#18

1. As you move to the higher levels of awareness, you may be faced with handling the energy of anger and pain within others and in yourself.

2. Most people feel their own anger is justified, and that the other persons is not.

3. The more you understand what you are learning from a situation, the more rapidly can leave it.

4. Pain always signifies major opportunities for growth.

5. When you feel pain it is an indication that some area of your life is not working; some belief, thought, or emotion is crying out to be loved and healed. Do not make yourself wrong or think of yourself as a bad person, but see it as an opportunity to examine, experience, and heal that area of your life.

6. By watching your inner dialogue, loving yourself and forgiving yourself for all your mistakes (which are best viewed as leaning experiences) you raise the level of your thinking.

7. The wise heart embraces others with a feeling of compassion for whatever stage they are at in their souls evolution; it approaches them with a feeling of love and non judgment. The wise man knows that when he feels separate from those less evolved, and thus delays his own journey upward.

8. Be generous with your forgiveness.

9. When people speak to you in anger, saying unkind or untrue things, it is best to learn to forgive them. It is wise to learn to forgive them. It is wise to learn not to respond to the negativity or fear in others.