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Kate: Here's a question that came in from Moriya. When asking the Divine to reorganize my life, how do I recognize and stabilize these gifts so my life situations begin to mirror those changes? I wanted to know how to sort through all the wrong answers so I can clearly hear the Divine and only Divine -- no beliefs, no gurus, no new age mumbo jumbo.
GF: I address again this idea of a mistaken perception... unavoidable because of the way our consciousness separates us out from everything that we interact with. I don't "ask" the Divine, although I would say again, you know, there's so many stories through the old teachings. How can there be a wrong prayer if my heart longs to have a relationship with the heart of hearts? Does it matter how I say it? Does it matter the words I use? Or is the original intention that which produces an attention and a relationship? So if I have to sit and pray at night, "please God reorganize my life," then let me do that. But in the end, if you were to do that religiously, meaning not mechanically but heartfelt, you would begin to catch a glimpse of, here I've asked God to reorganize my life and the very first thing I'm doing this morning is trying to fix him, go there, and get that done so that everything's organized the way I want it to be. Then I suffer because half of that works and half of it doesn't. Then I get into bed at night again and I say, "please God reorganize my life." And at one point I realize I've gotta stop talking and start doing -- and not doing in the sense of action, but action in the sense of seeing. Then the reorganization is taking place because I'm participating in another order of will by surrendering my own in that moment when it wants to wait on what it's imagined. So that's the first part, Moriya. When you do that, you won't have to sort through the wrong answers. You'll hear them as they come up, because anything that you can hear in your mind as an answer, by and large, will be an incomplete answer and will only lead you to waiting on what that answer has identified as necessary. Take a nice deep breath: you can't know in advance what you need. Shocking, isn't it? Because that's all I think about! All I know is to wait on what I think I need. God knows what you need before YOU know it. And by and large what you need, you don't want. When you see that what you need, you don't want, then that observation will organize your mind in such a way that you'll begin to recognize, "I need to wait on what I don't want so I can become aware of the wanter." Then you have some freedom.