The only thing that can keep you from the freedom and joy that you
believe the winning of this lottery is about, to keep you from the
abundance and the feeling of mobility that you seek in this physical
experience, the only thing that can keep you from having all of that is
focusing upon things that make you feel other than that. And the
Universe cannot yield the lottery to you as long as you are feeling the
dissatisfaction of where you stand.
You have to feel appreciation for where you stand in order for more that
will please you to be able to get in.
There are people who don’t like the color of your skin what will you
do to please them? There are people who would rather that you are a lot
taller than you are, and there are people who would like you to have a
different political persuasion. And there people who can’t a word you
say who would much rather that you speak their language. So what do you
do about all of them why aren’t we talking about that, too? Because
you don’t feel that it’s in your power to make your skin black. You
don’t feel that it’s in your power to make yourself six feet tall. You
don’t think it’s within your power to please all of those people in all
of those ways. But you do think it’s within your power to suffer. You
do think it’s within your power to deprive yourself of financial
well-being — you do think it’s within your power to hold yourself in a
financial countenance that will please them.
When you begin to pay attention to the way you feel and you show
yourself that in your adoration, in your exhilaration, in your
appreciation, in your life-giving attitudes you are connected to your
Source Energy and therefore of tremendous value to those around you, and
in your self-judgment and unworthiness and criticism and blame and guilt
you are not, then it doesn’t take too much conscious playing of this
game before you finally get it that your job is to be happy, that your
gift to others is to be joyful. And we think that any way that you
allow abundance - whether it is through dollars or through oxygen or
through vitality or through wellness - any way that you allow abundance
to yourself, you shine as an example to others that says it is a
possible thing for all of us,’ you see.
— Abe — Kona, HI, 12/9/00 (tape B)