By 
knowing the nature of this force and seeing yourself as a divine 
expression of it, and by going within to the power that permits you 
to picture a desire, and then tapping that power with a private, lov- 
ing, cheerful knowing, you are on your way to using this vital force in 
ways that were unavailable to you with your conditioned view of 
yourself. Here are a few suggestions for putting these ideas into practice in 
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your life as you begin mastering this fourth spiritual principle of 
manifestation. SOME IDEAS FOR PUTTING THIS PRINCIPLE TO WORK 
When first arising in the morning, take a few moments to be alone 
and ask yourself, “How did the conditions of my life that I would 
like to change first come about?” “How can I facilitate making con- 
scious contact with my unlimited, invisible source of energy?” 
These two questions, when repeatedly considered, will begin to 
create their own answers. Remind yourself that it is spirit that gives 
life and movement to anything and everything, including you. It is 
that which causes your very existence. Therefore, you are truly ask- 
ing to join into the spirit of your life. You will soon realize that the conditions of your life have been 
manifested by you, even though you were not conscious of bring- 
ing them about. Your thoughts and mental pictures of lack, 
scarcity, self-absorption, authoritarianism, illness, guilt, worry and 
the like have been put into the universal spirit and have mani- 
fested in your life. The second question will flow from your 
answer to the first. You can hasten your conscious contact by radiating a totally new 
kind of mental picture while applying this fourth principle. Explore the possibility that the reason you believe that life is limit- 
ing is because you have assumed limitation to be in your life. In the world of nature, life, love and beauty are visibly repro- 
duced. You, too, are a part of nature. Does your view of life include 
the natural creative process reproducing within yourself? Or have 
you assumed an engineering view of life with a mechanical cause- 
and-effect conclusion? Perhaps you can shift this awareness to seeing cause and effect as 
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a law, but not the law. The law of originating mind is beyond the 
world of boundaries and measurement. You originated out of this 
law, and your imagination is a perfect example of this. No rule, no 
boundary, no form. Unlimited! The source of your imagination is the divine source. It is here 
that you are now making contact with the eternally moving, always 
alive source of light. Stay in this place within and you will know 
conscious contact with the divine all-creating intelligence. Whatever picture you are able to create mentally will assist you in 
knowing that the creative energy is flowing through you. Your pic- 
ture also provides a direction for the flow of energy. And your pic- 
ture gives substance to its eventual appearance in material form. You are not forcing anything with your picture. Strenuous effort 
is counterproductive to manifesting because it sets up the idea of a 
force that must be overcome. Get rid of the idea of forcing any- 
thing or making demands. Instead, imagine the creative knowing 
that allowed you to come into this world of form. It is a loving, 
flowing, gentle, peaceful energy that is the source of creation. Any 
effort to change that with demands or strenuous effort will inhibit 
that flow. It is vital that you incorporate the concept of a beginning and end- 
ing, or first and last with your mental picturing. When you apply 
this alpha and omega thinking you substantiate that first is the 
thought, the beginning, which creates the form, the end. Thought finds form in something in time and space. The expres- 
sion of thought in the form is a matter of gradual development, 
with a beginning and an ending. Never limit the spirit in any way. If you experience any kind of fric- 
tion, know that it is an error in your thinking and picturing rather 
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than proof that the creative force is working incorrectly. You cannot 
originate the originating force, you can only distribute it. Just continue to tell the spirit what you want without telling it 
how you want it to happen. Then retreat, in faith and trust. You 
need not specify the details, only be ready to see it particularize in 
an endless array of possibilities. Stay alert for clues! Keep your mental picturing to yourself. What you want to attract is 
a private matter between you and God. Discussing it with others 
will dissipate the energy in the direction of ego and the opinions of 
others. Outwardly, be mysterious and silent while inwardly you have 
faith in your ability to make conscious contact with the energy that 
is the source of existence. Let go of the need to convince anyone of 
the rightness of your position. Remain independent of the good 
opinion of others and keep yourself fixed on your ability to attract 
whatever it is that you previously thought was missing in your life. Examine all the supposed lacks and scarcities in your life. Then say 
to yourself, “I created all of this with my thoughts, conditioning, 
beliefs and actions.” It is only by recognizing that you have always 
been attracting to yourself what you have been radiating out in the 
form of invisible energy that you will be able to use this same energy 
in a more productive manner. Banish any guilt about your past actions. There is no past in the 
all-creative force of energy. There is only the universal now. Now 
you recognize that you have manifested all that you knew how to 
attract to yourself in the past. Now you are going to shift this 
awareness to a new way of being. You have attracted to yourself pre- 
cisely what you have needed in all the days of your life that make up 
this universal now. In this same now, you are shifting to a new 
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Nothing is outside you. You can attract anything when you 
know it already exists in the consciousness of your mind and has 
to materialize from your new thoughts. Be responsible and trust- 
ing and you will see your power of attraction working almost 
immediately. Thought is creative action. It is neither good nor bad. However, the 
thoughts that you dwell on determine what you will possess or not 
possess. What you think about is what you will become. Be conscious of any thought or picture that will end up manifest- 
ing something that you do not want. If your conditioned way of 
thinking is in terms of pessimism, or impossibilities, or using your 
past misfortunes as reasons for not having a happier, more abundant 
life, decide to eradicate those thoughts. If you find yourself com- 
plaining to others, remind yourself that your complaints are a man- 
ifestation of your inner thoughts. Make contact with the power that first allows you to have a 
thought and ask it to help and guide you to new ways of picturing. Once you start catching yourself in the middle of thoughts or com- 
plaints, you Can initiate new pictures. This new picturing process is 
easy when you realize that you are connected to the power that 
allows you to attract to yourself what you desire. As difficult as it is to fathom, because of ego-based conditioning, 
you are indeed one of the ways in which God has particularized in 
this material world. Begin to act as if what you would like to attract is already in your 
life. If you want to create healing, formulate the picture, radiate out 
that energy to connect with the all-creating energy, be cheerful and 
trusting in your knowing, share it with no one and then begin acting 
in a new, healthy manner. The universe will give you minimal clues to begin your new 
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actions. Proceeding to act in the manner of your inner picture will 
hasten the process. If you want to materialize more prosperity, then start the process 
of thinking abundantly and acting that way also. Give thanks for all 
that has manifested in your life. Examine ways in which to be grate- 
ful and take some risks, knowing that what you want to attract is 
already an energy that you share. Buy yourself something special 
and donate something to someone less fortunate, even if your ego 
balks! Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is a special favorite of mine. I recom- 
mend that you browse through it daily as I do frequently. Here is a 
portion that speaks of our oneness with the divine energy. Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space. How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of 
myself, 
I could not launch, to those, superior universes? Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God, 
At nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death, 
But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me, 
Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death, 
And fillest, swellest full the vastness of Space. The key phrase in this passage, for me, is “. . . thou actual Mex 
And so it is with you, no different than Walt Whitman or anyone 
else in the universe. This concludes the fourth principle of spiritual manifestation. A 
summary of this principle tells us that there is an intelligence and a 
power in all of nature that is creative and responsive. This intelli- 
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You are a part of nature and of this intelligence that is greater than 
any single individual. The individual you are is also a particularized 
form of this intelligence. This infinite power is in all things and all 
space, and it will manifest from the spiritual or formless energy that 
is in the unseen world into the world of form and boundaries. When we know this beyond a doubt, and put it into practice in 
our lives, we will see the pictures of our hearts’ desires transformed 
into our outer reality. The fifth principle explains the importance of 
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HONORING YOUR WORTHINESS TO RECEIVE 
The Fifth Principle 
n order to become a manifester, literally taking part in the 
process of co-creating your life and attracting to yourself the objects 
of your heart’s desires, you must know that you are worthy of receiv- 
ing. This will mean examining the attitudes that you knowingly and 
unknowingly hold about your life. Your thoughts, which are the 
architects of the foundation of your material world, are what you 
want to examine. Manifesting involves using the power of your inner world to craft a 
fuller relationship with life and attract to you what you desire. You 
can remind yourself all day long that the same power that brought 
anything into the physical world also brought you, but if you do not 
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feel worthy, you will disrupt the natural flow of energy into your life 
and create a blockage that makes manifestation impossible. The fifth principle reminds you that you are worthy of abundance. If your thoughts are based on an image of unworthiness for any rea- 
son at all, you will manifest what those thoughts impart to the uni- 
versal mind. The energy described in the fourth principle will align 
with what it is that you radiate. “As a man thinks, so is he,” are not 
empty words. They state a basic truth of how the universe works. Thinking that abundance is incompatible with spirituality is a 
myth that influences many of us and is the largest impediment there 
is to feeling worthy. SELFISH? The myth that abundance and spirituality are incompatible is 
fueled by thoughts that it is selfish and improper to visualize and 
desire material things. Let’s examine this attitude and determine if 
you have been influenced into believing it to be your truth. Take a look around your world and notice the abundance and end- 
lessness of our universe. It goes on and on, beyond our ability to 
imagine its vastness. This abundance flows from the same energy that 
comprises our fundamental essence. It is you. You are it. Make no 
mistake about it. Material form is how spirit makes itself known to us while we are 
in form ourselves. Spirit manifests in trees, oceans, fish, birds, min- 
erals, vegetables, flowers and you. All that you see around you is a 
part of the material manifestation of spirit. Matter is not an illusion, 
or something that ought not to be, but is the necessary means 
through which spirit differentiates itself on this plane of existence. To feel that it is selfish or non-spiritual to desire and manifest is to 
divide the world of spirit and the world of matter into polar oppo- 
sites. When we adopt an attitude of spirit being incompatible with 
matter, we are denying the spirit that is in matter as its originating 
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energy. We also deny the validity of ourselves as spiritual beings. There is no reason to feel ashamed of wanting things to come into 
your life. It is far better to have an attitude of deserving whatever 
shows up in your life and to be willing to participate in the dance of 
creation as a co-creator. When we shift to seeing that together they 
comprise one harmonious whole, we remove the stigma of selfish- 
ness. Just as each of us is one harmonious whole comprised of spirit 
and matter, so, too, is the entire universe. The process of life taking form is a mystery. That mystery is gov- 
erned by a creative energy that is knowable when we genuinely feel 
worthy of receiving its blessings in form. Abundance is the way of the 
creative force in the universe. You are entitled to have abundance in 
your life, and to radiate prosperity to all that you encounter in your 
world. Nothing is gained by making yourself small and insignificant 
other than to manifest smallness and insignificance in your life. To facilitate an attitude of deserving abundance, it will be helpful 
to examine what you want to change in order to cultivate this know- 
ing at the cellular level of your being. THE CORE COMPONENTS OF WORTHINESS 
Everything that you need to master in order to make this fifth 
principle a working model in your life is available as a mental activity. You do not need to go out into the world and conquer it in any way. It is simply a matter of changing your mind about your basic worthi- 
ness to receive all of God’s blessings, be they material or otherwise. There has been a lot of effort put into conditioning us to feel 
unworthy of having all that life has to offer. Most of us have accepted 
a lot of the stuff that egos have thrown our way, beginning with our 
arrival as infants. Certainly there is nothing wrong with an attitude of 
poverty and asceticism. If this is your path, you know it deep within 
syourself and you know that God appears in all things material and 
nonmaterial. Spirit cannot be divided into better or worse, depend- 
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ing on which of God’s creations you opt to have or not have in your 
life. Feeling worthy of any blessings or desires is a feature of your inner 
life. To remove the stigma of materialistic selfishness you may need to 
rearrange your inner perceptions. Here are the major perceptions of 
beings who know they are worthy and deserving of all of God’s bless- 
ing. 74 My self-esteem comes from myself. This person’s statement of his or 
her inner perception might be something like the following: “As 
a child of God, my worthiness is a given. I am not divided into 
spirit and body, rather, I am a part of the all-knowing creation 
called God itself. I am a human expressing God without reserva- 
tion or restraint.” 
