
THE OM JOURNAL
Questions 33-47

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I have a friend who despite his comfortable life is frightened and angry. He doesn’t believe in God and has no interest in changing his opinion. Why do so many people have to live lonely, frustrated lives?
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Om knows the outcome. Om watches and waits, certain that at some point a person will open his eyes and seek the truth. Until then a person’s actions are the result of all that has gone on before him. He lives a life of reaction, of unconscious desires and hopes that the future will be an improvement over the past. In some ways he is like a rat in a maze. Everywhere he turns he sees an image from the past, and it frightens him and causes him to proceed in a way that isn’t free and wise and filled with God’s light. He sees his fears and past woes at every turn. He tries to protect himself by contracting, by pulling into his shell and hoping that no harm can penetrate his home.
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We all do that to some extent. We all live propelled by our fears of the past. Our hopes seem delusional, a life that can never occur based on what has gone on before it. We walk about with blinders. We are always watching films of our past, and not the pleasant moments that did take us out of our pain for a time.
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Om has done this purposely. Om doesn’t make it easy for us. Om gives us free will and a psyche that is intractable in many ways. We are not liquid creatures that change shape and adapt easily to new situations. We are rigid for the most part and reactionary. Change comes slowly for us, and each gain is a triumph that must be applauded.
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Om has done this so that the realization of what we are becomes a majestic thing, a surprise that takes the breath away and gladdens the heart to such an extent that utter gratitude is the final result.
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And still as we apparently slog along and are blind to the truth, our hearts expand and love flows out of them. We are tempered by what happens to us, by the beauty we see around us and by the kindness of others. We learn to love those around us and to trust in their love, which is no easy matter given people’s early experiences of loss and pain. And then slowly, slowly, the pain is washed away and the truth beckons to us from a fiery distance. Om is a lighthouse of sorts, a beam of light, a constant glow that points the way home to a safer haven than we can imagine.
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Look for Om’s light. Follow it as best as you can. Come closer and closer until the light blinds you in its glory and you and it become one.
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Await that day with great hope and expectation and relief that Om awaits your return. The day that you step out of the shadows and cast off your past hurts and misgivings and misunderstandings and protective coats and stand exposed and willing to merge with Om—that is the reason that Om gave you birth.
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I have a hard time remembering Om when I feel confronted or put upon or criticized. At such times the surface reality of life is all that seems to exist. Please help me to remember the truth.
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Om can seem to be a distant idea or a fantasy. It takes constant work to remember the truth and to act in a way which reflects the knowledge that all is God and must be respected as such. Our petty feelings and fears rise to the surface in a mad rush of upset and block out the light and the love that exists at our core and calls out to us at every moment.
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We must remember to listen to the sound of our breath and to feel the warmth within us. We must remember to reach down inside us and retrieve our love and offer it to others rather than being reactionary creatures whose first thought after being ruffled is to fight back with all our might and trounce the enemy so that it can never harm us again.
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But who is this enemy that appears to have the upper hand? Is it a soul who struggles to be good just as we do, who like us, isn’t always sensitive to the hurt child who lives within us begging to be healed and protected, who herself is a recipient of a lifetime of wounds?
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Take a moment, a breath. Try to achieve a moment of recognition for the truth that you and others are holy beings who struggle to know that, to feel it, and to bandage the wounds that cause us to act badly without thought to the pain and upset this action may cause.
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Be good to yourself and to others. Let pity and compassion and the knowledge of how God operates in this world rise to the fore, rather than past impressions and notions of what is going on.
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Pause. Think. Repeat Om to yourself. Remember Om. Remember your value and the value of others and proceed from there. And if that isn’t quite possible yet, strive for that and remember the truth of our situation whenever you can. Retrain your brain to see the truth. Revel in it. Hold it close to your breast. Let it rise up from your chest. Chant the holy sound and await your liberation from pain and confusion with a heart that beats with the happy truth.
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We are all golden creatures of light and love. Let that light shine to the full extent that you are capable of at this time, knowing that your light with grow brighter with each passing day and effort you make to align yourself and be proof of God’s truth

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Did Om make the world for us or for Om’s own pleasure?
