One of the most important concepts for us to learn and perfect is the idea of personal responsibility. Every time that we see ourselves as a victim, blame someone else rather than face the truth of our own making, trust someone in "authority" rather than make the time and effort to educate ourselves on our most important decisions or refuse to consider an idea because it would hurt our material interests, we give away our power and show that we prefer living in illusion, limitation and separation. We have chosen to be here now. We chose the

time, the place the parents, the children, our spouse, most of the major experiences in our lives and on occasion, even our profession, among other things. The soul, the true "I" and "ego" made these plans before birth and set them in motion so that our experiences would bear spiritual fruit. We recognize that their may be pain, disappointment,

fear and even "death" but what are these trifles compared to the joys and ecstasy of Love, freedom and Life eternal. We judge eveything through our human experiences until we become aware of the spiritual perception. We then begin to slowly perceive the place we hold in the scheme of creation. How we are

solely responsible for our own progress or lack of it depending on what we allow to attract us, what we allow to distract us, what we will and won't put up with and what we refuse to deal with. We see how we are made up of smaller lives and how we are the cells that make up greater lives. It follows that to act contrary to the best interests of any other life is contrary to the life of the greater being that we are a part of, which affects us negatively. Every act of intolerance, hate, apathy, or cruelty towards another affects our spiritual progress directly and, by diminishing the "other", slows the progress of the life "in whom we live and move and have our being". The Masters of Wisdom refer to Love as "Pure Reason". Probably because acting out of Love is to their consciousness what common sense is to ours. When you act in harmony with Life, all Life is nourished. This, of course, includes you.