It's a circle, not a straight line - its timeless

"Most people see themselves walking down this straight road, which is day 1 of year 1, and then day 1 of year 2, then day 1 of year 3, instead of seeing themselves going round in a natural cycle. Everything on your planet works round in this natural cycle. Everything works on in this natural cycle.

What I'm trying to offer you today is just the understanding that you're on this circle of 360 degrees and not in a straight line going from Jan to Dec, and Jan to Dec. These extra days that you have at the end of the calendar year as opposed to the degrees of a circle, those days are actually to alter the shape, to expand it or contract it.

If you can just understand the 360 degrees, instead of a straight line from year 1 and to year 2, because you don't progress that way. If you did progress that way your minds would change each year, and they don't. The fundamentals and the essence of who we all are, including me, we don't change. This is our path going round and round and round. Do you understand that."

Once I remembered that life is continuous cycles of time, then I began to appreciate that there is no time, just different seasons of life, of work, of relationship, of nature, of everything. It is very freeing to appreciate that after the winter always comes the spring and then the summer.....in everything in life........

Peace

Peace is about completely understanding that all of our fellow humans on the planet are as we are. And those with greater gifts to give have been given them to offer to people with lesser gifts. But it is a complete understanding with all human beings.

And the next stage is to move into harmony with those human beings into all living things on this planet, and then understanding that this planet is just part of a whole living universe and universes. And there is absolutely no difference between here and wherever there is. That is a picture of peace I was given, which is very big, so that we can be in harmony with the air between the planets as much as in harmony with people on the planet.

It's not an ultimate goal. Peace is where you are in that process at any one moment in time.

The active part of peace is to understand our relationship with other men and women, and see it in harmony with the whole planet, and know it is not a battle. We don't go at battling.

Prayer is most potent weapon on the planet if we have to use the word weapon.

Totally integrated unification of all the cells in the body (or the universe) is peace.

I always remember Joseph explaining that peace is not a goal, but a result along the way of knowing we are one with all others...............it was a great insight for me at the time, striving as I was to succeed, often it felt at the expense of others. Now I try to appreciate the god speaking to me that is present in everyone, whoever they are and whatever they have done to me in my life. This is where peace lies.........