We also say that when you’re in the Vortex the absence of things wanted does not occur to you. In other words, here’s, here’s the misunderstanding that you have. And as we speak this here, it is going to help all of you a great deal.

This Vortex is an emotional state of being-ness. It is not a place of having-ness. In other words, it is an emotional state of being-ness. It is your in this moment response to life. It’s the merging of you and you. It’s a vibrational state. It’s an emotional state. It’s not a place. It’s not stuff. It’s not relationships with others. It’s, it’s the relationship with you.

So, it’s a state of being. And we have to say to you that when you get chronically and consistently inside this emotional state, in this vibrational place where you are feeling so whole and so clear and so in alignment with who you are, there is no absence of wanted things.

In other words, the reason you want that relationship is so you will feel like this and when you feel like this the relationship becomes a non-issue. And that’s the thing that sort of trips some people up is that they don’t want the relationship to be a non-issue and we say, yes you do. You want the absence of the relationship to be a non-issue because you want to be able to achieve the emotional state of bliss regardless of the things that are going on around you.

And when you chronically achieve that then that’s when the manifestations start sweeping in to your experience. That’s when your real life experience mimics or replicates your emotional experience but when you clutter the two when you confuse the two, when you think the Vortex is the place where, where and we know we have said those words, we say get in the Vortex where everything that you want is. But we want to clarify that by saying, we want to clarify that by saying, get into the Vortex where your emotional state of being is one of worthiness, and confidenceness and confidence and completeness and certainty and stability and elation and passion and when that is your habit of thought, when that is the way you feel then out here in this real world that you live all of the actualization that replicates that vibrational accomplishment must come to you.

So, what happens is you get in and you feel that way and then you take score and then you don’t feel that way, so you get in and feel that way and then you take score and then you don’t feel that way. So, what we are wanting to assist you in no longer doing is taking score.

We want what we really want is something many of you resist. We want the vortex and the way it feels in the Vortex to be enough for now, to be enough for now. It feels this, it’s this much to feel this good.

It’s sort of like someone living in a rental and lamenting the fact that they don’t own it and we say, but look no one else is trying to get their groceries in the refrigerator. No one else is trying to park their car in the garage. No one else is trying to get in the back yard and mow the lawn. That might be a good thing. In other words, accept the essence of this and then however you want it to really play out in your life will be, but as long as there is a feeling of lack that is chronically active then you can’t get there from there.

Tahiti Cruise 2009, CD No. 8, Track 13 and part of Track 14

My closest friend has recently gotten really into body building. I’ve had friends who were body builders, and I remembered that they would work out and stare into the mirror as they did so. While this beautiful woman was working out, I saw that she was avoiding looking into the mirror. I told her of my experiences with body builders and mirrors, and she replied “it’s best not to do that so much. Some body builders do that, but many don’t. They don’t want to look at ‘what is’; they want to envision “what will be.” Mirrors reinforce ‘what is’.”

Abraham (I don’t have the date or workshop; I got this from an Abe group.)

 ”We love you very much, but if there is one thing that you do often that we would prefer that you not do so often (for your own good) is that you examine ‘what is’ with such fervor that you slow down what you ask for and you don’t let it come. Your awareness of  ’what is’ is mostly what’s active in your vibration.

“So you’ve got to be either a really good sifter, where you’re just looking for things to appreciate in ‘what is’, or you’ve gotta be a better visualizer so that you’re imagining more of what you want, or a really good meditator, where you quiet your mind to deactivate; but you’ve really gotta do something to slow that momentum, because Law of Attraction is gonna keep it going! Your vibration is where you last left it on every subject, you see.”

and, from the Abraham-Hicks Quarterly Journal Jul/Aug/Sep 1996:

“What your purpose in life is, is the visualization process. To look around and see it like it is and then imagine it better. Look around and see it like it is and then imagine it better. The visualization process is your purpose of life. The Universe will match it with the physical equivalent.