One of the reasons children are often able to express genius is 
because they have not yet been hypnotized by the idea of being 
limited. If they are able to resist this hypnotic spell, they remain 
geniuses and are able to express their unlimited selves through- 
out their lives on earth. Too often the ideas of other egos are what constitute our 
impressions of ourselves as unworthy. We listen to the admoni- 
tions of others who have low self-regard, and who are attempting 
to exert influence and power over us. We then take on the exter- 
nal validations of our unworthiness and begin to see ourselves as 
some significant others would have us believe we are. It is 
beyond the scope of most young children to resist these ideas. But, as adults, we can look back at this hypnosis and free our- 
selves from its absurdity. You must know within that you are a part of the light that 
lighteth every man. You are evidence of the existence of God, 
and in your own particularized individuality, you have God 
within you. Therefore, you must be able to say with conviction, 
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“God is me, and I am God.” It is this truth that will free you 
from your feelings of unworthiness to attract to yourself all that 
you desire. Think of your own desires to manifest as having been placed 
there by spirit, and that those desires, which are housed in love 
and service, are precisely what God wants to give you, and that 
your desire is the direct path to receiving those blessings. Let go 
of the idea that desire is selfishness and remind yourself that if 
you had no desires ever, you would still be living an infantile 
existence with toys in a sandbox. Whenever you feel unworthy of having your manifestations 
arrive, remind yourself that no one is unworthy and that the 
same divine energy that flows through you flows through all of 
God’s children and that all are worthy. This includes you. Your desires are the very tools that allow you to grow and 
experience the perfection of the universe. They take you beyond 
any limitations that you might have embraced and lead you to a 
higher spiritual awareness. Even the idea of achieving enlighten- 
ment and mastery is a desire that you must honor. I accept myself without complaint. A person with this self-perception 
thinks something like the following: “I am willing to face every- 
thing about myself, without lapsing into self-contempt or repu- 
diating my essential value as a piece of God.” 
Self-acceptance is something that must be unconditionally 
known within ourselves. To accept oneself is not necessarily to 
accept every behavior. Rather, it is a refusal to engage in sabotag- 
ing acts of self-loathing. If you are in a state of self-rejection you 
cannot feel worthy of the munificence of the universe. Your 
inner energy is centered on what is wrong with yourself and with 
complaining to yourself and anyone who will listen. You showed up here in a specific body, with certain physical 
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characteristics, with certain measurements and with certain par- 
ents and siblings. This is your reality for the physical plane, and it 
requires a high degree of willingness to look at your physical 
appearance and say, “I accept this without complaint.” 
If you are unwilling to make such a declaration, your inner 
energy will be sapped by anger, guilt, fear and pain, all combining 
to circumvent the possibility of manifesting your desires. Remember, the ability to attract to yourself is based on the idea, 
“That which ought to be ... is already.” What you desire is 
already here and can only flow into your immediate life if you are 
open to it doing so. Those thoughts of self-repudiation guarantee 
that you cannot put out into the universe the knowing and loving 
energy that is going to work for you. Self-acceptance is nothing more than a shift in consciousness. It requires only a change of mind. If your hair is falling out, then 
you have the choice to mask it, worry about it or accept it. Acceptance means that you really have to do nothing. You honor 
your body and the divine intelligence that is at work. When 
someone else implies that you have a problem because your hair 
is falling out, you don’t even know how to relate to their obser- 
vation. Acceptance removes the label of “problem.” 
This is not a faked attitude. It is merely removing the ego 
from your inner assessments, which are centered on the approval 
of others. With self-acceptance you are able to honestly say, “I 
am what I am and I accept it.” Once this attitude is firmly in 
place from a position of self-honesty, your worthiness to receive 
the gifts of the universe becomes aligned with that divine power. Self-repudiation causes a misalignment with your divinity. Only you can make the shift. It is nothing more than an inner 
perception that you have the power to change in this very 
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I take full responsibility for my life and what it is and is not. This 
involves a removal of our strong ego-dominated inclination to 
cast blame on others for what is absent from our lives. Taking 
total responsibility means an awareness of the power that is 
inherent within yourself. Rather than saying “They made me the way I am today” you 
shift your inner thought to “I chose to be passive and fearful 
around other people.” This goes for every single facet of your 
personality and life circumstances. To be willing to accept total responsibility for yourself puts 
you in a position of being worthy of receiving and attracting the 
object of your desires. If someone else is responsible for your 
perceived shortcomings, and you are blaming them for these 
troubles, then you are also saying that in order to manifest your 
heart’s desire you need to have the permission of those others. This act of abdicating responsibility destroys your ability to 
empower yourself to higher levels of awareness. When you know that you are responsible for how you chose 
to react to every life situation, and that you are essentially alone 
within yourself at all moments, then you can very privately put 
out into the universe that which you want to bring to yourself. However, blaming others for your life situations shifts the power 
to those you believe are responsible for creating the circum- 
stances. 
] have a private inner dialogue with the universe about the cir- 
cumstances that show up in my life. I come from the position 
that there are absolutely no accidents and that everything that 
occurs in my life has a lesson attached to it, and that I brought it 
into my life. Regardless of how absurd or inconsequential it 
might seem, I say to myself, “Why did I create this in this 
moment?” 
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Thus, if I am having a negative thought and at the same 
moment I bump my head on a cupboard door, I say, “What was I 
thinking at that moment?” and I take full responsibility for cor- 
recting those negative thoughts and for the bump that reminded 
me to correct that kind of thinking. I do the same when I am 
writing. If I feel inclined to go to the mailbox before writing, I 
follow that inner signal and often find an article in the mail that 
clarifies a point that was fuzzy. I take responsibility for knowing 
that what I needed was there and that my inner voices of intu- 
ition were guiding me. This little game serves me in the sense of taking full responsi- 
bility for my life and eradicating the inclination to blame other 
people or circumstances. I trust in this inner knowledge. I rely 
on seemingly coincidental happenings and I know that I am 
responsible for all of it. As this sense of responsibility has grown, 
I find it impossible to blame anyone for anything in my life, from 
the most inconsequential things, such as bumping or cutting 
myself, or others not showing up on time, to major life disap- 
pointments and my relationships with my wife and the rest of my 
family; for all of it I assume total responsibility. I trust in the divine wisdom that is particularized in me that 
allows these things to transpire. I refuse to question the wisdom 
or to blame bad luck or to credit good luck. I see it all as a part 
of my own functioning in the universe, without complaint. The willingness to be responsible without complaining puts 
you into the natural flow of all divine energy. It keeps you from 
having to fight the world, allowing you to go with it. Everything 
that you complain about puts you in a position of figuratively hav- 
ing to take arms against it and fight. Everything that you need to 
fight weakens you, while that which you are for empowers you. I am asking you to be for yourself. With an attitude of self- 
responsibility, you will notice that the heavens are exceedingly 
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cooperative. Getting the heavens to cooperate means getting 
yourself out of a complaining mind-set and into one of total self- 
responsibility. I do not choose to accept guilt into my life. This mind-set creates 
thoughts such as: “I will not use up the precious currency of my 
life, my present moments, immobilized with guilt over what hap- 
pened in the past.” 
This statement requires you to know the difference between 
a) genuine regret and learning from the past; and b) remaining in 
a state of reproach or guilt today. Learning from one’s mistakes 
and taking corrective action are spiritually and psychologically 
sound practices. You did it, you didn’t like the way you felt after- 
ward, so you decide not to repeat the behavior. That is not guilt. Guilt is when you continue to feel immobilized and depressed; 
those feelings keep you from living effectively in the present. When you are filled with guilt, your energy is awash with 
anguish and self-reproach. You are so down on yourself that you 
feel unworthy of receiving blessings from the universe or anyone 
in it. Persistent feelings of guilt will prevent you from manifest- 
ing anything worthwhile because you are attracting the very same 
things that you are putting out to the universe. More anguish, 
more reasons to feel bad, and more evidence to prove that you 
are not worth what you desire. When you put past behaviors into a context of learning from 
them and moving on, regardless of how horrible they may seem 
to you, you clear yourself of the negativity surrounding these 
actions. Forgiving yourself means that you are able to extend love 
to yourself even when your perceived shortcomings are painfully 
evident to you. Once you learn this valuable lesson, you seek God’s forgive- 
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will feel unworthy of God’s forgiveness and consequently will be 
unable to accept any of your divine rights as a child of God. No matter what you do not particularly love about yourself, 
including your behaviors and your appearance, to be successful 
at manifesting, you need to love yourself in spite of your per- 
ceived flaws. For example, if you are chronically overweight, or 
addicted, your internal sentences of guilt sound something like 
this: “I am really going to love myself when I am finally a normal 
weight” or “I will truly value myself as a worthwhile human 
being when I am finally over this addiction once and for all.” 
These are the sentences of guilt that reinforce an attitude of 
unworthiness and inhibit the manifestation process. These inter- 
nal sentences need to be shifted to: “I love myself while I am 
overweight. I am not this weight in the first place and I refuse to 
think of myself in self-degrading terms regardless of the condi- 
tion of my body. I am love, and I extend this love to all of me.” 
The same kind of inner programming must take place for addic- 
tions or anything else that you feel guilty about. There are 483,364 words in A Course in Miracles. The word 
“beware” appears only once: “Beware of the temptation to see 
yourself as unfairly treated.” The warning speaks to removing 
guilt and taking responsibility: for one’s life. By removing the 
inclination to wallow in self-reproach, we also remove the idea 
that by suffering in the present moment we will redeem our- 
selves and can pay for our sins with guilt. Life doesn’t work this 
way. Your suffering keeps you in a state of fear and immobiliza- 
tion. That is not a solution to handling your life problems. There is a solution, and that solution is in loving yourself, and 
in trusting in God that your “shortcomings” are nothing more 
than lessons leading you to a new spiritual level. By refusing to 
buy into the conditioned notion that guilt is good and you 
deserve to feel guilty, and that guilt will help you pay for your 
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sins, you reinforce the idea that you are worthy of any desires of 
yours that you want to manifest in your life. By I understand the importance of having harmony between my thoughts, my 
feelings and my behavior. To the extent that you remain incongruent 
in any of these three areas of thinking, feeling or behaving, you 
will impede the process of heightened awareness and the ability 
to manifest your heart’s desire. This is the last of the five points that contribute to your feel- 
ings of worthiness about receiving God’s munificence in your 
life. It is also the most significant because it defines your level of 
integrity. To have thoughts about how you would like to conduct 
your life and to posit these thoughts as your essential way of 
being, and then to feel guilty, fearful, anxious or anything else as 
a result of not living up to these inner positions results in addic- 
tive, manipulative and self-defeating behavior. To be congruent you must be honest about your own 
thoughts. It is crucial to examine your thoughts and forthrightly 
proclaim what it is that you choose to know internally. Even if 
this is perceived as a shortcoming by everyone else, if you are 
honest with yourself you will find that your emotional reactions 
will be consistent with your inner world. You will feel peaceful and content, and this will be apparent in 
your behavior. This is true for virtually everything about your 
life. Your thoughts about health, relationships, prosperity, God, 
work, recreation, whatever. If these thoughts are rooted in love 
and you honestly know that you are here to express love, kind- 
ness and forgiveness toward yourself, toward your work and co- 
workers, toward the money you receive, toward your spiritual 
beliefs, then you will be in harmony and you will welcome the 
blessings that result from your personal conduct in these mat- 
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However, if you embrace these thoughts yet fail to act on 
them in the daily working of your life, you will feel incongruent 
and, consequently, you will not feel that you are deserving of 
desires being fulfilled. Addictive behavior will continue in your life if you remain 
incongruent. All unhealthy eating habits will continue if you 
remain incongruent. All scarcity perceptions will remain if you 
remain incongruent. These are strong statements, yet they 
reflect a consciousness that you must grasp if you want to change 
your status from being unworthy to being worthy. You do not have to adopt any particular spiritual practice or 
set of beliefs. You have to, however, create a sense of congruency 
within yourself to be able to attain this state of worthiness, which 
is a prerequisite for the manifestation process. When you are 
being eaten up inside, in your own private corner of awareness 
that is not available to anyone else other than God, you will 
behave in self-defeating ways that verify your lack of inner con- 
gruuity. By being honest with yourself about what you believe, and 