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Om created the world for all who live here. The world is a playground for those who know the truth and a very different place for those who live in ignorance and are driven solely by their fears and their earthly desires. The world is a place of beauty for those who see its creator everywhere they look. Others glance about and every object points to their lacks. They feel hollow and incomplete. They seek to numb their pain with objects or passing fancies that don’t truly touch their hearts. They hide their hearts from themselves and from everyone else. They seek love and affection but are too shut down to give it freely in the way that it was intended to be shared in this world.
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The world is a place of pain or beauty, of joy or frustration and torment, depending upon one’s relationship to Om.
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What is central to one’s existence? Is it desire for things that crumble and flutter away, useless after the initial joy of their gain? Or is a life of giving and duty to the Lord one’s highest and strongest aspiration?
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What good comes from sour thoughts and grumbling? See the truth, the beauty, the godliness in all that exists in our truly golden realm. Learn to cast bad thoughts and yearnings out of your psyche, to remove the doors that keep you separate from your knowledge of and contact with Om.
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Make the recognition of Om your one true aim, and the rest will fall into place as easily as tiny ducklings line up behind their mother.
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Love Om. Worship Om. See it in everything and your life will be greater than you can imagine, greater and purer and more loving than you ever envisioned when you wished that life could be exactly the way you wanted it to be. Trust Om and the life that Om wants you to live. You will not be disappointed.
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I don’t devote all the time to my spiritual practices that I could. Please help me to change my ways.
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Om would like you to know that you are safer in this world than you imagine you are. Om wants to tell you through Om’s loving song—Om’s pure vibration that rings throughout the world at a pitch that only those who know Om can hear—that Om is closer to you than your fears, more lasting and stronger and able to dispel everything that troubles you when the time is ripe and you have done the work that precedes liberation.
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Liberation is not a gift for the faint of heart. One must prepare oneself with great valor and steadfastness. One must be prepared to cast all that is trivial aside, all that diverts attention from its proper holy goal. One must become single-minded in order to truly know Om, and that is not a simple matter to achieve. The mind is fickle. Attention flickers and flits from here to there. Things call out to us and we answer their cry, rather than Om’s holy chord that rings true in our hearts.
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We know what we must do. We know the path to take, the actions that will bring about the joy we long for with such intensity and hopelessness. Yet we linger where we shouldn’t and waste precious time that could serve us so magnificently if we did the work that precedes true liberation. But we must pace ourselves and not be cruel to ourselves if we cannot be the spiritual soldiers that we wish we were.
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We are moving toward that with each good action that we take. Every time that we remember Om and do all that we can to recognize Om’s presence and mighty love, we shed a bit of the detritus that keeps us from knowing our true heart and its holy occupant.
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Put your mind on Om, your eyes on Om. Remember what is truly important in this world, truly necessary if one is to find lasting joy. The rest will take care of itself. Om will push aside the curtain that keeps you so in the dark. The holy light will pour through the cracks in your deficiencies and inattention, and the greatest union of all—the union that dwarfs human romance—will sweep you away to a holy pinnacle where life can be seen from the true perspective. It will make sense to you. You will see Om’s love and compassion wherever you look.
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Bring that love and compassion into your life to the fullest extent possible. Do not force it or act falsely, smiling though wax lips that hide your true feelings. Reach into your heart of hearts, into Om’s heart inside your heart, and retrieve the love and goodness that is your birthright and your finest goal.
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Be loving. Serve Om to the best of your ability. And Om will sing to you and reveal Om’s glorious beauty in slow, measured stages that will take you where you long to go. Love Om. Trust Om. Worship Om. Remember Om, and all will be fine. Your life will be the treasure you want it to be—golden and rich and valuable to all who come near you.

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What are the best ways to worship Om?
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The best ways to worship Om are to realize all that Om has given you, yourself for one, this world for another and everything in it. Do not take a single leaf for granted or a passerby. All here is God and must be seen as such if one is to know Om and realize Om’s powers and gifts to the world.
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Worship Om by thanking Om for all that surrounds you. Sing Om’s praises for the situations that Om has devised for you, and for Om’s presence that leads you to solutions that mirror your growth and spur this growth to continue each day.
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Thank Om with every breath you take. See these breaths as gifts to you. And welcome them as Om’s presence in a form that fuels your cells.
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Worship Om by caring for Om’s creatures as best as you can and seeing yourself as one of these divine creations that deserves your most tender love and attention.
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Worship Om by chanting Om’s name and by looking for Om when you meditate.
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Worship Om by caring for the world and all that Om has given you.