“The tricky thing is to not keep getting swept up in the physical equivalent so much that you lose sight of your ability to visualize. Can you hear it? The temptation is to then start observing. The temptation is to just start observing, to let what’s happening around you to dominate your every thought. Your work is to keep pulling yourself back. You go to the gym to work your muscles. We want you to go the {Creation} Box to work your mind. We want you to work at visualization. It’s not going to come easy in the beginning. It’s going to be hard. Other things are going to call you off. You’re going to find your mind wandering all over the place. You are going to have to work at maintaining a focus. To maintain a focus and feel good can take a strong deliberate intent because it’s easier to follow those knee-jerk reactions. Those old habits are very well entrenched.

“Your purpose in the physical experience is to use the data that abounds to collect the bits and pieces of it to create a scenario that rocks your world–and when you do that, the Universe will respond with a vibrational equivalent. But we want so much for you to hear that the vibrational equivalent–the physical manifestation–is not what it’s about. It’s the power of the vision.”

and, from the Gold Coast, Australia workshop, 3/21/13 (and many, many other workshops and books), Esther’s original and ongoing affirmation, given to her by Theo:

“Today, no matter where I am going,no matter what I am doing, it is my dominate intent to look for that which I am wanting to see.”

Talking with my friend more on the subject, she tells me that, nowadays, body builders will often take pictures of themselves before they begin working out (their “before” pic) and then begin their daily workout regimens. Then they will have further pictures taken every month.

But they won’t look at the pictures till after three months. They know that they’re potentially likely to not see improvement over such a period of time, and it’s not yet time to look again at “what is” . It’s not yet time to “take score”. Only after three months will they look at their images. And then, they’re impressed.

It’s a good, practical demonstration of some basic Abraham stuff: to put more attention on what is wanted than what is not. Peering at “what is”, is an ingrained habit for most of us. Just as the body builders, we’ll have more success (and more fun) in using some discipline to come off the continual re-creation of “what is”, that is the typical consequence of mere observation, and get visualization more dominate in our minds, so we can allow the new things we have desired and created.

Daily Quote 3/6/2013 (Tom Murasso transcribed this and posted in the FB Original Group)

{very long – how to communicate with her transitioned friend}

Guest – …So, say for example someone that you’re close with returns to Nonphysical – PURE Nonphysical Energy – they’re what we call dead.

Abe – Croaked. We prefer the word croaked. It’s disrespectful, since there is no death.

Guest – OK, so they’ve croaked. I love that. OK, so they’ve croaked, and you are able to have contact with them, or feel like you’re still in communication with them. And, so you have a relationship or they’re a guide for you. And then, say they are then kind-of refocused back into another physical body. But you still feel like you’re communicating with them. Is both true, like they’re still your spirit guide and they’re still baby Dobbin over there?

Abe – Yes. Because remember, this Nonphysical Inner Being part of you is the culmination of ALL that you are. And so, when someone that you know makes their transition, they reemerge into Nonphysical and that aspect of them you always have access to.

Look at it this way. Every thought that has ever been thought still exists. So, actually you could pick up on the vibrational Essence of who someone WAS, forevermore, from the physical atmosphere. In other words, the things that they’ve thought about, the experiences that they’ve had.

You become, once you’ve been in these physical bodies for a while – not even a very long while – you become very powerful Energy focal points. And those focal points are there to interact with other vibrations that are of similar vibrational quality.

It’s not the easiest thing to hear when you are an extreme human genius creative Consciousness, that there are many points of Consciousness that are far different than you are, but…For example, when you think a thought, that thought is a vibration that now has the potential to think. Isn’t that interesting? You think a thought, and that thought now is a vibrational entity unto itself that has the ability to think. So there is the thinker who thinks the thought and then there’s the thought that becomes the thinker.

In other words, it’s quite a tangle for you to decipher and sort out. So, we want to just give you the highlights and (Guest -Yeah.) help you understand that when you have been focused in a physical body for a while, you become a powerful focal point. That’s why sometimes a psychic will tap into someone that you love who is dead and the psychic will interpret information, warnings or things that your mother is worried about or where she buried the money in the backyard or something, and often with great accuracy.

And Esther said, “Abraham, you said that when someone dies, they reemerge into Pure Positive Energy, and some of this doesn’t sound all that much like Pure Positive Energy.” And we say, you have the ability to tap into a lot of different vibrational frequencies.