then acting on that principle regardless of what others might 
think or say, you promote an inner peace that gives you a strong 
sense of worthiness. I encourage you to examine your thoughts 
carefully in all areas of your life, and identify where you are not 
in harmony with your actions. Then work each day to bring 
about more of a sense of inner congruence that meets with your 
own personal standards, and keep this a private matter. You will find the behaviors that you dislike beginning to disap- 
pear and that you are promoting a sense of balance that gives you 
peace. There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of God’s richest bless- 
ings, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned 
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These five attitudes provide you with the tools for creating an 
inner atmosphere of worthiness. They all reflect an ability to live 
peacefully in the present moment and to discard many of the atti- 
tudes of your past that keep you in a constant state of feeling power- 
less and unworthy of being able to manifest more blessings and hap- 
piness into your life. Often this feeling persists because you are 
locked into the story of your earlier wounds. To finalize the path of 
worthiness, you must sever your relationship to these old wounds. UNBONDING YOURSELF FROM YOUR PAST WOUNDS 
The inclination to bond to our wounds rather than move past 
them traps us in a constant state of feeling unworthy. A person who 
has experienced traumatic events in life, such as sexual abuse, the 
death of loved ones, traumatic illnesses, accidents, family disruption, 
drug addictions and the like, can become bonded with the past 
painful events and replay them for attention or pity. These wounds of 
our lives can seem to give us an enormous amount of power over 
others. The more we iell others about our wounds and our suffering, the 
more we create an atmosphere of pity for ourselves. Our creative 
spirit remains so connected to our memories of woundedness that it 
cannot be about the business of transforming and manifesting. A 
feeling of being unworthy of receiving all that one desires is the 
result. Very often the tale of these woes is told in the first few moments 
with a sort of urgency for the listener to know how horrible the 
wounding was and still is. After a while the ego uses this energy as a 
power play in individual and group situations that encourage discus- 
sion of one’s struggle to survive the wounding. This can keep indi- 
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The tendency to bond with the wounds of our lives reminds us of 
how unworthy we are of receiving anything that we really would like 
because we remain in a state of suffering. The more these painful sto- 
ries are recalled and repeated, the more the person is guaranteed of 
not attracting his or her desires. Perhaps the most powerful sentence you can memorize in this 
regard is “Your biography becomes your biology.” And I would add, 
“Your biology becomes your lack of spiritual fulfillment.” By hanging 
onto the traumas of your earlier life, you literally have an impact on 
the cells of your body. When we examine the biology of an individual, 
we find that his or her biography is close to the surface. Thoughts of 
anguish, self-pity, fear, hate and the like all take their toll on the body 
and the spirit. After a while, the body is unable to heal, largely 
because of these thoughts. Attachment to early pain comes from a mythological perception of 
“I am entitled to a perfect, pain-free childhood. Anything that inter- 
feres with this perception I will use for the rest of my life. Telling my 
story will be my power.” What the perception does is give an injured 
child inside you permission to control you for the rest of your life. Moreover, it provides a strong sense of illusory power. The moment anyone stands up to you, or crosses you, or even dis- 
agrees with you, the injury is brought forth with accusations of 
insensitivity concerning the other’s treatment of you. This power is 
empty, however, because it continuously reinforces the idea that you 
are not worthy of being free from these events. The unworthiness 
then inhibits you from attracting to yourself the love, kindness and 
abundance that is the universe. This is not to say that one ought not to deal with traumas and help 
them to heal. But it is to say that one must be very careful to avoid 
explaining present life in terms of traumatic history. The painful 
events in our lives are like a raft you use to cross the river. You must 
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Notice your body when it is wounded. An open wound actually 
closes quite quickly. Just imagine what it would be like if that wound 
remained open for a long time. It would become infected and ulti- 
mately would kill the entire organism. The closing up of a wound and 
allowing it to heal can work the same way in your inner world of 
thoughts. So, don’t lead with your injuries. Deal with them and ask family 
and friends to be compassionate while you are grieving or recuperat- 
ing. Then, ask them to kindly remind you when it has taken on the 
form of a predictable response. Perhaps four or five times your 
friends and loved ones will say, “You did suffer a tragic experience 
and I can truly empathize with you and your need to discuss it. I 
care, and I'll listen and offer help if that is what you want.” Then, 
after several such interchanges, ask your friends to gently remind you 
to not repeat the story for the purpose of gaining power through pity. When you go backward and continuously relive your pain, includ- 
ing describing it in most introductions and labeling yourself (incest 
survivor, alcoholic, orphan, abandoned), you do not do so for 
strength. You do it because of your inner experience of bitterness. This bitterness shows itself in hatred and anger as you discuss these 
events, and you are literally feeding the cell tissue of your life from 
this harvest of past events. This continues to infect the body and prevent healing. And so it is 
with the spirit. This harvest of bitterness keeps you from feeling 
worthy. You begin to cultivate an image of being dirty, unlucky, 
unworthy and maligned, and this is what you send out into the uni- 
verse, which will inhibit any sense of attracting love and bliss into 
your life. The way out of bonding to your wounds is through forgiveness. Forgiveness is the most powerful thing that you can do for your phys- 
iology and your spirituality, and it remains one of the least attractive 
things to us, largely because our egos rule so unequivocally. To forgive 
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is somehow associated with saying that it is all right, that we accept 
the evil deed. But this is not forgiveness. Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate 
that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that 
was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds. Forgiveness is a spiritual act of love for yourself and it sends a mes- 
sage to everyone, including yourself, that you are an object of love 
and that that is what you are going to impart. This is the process of unbonding from those wounds and no | 
longer hanging onto them as prized possessions. It means letting go 
of the language of blame and self-pity and no longer leading with 
one’s wounds and injuries from the past. It means privately forgiving 
and not asking anyone else to understand. It means leaving behind 
the eye-for-an-eye attitude that only makes for more pain and the 
need for more revenge, and replacing it with an attitude of love and 
forgiveness. The spiritual literature available to us from all religious 
persuasions honors this way. Feeling worthy is essential to being able to attract to yourself what 
you desire. It is simply a matter of common sense. If you don’t feel 
that you deserve something, why would the divine energy that is in all 
things send it your way? Thus, you must shift to knowing that you 
and the divine energy are one and the same, and that it is your ego 
that is conniving to keep you from knowing the power of this in your 
_ own life. Listed below are some of the major attitudes and behaviors that 
you can incorporate into your consciousness to facilitate the growth 
of your feelings of worthiness. A PLAN FOR ADOPTING AND HONORING YOUR WORTHINESS 
TO RECEIVE AND ATTRACT FROM THE DIVINE SOURCE 
The following suggestions represent a step-by-step plan to assist 
your receptivity to the power of manifesting in your life. If put into 
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practice, there will be no doubt of your feeling worthy of the benefi- 
cence of the divine, all-embracing spirit. The word “inspiration” literally means “to be infused with spirit.” 
In spirit, if you will. Practice doing what you love and loving what you do each day. If 
you are going to do something, then give yourself the benefit of not 
complaining about it and, instead, loving the activity. Your theme 
here is “I love what I do and I do what I love.” This puts you “in 
spirit” and literally provides you with the enthusiasm for being a 
worthy recipient of God’s grace. The word enthusiasm comes from 
the Greek root entheos, literally, “to be filled with God.” 
Make every effort to remove internal habits of pessimism, negativ- 
ity, judgment, complaints, gossip, cynicism, resentment and fault- 
finding from your vocabulary and your inner dialogue. Replace 
these with optimism, love, acceptance, kindness and peace as your 
way of processing your world and the people in it. Regardless of how much you may be tempted to go back to the cyn- 
ical habits, remind yourself that this is the energy that you are 
putting out into the world, and it sends a message of blockage to the 
energy that would return what you desire to you. If you are filled 
with negativity, you are out of balance and your resentments indi- 
cate that you do not feel worthy or ready to accept the loving energy 
that you desire. Give yourself quiet time each day to erase feelings of unworthiness. This time of prayer or meditation or just experiencing silence will 
nourish your soul and will eventually remove any doubts about you 
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Read spiritual literature and poetry, and listen to soothing classical 
music whenever possible. I have found that simply reading the 
poetry of Walt Whitman, or Rabindranath Tagore, or Rumi puts 
everything into a more sacred perspective for me. It is like doing one’s spiritual homework to read the great teach- 
ings of the masters, including the New Testament, A Course in 
Miracles, the Torah, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita. These great 
works are a way to become in spirit (inspired) and to dissolve 
doubts about your deserving to materialize in your life what you 
desire. This beautiful poem from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is an exam- 
ple of such literature. I include it here for you to study. Pay partic- 
ular attention to the words “Your hearts know in silence the 
secrets of the days and nights” and “For the soul walks upon all 
paths.” These are the thoughts I have been emphasizing through- 
out this book in encouraging you to know your own divine wor- 
thiness. On Self-Knowledge 
FROM The Prophet BY KAHLIL GIBRAN (1923) 
And a man said, Speak to us on self-knowledge. And he answered, saying: 
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of 
the days and nights. But your ears thirst for the sound 
of your hearts’ knowledge. You would know in words that which 
you would have always known 
in thought. You would touch with your fingers 
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And it is well you should. The hidden well-spring of your soul must 
needs rise and run 
murmuring to the sea; 
And the treasure of your infinite depths 
would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your 
unknown treasure; 
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or 
sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, 
“T have found a truth.” 
Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” 
Say rather, “I have met the soul walking 
upon my path.” 
For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does 
it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of 
countless petals. Allow yourself to be surrounded by things of beauty as much as pos- 
sible. I am writing these words on Marco Island in southwest Florida. Each evening I leave my typewriter and go out to the beach and 
experience the magnificence of the sun setting over the Gulf of 
Mexico. Each time I participate in this daily ritual I am filled with 
awe at the enormous energy that is involved in moving the earth 
once more in its orbital relationship to the sun. I breathe in this 
energy and feel thankful for being a part of all this beauty. To be a part of this sunset each evening fills me with a sense of a 
home beyond this planet and opens me up to the deeper nature 
within myself. I could never feel unworthy of the grace and munifi- 
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cence of the universe when J am immersed in such beauty. It is the 
same with virtually any experience of beauty—it has a tendency to 
remove the doubt about your own divinity and connection to the 
ultimate truth that is in everything and everyone. Practice kindness toward yourself and others as frequently as pos- 
sible. Give up your need to be right and win in favor of being kind and 
you will soon know the bliss of inner peace. Remember, it is your 
highest self that only wants peace. When you are practicing kind- 
ness, peace shows up right on schedule. When you are at peace with 
yourself and your world, you know that you are a worthy recipient 
of all that comes your way. You begin to trust in the energy that 
brings the fulfillment of your desires. When you are in turmoil and consequently preoccupied with 
winning and defeating, you are at the mercy of your ego, which 
loves the confusion. All of the inner confusion keeps you wonder- 
ing about yourself and your own value in comparison to others. This brings in the doubt about your worthiness to receive and 
manifest. Make it your own special mission to be kind to others each day at 
least once, and to extend the same privilege to yourself as much as 
possible. You always have a choice in how your inner self is going to 
react. The choice of guilt, worry, fear or judgment is nothing more 
than a thought transferred to your physiology. When your physical 
self is imbalanced with these emotions, you become too sick and 
too unhappy to even think about participating in the act of co- 
creating a blissful life. You sabotage yourself, and all because of an 
unwillingness to be kind to yourself and to others. Begin to process the universe as a friendly rather than an unfriendly 
place. Place all of your wounds from the earlier stages of your life 
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into the category “Lessons for Life.” Stop leading with those 
wounds and making them your badge of identification. Disengage yourself from the attitude of this being an evil world 
filled with evil people, and, beginning today, look for the good in 
people you meet. Remember, for every act of evil there are a mil- 
lion acts of kindness. This universe runs on the energy of harmony 
and balance. Breathe in that energy and breathe out those ideas of 
your being life’s victim. All of the attachment to your traumas cre- 
ates a cellular toxicity in your body, and a spiritual poisoning of your 
soul, 
Say it over and over until it registers: “I am what I am and I am 
worthy of the abundance that is the universe and all that is in it, 
including me.” 
