MESSIAH'S HANDBOOK

Reminders for the Advanced Soul

 

Perspective-

Use it or Lose It.

If you turned to this page,

you're forgetting that what is going

on around you is not reality.

 

Think about that.

 

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created

the mess you got yourself into in the first place.

You're going to die a horrible death, remember.

It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it

more if you keep the facts

in mind.

 

Take your dying with some seriousness, however.

Laughing on the way to your execution

is not generally understood by less-

advanced life forms, and they'll

call you crazy.

 

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Doing is demonstrating that

you know it.

 

Teaching is reminding others

that they know just as well as you.

 

You are all learners,

doers, teachers.

 

Your only

obligation in any lifetime

is to be true to yourself.

Being true to anyone else or

anything else is not only

impossible, but the

mark of a fake

messiah.

 

The

simplest questions

are the most profound.

Where were you born? Where is your home?

Where are you going?

What are you doing?

 

Think about

these once in a while, and

watch your answers change.

 

You

teach best

what you most need

to learn.

 

Live

never to be

ashamed if anything you do

or say is published

around the world-

even if

what is published

is not true.

 

Your friends

will know you better

in the first minute you meet

than

your acquaintances

will know you in

a thousand

years.

 

The

best way

to avoid responsibility

is to say, "I've got

responsibilities."

 

You are led

through your lifetime

by the inner learning creature,

the playful spiritual being

that is your real self.

Don't turn away

from possible futures

before you're certain you don't have

anything to learn from them.

 

You're always free

to change your mind and

choose a different future, or

a different past.

 

There is

no such thing as a problem

without a gift for you

in its hands.

 

You seek problems

because you need

their gifts.

 

The bond

that links your true family

is not one of blood, but

of respect and joy in

each other's life.

Rarely do members

of one family grow up

under the same

roof.

 

Argue

for your limitations,

and sure enough,

they're

yours.

 

Imagine

the universe beautiful

and just and

perfect,

 

Then be sure of one thing:

the

Is

has imagined it

quite a bit better

than you

have.

 

A cloud does not know

why it moves in just such a

direction and at such

a speed,

 

It feels an implosion...this is

the place to go now. But the sky knows

the reasons and the patterns

behind all clouds,

and you will know, too, when

you lift yourself high enough

to see beyond

horizons.

 

You are

never given a wish

without also being given the

power to make it true.

You may

have to work for it,

however.

 

The world

is your exercise-book, the pages

on which you do your sums.

It is not reality,

although you can express reality

there if you wish.

You are also

free to write nonsense,

or lies, or to tear

the pages.

 

The

original sin is to

limit the Is.

Don't.

 

If

you will

practice being fictional

for a while, you will understand that

fictional characters are

sometimes more real than

people with bodies

and heartbeats.

 

Your

conscience is

the measure of the

honesty of your selfishness.

Listen to it carefully.

 

Every person,

all the events of your life

are there because you have

drawn them there.

What you choose

to do with them is

up to you.

 

The

truth you

speak has no past

and no future.

It is,

and that's all it

needs to be.

 

Here is

a test to find

whether your mission on earth

is finished:

If you're alive,

it isn't.

 

In order

to live free and happily,

you must sacrifice

boredom.

It is not always an easy

sacrifice.

 

Don't be

dismayed at good-byes.

A farewell is necessary before

you can meet

again.

And meeting

again, after moments or

lifetimes, is certain for

those who are

friends.

 

The mark

of your ignorance is the depth o

f your belief in injustice

and tragedy.

What the caterpillar

calls the end of the world,

the master calls a

butterfly.

 

Everything in this book may be wrong.

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