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How little you value yourselves. How much difficulty and grief you cause yourself by asking to be perfect in every way according to your own personal definitions of this behavior. In an illusion which was created specifically not to be ideal, the Creator gave you consciousness. This same Creator did not give you happiness, nor should you expect that this quality will come to one who is wise or compassionate as a reward for living well. As in any school room, you are here to learn; and there was never a comfortably given test in the history of education, according to most students. But being within the illusion, you focus upon the material which you are receiving rather than upon the consciousness that receives it-that is, yourself. The experiences are transitory. The choices that you make in reacting to these circumstances slowly build up a non-transitory resource. If you have had courage once in choosing what was subjectively perceived as the ethical or correct thing to do in a situation, you have made a difference in yourself-you have chosen. And with each choice, your polarity, your positivity, your service to others becomes intensified, until there begins to be within each who continuously seeks persistently, a fire, a passion, to do and to be that which is love... -Quo