…this inevitable thing called death is not a bad thing. We know that you might think we’re biased since we are considered dead. (Laughter.) You are Source energy that had something in mind when you made the decision to come forth into this physical body. None of you said, “I will go forth and stay in this body for hundreds of years.” Very often your intention was to come forth, make a big splash, have a lot of fun, and then make another decision. Physical beings have turned this amount of life into an issue. You cannot evaluate the quality of life by the quantity of life.
None of you really ever hear anything until you are personally asking, you see. We can talk all day, every day — and we do (laughter) — about this, and there are many physical beings who just hear the words, blahblah blahblah blahblah blah, “What [are they] going on and on and on about?” And it isn’t until something happens that they say, “Ooohhh! Oh, there’s something there. There’s something there that I am now looking for.”
It really is not of value to answer questions that have not been asked. And there is nothing that causes physical humans to ask the questions about who they are, those bigger questions — [and] it is so important that you get the answers to those bigger questions so that you know who you are, so that you can get oriented in this body, so that you can begin to live the life that you came forth to live. So very often, people like your friend actually begin living with the death of someone important to them, because they must get it into perspective to even survive, you see. When you show yourself that you can return to joy under those conditions, there is never ever, ever, ever again anything for you to fear. And wouldn’t you all love to be one who has gotten over that fear stuff? Don’t you just love to know the well-being, the total well-being of who you are?
— Abe — Phoenix, AZ, 3/20/04