You are now on a path of knowing you are worthy of attracting and 
manifesting in your world. You are aware of your highest self. You 
trust in yourself and the divine wisdom that created you. You know 
that you are not separate from your environment and that the power 
to attract is within you. The next principle involves the energy of love and how important 
it is to know and experience it in all of your being before you begin 
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Mira Bai knows that to find the Divine One 
The only indispensable is Love. —MIRA BAI 
CONNECTING TO THE DIVINE SOURCE WITH 
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE 
The Sixth Principle 
here is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, 
unconditional love. This is the heart of the sixth principle of manifes- 
tation. The nature of the God force, that unseen intelligence in all things, 
which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiri- 
tual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love. It is the glue that holds all things material in place and keeps them 
from collapsing into uncountable particles. This God force is the 
oversoul to which we are always connected because we are localized 
extensions of that force. You may feel infinitely worthy of attracting to yourself material 
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and spiritual prosperity, but if you are not living the way of uncondi- 
tional love you are interfering with your ability to manifest in your 
life. In order to be divinely aligned with this universal infinite energy, 
you must become unconditional love. Though it seems easy and even appropriate to announce, “I prac- 
tice unconditional love,” it is far from a reality for most of us on this 
physical plane. Unconditional love has eluded most of us, largely 
because we tend to identify it as affection or sentiment. THE ENERGY OF LOVE DISSOLVES LIMITATIONS 
When I speak of love emanating from your soul and from the 
divine consciousness of God, I speak of something that the lower self 
or the ego cannot grasp. I am not speaking about “feeling good” 
toward others, romantic love, showering everyone with affection or 
“touchy-feely” behavior. This unconditional love that I write of here 
is an experience of the harmony of life. It is simply too deep and too 
profound for our ordinary selves to activate. This energy of unconditional love is the power behind creation. It 
guides all of our natural laws. This love can be imagined as a vibration 
that carries thought forms from one’s mind into material expression. In its highest nature, love is the force that we recognize as the will of 
God. It is the alchemy that we embrace to make sense of how things 
are materialized from the world of spirit. These are strong words, which are essential for you to know if you 
are to make the transition from one who takes what life presents to 
one who becomes a co-creator with the universal energy of uncondi- 
tional love. I suggest you embark on an experiment in which you practice only 
unconditional love for several days, perhaps even a week. Make this a 
private activity, but vow to yourself that you will only allow uncondi- 
tional loving thoughts to emanate from your consciousness. Make an 
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intense proclamation to live uncondieinel love for a designated 
period of time. During this time refuse to have judgmental or critical thoughts. In 
your quiet time think only peace and love. In all of your relationships 
think and act in only loving ways. Extend loving thoughts and energy 
wherever and whenever you encounter anyone or anything. Become 
unconditional love for this period of time. This practice of becoming unconditional love is a prerequisite to 
the manifesting process. By pouring love into your immediate envi- 
ronment and practicing gentleness in all of your thoughts, words and 
actions, your immediate circle of friends will begin responding in a 
whole new way. Furthermore, this act becomes expansive very 
quickly and you can radiate this love to your community and to peo- 
ple you read about in newspapers, including those who are labeled 
terrorists, murderers, scam artists and the like. You emphasize the “un” in unconditional love. You become 
detached and loving toward all. You are not loving the hostile act, but 
you are loving the spirit that is blocked in those who are harmful and 
unloving. When you can live this way and reject all thoughts and 
actions that are not of an unconditionally loving nature, you will 
experience the essence of your spirit and know how to overcome 
limitations in your life. This is a task that your conditioning will not easily encourage. But 
for a few days you can persevere just so you know what the divine 
universal spirit is like. It judges no one and no thing, it does not mor- 
alize, it does not show favoritism, it merely exists as unconditional 
love, radiating harmony and allowing everything and everyone to 
unfold. Each day millions of flowers open and then close without any 
force, only with the all-flowing unconditional love that is the heart of 
universal, infinite and eternal energy. With this exercise you are culti- 
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As you practice being unconditional love, contemplate and medi- 
tate on the sacred unconditional love that is the heart of yourself also. Imagine an atom of unconditional love that is at the very center of 
your existence. Feel this presence in your heart and feel it opening 
and radiating outward. Soon this impersonal feeling that is not 
dependent on anyone or anything, or any belief system, will radiate 
to a feeling of being connected to the infinite energy of unconditional 
love that is God. With this transformation you are on the path of manifestation. You will connect by ridding yourself of all judgment, anger, moraliz- 
ing, preaching, hate, rancor and all of the other various tools of the 
ego. What can you expect as you practice a few days of being total, 
unconditional love? If all of your meditations are devoted to love, and 
if you pour love into every single situation and every single person 
you meet, and beyond that to everyone on the planet and to the 
infinity of the universe, you will feel yourself becoming a different 
person. You will sleep more soundly. You will feel at peace virtually all 
of the time. Your relationships will be more deeply spiritual. Most 
significantly, you will begin recognizing the “coincidences” of your 
life with greater regularity. Your thought forms of unconditional love 
will begin to produce what you desire without your even being aware 
of how it is happening. Your dreams will be more intense, and the 
vision of your purpose will become clearer. I am suggesting that you can love more, and unconditionally, 
without expecting anything in return; as a result, the limitations 
that you experience will disappear. Try it before you reject it. There 
is an oft-quoted piece from the New Testament that seems appro- 
priate to insert here. For me, it is one of the most profound pas- 
sages ever written. It is reproduced here from Corinthians 13, on 
“Love.” 
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And now I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, 
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the 
gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, 
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, 
I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my 
body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it 
is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily 
angered, it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in 
evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, 
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies they will cease, 
where there are tongues they will be stilled, where there is 
knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we proph- 
esy in part. But when perfection comes, the imperfect disap- 
pears. When I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a 
child. I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put child- 
ish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a 
mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I 
shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain; faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is Love. Yes, the greatest of these is love. It will make the imperfect disap- 
pear, and it will allow you to move into that spiritually fulfilling world 
of co-creating your life based on the model of unconditional love. I am well aware of the improbability of living an unconditionally 
loving life in all of our moments. I imagine your ego is protesting that 
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this idea is absurd because you are only human and humans have 
shortcomings. Nevertheless, I ask you to do this exercise for a few 
days or a week. You see, I know that it will become habitual when 
you feel the richness of your life with this new awareness. Unconditional love is the ultimate mystery of life. It may appear 
simple, but it is so powerful that it will shake you free of your ego 
domination if you give it even a short tryout in your life. Until we 
learn to transcend the ego we continue to contribute to the insanity 
that we witness in the world. Detaching and becoming an uncondi- 
tionally loving observer is the way to cultivate a healthy, balanced 
relationship between ego and spirit. THE PROCESS OF DETACHED OBSERVATION 
One of the great meditation exercises that I learned many years 
ago involves imagining lifting yourself out of your body and floating 
into space so far that you are actually observing the entire planet. If 
you do this, try to imagine what the earth is like without you on it. It 
is a very difficult task for your ego to even contemplate the world 
without you in it. Next, begin to observe the planet without any 
judgment, refusing to label anything as good or bad, right or wrong. Simply instruct yourself to notice, allow and send unconditional love. You probably will find it easier to send out unconditional love when 
you are not there to interfere. That is, you can love unconditionally 
when your ego is out of the way. This is a technique that will help you 
to project unconditional love. If all you are is a being of unconditional love, you are not involved 
in ego concerns. When you operate from this perspective you are 
practicing detachment in a state of gentleness, which makes you a 
compassionate witness toward everyone and everything you come 
into contact with. It is magical to be able to extend this kind of con- 
sciousness beyond your form. This is the resolution of that great 
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mystery of how to connect to and know God. That is, not to know 
about God, but to know God. The process of being a detached observer occurs in the silence of 
your contemplations or meditations. Begin by seeking out time to be 
quiet and enter this inner place of love. It is in that silence that you 
will come to truly know this divine energy of unconditional love. Most people in the western world have a great deal of difficulty 
with any prolonged periods of silence. They fill those moments with 
music, conversation, radio and television and anything else they can 
use to avoid the silence. Our culture is a noisy culture. ; 
When I attempt to meditate and just observe the silence, I deal 
with vacuums, power mowers, tree trimmers, portable leaf blowers, 
edgers and the many machines that move earth and sand, bulldoze, 
clean and on and on. All of these noise machines have power sources 
that pollute the world with loud noise. It takes practice to learn to 
transcend this by going within and screening out the noise pollution. The noisy world will still filter into quiet time unless you can get far 
enough into nature to avoid it. Our preoccupation with noise satisfies the ego’s need to escape 
the serenity and unconditional love of the divine intelligence that is 
God. But you can become a detached observer if you make the 
choice to simply remove your ego from the story line and allow your 
higher self to take over. Become an unconditionally loving observer 
rather than an ego-involved participant. Let go of your inclination to judge and moralize and take person- 
ally what you notice. Simply become the noticer. You are then align- 
ing yourself with God, allowing all to bask in his loving blessing 
instead of the ego frantically insisting that there is a superior way. Being godly means expressing the love that is within you. It is much 
more than simply being close to it. You must be it in oneness with 
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IN ONENESS 
What has come to be referred to as “the will of God” is an inven- 
tion of man to gain control over others. If you are convinced that 
there is a God’s will that is separate from you, then those who claim 
they know God’s will can dominate and control you. If you adopt this 
belief system, then you fall into the trap of “his will versus my will.” 
You want to do certain things, but the “will of God” dictates other- 
wise. Unconditional love and becoming a co-creator in your life is pos- 
sible when you know that God is not separate from you. You and God 
are one and the same. In the New Testament Jesus says to the multi- 
tudes, “. . . I have said ye are Gods,” and later, “When a man believes 
in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. When he looks at me he sees the one who sent me.” (John, 10:34; 
12:44) 
What it means to be in a state of oneness is that you know the 
unconditional love that God has for all of creation is also the uncon- 
ditional love that can be you, if you make that choice. Your free will is 
your freedom to embrace any thought that you desire. This free will 
is your gift from God. Use this free will in a spirit of love that has no 
conditions imposed on it. The love that God has for you is without condition. There is no 
restriction or censorship placed on this love granted to you by the 
divine creator. You have complete freedom to do as you will, for your 
will and God’s will are one and the same. You have the freedom to 
choose your thoughts within this grand scheme of unconditional 
love. If it is the same as God’s love for you, then you are living uncondi- 
tional oneness. If you place restrictions on that love, or withhold it 
dependent on your judgments and hatreds, then you make it a condi- 
tional love and remove yourself from the possibility of co-creating 
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with God. You are in conflict with the divine essence that is God. This conflicted state is nothing more than the imposition of condi- 
tions on your ability to love. Suppose that God decided to withdraw his unconditional love 
from you and the world and conditions were placed upon everything. In this kind of world the people in it would have to function without 
freedom of thought and expression. The entire cosmos would col- 
lapse in an instant. Life flows with the freedom of unconditional love. This is the very 
essence of life. No deity demands that you think a certain way or you © 
will be cursed and destroyed. In our world we have unconditional 
freedom for our thoughts to be what they are. That is how you are 
loved. That is your gift from the divine creator, expressed through 
your individuality. Take that freedom away and you are no longer a 
human being. You lose your humanity when you lose the uncondi- 
tional love that allows you to think as you choose. Now suppose that you are able to function in the same uncondi- 
tionally loving way, simply allowing yourself to be without judgment. What if you have no hatred and only extend the freedom to choose 
to others? You would be experiencing what is called “oneness.” Your 
will and God’s will would not be in conflict. The conflicts that you experience are from the ego. Your ego is the 
idea you carry around of your separateness from God and all of 
God’s creations. This ego needs to be reminded of its superiority 
over others. Thus conflict is created. But you do not have to partici- 
pate in this folly. Your highest self only wants peace and is uncondi- 
tional love. Use this love for the purpose of co-creation. Every moment that 
you create by radiating unconditionally loving thoughts is a reflection | 
of the same love that was responsible for your creation. Creating (or 
manifesting) is the act of bringing unconditional love from within 
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your being into a form that we call the world of the concrete. In this 
sense, then, unconditional love can be thought of as the power to 
participate in the act of co-creation. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS POWER 
Those who seem to have the gift of attracting to themselves all 
manner of good things in their lives are said to be empowered in 
some mysterious way. The ability to reach a higher state of being, 
where there seems to be almost no delay between the creation of a 
thought form and having that thought form “show up,” can be 
viewed in terms of unconditional love and an absence of demanding 
from or judging the world. This is a power that I know is possible for each of us when we 
begin to adopt these basic principles of spiritual manifestation. Most 
of us simply do not recognize how truly powerful we are by virtue of 
our own ability to create thoughts, and out of these thoughts attract 
to ourselves the abundance of the universe. When we think rationally 
about this power we immediately think of the conflict between hav- 
ing a free will and having a destiny. This conflict often obviates the 
need within us to think and live in unconditionally loving ways. Our 
rational left brain says, “If it is already determined, then I have no 
free will, and therefore anything I think has been predetermined, so I 
am doomed.” 
Let’s take a quick look at this matter of destiny, since it is in the 
title of this book, and put it into a different context.
