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Turn on the television for about two hours and run the gamut. In other words, you’ll be afraid of cancer; you’ll be afraid of all kinds of diseases; you’ll be afraid of terrorists; you’ll be afraid of pipe bombs; you’ll be afraid of automobile accidents; you’ll be afraid of muggers; you’ll be afraid of rapists; you’ll be afraid of pit bulls and alligators… And even if you are watching positive shows, they’ll sneak it in on you. Because they believe that you need this information because if you don’t hold the information of all the dangers that exist, then you might end up in danger. And what they are not realizing is every moment you spend pushing against any one of those, and therefore causing negative emotion, holds you in a place of not letting in the well-being that would be there if you were not doing that thing you do.

So you can reach this place where you can actually watch television and you can take from it the things that uplift you, and you can see the well-intentioned things as they are warning you about one thing and then another, and you can consciously acknowledge that they are offering it to you for your well-being, and then you can acknowledge, “Well my well-being is in full place, thank you, anyway” you sort of say, and you don’t have to feel any negative emotion. In other words, you don’t have to feel a conditional love—then you say, “Well, if the television would stop spewing all that stuff to me and my kids would stop coming home drinking, and if my body will stop hurting, and if my boyfriend will come back, and my mother would just finally make the decision and just croak and leave me alone… In other words, the conditions do not have to change. You get to choose how you feel. Ah. That is true liberation. There is no liberation that is more dramatic than the liberation that comes when you realize that there are way way way way way way way more things to feel good about than bad about, and with a little practice it’s way way way way way way way more easy to find something to feel good about than bad about, and in doing so you are then in the place of allowing the universe to intricately, intimately satisfy every desire that you have ever offered on all levels. Which means traffic is nice when you’re in it; the restaurant is nice when you’re in it; the food is delicious when you’re eating; the weather is nice where you are; people are responsive to you, which means people are respectful of you. In other words all things big and small are satisfied in your ever unfolding saga of joy.

Abraham—Albuquerque, NM 7-21-01