Different people approach this world in different ways. From these talks over the years we have all realized that consciousness is on a sliding scale. It is like the board game Chutes and Ladders. We can go up and we can fall down, we go up and we fall down. Just because we are at a lower state does not mean we cannot be at a higher state. Just because we are at a higher state does not mean we cannot slip and go to a lower state. Well, we, all of us, have all of these states within us. This is hard sometimes to recognize, especially when we see things in other people that are incredibly noxious. We say, “How could that be in me?” Well, it can be.
The difference is that the ones who do not have these noxious states have been able to suppress them so that they no longer influence them. The noxious states no longer erupt out of them in difficult moments. So, the difference, by the grace of God, between those of us who are less noxious and those of us who are more noxious is the ability to suppress those qualities which are abhorrent to truth.
Different people, as they walk through this world, sense this world in different ways. The world is more difficult for some than for others. There is an expression, “He takes everything to heart.” This means his or hers empathy for the things that are around them is very powerful. If others seem sad, they become sad. It is something that happens quickly and without notice, so they walk around a lot of times in despair because they see so much despair around them. Not everyone is touched by despair. Some people are able to shrug it off like a duck shrugs off water. Some people cannot. But the truth is that we are all in this world where despair does exist.
We are all within difficulty and going through difficult things. We all have a need to be able to handle these difficult things and to be able to pull ourselves out of difficult situations that we all find ourselves in from time to time. For some people, the difficulty of just being alive brings upon great despair because they see the end-result of this existence, and it frightens them. So, people have fears, people have doubts, and the constant question that is on everyone’s lips and on everyone’s mind and in everyone’s heart is, “How do we get relief from all of the trials and tribulations that are in the world?”
