness in people
I say, well they can all do it,
but you can't get up on a soap box and say, hey you know, y'all got chakras, folks!
Breathe! Use your mind intelligently!
you can't do it.
And I discovered in my own life when people are ready to learn
how to get to God they will beat the door down, you don't have to go looking for them.
They will come, they will beat the door down.
And they will do whatever they have to do
to truly have a spiritual life.