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You are far more attuned than you give yourself credit for.
You have amazing intuition. You have all kinds of power, and credit yourself not. What you really fall short in is your estimation
of yourself. Humility is a good thing, yet just between Us, you can know
your value. In truth, the more you know your value, the humbler you will be. You don't have to tell the world. Let the world
tell you, if they want, and don't pay them mind, the same way that if the world discounts you, you don't mind either. What
someone thinks of you is irrelevant to your worth and your talents. Approbation is nice, but not necessary. Too much approbation
is discomfiting. Ego can masquerade as humility as well. Ego is a pompous martinet
who is even so enamored of his progress that he feigns humility. Know your worth, beloveds, but don't parade it. We can keep
it between Us. Do not hide your mastery. Do not flaunt it. Use your mastery to serve. Look at what you're doing and not at
yourself so much. Through it all, you know Who the Doer is, the Doer who sits
behind the scenes and sees all, watches all, sits in silence, radiating love 360 degrees, a courier of Silence Whose love
is so mighty that He created the world with His love and invited you to share the world with Him. He set the stage for you,
and now you perform on the stage called the Universe. You perform a role, and you can change your role. You already
do switch every now and then. And now you can play a bigger part. Even when you sit off stage, you are playing a part. Your
attention is on the Theater. There is a lot of action on stage, and there is a lot that leads
up to the action on stage. You play your part so well, beloveds. You even convince yourself that the part you play is who
you are. You are a consummate actor. And now you see yourself as you really are. The personality
is a little less, and the Reality is a lot more. You have played the part of someone who is worried. You have
played the part of someone who is a boss. You have played the part of someone who works hard, or someone who idles. You take
your role seriously, very seriously. You believe in the part you play. You take the other players seriously as well. You think the
costumes they wear tell the truth about them as well. You see rich actors and threadbare actors. You see good guys and bad
guys, and sometimes you don't know which is which. Sometimes you are fooled, and sometimes you fool everyone. And sometimes
you fool no one. There are moments when you take away the flotsam and jetsam,
and you reveal yourself as the pure river of water you are. You are a river so pure, so still, that time doesn't move and
space doesn't occupy. There are moments that do seem to be made of you and Me and
nothing else. It is a unique relationship We have, you and I. I always know what is really going on. Mostly you don't see
what's going on, or you deny it. You play the bungler or the clown, perhaps anything to resist coming to a realization. Beloveds, I created you an amazing creation. You are a wonder
of the Universe just as the Universe itself is a wonder of wonders. You and I and the Universe are conjoined.
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