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knowing the nature of this force and seeing yourself as a divine 
expression of it, and by going within to the power that permits you 
to picture a desire, and then tapping that power with a private, lov- 
ing, cheerful knowing, you are on your way to using this vital force in 
ways that were unavailable to you with your conditioned view of 
yourself. Here are a few suggestions for putting these ideas into practice in 
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your life as you begin mastering this fourth spiritual principle of 
manifestation. SOME IDEAS FOR PUTTING THIS PRINCIPLE TO WORK 
When first arising in the morning, take a few moments to be alone 
and ask yourself, “How did the conditions of my life that I would 
like to change first come about. ” “How can I facilitate making con- 
scious contact with my unlimited, invisible source of energy. ” 
These two questions, when repeatedly considered, will begin to 
create their own answers. Remind yourself that it is spirit that gives 
life and movement to anything and everything, including you. It is 
that which causes your very existence. Therefore, you are truly ask- 
ing to join into the spirit of your life. You will soon realize that the conditions of your life have been 
manifested by you, even though you were not conscious of bring- 
ing them about. Your thoughts and mental pictures of lack, 
scarcity, self-absorption, authoritarianism, illness, guilt, worry and 
the like have been put into the universal spirit and have mani- 
fested in your life. The second question will flow from your 
answer to the first. You can hasten your conscious contact by radiating a totally new 
kind of mental picture while applying this fourth principle. Explore the possibility that the reason you believe that life is limit- 
ing is because you have assumed limitation to be in your life. In the world of nature, life, love and beauty are visibly repro- 
duced. You, too, are a part of nature. Does your view of life include 
the natural creative process reproducing within yourself. Or have 
you assumed an engineering view of life with a mechanical cause- 
and-effect conclusion. Perhaps you can shift this awareness to seeing cause and effect as 
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a law, but not the law. The law of originating mind is beyond the 
world of boundaries and measurement. You originated out of this 
law, and your imagination is a perfect example of this. No rule, no 
boundary, no form. Unlimited. The source of your imagination is the divine source. It is here 
that you are now making contact with the eternally moving, always 
alive source of light. Stay in this place within and you will know 
conscious contact with the divine all-creating intelligence. Whatever picture you are able to create mentally will assist you in 
knowing that the creative energy is flowing through you. Your pic- 
ture also provides a direction for the flow of energy. And your pic- 
ture gives substance to its eventual appearance in material form. You are not forcing anything with your picture. Strenuous effort 
is counterproductive to manifesting because it sets up the idea of a 
force that must be overcome. Get rid of the idea of forcing any- 
thing or making demands. Instead, imagine the creative knowing 
that allowed you to come into this world of form. It is a loving, 
flowing, gentle, peaceful energy that is the source of creation. Any 
effort to change that with demands or strenuous effort will inhibit 
that flow. It is vital that you incorporate the concept of a beginning and end- 
ing, or first and last with your mental picturing. When you apply 
this alpha and omega thinking you substantiate that first is the 
thought, the beginning, which creates the form, the end. Thought finds form in something in time and space. The expres- 
sion of thought in the form is a matter of gradual development, 
with a beginning and an ending. Never limit the spirit in any way. If you experience any kind of fric- 
tion, know that it is an error in your thinking and picturing rather 
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than proof that the creative force is working incorrectly. You cannot 
originate the originating force, you can only distribute it. Just continue to tell the spirit what you want without telling it 
how you want it to happen. Then retreat, in faith and trust. You 
need not specify the details, only be ready to see it particularize in 
an endless array of possibilities. Stay alert for clues. Keep your mental picturing to yourself. What you want to attract is 
a private matter between you and God. Discussing it with others 
will dissipate the energy in the direction of ego and the opinions of 
others. Outwardly, be mysterious and silent while inwardly you have 
faith in your ability to make conscious contact with the energy that 
is the source of existence. Let go of the need to convince anyone of 
the rightness of your position. Remain independent of the good 
opinion of others and keep yourself fixed on your ability to attract 
whatever it is that you previously thought was missing in your life. Examine all the supposed lacks and scarcities in your life. Then say 
to yourself, “I created all of this with my thoughts, conditioning, 
beliefs and actions. ” It is only by recognizing that you have always 
been attracting to yourself what you have been radiating out in the 
form of invisible energy that you will be able to use this same energy 
in a more productive manner. Banish any guilt about your past actions. There is no past in the 
all-creative force of energy. There is only the universal now. Now 
you recognize that you have manifested all that you knew how to 
attract to yourself in the past. Now you are going to shift this 
awareness to a new way of being. You have attracted to yourself pre- 
cisely what you have needed in all the days of your life that make up 
this universal now. In this same now, you are shifting to a new 
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Nothing is outside you. You can attract anything when you 
know it already exists in the consciousness of your mind and has 
to materialize from your new thoughts. Be responsible and trust- 
ing and you will see your power of attraction working almost 
immediately. Thought is creative action. It is neither good nor bad. However, the 
thoughts that you dwell on determine what you will possess or not 
possess. What you think about is what you will become. Be conscious of any thought or picture that will end up manifest- 
ing something that you do not want. If your conditioned way of 
thinking is in terms of pessimism, or impossibilities, or using your 
past misfortunes as reasons for not having a happier, more abundant 
life, decide to eradicate those thoughts. If you find yourself com- 
plaining to others, remind yourself that your complaints are a man- 
ifestation of your inner thoughts. Make contact with the power that first allows you to have a 
thought and ask it to help and guide you to new ways of picturing. Once you start catching yourself in the middle of thoughts or com- 
plaints, you Can initiate new pictures. This new picturing process is 
easy when you realize that you are connected to the power that 
allows you to attract to yourself what you desire. As difficult as it is to fathom, because of ego-based conditioning, 
you are indeed one of the ways in which God has particularized in 
this material world. Begin to act as if what you would like to attract is already in your 
life. If you want to create healing, formulate the picture, radiate out 
that energy to connect with the all-creating energy, be cheerful and 
trusting in your knowing, share it with no one and then begin acting 
in a new, healthy manner. The universe will give you minimal clues to begin your new 
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actions. Proceeding to act in the manner of your inner picture will 
hasten the process. If you want to materialize more prosperity, then start the process 
of thinking abundantly and acting that way also. Give thanks for all 
that has manifested in your life. Examine ways in which to be grate- 
ful and take some risks, knowing that what you want to attract is 
already an energy that you share. Buy yourself something special 
and donate something to someone less fortunate, even if your ego 
balks. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is a special favorite of mine. I recom- 
mend that you browse through it daily as I do frequently. Here is a 
portion that speaks of our oneness with the divine energy. Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space. How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of 
myself, 
I could not launch, to those, superior universes. Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God, 
At nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death, 
But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me, 
Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death, 
And fillest, swellest full the vastness of Space. The key phrase in this passage, for me, is “. thou actual Mex 
And so it is with you, no different than Walt Whitman or anyone 
else in the universe. This concludes the fourth principle of spiritual manifestation. A 
summary of this principle tells us that there is an intelligence and a 
power in all of nature that is creative and responsive. This intelli- 
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You are a part of nature and of this intelligence that is greater than 
any single individual. The individual you are is also a particularized 
form of this intelligence. This infinite power is in all things and all 
space, and it will manifest from the spiritual or formless energy that 
is in the unseen world into the world of form and boundaries. When we know this beyond a doubt, and put it into practice in 
our lives, we will see the pictures of our hearts’ desires transformed 
into our outer reality. The fifth principle explains the importance of 
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The Fifth Principle 
n order to become a manifester, literally taking part in the 
process of co-creating your life and attracting to yourself the objects 
of your heart’s desires, you must know that you are worthy of receiv- 
ing. This will mean examining the attitudes that you knowingly and 
unknowingly hold about your life. Your thoughts, which are the 
architects of the foundation of your material world, are what you 
want to examine. Manifesting involves using the power of your inner world to craft a 
fuller relationship with life and attract to you what you desire. You 
can remind yourself all day long that the same power that brought 
anything into the physical world also brought you, but if you do not 
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feel worthy, you will disrupt the natural flow of energy into your life 
and create a blockage that makes manifestation impossible. The fifth principle reminds you that you are worthy of abundance. If your thoughts are based on an image of unworthiness for any rea- 
son at all, you will manifest what those thoughts impart to the uni- 
versal mind. The energy described in the fourth principle will align 
with what it is that you radiate. “As a man thinks, so is he,” are not 
empty words. They state a basic truth of how the universe works. Thinking that abundance is incompatible with spirituality is a 
myth that influences many of us and is the largest impediment there 
is to feeling worthy. SELFISH. The myth that abundance and spirituality are incompatible is 
fueled by thoughts that it is selfish and improper to visualize and 
desire material things. Let’s examine this attitude and determine if 
you have been influenced into believing it to be your truth. Take a look around your world and notice the abundance and end- 
lessness of our universe. It goes on and on, beyond our ability to 
imagine its vastness. This abundance flows from the same energy that 
comprises our fundamental essence. It is you. You are it. Make no 
mistake about it. Material form is how spirit makes itself known to us while we are 
in form ourselves. Spirit manifests in trees, oceans, fish, birds, min- 
erals, vegetables, flowers and you. All that you see around you is a 
part of the material manifestation of spirit. Matter is not an illusion, 
or something that ought not to be, but is the necessary means 
through which spirit differentiates itself on this plane of existence. To feel that it is selfish or non-spiritual to desire and manifest is to 
divide the world of spirit and the world of matter into polar oppo- 
sites. When we adopt an attitude of spirit being incompatible with 
matter, we are denying the spirit that is in matter as its originating 
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energy. We also deny the validity of ourselves as spiritual beings. There is no reason to feel ashamed of wanting things to come into 
your life. It is far better to have an attitude of deserving whatever 
shows up in your life and to be willing to participate in the dance of 
creation as a co-creator. When we shift to seeing that together they 
comprise one harmonious whole, we remove the stigma of selfish- 
ness. Just as each of us is one harmonious whole comprised of spirit 
and matter, so, too, is the entire universe. The process of life taking form is a mystery. That mystery is gov- 
erned by a creative energy that is knowable when we genuinely feel 
worthy of receiving its blessings in form. Abundance is the way of the 
creative force in the universe. You are entitled to have abundance in 
your life, and to radiate prosperity to all that you encounter in your 
world. Nothing is gained by making yourself small and insignificant 
other than to manifest smallness and insignificance in your life. To facilitate an attitude of deserving abundance, it will be helpful 
to examine what you want to change in order to cultivate this know- 
ing at the cellular level of your being. THE CORE COMPONENTS OF WORTHINESS 
Everything that you need to master in order to make this fifth 
principle a working model in your life is available as a mental activity. You do not need to go out into the world and conquer it in any way. It is simply a matter of changing your mind about your basic worthi- 
ness to receive all of God’s blessings, be they material or otherwise. There has been a lot of effort put into conditioning us to feel 
unworthy of having all that life has to offer. Most of us have accepted 
a lot of the stuff that egos have thrown our way, beginning with our 
arrival as infants. Certainly there is nothing wrong with an attitude of 
poverty and asceticism. If this is your path, you know it deep within 
syourself and you know that God appears in all things material and 
nonmaterial. Spirit cannot be divided into better or worse, depend- 
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ing on which of God’s creations you opt to have or not have in your 
life. Feeling worthy of any blessings or desires is a feature of your inner 
life. To remove the stigma of materialistic selfishness you may need to 
rearrange your inner perceptions. Here are the major perceptions of 
beings who know they are worthy and deserving of all of God’s bless- 
ing. 74 My self-esteem comes from myself. This person’s statement of his or 
her inner perception might be something like the following: “As 
a child of God, my worthiness is a given. I am not divided into 
spirit and body, rather, I am a part of the all-knowing creation 
called God itself. I am a human expressing God without reserva- 
tion or restraint. ” 
One of the reasons children are often able to express genius is 
because they have not yet been hypnotized by the idea of being 
limited. If they are able to resist this hypnotic spell, they remain 
geniuses and are able to express their unlimited selves through- 
out their lives on earth. Too often the ideas of other egos are what constitute our 
impressions of ourselves as unworthy. We listen to the admoni- 
tions of others who have low self-regard, and who are attempting 
to exert influence and power over us. We then take on the exter- 
nal validations of our unworthiness and begin to see ourselves as 
some significant others would have us believe we are. It is 
beyond the scope of most young children to resist these ideas. But, as adults, we can look back at this hypnosis and free our- 
selves from its absurdity. You must know within that you are a part of the light that 
lighteth every man. You are evidence of the existence of God, 
and in your own particularized individuality, you have God 
