You prepare for the worst, hope for the best and shoot down the middle. And when you support yourself and believe in yourself, you can bring about positive, directed changes in yourself and in the world.

If you look for what is beautiful in everything that happens, you'll find the secret of the great spiritual Masters, which is that everything is in its right and proper place, even if you cannot see it yet.

We all can work on harmonizing with God so that all things are possible. The first choice is God. When we make that choice, then all things are added unto us. As it says in Scripture, seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, and then all things will be added unto you [Matthew 6:33].

The things that are to be done physically, do physically. The things that are to be done emotionally, do emotionally. And when you blend them into one action, you have changed your behavior. The change in behavior brings rewards - the rewards of new opportunities, new abilities and new life.

The Traveler teaches longevity in order to release as much karma as possible. If we cut that process short, we cut it short only in terms of this world now; we don't really cut it short at all. In an even larger sense, not one Soul will be lost and God loves all of Its creation. So, in time, the lessons will be learned, the Soul will return to God, and all will be well.

And the truth is what we're all after - no matter where it's found.

How, then, do we live in this world? How can we gain? What can our goal be? For God's sake, don't have a goal in this world. It's going to beat you bloody. Where is the goal? The goal is inside. When you turn back inside, you have your goal, you have your completeness, you have your fullness and you walk through the world, having all else added unto you.

When we have doubts or fears or when we judge ourselves, we can always let go and choose into the blessings of happiness.

You learn to use the wisdoms to step forward in those areas that are for your highest good.

One key to liberation is eternal vigilance. Salvation is a daily job, a nightly job, and an eternal job. If you enter into spiritual discipline and gain a certain level of awareness, you are responsible for that expansion, and you are responsible for continuing it. You can't stop and "rest on your laurels." It doesn't work that way. You keep going.

It's true that some are more spiritually aware than others. But on whatever level you find yourself, that will be the level on which you approach the Father, the level on which you approach the Christ within. That spirit of inner peace and wisdom and joy is there.

Commitment really means that you both go for 100 percent loving. Don't expect perfection because it may not be available, and the paradox is that you still go for it. The best you'll end up with is excellence, and excellence in loving is almost totally fulfilling.

You have often heard me say, "Check it out. You decide. If it works for you, use it. If it doesn't, let it go." That approach can really be useful to you. Why? Because that's exactly what you're going to do. You're going to be the one who decides, and you're going to be the one who lives your life according to how it will be best for you.

Sometimes your highest good may be a little bit different from what you think it should be. You ask for the highest good and something happens and you say, "That doesn't feel too good." Yet later on you look back and say, "I'm so glad I went through that. That taught me a tremendous lesson; a tremendous experience came forward."

You don't get a limited amount of choices and then you're done. Better choices are available to you. With God all things are possible. Go for the best choices which are all for the highest good.

If you see disturbance out there in the world, it is a reflection of disturbance in you. If you see something you don't like in another child of Light, it is because that same place exists inside of you, and you recognize that. All of your experiences, all of your relationships, reflect you back to yourself so that you can learn to know yourself in greater and greater ways.

The longer we are living on this physical realm, the more opportunity we give ourselves to clear and release karma and, therefore, lift ourselves higher.

Just because you have learned something and think you're "there" doesn't mean that you can stop. You have to keep working at it. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. And vigilance means that you have to demonstrate being awake. Watch what you say because you may be fabricating an illusion that will then prevent you from becoming what you say you are.

When you stop mentalizing and ask from your heart for Spirit's Light to be with you, things around you change. Then those things, which seem so locked in and crystallized, can be released and altered. It's a great day when you recognize that the things in your life which seem inalterable can be lifted.

By opening up to your happiness within, you have a greater opportunity to bless the world with your happiness. When we are happy, we are spontaneous and open to participate. We allow our creativity, that happy energy, to move out into the world and touch others.