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Choose to open your mind and heart and soul to the power and flow of neart. It’s exciting to believe that, at any moment in time, at any place anywhere, something amazingly wonderful, entirely unexpected and undeserved may possibly happen. With a belief like that, it’s so much, much easier to live by hope, rather than to sink in cynicism and despair. Yeah, sure, the odds may be against a miracle—well, the odds are against winning the lottery, too, and how many of us pop a dollar (or five) across the counter at the gas station, “just in case?” Belief in neart doesn’t even cost us anything! My father is the kind of guy who never spends more than a dollar a week on the lottery—but he does it every week, fifty-two bucks a year (cheaper than going to a rock concert). And he says, “as soon as I buy that ticket, I just assume I’m a millionaire. And if I don’t win, well, I’ll just buy another ticket. Then I’m a millionaire all over again.” Dad doesn’t live extravagantly—he’s a stickler for paying the credit card off in full every month, no exceptions. But he lives by faith. And so the neart flows through him.