Well, yes, I do know now that neediness, expectation, and jealousy really are the great love-
enders. Still, I’m not sure that I can eliminate these from my life, because I’m not sure I know
the formula. I mean, it’s one thing to say, Don’t do that anymore, and it’s another thing to say,
Here’s how.
That’s where your friendship with Me comes in.
A friendship with God allows you to “know the formula”—not only the formula for getting rid of
neediness, expectation, and jealousy, but the formula for all of life, the wisdom of the ages.
Your friendship with Me will also allow you to practicalize this wisdom; to make it practical, to
make it real, to make it live in your life. It is one thing to know, and another thing to be able to
use what you know. It is one thing to have knowledge, and another to have wisdom.
Wisdom is knowledge, applied.
I will show you how to apply all the knowledge I have given you. I am always showing you
that. Yet it will be easier for you to hear me if we have a friendship. Then we can really zing!
Then we can really fly!
We are talking here about a real friendship with God. Not a pseudo-friendship, not a make-
believe friendship, not a part-time friendship, but an important, meaningful, close friendship.
I am taking you through the steps that will help you do that. The first three steps are:
- Know God
- Trust God
- Love God
And now we’re looking at Step Four: Embrace God.
Embrace God?
Embrace God. Get close to God.
That’s what we’ve been talking about here. We’ve been talking about how to get close to
God.
I’d like to do that. I’d like to be close to You. I’ve always wanted to be close to You. I just
didn’t know how.
And now you do. Now you know one very good way. By being with the silence, being with the
Self, for a few golden moments each day. This is where you may most profitably begin.
When you are with the Self—the True Self—you are with Me, for I am One with the Self, and
the Self is One with Me.
As I have said to you before, there is more than one way to do this. I have given you one
way, I have just described one way, but there is more than one way. There is more than one
way to the Self, and more than one way to God, and that is something that every religion in
the world would do well to understand—and to teach.