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Worship Om by adhering to rituals that bring you back to the truth and teach you how to behave in a holy way that reflects Om’s nature.
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Worship Om by pledging your actions to Om, by living for Om and your blessed reunion.
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Does Om have a hand in every single thing that occurs in the world? Can I look at everything that happens as Om’s doing?
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Om creates the world with each throb of its being. It knows what goes on at each instant and although it doesn’t condone all actions, it allows them to occur, knowing that Om stands behind everything, is everything at its core, and that this golden love and goodness will emerge in time.
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Nothing happens without Om allowing it to happen. Yet that is not as simple as it sounds. There are layers of karma in this world, layers of lessons and payments and processes that take place at each instant. A particular episode may serve many purposes, some apparent and others not. This world of ours is much more complex than we can gather at a surface glance. Dig deeply and a scene emerges that boggles the mind with its complexity and interlocking of purposes and chances for holy gain.
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Do what you can at each moment to learn a lesson that will remove a veil of misunderstanding and ignorance. Accept each moment as Om’s gift to you, tailor-made for your particular needs and growth. Contemplate each instant as you would a sacred text or a puzzle that must be decoded and then embraced for its holy wisdom.
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Nothing is simple on earth, not the way the body functions nor the mind operates nor the complexity that is our path to God and self-knowing—our one true and magnificent goal.
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This earth is alive with Om’s light and vibration. It is golden, as Om is strands of humming gold. It is aglow and awash in love. That much is easy to comprehend. Work to know that truth until it is as clear to you as your face is when you gaze in the mirror. Look at yourself and see Om in its brilliance and finery, Om as a woman, a being, a helper, a friend who is on the way to knowing the truth. Chant Om. That is your truest name, your name and the deep hidden name of everything else.

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Sometimes I feel like an unhappy, unloved child and then I act like one.
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Om is the great parent, the lover whose love brings its creations into being. Om cannot be categorized. Om’s powers are too great for our minds to comprehend, and yet we want to with all of our might. We are a mystery to ourselves, and Om appears to be the answer. We think that if we could only understand Om’s might and intentions, we would understand ourselves and why we are here. Yet that part of creation is simple and easy to comprehend. We are part of Om. We are made of Om. We will return to Om. And in the meantime we are here to learn to be holy and make Om’s world a better place to live. We are here to open our hearts to the truth and to everyone, whether or not they realize their holy origin. We are here to act in Om’s stead while Om withdraws itself and lets us develop to our full abilities. Om is the proud parent who sacrifices so that the child can become a worthy adult. We are Om as the person who wants to grow and be holy and wise. We are Om as the person who has no idea of the light inside and of the love that is bursting to be free of our contracted heart and become nothing but Om’s pure and limitless heart, flooding the universe with light and love.
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We are eternal. Om is eternal. And we are one and the same. Love Om as you wish that you could love yourself, with full trust and abandon, with great respect and admiration, with compassion and gratitude. Love yourself because you are Om as a person and your foibles are put there to add variety to the earth. Inside we are all perfect. Outside our particularities make the world the interesting place that it is. Our difficulties and difficult ways of behaving are there to bring out our compassion and the compassion of everyone else. Love your foibles and everyone else’s. They bring color and growth to the world. Even the gods have their blind spots that lead to dramas that are fascinating to behold and learn from. Nothing is static in our universe, and we must be grateful for that.
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What is the difference between Om’s speech and ours?
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Om’s speech is creative and golden. Mountains rise from its holy vibration. Seas are formed, along with the creatures in them. Om is very certain of its sounds, very patient and careful of how it puts its power to use.
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We are cavalier in our speech. We say whatever comes into our heads without a moment’s reflection about the harm we might bring. We chatter on to establish to ourselves that we exist and have friends and are liked. We speak to affirm ourselves and to bring our thoughts into being the way that Om brings worlds to life. But we do not share Om’s compassion and righteous ways of acting. We speak of others without caring how we hurt them with our thoughtless talk. We joke to make ourselves feel superior to those who threaten us with the possibility that they are worthy beings albeit with the sort of flaws that everyone sports in this realm, for that is why we came here: to learn lessons that will elevate us and bring us closer to the God within. All of us here need to work on ourselves. All of us have come here to grow and to reassess the choices we made in the past and to learn their consequences along with better ways to behave. Yet we look down our noses at everyone else and worry that we too fall short of what is required on earth.