Someone called Esther, said the Sheriff was looking for her in Texas where they are from, and she said, “I knew he would catch me sooner or later, what does he want?” And when Esther called him, he was trying to solve a mystery – murder, an unsolved mystery, and Esther said, “It’s not the work I do.” And he said, “Well, we’ve been told that you could help us and we could really use your help.” And Esther said, “I would have to tune my vibration to a place I’m not willing to tune my vibration. It’s just not the work I do.”

But you can tune your vibration to anything and pick up those vibrational frequencies. There are thoughtforms all around. First there is thought. Thought is thought upon longer becomes thoughtform and thought that is thought upon longer becomes manifestation. And of course, that’s a very scanty explanation, but that is the general progress of this thought.

So, when you are wanting to have conversation with someone who you love who has reemerged into Nonphysical or even someone you don’t know who is a master of something or another, you have to become a vibrational match to that which they now ARE to receive the Essence of who they are from their Broader, Nonphysical perspective. But you could get in an ornery mood and tap right into some ornery
dead friend. But you would not be receiving them AS THEY NOW ARE.

Guest – Right.

Abe – You’d be receiving them as they WERE and you’d be picking up on that swirl of vibration which continues to exist eternally. Nothing ever ceases to be once it has become.

Guest – Great. And so I could be in communication with an Energy that used to be my grandfather and also be in communication with a part of him that’s come into a new Being, all at the same time?

Abe – Yes.

From the Alaskan Cruise 2005 on the Master Course Audio Series, Disc 6, Track 2

“The criteria must be: How do I feel When I focus upon it?”

“You know, 99% of every creation is complete, vibrationally, before you begin to see physical evidence of it. But, about 70% of it is complete before you begin to really feel hopeful!

“When you feel hopeful about something, it’s so close to being done! ‘Hopeful’ is such an indication that you’re almost there! But ‘onery’ is an indication that you’re not even half way there.”

Guest: Hello Abraham, it’s good to get to visit with you again. I was hoping that you would give me, give us an example of being in the vibrational escrow for allowing; for step three. And, I know up until recently, I’ve been really focused on step one, and doing a lot of asking, doing a lot of deliberate creating and becoming quite good at it, and enjoying it, but then realizing that I’ve asked the question, and then I ask it again. Now, understanding that it must be that I really don’t believe that step two has happened, if I’m going to ask again.

Abe: Or you could be adding clarity to it, unless you are asking exactly the same question over and over again; like: Where is it?

Guest: Right, and that’s exactly where I want to get to, is; I had this really beautiful shift that occurred recently and I started telling the story about how good it feels to HAVE ASKED, and coming from that emotional set-point, and just being so satisfied that life has caused me to be, in that moment, asked for something that I’ve asked for, not needing the physical manifestation of that to feel any more satisfaction, or any more complete.

Abe: Well, you’ve done the best job of describing a state of allowing that we’ve ever heard. That’s exactly what a state of allowing is. It’s appreciation for the asking even before the asking has been fulfilled in terms of manifestation. In appreciation, in utter appreciation of the asking, there’s no resistance, and so now the answer to what you are asking must come. But there’s another little piece to it, and what that is, feel the difference between knowing that I’ve asked and knowing that Source has answered, and knowing it’s in the vortex, and knowing that it is coming, but feeling awareness that it hasn’t come. And, it’s really fine-tuning here: that awareness of the absence of something prevents the presence of it. And that’s why we keep saying: If you’ll make it a vibrational journey, an emotional journey, and your effort is to get into the vortex and feel what it feels like in there.

Now, you notice we’re not saying: Jump into the manifestation, it’s not possible anyway, but we’re saying do whatever you can, and we’re showing the back door in, get into the vortex and feel what’s in there; that’s what a feeling of appreciation for something that hasn’t manifested is. If you can feel appreciation for the question, you are then are feeling appreciation for the answer and it doesn’t matter what you’re excuse for your appreciation is, appreciation puts you in the vortex. And if you hang around in there for just a little bit of time evidence has to show itself to you, but we don’t want you going in the vortex looking for evidence, we want you to go into the vortex looking for the feeling.

