I want to talk about one of the ways our wounded egos trick us.
I notice,
You know,
The people who come around me,
That basically everybody needs,
Just as I needed,
To love poured into them.
Just huge amounts of love poured into them.
I'm sure that's why Amma,
The Indian hugging saint,
You know,
Goes around the world hugging people.
It's like because we so need it,
And anybody who's been in emotional pain and knowing that kind of cut off sense of separation you have,
There's such a feeling of needing a hug by someone who loves you.
The thing is,
On the journey,
Our egos would love just to keep a person hugging us for our whole lives.
Just keep,
You know,
Filling us up with love and hugging us.
And so there's some seekers who do that,
They just keep wanting more and more,
And they never get that.
The deal is to share it.
When you share it,
You start getting filled up by the universe.
You start getting love coming into you from the universe.
And you don't need somebody standing there hugging you and filling you up so much.
Now,
With Westerners,
You know,
With our very materialist focus,
It can be hard for us sometimes to make the shift into serving humanity.
Sharing it.
Just sharing it.
Whatever love you have,
Share it.
Love and kindness,
Share it.
It will all come back to you.
You know,
The reason the phrase,
You know,
The road to hell is paved with good intentions,
Or no good deed goes unpunished,
Is we're in Kali Yuga,
Which is the darkest time,
According to the Eastern sages.
It's a time of great materialism where humanity is kind of at its worst.
Now,
The good news at this time is if you turn and dare to love and serve humanity,
You get enormous brownie points.
You get like sort of paid scholarships to university,
The equivalent.
It's like you can clear so much karma by doing this at this time,
Because at this time it's so easy to just end up being a kind of a selfish person,
A selfish,
Bitter person.
It seems like the easiest thing to do.
So if you can get that,
The point is to share and give,
And when the love comes back to you,
It might show you your own spots where you're still caught in the ego.
So that's why it can seem like no good deed goes unpunished,
Because sometimes the response ends up,
We end up seeing,
Oh,
Our own darkness.
This has happened to me a lot.
I'd give love,
And then the love would come back,
And it would show me where I was still in error,
I was hooked to my ego.
So I would take it all to God and,
You know,
Cry,
Deep sorrow,
Gnash my teeth,
Go through whatever I had to go through,
And then I'd clear that level of ego,
And I'd get up and give again.
Really,
I don't see,
You know,
There's a lot of hope for this world being a very pleasant place,
Unless a lot of us start getting,
You know,
The serving.
Anyway,
My love is coming to you all the time,
And as I say,
They're far greater spiritual superstars,
And you've got angelic guides helping you and everything,
But I'll tell you,
If you share,
Give love and kindness,
You will feel lighter,
Your step will have a bit of a skip,
And you'll feel more optimistic about your own life and humanity,
I promise you.
Okay,
Bless your hearts.