within you. Therefore, you must be able to say with conviction, 
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“God is me, and I am God. ” It is this truth that will free you 
from your feelings of unworthiness to attract to yourself all that 
you desire. Think of your own desires to manifest as having been placed 
there by spirit, and that those desires, which are housed in love 
and service, are precisely what God wants to give you, and that 
your desire is the direct path to receiving those blessings. Let go 
of the idea that desire is selfishness and remind yourself that if 
you had no desires ever, you would still be living an infantile 
existence with toys in a sandbox. Whenever you feel unworthy of having your manifestations 
arrive, remind yourself that no one is unworthy and that the 
same divine energy that flows through you flows through all of 
God’s children and that all are worthy. This includes you. Your desires are the very tools that allow you to grow and 
experience the perfection of the universe. They take you beyond 
any limitations that you might have embraced and lead you to a 
higher spiritual awareness. Even the idea of achieving enlighten- 
ment and mastery is a desire that you must honor. I accept myself without complaint. A person with this self-perception 
thinks something like the following: “I am willing to face every- 
thing about myself, without lapsing into self-contempt or repu- 
diating my essential value as a piece of God. ” 
Self-acceptance is something that must be unconditionally 
known within ourselves. To accept oneself is not necessarily to 
accept every behavior. Rather, it is a refusal to engage in sabotag- 
ing acts of self-loathing. If you are in a state of self-rejection you 
cannot feel worthy of the munificence of the universe. Your 
inner energy is centered on what is wrong with yourself and with 
complaining to yourself and anyone who will listen. You showed up here in a specific body, with certain physical 
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characteristics, with certain measurements and with certain par- 
ents and siblings. This is your reality for the physical plane, and it 
requires a high degree of willingness to look at your physical 
appearance and say, “I accept this without complaint. ” 
If you are unwilling to make such a declaration, your inner 
energy will be sapped by anger, guilt, fear and pain, all combining 
to circumvent the possibility of manifesting your desires. Remember, the ability to attract to yourself is based on the idea, 
“That which ought to be. is already. ” What you desire is 
already here and can only flow into your immediate life if you are 
open to it doing so. Those thoughts of self-repudiation guarantee 
that you cannot put out into the universe the knowing and loving 
energy that is going to work for you. Self-acceptance is nothing more than a shift in consciousness. It requires only a change of mind. If your hair is falling out, then 
you have the choice to mask it, worry about it or accept it. Acceptance means that you really have to do nothing. You honor 
your body and the divine intelligence that is at work. When 
someone else implies that you have a problem because your hair 
is falling out, you don’t even know how to relate to their obser- 
vation. Acceptance removes the label of “problem. ” 
This is not a faked attitude. It is merely removing the ego 
from your inner assessments, which are centered on the approval 
of others. With self-acceptance you are able to honestly say, “I 
am what I am and I accept it. ” Once this attitude is firmly in 
place from a position of self-honesty, your worthiness to receive 
the gifts of the universe becomes aligned with that divine power. Self-repudiation causes a misalignment with your divinity. Only you can make the shift. It is nothing more than an inner 
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I take full responsibility for my life and what it is and is not. This 
involves a removal of our strong ego-dominated inclination to 
cast blame on others for what is absent from our lives. Taking 
total responsibility means an awareness of the power that is 
inherent within yourself. Rather than saying “They made me the way I am today” you 
shift your inner thought to “I chose to be passive and fearful 
around other people. ” This goes for every single facet of your 
personality and life circumstances. To be willing to accept total responsibility for yourself puts 
you in a position of being worthy of receiving and attracting the 
object of your desires. If someone else is responsible for your 
perceived shortcomings, and you are blaming them for these 
troubles, then you are also saying that in order to manifest your 
heart’s desire you need to have the permission of those others. This act of abdicating responsibility destroys your ability to 
empower yourself to higher levels of awareness. When you know that you are responsible for how you chose 
to react to every life situation, and that you are essentially alone 
within yourself at all moments, then you can very privately put 
out into the universe that which you want to bring to yourself. However, blaming others for your life situations shifts the power 
to those you believe are responsible for creating the circum- 
stances. ] have a private inner dialogue with the universe about the cir- 
cumstances that show up in my life. I come from the position 
that there are absolutely no accidents and that everything that 
occurs in my life has a lesson attached to it, and that I brought it 
into my life. Regardless of how absurd or inconsequential it 
might seem, I say to myself, “Why did I create this in this 
moment. ” 
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Thus, if I am having a negative thought and at the same 
moment I bump my head on a cupboard door, I say, “What was I 
thinking at that moment. ” and I take full responsibility for cor- 
recting those negative thoughts and for the bump that reminded 
me to correct that kind of thinking. I do the same when I am 
writing. If I feel inclined to go to the mailbox before writing, I 
follow that inner signal and often find an article in the mail that 
clarifies a point that was fuzzy. I take responsibility for knowing 
that what I needed was there and that my inner voices of intu- 
ition were guiding me. This little game serves me in the sense of taking full responsi- 
bility for my life and eradicating the inclination to blame other 
people or circumstances. I trust in this inner knowledge. I rely 
on seemingly coincidental happenings and I know that I am 
responsible for all of it. As this sense of responsibility has grown, 
I find it impossible to blame anyone for anything in my life, from 
the most inconsequential things, such as bumping or cutting 
myself, or others not showing up on time, to major life disap- 
pointments and my relationships with my wife and the rest of my 
family; for all of it I assume total responsibility. I trust in the divine wisdom that is particularized in me that 
allows these things to transpire. I refuse to question the wisdom 
or to blame bad luck or to credit good luck. I see it all as a part 
of my own functioning in the universe, without complaint. The willingness to be responsible without complaining puts 
you into the natural flow of all divine energy. It keeps you from 
having to fight the world, allowing you to go with it. Everything 
that you complain about puts you in a position of figuratively hav- 
ing to take arms against it and fight. Everything that you need to 
fight weakens you, while that which you are for empowers you. I am asking you to be for yourself. With an attitude of self- 
responsibility, you will notice that the heavens are exceedingly 
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cooperative. Getting the heavens to cooperate means getting 
yourself out of a complaining mind-set and into one of total self- 
responsibility. I do not choose to accept guilt into my life. This mind-set creates 
thoughts such as: “I will not use up the precious currency of my 
life, my present moments, immobilized with guilt over what hap- 
pened in the past. ” 
This statement requires you to know the difference between 
a) genuine regret and learning from the past; and b) remaining in 
a state of reproach or guilt today. Learning from one’s mistakes 
and taking corrective action are spiritually and psychologically 
sound practices. You did it, you didn’t like the way you felt after- 
ward, so you decide not to repeat the behavior. That is not guilt. Guilt is when you continue to feel immobilized and depressed; 
those feelings keep you from living effectively in the present. When you are filled with guilt, your energy is awash with 
anguish and self-reproach. You are so down on yourself that you 
feel unworthy of receiving blessings from the universe or anyone 
in it. Persistent feelings of guilt will prevent you from manifest- 
ing anything worthwhile because you are attracting the very same 
things that you are putting out to the universe. More anguish, 
more reasons to feel bad, and more evidence to prove that you 
are not worth what you desire. When you put past behaviors into a context of learning from 
them and moving on, regardless of how horrible they may seem 
to you, you clear yourself of the negativity surrounding these 
actions. Forgiving yourself means that you are able to extend love 
to yourself even when your perceived shortcomings are painfully 
evident to you. Once you learn this valuable lesson, you seek God’s forgive- 
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will feel unworthy of God’s forgiveness and consequently will be 
unable to accept any of your divine rights as a child of God. No matter what you do not particularly love about yourself, 
including your behaviors and your appearance, to be successful 
at manifesting, you need to love yourself in spite of your per- 
ceived flaws. For example, if you are chronically overweight, or 
addicted, your internal sentences of guilt sound something like 
this: “I am really going to love myself when I am finally a normal 
weight” or “I will truly value myself as a worthwhile human 
being when I am finally over this addiction once and for all. ” 
These are the sentences of guilt that reinforce an attitude of 
unworthiness and inhibit the manifestation process. These inter- 
nal sentences need to be shifted to: “I love myself while I am 
overweight. I am not this weight in the first place and I refuse to 
think of myself in self-degrading terms regardless of the condi- 
tion of my body. I am love, and I extend this love to all of me. ” 
The same kind of inner programming must take place for addic- 
tions or anything else that you feel guilty about. There are 483,364 words in A Course in Miracles. The word 
“beware” appears only once: “Beware of the temptation to see 
yourself as unfairly treated. ” The warning speaks to removing 
guilt and taking responsibility: for one’s life. By removing the 
inclination to wallow in self-reproach, we also remove the idea 
that by suffering in the present moment we will redeem our- 
selves and can pay for our sins with guilt. Life doesn’t work this 
way. Your suffering keeps you in a state of fear and immobiliza- 
tion. That is not a solution to handling your life problems. There is a solution, and that solution is in loving yourself, and 
in trusting in God that your “shortcomings” are nothing more 
than lessons leading you to a new spiritual level. By refusing to 
buy into the conditioned notion that guilt is good and you 
deserve to feel guilty, and that guilt will help you pay for your 
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sins, you reinforce the idea that you are worthy of any desires of 
yours that you want to manifest in your life. By I understand the importance of having harmony between my thoughts, my 
feelings and my behavior. To the extent that you remain incongruent 
in any of these three areas of thinking, feeling or behaving, you 
will impede the process of heightened awareness and the ability 
to manifest your heart’s desire. This is the last of the five points that contribute to your feel- 
ings of worthiness about receiving God’s munificence in your 
life. It is also the most significant because it defines your level of 
integrity. To have thoughts about how you would like to conduct 
your life and to posit these thoughts as your essential way of 
being, and then to feel guilty, fearful, anxious or anything else as 
a result of not living up to these inner positions results in addic- 
tive, manipulative and self-defeating behavior. To be congruent you must be honest about your own 
thoughts. It is crucial to examine your thoughts and forthrightly 
proclaim what it is that you choose to know internally. Even if 
this is perceived as a shortcoming by everyone else, if you are 
honest with yourself you will find that your emotional reactions 
will be consistent with your inner world. You will feel peaceful and content, and this will be apparent in 
your behavior. This is true for virtually everything about your 
life. Your thoughts about health, relationships, prosperity, God, 
work, recreation, whatever. If these thoughts are rooted in love 
and you honestly know that you are here to express love, kind- 
ness and forgiveness toward yourself, toward your work and co- 
workers, toward the money you receive, toward your spiritual 
beliefs, then you will be in harmony and you will welcome the 
blessings that result from your personal conduct in these mat- 
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However, if you embrace these thoughts yet fail to act on 
them in the daily working of your life, you will feel incongruent 
and, consequently, you will not feel that you are deserving of 
desires being fulfilled. Addictive behavior will continue in your life if you remain 
incongruent. All unhealthy eating habits will continue if you 
remain incongruent. All scarcity perceptions will remain if you 
remain incongruent. These are strong statements, yet they 
reflect a consciousness that you must grasp if you want to change 
your status from being unworthy to being worthy. You do not have to adopt any particular spiritual practice or 
set of beliefs. You have to, however, create a sense of congruency 
within yourself to be able to attain this state of worthiness, which 
is a prerequisite for the manifestation process. When you are 
being eaten up inside, in your own private corner of awareness 
that is not available to anyone else other than God, you will 
behave in self-defeating ways that verify your lack of inner con- 
gruuity. By being honest with yourself about what you believe, and 
then acting on that principle regardless of what others might 
think or say, you promote an inner peace that gives you a strong 
sense of worthiness. I encourage you to examine your thoughts 
carefully in all areas of your life, and identify where you are not 
in harmony with your actions. Then work each day to bring 
about more of a sense of inner congruence that meets with your 
own personal standards, and keep this a private matter. You will find the behaviors that you dislike beginning to disap- 
pear and that you are promoting a sense of balance that gives you 
peace. There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of God’s richest bless- 
ings, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned 
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These five attitudes provide you with the tools for creating an 
inner atmosphere of worthiness. They all reflect an ability to live 
peacefully in the present moment and to discard many of the atti- 
tudes of your past that keep you in a constant state of feeling power- 
less and unworthy of being able to manifest more blessings and hap- 
piness into your life. Often this feeling persists because you are 
locked into the story of your earlier wounds. To finalize the path of 
worthiness, you must sever your relationship to these old wounds. UNBONDING YOURSELF FROM YOUR PAST WOUNDS 
The inclination to bond to our wounds rather than move past 
them traps us in a constant state of feeling unworthy. A person who 
has experienced traumatic events in life, such as sexual abuse, the 
death of loved ones, traumatic illnesses, accidents, family disruption, 
drug addictions and the like, can become bonded with the past 
painful events and replay them for attention or pity. These wounds of 
our lives can seem to give us an enormous amount of power over 
others. The more we iell others about our wounds and our suffering, the 
more we create an atmosphere of pity for ourselves. Our creative 