Guest: Right. And I so get that, and I’ve been enjoying so much, and I’m surrounded by conversations with people because I’m choosing to listen in and I hear them telling the story because they want their stuff. They want this thing to happen, and I’m over here appreciating the asking so I was wondering, we’ve kind of scratched the surface of this with Esther and the bus, but I was hoping for the benefit of all of us, that you could give us a…

Abe: Alright, we’ll take a stab at it and then we’ll take segment of lunch and then w’ll begin again with you.

Guest: Okay.

Abe: So, the contrast causes expansion; that I am, for whatever reason, not able to go to. So I am aware of the absence of something that I want, or the not fulfillment of it. And, as I reach to get inside the vortex to find the feeling place of it, then I feel the relief of having done that. Now that I’ve found the relief of having done that, I feel better. Now, you’re really going to like this, this is so so interesting: So, here’s Esther, we’re gonna use her as an example. So, she comes forth, she’s born, she lives modestly most of her life, and like everyone she’s got a long list of different things that she wants, holds herself pretty much in vibrational alignment with where she is, then learns about deliberate creation and then really starts doing, as you said, step one work.

So, over a period of time, we won’t bore you with the details, she’s ratcheted up, through the contrast that she’s lived and through deliberate application of the principals that she’s learned from us, she’s ratcheted up, deliberately doing so, a vibrational escrow that is incredible. And much of it already coming into place. So, some of the things that she’s asked for are structures that work, machines that work, buildings that work, in other words through life she’s come to ask for and mostly expect things to go really well. And so here’s this escrow and manifestation of it that is getting bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better.

So, life in general, she begins living a life that’s very different from almost anybody she knows, more satisfying on more levels, bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better and bigger and better, and then she sort of hits a wall because there’s a piece of something that she’s parlayed that she wants that she can’t see a way to get to. She wrote pages of positive aspects, she applied every process that she could think of, pulls out all the bags in her tricks, she finds herself asking for something that she feels that she cannot achieve. Which brings her to a crescendo where she says and means, “It would be easier to be happy if I were asking for nothing, than to ask for everything and have to line up with it”.

Now hear this: this is an argument that’s been going on on this planet for a long time, materialism verses spiritualism, in other words, it would be easier to ask for nothing than to ask for the world and feel the contest of not being able to achieve it. And we say: What that can bring you to an understanding of is that the stuff that you’ve been asking for was never because having the stuff is satisfying, but without asking for the improvement there is no journey to live. So now we’ve made the end of the journey the manifestation of the journey so important that no one’s enjoying the journey; when the only reason for the contrast producing the goal was to give reason for the journey. Isn’t it interesting?

When we come back from segment refreshment, we’re going to bring right back around to this because we are on the brink of moving into a whole new paradigm about understanding about creation. It’s about, I want it but to have it I must release it, and in the releasing of it it comes easily, it’s all about the energy, not about the thing, but if it isn’t for the thing the energy doesn’t move, but when the energy is moving but I’m not letting myself go, then I’m out balance and when I’m out of balance I don’t feel good and there are not enough things in the world to fill that void. Good time for segment of lunch.

Audience applauds.

Abe: Can you bring us back round to it?

Guest: Yeah, I can. So, here we are, in life, step one-ing, sometimes because we want to, sometimes because we’re just observing something and life causes us to ask.

Abe: Well said.

Guest: So, then step two happens, and you know, Source answers, and…

Abe: And let’s not down play that.

Guest: Yeah (audience is laughing) Well, knowing that is the most beautiful part about it, because that makes step three all the more possible, which I’ve heard Abraham speak before one of the reason’s we’re here, physically focused is to master the Law Of Allowing.

Abe: So you figured out something really good while you were having lunch. Who did you eat with? (audience laughs)

What you’re saying; it’s really important. Your understanding of the Laws Of The Universe , and your understanding of how the whole cycle works, your understanding that step two is an important and viable step and it is happening. Your trust, faith, belief, knowing of that, then step three is possible. So step three is being alright in the advance version; in the vibrational version. In other words, I know so well how it all works, I know the vibration of things that even before, now here it is, even before I see the physical evidence, my knowledge that step two has happened, even before I feel the emotional evidence, in other words, I don’t yet know it’s going to happen, and I don’t yet feeeeel good, I don’t yet feeel happy about it, but my knowledge that step one, step two, step three, I’ve done step one, they’ve done step two, now, shouldn’t that make step three just a slam dunk every time?

