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It is a good and radical question because so many ask it. My wife and I just got a bill for medical work. Her first reaction was, “How are we going to pay it?” It is a natural question. A real question. One everyone asks who has limited funds. That makes about 99% of us, then, doesn’t it. We just spent some money yesterday that might have helped with this bill. But that money is gone, used in good faith. It cannot be returned, as such. The companion question, then, always is, how will we do this in the future? The two questions are sides of the same coin. They concern themselves with tomorrow and yesterday.

Now, do not get me wrong. All of us need to be spend responsibly and plan for the possibility of a future. But we do not and cannot live in either place, neither past nor future. We live and can only live in the here and now. (You have heard that before, I am sure. But it is a truth that never wears out if taken seriously.)

So, we have got to do three things:

1. Yesterday is gone, learn its lessons and then forget it. There is nothing really that we can do about it. What is done, is done. To worry over what happened or what we did yesterday is a fool’s errand. Someday quantum physics may teach us to travel to the past and change things, reboot. But until that time comes, we have only today.

2. Do not sweat tomorrow, it never comes. Beyond reasonable planning for possibilities, chasing tomorrow and the “brighter day” you promise yourself it must be, it is another dupe’s gig. This is not being pessimistic. It is being realistic. We can “intention” all we want for tomorrow, but when tomorrow comes, it is today and we need to live in it. Don’t ever give up your “intentioning” but realize that you live in this moment only.

3. Make the best of today. If a bill comes that was unexpected, think about what you have in this moment. In this moment you cannot pay the bill. So, why worry about it? I am not asking you to be cavalier about your bills. I am saying, can you write a check today for the full amount? No. I can’t either. What are we to do? The best we can in this moment. Which is to do a little planning as to how it will be paid. Check with the creditor to see if it can be paid in installments. (I did, it can.) Then go on with what you can do today.

Today you cannot pay the bill in full. Drop the worry, then. Could you have prevented the bill from or through the past? No, of course not. Then don’t obsess over what caused the bill. The bill is, that’s all. Today can only be informed by yesterday, nothing more. Go on with what you can do today. Keep to that schedule. That is part of the meaning of life, to be happy; go on with what you can do today .

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The last couple of days I have felt like this is an incredible privilege to be sharing with you. I know that will sound sappy to some. But so be it. As I have said in other places, blogs and writings, there are three nodes to feeling the power of the Cosmic Consciousness flowing through you. This flow of power is the “to be happy” part of the meaning of life. The three nodes are acquire, rewire, inspire. I call this the Spiritual Circuit.

Acquire means developing resources like reading and other forms of study. This way new knowledge gets into your mind/soul. This knowledge helps enlighten you and aids you toward whatever goal you have for your life. Rewire means that you take the information you have gained through study and make your brain/mind into something new. Actually and literally it has been shown that the brain can and does make new neural pathways and combinations of neural pathways. Very much like rewiring a house with up-to-date circuits and outlets, or hardwiring computer networking throughout your home.

That leaves the node of inspire. This node needs to wired into your mind/soul just as much as acquire and rewire do. Without this third connection, the circuit is not complete. Without this third node attached, the power of the Cosmic Consciousness is thwarted in its flow through you.

That is where I feel the privilege lately. It is my privilege to try to inspire you to be who you really are. Notice, please, I said, “to be” who you really are. The doing comes from the being. Being comes first. Now, of course, not everyone hears me, nor will they ever. But a few people have noticed. I you thank you for that. I attempt to pass along useful information that will help people change their lives for the better. That is such a privilege to me. I get to share with whoever will listen. (Maybe that’s “whomever.” But it doesn’t really matter, does it?) Then those who listen can take the info and use it, or not. As they see fit. You also get to make comments on what I said or wrote. Amazing!

So, thanks for the opportunity to share with you, to inspire you to be who you really are. That’s the meaning of life, to be happy, in who you are and, then, in what you do.

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In the 21st century, many people have dropped their belief in Hell. Even the Roman Catholic Church has dropped its doctrine of God imposing a place of torture that lasts for eternity. Of course, most of the Eastern hemisphere’s religious organizations or philosophies had never believed in Hell.

So how are people to be kept in order? What incentive do we have to behave? We teach people to be self serving. What you do comes back to you. Like dropping a pebble in a small pond. Watch ripples undulate from the pebble-drop. But them watch those same ripples repeat back upon themselves, to the very spot where the pebble was first dropped. This demonstrates cause and effect.

See that? Cause and effect. If I do something, the cause, it will come back to me, the effect. This has been understood for thousands of years in the East. Even so much so that the idea of reincarnation has within its insight that a person may have to have repeated lives in order to work out this cause and effect. This is often given the name Karma. This is not punishment. We are simply taught about the Universe being constructed in such a way that what one does, has a very definite effect upon you.

That effect may not happen in the next instant. But it will happen. And the greater or more potent the cause, the larger or more powerful the effect will be.

So, we teach people, actually children from a very early age, that what you do comes back upon you. Do good or well, good will come back upon you. One of my own favorite proverbs, something I made up myself is this: “The evil that men do comes back upon them.”

Of course, the positive is just as true: “The good that men do comes back upon them.”

We teach people to behave by showing them that there is cause and effect, by living this truth ourselves. There is no God telling us we are going to Hell if we don’t behave. We will put ourselves into a hell if we misbehave.

I imagine, however, that this shift is going to be difficult to implement. Religious organizations will have to change drastically. Knowing what I do about religious organizations, this may take generations to happen. In the meantime, more and more Western hemisphere people will turn to Eastern hemisphere philosophies and religions that teach cause and effect.

Is cause and effect self serving? You bet it is. But when we serve ourselves well and know that there are consequences for those actions, then everyone benefits.

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