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Om knows better. Om sings a holy song of healing that at last will bring us to our good senses and reveal the truth. We are all valuable, all necessary, all welcomed by Om as we came into being. Love others and yourself the way that Om does. Respect yourself and others. Worship the God that exists inside all. That will temper your judgments and lessen them.
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How can a song of criticism and derision help a single soul in this world? How can the harm it sows be retracted without great pain and effort on all sides?
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Learn from Om. Take care when you speak or glance about and evaluate your neighbors and passersby. Who here is perfect in terms of their actions? If they were, they would dwell on a different plain. Here we struggle and weep, and kindness is called for. Spread your kindness about. Sow it as the seed that is needed, the seed of compassion and hope and love.

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I judge myself harshly because I haven’t achieved my goals.
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Your study of Om will not go to waste. It will widen your view of what you see around you. It will enrich everything you do. The source must be recognized and acknowledged as such. The Supreme Being reigns supreme, and we must follow its course home if we are to fulfill our destiny. What greater path is there than to travel the cobblestones toward light and love and true awareness and knowledge?
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The world we live in will fade away, at least in our consciousness. But the Eternal will welcome us, and we will never be destroyed as we fear so many times on earth.
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There is no need to worry once you plant your feet in the proper direction and work to make sure that every step you take brings you closer to God. Yet every step does do that, no matter how misguided you are at the time and how skewed your priorities and desires are. The world beckons to us. It shines like a trinket and smells of perfume. Honor the earth. Give thanks for the beauty you see and the marvels you discover. Learn to separate the passing from the eternal and to cling to that which can be clung to while the rest dissolves. The body dies. Our friends go to their graves. The world turns. The sun sets a final time and still Om is triumphant and welcoming. Let that be your solace in times of fear. Let the knowledge that Om is eternal and that you in a very great sense are eternal be key in your mind at times of turmoil. Work to know this truth as well as you know your name and the names of your parents and relatives who came here before you and left at the proper time for their souls and the lessons they came here to learn.
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Lessons are learned over lifetimes. The truth emerges as the pain of past lifetimes is remedied and stripped away. Love waits to inhabit every part of you. It stands poised to rush in where fear and anger were dislodged from your psyche and peace remained more visible and palpable than it was when sore feelings and the urge for retribution or conquest or greed lived at the fore. Conquer those elements which bring you low and cause your mind to be agitated.
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What possession can equal a heart bursting with love and light, a soul that rests easy and knows whom to trust?
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Trust Om. Seek Om. Worship Om. Pray to Om. Speak to Om all day long. Chant the sacred syllable and you will learn what really matters on earth—possessions or godliness.
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Choose now. Stop longing for the things you see around you. How can they cheer you like Om does when you feel it course through you? In truth we would pay everything we have to experience the bliss that Om allows us at the proper time.
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How do the millions of starving people in the world benefit from Om’s love?
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Dear One, this earth is not an easy place to dwell in. You are among the fortunate but many others live in dire conditions that must be attended to if they are to thrive. Om has given every person on earth a chance at life and growth and knowledge of the divine. But some of this comes at a heavy price for those who walk this earth and realize the conditions of their fellow beings.
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What is the choice for those who live amidst plenty—to avert their eyes from their brethren and put their minds on other things, knowing full well what the true situation is and the sort of person they become if they withhold their help and compassion from those who need it? Or to roll up their sleeves and help in any way possible?
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As for you, how do you know when you’ve done enough, done anything really considering the scope of the problem and your own fears that you don’t have enough and must hold tight to what you do have? Is that true, or do you need to double your faith in Om and open your hands to those in need? Start slowly. You are doing something now. Do a bit more and then a bit more and see where that takes you. Listen to your heart and answer those cries that touch it the most.
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As for your fears, they are lessening and will continue to if you work to trust Om and love Om and shine to the full extent that you are capable of. Do not dream of glory. Stay rooted in the present, in the doable, in the work that must be done rather than giving in to fantasies of wealth and admiration, power and fame. What comes to you is exactly what you need. You must believe that and not be disappointed that others achieve greater success. Your success will be right for you whatever its size. You do help people. And you will help more. But do not expect a scale that rivals that of the most famous people around. They have a different karma. Yours is a quieter sort. Yes, you will succeed and be happy with what you’ve done, but stay rooted in fact and true possibilities.