Guest: Absolutely.

Abe: We think that is an important key.

Guest: And so, the cruise in Alaska and the last ten days is where it all; I got it. I got that. So, I’ve been coming from a place of feeling good because life has caused me in that moment to desire something. And that that platform that I reached is such an amazing feeling, that I know that’s gonna take me to other platforms as well. And so, the physical manifestation has become less important to me than feeling good in the moment right then and there. And so I have really really absorbed that and really really been having fun with that.

Abe: But step back a little bit and hear the contradiction in what you said, because if you are appreciating the fact that there is a process that works, and if you are appreciating the contrast which has given birth, so you are appreciating the desire itself, and then you are appreciating the Laws Of The Universe and the answers of step two, and you are appreciating your knowledge of all of that, in all of that awareness; you do feel good. In other words, there’s no absence, you said, “If I know that, then I don’t need to feel good, in other words, that MAKES you feel good. That’s what feeling good is; feeling good is thinking the thought that causes no separation.

Guest: Well, I was saying I don’t need the physical manifestation of that to feel good.

Abe: And WHY don’t you need the physical manifestation? Because, what you’re focusing upon feels good.

Guest: Because I already got it.

Abe: You’re focusing upon the fact that you desire it, you’re focusing upon the fact that it is a for sure thing, you’re focusing upon the fact that the Laws work, you’re focusing upon the fact that the Law Of Attraction is after it, you’re focusing upon the fact that the Source Energy part of you is answering it. Once you have conceived it, it is done. And therefore you can relax and release all control, and in the releasing of control and awareness of its absence of doneness, it’s done on every level and now you feel good.

Guest: And the cherry on top, with whip cream; the physical manifestation.

Abe: And it’s brief.

Guest: Yeah, and it’s brief. And so…(audience laughs)

Abe: But it doesn’t matter that it is brief, because the whole process is what summoned you through life. The brevity of the manifestation, and the brevity of the THRILL of the manifestation: Esther says to Jerry, “How about buying me that beautiful new car; it will make me happy for the afternoon?”

Guest: Yeah. (Audience laughs)

Abe: And it’s about that long that it gives you that sort of buzz. That’s why we begin every gathering saying “Are you appreciating the contrast of your time and place?” And one day we will say that and we will hear collectively from you “ Yes, we devour, we enjoy, we bless the contrast that gives birth to the desire. And, that’s where you started there. When you are blessing the desire that is within you; fulfilled in terms of manifestation or not, the existence of desire unchallenged is joyful life. The existence of desire unchallenged by you vibrationally, because it’s only your vibration that can challenge it, so the existence of unchallenged desire is blissful, successful life. So, what’s it gonna take for me to stop challenging my own desire? It helps to understand the Laws. It helps to focus upon it. But there is this…it’s fine-tuning, isn’t it?

Guest: It’s very fine tuning, and that what I’m trying to get at, is…I feel like this group is coming together in these workshops pretty tuned in and having absorbed lot of the teachings of Abraham and coming here, it’s fine tuning questions now.

Abe: For sure. It’s like the same group moving from city to city.

Guest: Yeah. And so, and you hear these conversations going on, it seems like people are thinking that they’re telling the story in a way that is creating alignment for them, but what I hear sometimes is that they’re focused on the What, the When, the Who…the How.

Abe: It’s why we began as we did today, because even Esther, with all that she knows and all that she’s practiced, is telling a story that is so surface, it’s not making the vibrational difference for her. In other words, we teased you all about putting a happy face sticker on your empty gas gauge, just so that you don’t feel troubled about seeing your empty tank, but it only works for a little while. When you run out of gas, you’ve run out of gas. (laughter from audience)

So, let’s back up just a little bit: so, you’re hear in this physical body for a reason, do you get that? And, it’s natural, its right, it’s natural, that you would want to create things of a physical nature, yes? And, any desire that is born out of your awareness of life is a desire that, not only is it a good desire, it is a desire that can and should be manifest. In other words, there is nothing that this life could inspire a desire within you about that this life cannot produce the manifestation of.

