You know,
There's a certain mechanical aspect to the journey.
Now,
The worst kind of prayer is mechanical prayer.
So,
You know,
If you say,
Our Father,
In a kind of monotone,
Without a lot of feeling,
That prayer has very little power.
Whereas if you say a prayer with real emotion behind it,
And real feeling,
Or real reverence for God,
Then that prayer will have wings.
So,
You see,
This points to sort of the structure,
In a way,
The mechanical structure of the journey.
So,
One of the big focuses,
Certainly in Christianity,
Has been,
You know,
Praising God.
Well,
Part of the reason is,
If you're praising God,
Then you're not thinking negative thoughts about your neighbour,
Or wallowing in self-pity.
Your mind is being steered to the highest use of it.
So,
That causes your subconscious to start opening the doors to your soul,
To God,
Underneath.
So,
Where,
You know,
Your normal thoughts steer your unconscious.
So,
If your normal thoughts are,
You know,
Full of hatred,
And anger,
And self-pity,
Then your subconscious will go,
Okay,
This will create more of this.
You know,
This is what the person,
This is where we're being steered.
But if you steer towards,
You know,
Focusing on the higher meaning behind everything,
Praising God,
You know,
This,
You know,
Is like mechanically steering your subconscious toward giving you more of that.
And,
You know,
Moving past the unconscious blockages to be able to tap into your true divine energy.
It's,
You know,
We're the pilots,
I mean,
We're the,
You know,
We're the masters of our ship.
And it's easy to forget this sometimes.
We might feel like just a bit of flotsam and jetsam,
You know,
Just a pawn in the crate,
Machinery of life,
But we're not.
We have this enormous power,
You know,
Over how we steer our thoughts.
So the other aspect of the mechanics of the journey,
Just like a mechanical prayer doesn't have a lot of power,
You know,
If you do your meditation mechanically,
You will have less power than if you do it with love,
Out of love.
On the journey,
The more you progress,
The more your love for all that is,
You know,
For the universe,
For God,
For your soul,
You know,
Gets bigger and bigger and you feel it more and more.
And it's sort of like a snowball running downhill.
It gets bigger and bigger as the years go by.
But before that happens,
You might do your meditation practice just sort of mechanically,
Just because,
You know,
You've been told to meditate.
So but if you keep doing it,
It could catch fire for you,
Just like,
You know,
One might go on a date with somebody and then suddenly we look at them one day and we go,
I'm in love with this person.
It is the same principle that happens on the journey.
You know,
The journey is a living thing.
So it's got some nuts and bolts mechanics and also that ingredient X.
And when you understand the mechanics of the journey,
Then you can move faster,
Because if you really get that,
The more you focus on God,
The less you're focusing on the negative or the darkness.
And so that steers your subconscious towards the light to help you,
You know,
Learn to experience and embody the light.
When you really get that,
It will be easier for you to steer your mind that way or to sit down for meditation practices.
OK,
Bless your hearts.
You know,
Just keep going.
The days of the journey,
It all adds up.
It all adds up.
And suddenly you find that you've much farther along than you even ever hoped to be.
OK,
Blessings.