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As for the poor of this earth, for the most part theirs is a far sadder story and still Om loves them and their end will be as joyous as anyone else's. It’s just that they are in a place now where they are called upon to act and survive on a level that takes every ounce of their strength and cunning. They see a side of life that others don’t. It is necessary to see this at some point and know the depths that exist on this earth if one is to know Om’s power on earth and progress to the next level of life.
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All of us live these bleak lives at one point or another. All of us know terror and loss and what people are capable of when they’re frightened enough or tempted by greed and mindless, selfish, uncaring lust.
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We carry those impressions with us. They inform our actions and the way that we view those around us. Work to rid yourself of past impressions that limit your love and your sense of yourself as a holy being.
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Om does not give us a world where action is limited as are the consequences of the deeds we engage in, be they helpful or hurtful. Om is a mighty force, much more mighty than the loudest crack of lightening or the Big Bang, for that matter. Om’s worlds reflect this might and variety and highs and lows, that a person can experience. All of this is part and parcel of living in Om’s universe. It is all a glorious, frightening, exhilarating dream—and no more.
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The sick, the hungry, the frightened, and the abused must be helped. They cannot be ignored and thought of as beings who create their own misery and deserve less than we do. We are them. They are us. They and we are holy beings and must act as such and be treated as such. Om’s love must pour from our hearts to those who have less than we have.
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We cannot be selfish and still grow closer to God. Selfishness is a state of contraction. Generosity with the right intention and thought behind it is Om’s way. We are right to imitate it until we reach the point where we are pure enough to do good as effortlessly as we breathe and our hearts beat.
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We are Om at our core. The more our actions reflect this, the more our inner love and joy will surface, and we will be a great servant of the Lord Om.
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Love Om. Trust Om. See everything everywhere as made of Om and as a part of you. Help your brothers because you and they are the same. Om loves you both and has engaged you and equipped you to do Om’s holy work on this earth. Do not tarry. Open your heart and see what emerges and how you and those you touch feel afterwards. Love Om. Thank Om for the task that Om has given you: to help its creations and bring their lives up to yours. Listen to them and learn from them, because those who suffer are wise and holy. God is at their core, and they at some point learn that this treasure supersedes all the other ones.

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I fall short in my efforts to be a good, holy person. Please help me with this.
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Om is perfection. Om’s holy sound pierces the universe, and life exists and flourishes to a great extent. But Om does not make beings who are stagnant in their perfection, who have no need to grow or learn anything. What sort of world would we have that was populated by such perfect beings? On one hand, yes, it would be a glorious place in the sense that it would be populated with living saints who only act out of goodness and great love and the desire to serve. Yet who would they serve? Life would be like the sort of mechanical dances that occur in store windows at Christmas time, a prescribed bow to one figure, a wave to another, a twirl on a set track, and then the dance begins again but not anew. Whereas on our plain of action, people strive to overcome their worst impulses and to gain control of themselves so that they behave in ways which enrich themselves and those they meet. Each gain is a triumph and must be recognized and treated as such, as a step toward God and full understanding.
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We are unraveling the nets that we are caught in. We are freeing ourselves one good act at a time, one new realization that the past is over once we learn to act in ways that are true and clear and free of old habits and opinions. Sometimes, yes, we react like automatons or like toy tigers that are programmed to roar and bare their teeth at an enemy who may or may not be standing in front of them. But after a time spent contemplating these incidents and learning their lessons, we see the truth. Then our actions reflect this change, and happiness comes to the fore rather than self-reproach.
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There is no need to panic each time you react as you did a thousand times in the past. Simply tell yourself that the past is over. The present always offers us a fresh new chance, with no lessening of Om’s hopes for us based on what we did before.
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Breathe a breath of fresh air. Fill your lungs with Om’s love and a vision of yourself as a creature of light and love and strength and fortitude, a flexible being who will learn in time. Say to yourself that you are moving in the right direction and are right on schedule to meet Om’s holy embrace.
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What is the most important lesson for me to learn in this lifetime?
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The most important lesson for you to learn in this lifetime is the lesson of your true identity, the lesson of who dwells within you and what that says about who you truly are.
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Early on, you thought of yourself as a poor, sad, inferior soul. Now that is changing. You are coming into your own, so to speak, into the radiant light of acknowledging your own true, holy makeup. You are a woman who strives to improve herself and to act in ways which will win God’s approval. But is that the correct approach? Why not take an easier path, a more direct path, if truth be told, to knowing God, the God who dwells within and already showers you with love and approval, however hard it is for you to feel these benevolent gifts at certain times.