So, having heard that, that’s the same thing as saying: There is nothing that you cannot be, or do or have; all things are possible. Having heard that, do you believe from what you’ve been hearing from us before and especially today, do you believe that the living of your life is for the being, doing and having experiences of things? In other words, are those manifestations that you have set as goals, are those quests and desires, is the accomplishing of them the reason you exist? (No is implied, I think but you don’t hear this on the recording).

So they are a directional pointer, they are a reason to flow, but they are not the end result, they are not the motivation for life, they are not the reason; what are they? Why would a goal, why would a desire be born within you, if it is not your job to achieve it? Let’s ponder it just a little bit. Why would life cause you to want something if we come full circle and we say the having of it isn’t what the game’s about? Sort of feels weird, doesn’t it? So, I don’t have it, and then I want it, but my getting it won’t make me happy. My not having it sure doesn’t make me happy and in my unhappiness at not having it, I want it, but then but then my getting it doesn’t make me happy. Sort of what you were talking about, feeling some measure of satisfaction in the desire.

So, now stay with us, this is worth taking the time. So, I don’t have it, others have it, I want it, I think, because I’m not happy in not having it, whether it’s a thing or a relationship or money or clarity or bodily conditions. I want, I want it, I want it and I’m not happy in not having it, I want it. I want it. And so, then I do what it takes, maybe I blunder into it, maybe I do it deliberately, I line up, and it manifests, and now I’ve got it. And now I’ve also got new contrast, which causes new wanting. So, the accomplishing of the desire, at best is a temporary buzz, because then there’s more contrast that will always cause another and another and another and another.

And yet, logically I know that is contrast causes me to want and I’m able to line up with it, and stop the resistance of it, and begin moving in the direction of it, then there is a fun ride somewhere in the re. But when I get there, it’s not the big thrill that I thought it would be. The absence of it set me up for an expectation of a thrill in having it that is unnatural. Because it is not the accomplishing of something that is the measure of success, it is the joyful journey that is the measure of success. So, I don’t have it and I want it, and now I’ve got it and whoopee (said without enthusiasm, audience laughs), but now I don’t have that and I want it, but now I’ve got it and..whoopee (again said without enthusiasm).

What am I missing? What am I missing, it’s the premise that’s flawed; it’s the idea that the accomplishment is the reward, when it is the opportunity to accomplish that is the reward in there somewhere can you find sheer appreciation for the life giving components of contrast? Don’t you just love having opportunities to choose? When you’re at a buffet you like it, when you’re at clothing store you like it. When you are at the cookie counter you like it. When you feel free to choose, isn’t the variety from which you make your choices delicious? If you can appreciate your right to choose, then the pushing against of the parts of the contrast that you don’t want would be nonexistent, and in the pushing away of the parts of it that you don’t want, if that’s nonexistent, then in the contrast your desire is pure. And in the pure desire there is fast movement and satisfying movement, and then the outcome becomes irrelevant, it becomes unnecessary for it to be important because you’ve already cleaned it up in your appreciation of the contrast. There’s something really big there.

Guest: Yeah. And so, going into that, I was hoping that you would give us some some terminologies and some vernacular, some conversation that we would have with ourselves that would lean towards that, instead of leaning towards, even when you think you are leaning towards that, it seems like you catch yourself leaning towards the “where is it, when’s it gonna get here, who’s gonna bring it, you know. I’ve left a lot of that behind, I really feel that I’m talking about things more so that I feel good in that moment, and so I talk about why; why I want what I want. And, I just wanted some fine tuning.

Abe: Well you see, when you talk about what you want and why you want it, you remove contradictory energy from it, because in the why, there are no missing factors that cause you to activate any vibration of resistance. You’re really onto something here. You sat down, and you wanted us to find a way of helping you to be more allowing about the contrast itself. And, we think that that is such a brilliant observation, because when you are observing contrast, some of it not wanted, but you have an attitude: this is contrast for me to pick from, nothing is being asserted into my experience and I’m not being forced into one part of it or another, this is contrast or variety from which I get to choose, hhmm, from where I stand, what would I most select, there’s total freedom in that.

