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Remember how you learn to ride a bicycle? You turn the handlebars too hard at first, before you can begin to steer it, more or less.

But then there is a new problem – you keep riding into the holes and the edge of the road where you don’t want to go.

And why? Because you don’t want to ride into the holes – you’re afraid of them and that’s why you’re staring at them. But where you look, that’s where you go.

We are all afraid sometimes, and sometimes very afraid. We often don’t like a lot of things. At the same time, we also like a lot of other things, we want a lot of things, we desire, we want, we believe, we hope. And we are saddened because we can’t get these pleasant things, or they don’t come to us. We tend to come up with the bad things we’re afraid of.

And why? Because we’re looking at more of those things we don’t like, the things we’re afraid of, whatever’s irritating us, and so we run into them.

You drive where you look – that’s how simple it is. What you’re thinking about, that’s what you get; what you’re afraid of is coming.

To the healer comes the one who is not well, who is broken or at least thinks he is broken. If you admit that you’re not okay, you’re not. To the smart comes the one who isn’t smart, who’s stupid or at least thinks he’s stupid. If you admit you’re not smart, you aren’t.

Who can fix your brokenness or get you out of stupidity?

No one. They can only help you to find out that you’re not broken, that you’re not stupid.

Nor did Jesus exacerbate the paralysis. Oh no, he said:

‘Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.’ (John 5:8)

Every living being can be a God, Guru or Master. The more we love them, the more of them we find. Nothing else is needed!

J. Lennon: All You Need Is Love.

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? (1 Corinthians 3:16)