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Work to know the God within with the same sense of happy anticipation that you would feel for a rendezvous with a dear friend or a lover who treats you with the care and attention you’ve craved for so long. Why not say, “I am so fortunate because I carry all that I need inside me and I do not have to prove myself to the world, to strangers, to be a beloved of the most holy entity on earth.” Know that this goes for everyone else. Work to spread this glorious news. Spend the rest of your time making contact with the God within you, with the holy chord that sings to you with the love that lights every one of your cells and gives you life and a blessed existence.
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Tunnel into your heart, peer deep within yourself during your daily meditations, and see who responds and welcomes these visits. Connect to the God within. Throw open the doors that separate you from the golden Lord and the joy which abounds in full measure.
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But know that the search takes time. How long did Stanley look for Livingstone? How long did it take to find the source of the Nile or the most advantageous route to the Americas?
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The search for the God within also has its difficulties, its tricky turns and dark corners and rough seas that must be navigated with the greatest care and patience. You are traveling back through time on this voyage. You are tramping past old traumas and lifetimes where you suffered terribly. The trip towards God is filled with moments of indecision and places where trust falls away, exposing lifetimes of doubt and cynicism. Yet what an adventure to embark on! What could be a better use of your time or lead to such a rich and unimaginable end? If you could see that end now and understand the joy that you’ll feel, the ecstasy, the knowledge, the freedom, you would spend your efforts on this worthy mission. You would not let the trivialities of life bring you low in the way that they do now.
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You would say to yourself, “Yes, I am worthy and good and pure at my core. What more do I need than to increase my contact with the golden love within me? And then to spread it everywhere I go while I sing God’s praises and worship Om.”

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What is the difference between human relationships and our relationship to Om?
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Om is the Supreme Being, the supreme and primal sound that brings everything else into existence. It does that so that one can become many. And the many can learn that they are part and parcel of the One. And as such they are more holy than they think they are before they embark upon their search for God. The One wanted to live as many so that relationships could develop. Love would be useful rather than simply a state of being. Love would be the treasure, the lost object, the thing that mortals hunger for. We would start by craving human love and progress to the realization that this love is in truth the holy Lord, and it is limitless.
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We practice on each other. We learn to compromise and to fend for each other. We learn in small measures what our heart contains. We see how we feel at moments when our heart opens to others. And we want this happy feeling to be the norm.
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It is, or will be once we reconnect with the holy source that dwells within us and loves us on a scale that few on earth can fathom. Human love pales next to what the heart truly contains. It is our life’s work, the work of countless lifetimes, to bring the love we exude up to the level of Om’s joyous load and to see the world as Om does and to love it in kind.
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Practice expanding the door to your heart. Do this by learning compassion and tolerance. See others as you wish to be seen, with an insight for the factors that molded you into the woman you are today. Know that everyone carries scars of the past and difficult ways of being that are the result of their early and often faulty methods of trying to cope. Trauma stays with us. Fears cling to our psyches and stop us from living pure, free, giving lives. We must undo our contractions and false ways of seeing that rein in our love and turn us into sad, needy beings who seek to take rather than to give. We must give, knowing where we can tap into the holy supply of love and comfort and trust and assurances that all is truly fine and aglow with God’s holy light.
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Until then, to facilitate the process of unlocking the doors to our hearts, we must train our eyes on God and learn to ferret out the truth of every situation and every player in God’s theater, which is life on earth.
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Love yourself and your fellow beings to the best of your ability at the present time. Chant, meditate and focus on God. And slowly your heart will open and the impurities that weigh on it will be taken away.
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See your fellow beings as fellow seekers who want exactly what you do; peace and fellowship and a happy understanding of why life unfolds in the ways that it does. Love others just as you are striving to love yourself and to see past the judgments that harm you so and fill you with angst and self-reproach. Look past a person’s exterior and work to see straight into their heart. Keep track of their good and loving gestures. Excuse the rest as a reaction to past injuries that to their minds are still recurring, although they are not.
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See how timid we are, how fragile and also how strong and majestic and giving because of whom we are at the core. The core is what matters. The love of God that resides inside us in such unimaginable abundance is what counts most of all. Let your task on earth be to experience this bounty. Help others to experience their bounty until your time and their time of union with God arrives. Know what is inside us, be it felt or not.