spirit remains so connected to our memories of woundedness that it 
cannot be about the business of transforming and manifesting. A 
feeling of being unworthy of receiving all that one desires is the 
result. Very often the tale of these woes is told in the first few moments 
with a sort of urgency for the listener to know how horrible the 
wounding was and still is. After a while the ego uses this energy as a 
power play in individual and group situations that encourage discus- 
sion of one’s struggle to survive the wounding. This can keep indi- 
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The tendency to bond with the wounds of our lives reminds us of 
how unworthy we are of receiving anything that we really would like 
because we remain in a state of suffering. The more these painful sto- 
ries are recalled and repeated, the more the person is guaranteed of 
not attracting his or her desires. Perhaps the most powerful sentence you can memorize in this 
regard is “Your biography becomes your biology. ” And I would add, 
“Your biology becomes your lack of spiritual fulfillment. ” By hanging 
onto the traumas of your earlier life, you literally have an impact on 
the cells of your body. When we examine the biology of an individual, 
we find that his or her biography is close to the surface. Thoughts of 
anguish, self-pity, fear, hate and the like all take their toll on the body 
and the spirit. After a while, the body is unable to heal, largely 
because of these thoughts. Attachment to early pain comes from a mythological perception of 
“I am entitled to a perfect, pain-free childhood. Anything that inter- 
feres with this perception I will use for the rest of my life. Telling my 
story will be my power. ” What the perception does is give an injured 
child inside you permission to control you for the rest of your life. Moreover, it provides a strong sense of illusory power. The moment anyone stands up to you, or crosses you, or even dis- 
agrees with you, the injury is brought forth with accusations of 
insensitivity concerning the other’s treatment of you. This power is 
empty, however, because it continuously reinforces the idea that you 
are not worthy of being free from these events. The unworthiness 
then inhibits you from attracting to yourself the love, kindness and 
abundance that is the universe. This is not to say that one ought not to deal with traumas and help 
them to heal. But it is to say that one must be very careful to avoid 
explaining present life in terms of traumatic history. The painful 
events in our lives are like a raft you use to cross the river. You must 
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Notice your body when it is wounded. An open wound actually 
closes quite quickly. Just imagine what it would be like if that wound 
remained open for a long time. It would become infected and ulti- 
mately would kill the entire organism. The closing up of a wound and 
allowing it to heal can work the same way in your inner world of 
thoughts. So, don’t lead with your injuries. Deal with them and ask family 
and friends to be compassionate while you are grieving or recuperat- 
ing. Then, ask them to kindly remind you when it has taken on the 
form of a predictable response. Perhaps four or five times your 
friends and loved ones will say, “You did suffer a tragic experience 
and I can truly empathize with you and your need to discuss it. I 
care, and I'll listen and offer help if that is what you want. ” Then, 
after several such interchanges, ask your friends to gently remind you 
to not repeat the story for the purpose of gaining power through pity. When you go backward and continuously relive your pain, includ- 
ing describing it in most introductions and labeling yourself (incest 
survivor, alcoholic, orphan, abandoned), you do not do so for 
strength. You do it because of your inner experience of bitterness. This bitterness shows itself in hatred and anger as you discuss these 
events, and you are literally feeding the cell tissue of your life from 
this harvest of past events. This continues to infect the body and prevent healing. And so it is 
with the spirit. This harvest of bitterness keeps you from feeling 
worthy. You begin to cultivate an image of being dirty, unlucky, 
unworthy and maligned, and this is what you send out into the uni- 
verse, which will inhibit any sense of attracting love and bliss into 
your life. The way out of bonding to your wounds is through forgiveness. Forgiveness is the most powerful thing that you can do for your phys- 
iology and your spirituality, and it remains one of the least attractive 
things to us, largely because our egos rule so unequivocally. To forgive 
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is somehow associated with saying that it is all right, that we accept 
the evil deed. But this is not forgiveness. Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate 
that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that 
was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds. Forgiveness is a spiritual act of love for yourself and it sends a mes- 
sage to everyone, including yourself, that you are an object of love 
and that that is what you are going to impart. This is the process of unbonding from those wounds and no | 
longer hanging onto them as prized possessions. It means letting go 
of the language of blame and self-pity and no longer leading with 
one’s wounds and injuries from the past. It means privately forgiving 
and not asking anyone else to understand. It means leaving behind 
the eye-for-an-eye attitude that only makes for more pain and the 
need for more revenge, and replacing it with an attitude of love and 
forgiveness. The spiritual literature available to us from all religious 
persuasions honors this way. Feeling worthy is essential to being able to attract to yourself what 
you desire. It is simply a matter of common sense. If you don’t feel 
that you deserve something, why would the divine energy that is in all 
things send it your way. Thus, you must shift to knowing that you 
and the divine energy are one and the same, and that it is your ego 
that is conniving to keep you from knowing the power of this in your 
_ own life. Listed below are some of the major attitudes and behaviors that 
you can incorporate into your consciousness to facilitate the growth 
of your feelings of worthiness. A PLAN FOR ADOPTING AND HONORING YOUR WORTHINESS 
TO RECEIVE AND ATTRACT FROM THE DIVINE SOURCE 
The following suggestions represent a step-by-step plan to assist 
your receptivity to the power of manifesting in your life. If put into 
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practice, there will be no doubt of your feeling worthy of the benefi- 
cence of the divine, all-embracing spirit. The word “inspiration” literally means “to be infused with spirit. ” 
In spirit, if you will. Practice doing what you love and loving what you do each day. If 
you are going to do something, then give yourself the benefit of not 
complaining about it and, instead, loving the activity. Your theme 
here is “I love what I do and I do what I love. ” This puts you “in 
spirit” and literally provides you with the enthusiasm for being a 
worthy recipient of God’s grace. The word enthusiasm comes from 
the Greek root entheos, literally, “to be filled with God. ” 
Make every effort to remove internal habits of pessimism, negativ- 
ity, judgment, complaints, gossip, cynicism, resentment and fault- 
finding from your vocabulary and your inner dialogue. Replace 
these with optimism, love, acceptance, kindness and peace as your 
way of processing your world and the people in it. Regardless of how much you may be tempted to go back to the cyn- 
ical habits, remind yourself that this is the energy that you are 
putting out into the world, and it sends a message of blockage to the 
energy that would return what you desire to you. If you are filled 
with negativity, you are out of balance and your resentments indi- 
cate that you do not feel worthy or ready to accept the loving energy 
that you desire. Give yourself quiet time each day to erase feelings of unworthiness. This time of prayer or meditation or just experiencing silence will 
nourish your soul and will eventually remove any doubts about you 
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Read spiritual literature and poetry, and listen to soothing classical 
music whenever possible. I have found that simply reading the 
poetry of Walt Whitman, or Rabindranath Tagore, or Rumi puts 
everything into a more sacred perspective for me. It is like doing one’s spiritual homework to read the great teach- 
ings of the masters, including the New Testament, A Course in 
Miracles, the Torah, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita. These great 
works are a way to become in spirit (inspired) and to dissolve 
doubts about your deserving to materialize in your life what you 
desire. This beautiful poem from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is an exam- 
ple of such literature. I include it here for you to study. Pay partic- 
ular attention to the words “Your hearts know in silence the 
secrets of the days and nights” and “For the soul walks upon all 
paths. ” These are the thoughts I have been emphasizing through- 
out this book in encouraging you to know your own divine wor- 
thiness. On Self-Knowledge 
FROM The Prophet BY KAHLIL GIBRAN (1923) 
And a man said, Speak to us on self-knowledge. And he answered, saying: 
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of 
the days and nights. But your ears thirst for the sound 
of your hearts’ knowledge. You would know in words that which 
you would have always known 
in thought. You would touch with your fingers 
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And it is well you should. The hidden well-spring of your soul must 
needs rise and run 
murmuring to the sea; 
And the treasure of your infinite depths 
would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your 
unknown treasure; 
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or 
sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, 
“T have found a truth. ” 
Say not, “I have found the path of the soul. ” 
Say rather, “I have met the soul walking 
upon my path. ” 
For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does 
it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of 
countless petals. Allow yourself to be surrounded by things of beauty as much as pos- 
sible. I am writing these words on Marco Island in southwest Florida. Each evening I leave my typewriter and go out to the beach and 
experience the magnificence of the sun setting over the Gulf of 
Mexico. Each time I participate in this daily ritual I am filled with 
awe at the enormous energy that is involved in moving the earth 
once more in its orbital relationship to the sun. I breathe in this 
energy and feel thankful for being a part of all this beauty. To be a part of this sunset each evening fills me with a sense of a 
home beyond this planet and opens me up to the deeper nature 
within myself. I could never feel unworthy of the grace and munifi- 
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cence of the universe when J am immersed in such beauty. It is the 
same with virtually any experience of beauty—it has a tendency to 
remove the doubt about your own divinity and connection to the 
ultimate truth that is in everything and everyone. Practice kindness toward yourself and others as frequently as pos- 
sible. Give up your need to be right and win in favor of being kind and 
you will soon know the bliss of inner peace. Remember, it is your 
highest self that only wants peace. When you are practicing kind- 
ness, peace shows up right on schedule. When you are at peace with 
yourself and your world, you know that you are a worthy recipient 
of all that comes your way. You begin to trust in the energy that 
brings the fulfillment of your desires. When you are in turmoil and consequently preoccupied with 
winning and defeating, you are at the mercy of your ego, which 
loves the confusion. All of the inner confusion keeps you wonder- 
ing about yourself and your own value in comparison to others. This brings in the doubt about your worthiness to receive and 
manifest. Make it your own special mission to be kind to others each day at 
least once, and to extend the same privilege to yourself as much as 
possible. You always have a choice in how your inner self is going to 
react. The choice of guilt, worry, fear or judgment is nothing more 
than a thought transferred to your physiology. When your physical 
self is imbalanced with these emotions, you become too sick and 
too unhappy to even think about participating in the act of co- 
creating a blissful life. You sabotage yourself, and all because of an 
unwillingness to be kind to yourself and to others. Begin to process the universe as a friendly rather than an unfriendly 
place. Place all of your wounds from the earlier stages of your life 
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into the category “Lessons for Life. ” Stop leading with those 
wounds and making them your badge of identification. Disengage yourself from the attitude of this being an evil world 
filled with evil people, and, beginning today, look for the good in 
people you meet. Remember, for every act of evil there are a mil- 
lion acts of kindness. This universe runs on the energy of harmony 
and balance. Breathe in that energy and breathe out those ideas of 
your being life’s victim. All of the attachment to your traumas cre- 
ates a cellular toxicity in your body, and a spiritual poisoning of your 
soul, 
Say it over and over until it registers: “I am what I am and I am 
worthy of the abundance that is the universe and all that is in it, 
including me. ” 
You are now on a path of knowing you are worthy of attracting and 
manifesting in your world. You are aware of your highest self. You 
trust in yourself and the divine wisdom that created you. You know 
that you are not separate from your environment and that the power 
to attract is within you. The next principle involves the energy of love and how important 
it is to know and experience it in all of your being before you begin 
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Mira Bai knows that to find the Divine One 
The only indispensable is Love. —MIRA BAI 
CONNECTING TO THE DIVINE SOURCE WITH 
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE 
The Sixth Principle 
here is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, 
unconditional love. This is the heart of the sixth principle of manifes- 
tation. The nature of the God force, that unseen intelligence in all things, 
which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiri- 
tual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love. It is the glue that holds all things material in place and keeps them 
from collapsing into uncountable particles. This God force is the 
oversoul to which we are always connected because we are localized 
extensions of that force. You may feel infinitely worthy of attracting to yourself material 
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and spiritual prosperity, but if you are not living the way of uncondi- 
tional love you are interfering with your ability to manifest in your 
life. In order to be divinely aligned with this universal infinite energy, 
you must become unconditional love. Though it seems easy and even appropriate to announce, “I prac- 
tice unconditional love,” it is far from a reality for most of us on this 
physical plane. Unconditional love has eluded most of us, largely 
because we tend to identify it as affection or sentiment. THE ENERGY OF LOVE DISSOLVES LIMITATIONS 
When I speak of love emanating from your soul and from the 
divine consciousness of God, I speak of something that the lower self 
or the ego cannot grasp. I am not speaking about “feeling good” 
toward others, romantic love, showering everyone with affection or 
“touchy-feely” behavior. This unconditional love that I write of here 
is an experience of the harmony of life. It is simply too deep and too 
profound for our ordinary selves to activate. This energy of unconditional love is the power behind creation. It 
guides all of our natural laws. This love can be imagined as a vibration 
that carries thought forms from one’s mind into material expression. In its highest nature, love is the force that we recognize as the will of 
God. It is the alchemy that we embrace to make sense of how things 
are materialized from the world of spirit. These are strong words, which are essential for you to know if you 