And in that total freedom there is absence of bondage and absence of disempowerment and absence of resistance, and in that absence of resistance then you just choose and flow and choose and flow and choose and flow. In other words, that would be the perfect way to move through life experience, so now, as we sort of come full circle in this teaching, some of you, not all of you, but some of you are ready to now step back into that attitude that you had the day you were born that says, “I am good, and I am choosing, and it is right that what I will choose will come to me easily.” And if you could wipe the slate of negative expectation from your mind, and believe that because you have chosen, the Universe is giving it to you because the Universe is, your expectations would clear up, your vibrations would clear up, and it would be as wonderful as saying “I choose that, I choose that, I choose that, I choose that.”

Now, lets build a case for the value of contrast. If everything you chose came to you immediately, we’re just asking, I everything you chose came to you immediately, would that be beneficial or detrimental to what you’re putting in your vibrational escrow? Just think about it. If every time you say, “I like that, I want that”, it came, do you think it would slow down the desire? Can you feel any personal momentum from knowing what you don’t want? Can you? (Guest says something about causing something, not clear) Oh, you can. You can feel momentum from the contrast.

So now let’s go back to this pile of contrast and let’s focus your brilliant minds upon it, and when you work on something, doesn’t it gather more momentum? Don’t you gather momentum by weighing the pluses and minuses, the pros and the cons? Don’t you benefit by sifting through the data? Isn’t that the way you put your hands in the clay? Don’t you want the data to deal with? Don’t you want to feel the power of a desire being born within you? Don’t you?

Have you seen the little kids, don’t they tell you “I know, I know”, they don’t want you to tell them everything that you know. They want to figure it out on their own. They want to know. They want the life experience. We’re still here with you; we’re still talking about the joyous deliciousness of dealing with the contrast and feeling the power of a desire. Yes, a currently not manifested desire. Yes, a desire that may manifest far down the road. But right now, in this moment, there is satisfaction from me getting to play in this game of life, from me getting to be focused here from all this contrast, me getting to be a sculptor with a full palate of materials and colors and substances and textures; me having all of that variety here with my fingers in it. Me getting to choose all of that and LOVING the variety and loving the skill with which I am learning to choose what I most want.

I LOVE this contrast, I love this contrast, I love this contrast and what it means to me, because my eternalness depends upon this contrast, my expansion depends upon this contrast and YES, even my JOY depends upon this contrast for if it where not for this contrast I could not expand, and if I could not expand I could not move forward, and if I could not move forward I could not FEEL the motion forward; I could not feel the closing of the gap which is what joy is. So there you have it.

Audience applauds.

Contrast: the joy of my life. Contrast: the basis into which I am born. Contrast: the reason for my expansion. Contrast: Contrast has all that is wanted and all that isn’t wanted, yes? So, just because you’re focused upon the part of it that you don’t want, is that any reason to condemn the pile? Is that any reason to take what’s happening so seriously? It was just a choice that gave you clarity, and there are a myriad of other choices. Do you need to control that one choice, when there are a myriad of other choices? You see how you can turn the pile of contrast into something interesting, exciting, satisfying? And in the moment you do that, your step one will continue, but your step three will be way easier.

Guest: I’m gonna go look for some contrast.

Audience laughs and applauds briefly.

Abe: Well you don’t have to look far, because it’s in every particle of the Universe. It’s in every person, it’s in every conversation, it’s in every piece of everything. It’s in every nation, it’s in every town, it’s in every individual. It’s in every relationship; it’s in every particle of everything. You don’t have to look far for it; it’s everywhere. But when you embrace it, when you devour it, when you adore it, when you understand it, when you understand it…now you’re in charge. You’re selecting from it, it’s not choosing you; you’re selecting from it. Oh, we’ll admit, sometime you let pieces of it set your tone, and then other things like it come to you, so it’s feels like it’s choosing you, rather than you’re choosing it, but in the moment that you begin to adore the contrast, in your attitude of “I’m making the choices”, ahh; you get your power back.

Don’t be alarmed if when you leave you don’t remember anything except that contrast is good. (Audience laughs) We have enjoyed this interaction immensely. There is great love here for you, and as always we remain blissfully, because of you, chronically, because of you, joyously, because of you, incomplete. (Audience applauds, Esther comes back, Jerry thanks the crowd and music starts: If you want, it can happen, when you get out of the way. If you ask for it, it is given …music fades.)

Abraham Hicks, San Fransisco, 2008