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Love Om. Worship Om. Say to yourself, “Om courses through me and through everything else, showering us with love and ecstasy and the means to a future of bliss and holy giving. This is the truth. The rest is illusion. The rest will fall away piece by piece. And God will emerge from us in its full glory.”
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How should I see the events of my day in relation to Om?
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The world was made by Om, and it is Om. It is Om as a city that is filled with challenges for its inhabitants. You must learn to negotiate your way through crowds and frustrations, through noise and enticements, in a manner that brings your love to the fore, along with the constant realization that everything is made by God and dear to God and must be treated as such.
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When you feel that you are up against a wall of frustration and are longing for the riches you see or when you are horrified by a seemingly tragic sight or are frightened by threatening characters, of course you must protect yourself from harm and reach out to those who need your kind ministrations. But always remember that all of this is a play meant for God’s enjoyment and for the growth of God’s creations.
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It is never meaningless, never haphazard. Everything that happens does so with God’s knowledge and approval—not that everything that happens pleases God; quite the contrary. But God allows God’s creations to play out their desires and see the results. Karma then comes into play. Mistakes must be corrected. Bills must be paid. No one is truly allowed to get away with murder. The consequences occur in ways that challenge the person and open him to growth and a chance to change his views and take the godly path rather than the demonic.
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So see everything as a gift of God to one and all, a ravishing adventure, a play on a monumental scale, with countless players and props and acts that lead to other acts, a play that outdoes the greatest operas.
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Enjoy what you see, and remind yourself that God is inside and outside you. You are safe in that the greatest parts of you are eternal. The rest, the parts that fall away, are only adornments and costumes needed for a certain adventure, a certain climb up the mountain. Afterwards it is fine to leave these things behind and step into a new situation and learn from that.
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Learn, love and grow closer to God. Look for God inside and outside yourself. And the rest will take care of itself.
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The world is here for your pleasure and growth. Be a good student. Learn to be a holy lover, a good servant of God. Nothing is better in this world we inhabit.

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How can I put an end to feeling sorry for myself?
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Om is with you in every moment. Om sings to you, and it behooves you to listen to this holy pulse with all your being.
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The song Om sings is a song of reassurance and purpose. It is a love song meant for you and for everyone else.
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Om hopes that the love inside you will overflow the walls that you’ve put up in an effort to protect yourself from people who struck you as frightening. You were wary, still are wary today. Om’s song is meant to show you what love is like and to allow you to let down your guard.
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This is not an instant act. Care must be taken. Om knows that best of all. Om is patient. And you too must be patient and not rush a result, however much you would like to.
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Growth occurs in small increments. Look at nature and you will see the proof of that. A flower unfolds slowly. A seed takes a year to develop. A creature must gestate before it can thrive and reproduce.
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The same thing applies to you. As a child, you grew slowly and at the proper pace. You did not shoot skyward like a magic beanstalk. Your bones had to harden and be able to support your increasing weight. Your heart had to grow slowly to do its job.
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Now you are in the midst of becoming a loving and holy person. But this too will take a very long time. Look back and see how far you’ve come. The time spent when seen in your memory takes an instant. You were one person then, sorrowful and worried. And now there is color in your cheeks and your heart feels so much lighter.
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The rest will come in time. The walls you installed to keep yourself safe will come down one brick at a time if you continue to make the proper effort to know God and develop a love for yourself and for all of God’s creatures.
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Life on earth isn’t easy. Challenges abound. They cannot be avoided. A person can’t hide from their destiny or expect to control every aspect of what happens to them.
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Instead we must be open to change and to new situations that force us to reevaluate the way we behave and perceive the world. We must try to see God’s light in every object and to see God’s good intentions in every occurrence.
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Do so and you will be surprised at how happy you feel. Open the doors to your heart at a pace that feels comfortable and yet isn’t complacent.
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The old fears and notions must be replaced by more holy and accurate notions if you are to live a truly vital and useful life, a life of growth and giving and happy companionship.
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You must reevaluate your behaviors and notions every day of your life until you shine with God’s light and are a beacon to all, a light that speaks and says, “The struggle was worth it. Om saved my life. Om polished it and rubbed it clean and taught me its holy song and gave me the desire to sing it all day long.”
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