are to make the transition from one who takes what life presents to 
one who becomes a co-creator with the universal energy of uncondi- 
tional love. I suggest you embark on an experiment in which you practice only 
unconditional love for several days, perhaps even a week. Make this a 
private activity, but vow to yourself that you will only allow uncondi- 
tional loving thoughts to emanate from your consciousness. Make an 
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intense proclamation to live uncondieinel love for a designated 
period of time. During this time refuse to have judgmental or critical thoughts. In 
your quiet time think only peace and love. In all of your relationships 
think and act in only loving ways. Extend loving thoughts and energy 
wherever and whenever you encounter anyone or anything. Become 
unconditional love for this period of time. This practice of becoming unconditional love is a prerequisite to 
the manifesting process. By pouring love into your immediate envi- 
ronment and practicing gentleness in all of your thoughts, words and 
actions, your immediate circle of friends will begin responding in a 
whole new way. Furthermore, this act becomes expansive very 
quickly and you can radiate this love to your community and to peo- 
ple you read about in newspapers, including those who are labeled 
terrorists, murderers, scam artists and the like. You emphasize the “un” in unconditional love. You become 
detached and loving toward all. You are not loving the hostile act, but 
you are loving the spirit that is blocked in those who are harmful and 
unloving. When you can live this way and reject all thoughts and 
actions that are not of an unconditionally loving nature, you will 
experience the essence of your spirit and know how to overcome 
limitations in your life. This is a task that your conditioning will not easily encourage. But 
for a few days you can persevere just so you know what the divine 
universal spirit is like. It judges no one and no thing, it does not mor- 
alize, it does not show favoritism, it merely exists as unconditional 
love, radiating harmony and allowing everything and everyone to 
unfold. Each day millions of flowers open and then close without any 
force, only with the all-flowing unconditional love that is the heart of 
universal, infinite and eternal energy. With this exercise you are culti- 
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As you practice being unconditional love, contemplate and medi- 
tate on the sacred unconditional love that is the heart of yourself also. Imagine an atom of unconditional love that is at the very center of 
your existence. Feel this presence in your heart and feel it opening 
and radiating outward. Soon this impersonal feeling that is not 
dependent on anyone or anything, or any belief system, will radiate 
to a feeling of being connected to the infinite energy of unconditional 
love that is God. With this transformation you are on the path of manifestation. You will connect by ridding yourself of all judgment, anger, moraliz- 
ing, preaching, hate, rancor and all of the other various tools of the 
ego. What can you expect as you practice a few days of being total, 
unconditional love. If all of your meditations are devoted to love, and 
if you pour love into every single situation and every single person 
you meet, and beyond that to everyone on the planet and to the 
infinity of the universe, you will feel yourself becoming a different 
person. You will sleep more soundly. You will feel at peace virtually all 
of the time. Your relationships will be more deeply spiritual. Most 
significantly, you will begin recognizing the “coincidences” of your 
life with greater regularity. Your thought forms of unconditional love 
will begin to produce what you desire without your even being aware 
of how it is happening. Your dreams will be more intense, and the 
vision of your purpose will become clearer. I am suggesting that you can love more, and unconditionally, 
without expecting anything in return; as a result, the limitations 
that you experience will disappear. Try it before you reject it. There 
is an oft-quoted piece from the New Testament that seems appro- 
priate to insert here. For me, it is one of the most profound pas- 
sages ever written. It is reproduced here from Corinthians 13, on 
“Love. ” 
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And now I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, 
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the 
gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, 
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, 
I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my 
body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it 
is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily 
angered, it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in 
evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, 
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies they will cease, 
where there are tongues they will be stilled, where there is 
knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we proph- 
esy in part. But when perfection comes, the imperfect disap- 
pears. When I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a 
child. I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put child- 
ish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a 
mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I 
shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain; faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is Love. Yes, the greatest of these is love. It will make the imperfect disap- 
pear, and it will allow you to move into that spiritually fulfilling world 
of co-creating your life based on the model of unconditional love. I am well aware of the improbability of living an unconditionally 
loving life in all of our moments. I imagine your ego is protesting that 
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this idea is absurd because you are only human and humans have 
shortcomings. Nevertheless, I ask you to do this exercise for a few 
days or a week. You see, I know that it will become habitual when 
you feel the richness of your life with this new awareness. Unconditional love is the ultimate mystery of life. It may appear 
simple, but it is so powerful that it will shake you free of your ego 
domination if you give it even a short tryout in your life. Until we 
learn to transcend the ego we continue to contribute to the insanity 
that we witness in the world. Detaching and becoming an uncondi- 
tionally loving observer is the way to cultivate a healthy, balanced 
relationship between ego and spirit. THE PROCESS OF DETACHED OBSERVATION 
One of the great meditation exercises that I learned many years 
ago involves imagining lifting yourself out of your body and floating 
into space so far that you are actually observing the entire planet. If 
you do this, try to imagine what the earth is like without you on it. It 
is a very difficult task for your ego to even contemplate the world 
without you in it. Next, begin to observe the planet without any 
judgment, refusing to label anything as good or bad, right or wrong. Simply instruct yourself to notice, allow and send unconditional love. You probably will find it easier to send out unconditional love when 
you are not there to interfere. That is, you can love unconditionally 
when your ego is out of the way. This is a technique that will help you 
to project unconditional love. If all you are is a being of unconditional love, you are not involved 
in ego concerns. When you operate from this perspective you are 
practicing detachment in a state of gentleness, which makes you a 
compassionate witness toward everyone and everything you come 
into contact with. It is magical to be able to extend this kind of con- 
sciousness beyond your form. This is the resolution of that great 
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mystery of how to connect to and know God. That is, not to know 
about God, but to know God. The process of being a detached observer occurs in the silence of 
your contemplations or meditations. Begin by seeking out time to be 
quiet and enter this inner place of love. It is in that silence that you 
will come to truly know this divine energy of unconditional love. Most people in the western world have a great deal of difficulty 
with any prolonged periods of silence. They fill those moments with 
music, conversation, radio and television and anything else they can 
use to avoid the silence. Our culture is a noisy culture. ; 
When I attempt to meditate and just observe the silence, I deal 
with vacuums, power mowers, tree trimmers, portable leaf blowers, 
edgers and the many machines that move earth and sand, bulldoze, 
clean and on and on. All of these noise machines have power sources 
that pollute the world with loud noise. It takes practice to learn to 
transcend this by going within and screening out the noise pollution. The noisy world will still filter into quiet time unless you can get far 
enough into nature to avoid it. Our preoccupation with noise satisfies the ego’s need to escape 
the serenity and unconditional love of the divine intelligence that is 
God. But you can become a detached observer if you make the 
choice to simply remove your ego from the story line and allow your 
higher self to take over. Become an unconditionally loving observer 
rather than an ego-involved participant. Let go of your inclination to judge and moralize and take person- 
ally what you notice. Simply become the noticer. You are then align- 
ing yourself with God, allowing all to bask in his loving blessing 
instead of the ego frantically insisting that there is a superior way. Being godly means expressing the love that is within you. It is much 
more than simply being close to it. You must be it in oneness with 
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IN ONENESS 
What has come to be referred to as “the will of God” is an inven- 
tion of man to gain control over others. If you are convinced that 
there is a God’s will that is separate from you, then those who claim 
they know God’s will can dominate and control you. If you adopt this 
belief system, then you fall into the trap of “his will versus my will. ” 
You want to do certain things, but the “will of God” dictates other- 
wise. Unconditional love and becoming a co-creator in your life is pos- 
sible when you know that God is not separate from you. You and God 
are one and the same. In the New Testament Jesus says to the multi- 
tudes, “. I have said ye are Gods,” and later, “When a man believes 
in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. When he looks at me he sees the one who sent me. ” (John, 10:34; 
12:44) 
What it means to be in a state of oneness is that you know the 
unconditional love that God has for all of creation is also the uncon- 
ditional love that can be you, if you make that choice. Your free will is 
your freedom to embrace any thought that you desire. This free will 
is your gift from God. Use this free will in a spirit of love that has no 
conditions imposed on it. The love that God has for you is without condition. There is no 
restriction or censorship placed on this love granted to you by the 
divine creator. You have complete freedom to do as you will, for your 
will and God’s will are one and the same. You have the freedom to 
choose your thoughts within this grand scheme of unconditional 
love. If it is the same as God’s love for you, then you are living uncondi- 
tional oneness. If you place restrictions on that love, or withhold it 
dependent on your judgments and hatreds, then you make it a condi- 
tional love and remove yourself from the possibility of co-creating 
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with God. You are in conflict with the divine essence that is God. This conflicted state is nothing more than the imposition of condi- 
tions on your ability to love. Suppose that God decided to withdraw his unconditional love 
from you and the world and conditions were placed upon everything. In this kind of world the people in it would have to function without 
freedom of thought and expression. The entire cosmos would col- 
lapse in an instant. Life flows with the freedom of unconditional love. This is the very 
essence of life. No deity demands that you think a certain way or you © 
will be cursed and destroyed. In our world we have unconditional 
freedom for our thoughts to be what they are. That is how you are 
loved. That is your gift from the divine creator, expressed through 
your individuality. Take that freedom away and you are no longer a 
human being. You lose your humanity when you lose the uncondi- 
tional love that allows you to think as you choose. Now suppose that you are able to function in the same uncondi- 
tionally loving way, simply allowing yourself to be without judgment. What if you have no hatred and only extend the freedom to choose 
to others. You would be experiencing what is called “oneness. ” Your 
will and God’s will would not be in conflict. The conflicts that you experience are from the ego. Your ego is the 
idea you carry around of your separateness from God and all of 
God’s creations. This ego needs to be reminded of its superiority 
over others. Thus conflict is created. But you do not have to partici- 
pate in this folly. Your highest self only wants peace and is uncondi- 
tional love. Use this love for the purpose of co-creation. Every moment that 
you create by radiating unconditionally loving thoughts is a reflection | 
of the same love that was responsible for your creation. Creating (or 
manifesting) is the act of bringing unconditional love from within 
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your being into a form that we call the world of the concrete. In this 
sense, then, unconditional love can be thought of as the power to 
participate in the act of co-creation. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS POWER 
Those who seem to have the gift of attracting to themselves all 
manner of good things in their lives are said to be empowered in 
some mysterious way. The ability to reach a higher state of being, 
where there seems to be almost no delay between the creation of a 
thought form and having that thought form “show up,” can be 
viewed in terms of unconditional love and an absence of demanding 
from or judging the world. This is a power that I know is possible for each of us when we 
begin to adopt these basic principles of spiritual manifestation. Most 
of us simply do not recognize how truly powerful we are by virtue of 
our own ability to create thoughts, and out of these thoughts attract 
to ourselves the abundance of the universe. When we think rationally 
about this power we immediately think of the conflict between hav- 
ing a free will and having a destiny. This conflict often obviates the 
need within us to think and live in unconditionally loving ways. Our 
rational left brain says, “If it is already determined, then I have no 
free will, and therefore anything I think has been predetermined, so I 
am doomed. ” 
Let’s take a quick look at this matter of destiny, since it is in the 
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By knowing the nature of this force and seeing yourself as a divine expression of it, and by going within to the power that permits you to picture a desire, and then tapping that power with a private, loving, cheerful knowing.
What is the key to using the vital force in ways that were unavailable to you with your conditioned view of yourself?
Taking responsibility for your life and actions is essential to manifesting your desires, as it allows you to align with the divine energy and attract what you desire.
What is the importance of taking responsibility for your life and actions?
Self-acceptance and self-love are crucial in the manifestation process, as it allows you to cultivate a sense of worthiness and radiate a loving energy that attracts what you desire.
What is the significance of self-acceptance and self-love in the manifestation process?
Forgiveness and detachment from ego and judgment are essential to transcend the ego's influence and align with the unconditional love that is God. This allows you to connect with the divine and co-create your life.
What is the purpose of forgiving and detaching from ego and judgment?
Unconditional love is the ultimate mystery of life, and it is the power behind creation. It is the glue that holds all things together and allows you to manifest your desires.
What is the significance of unconditional love in the manifestation process?