وأقول في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزاله وأقول قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوله الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما ذاته إن شاء الله تعالى today we're going to be starting a new series إن شاء الله تعالى في هذه السنة بإذن الله الكريم أريد أن أخبرك بالمشيئة إلا الله سبحانه وتعالى أريد أن أتحدث عن how a man can affect a person's life and how a man changed the lives of great people أريد أن أتحدث عن the things that caused the a man to increase and decrease لذا أتحدث عن my lecture in 3 إن شاء الله تعالى في today's episode بإذن الله الكريم is an introduction في هذه المشيئة إن شاء الله تعالى أريد أن أتحدث عن the benefits that a person receives from a man ما هو مشيئة أكثر لو أن أتحدث عنه بإذن الله في هذا العالم وفي هناك في today's introduction that's what I'm going to talk about. I'm also going to speak about the second thing I'm going to speak about in the introduction is there are many people who claim Eman. We say I'm a believer. Eman to claim it is something. And to be a believer and a believer is something else. Claiming is the easiest thing that a person can do. So I'm going to speak about the true believers of Allah and I'm also going to speak about the hypocrites who claim Eman but are really not مؤمنين. They are far from being believers. That is what I'm going to discuss and I'm going to cover in today's introduction. Let me inshallah start with mentioning the benefits that are in Eman. And these tamarat these benefits that are in Eman are going to be benefits in this world and benefits in the hereafter. The first inshallah is the person who comes with Eman who has Eman. That individual or that person they are going to receive الامن والامان. They're going to receive safety and they are going to receive بايدة إيمان that they've come with distance from harm or any problems. الله سبحانه وتعالى يسالن القرآن. This is the first one. الله سبحانه وتعالى يسالن القرآن. الذين آمنوا ولم يلبسوا إيمانهم بظلم أولائك لهم الامن وهم مهتدون. الله سبحانه وتعالى يساد. الذين آمنوا دو سوف come with إيمان. الذين آمنوا. ولم يلبسوا إيمانهم بظلم. And they do not. They do not clothe. They're iman with shirk. Because the word ظلم in here means shirk. As the Prophet ﷺ explained it. When the Sahabas asked him and they said او مسجد الله. أيونة لم يضلم نفسه. Which from amongst us has not oppressed himself. And then the Prophet said no. The ظلم in this ayah is the same as the ظلم ينصورة اللقمان. He said. ألم تسمعوا. Did you not hear the statement of لقمان الحكيم? What did the ظلم say? الله تبارك وتعالى. He said. That the ظلم said. وإذ قال لقمان لبنه وهو يعيضه يا بنية. لا تشارك بالله. إن الشرك لظلم عظيم. شرك is the greatest form of oppression. So. الذين آمنوا ولم يلبسوا إيمانهم بظلم in here means shirk. So the person who comes with the إيمان and the إيمان is not clothed with shirk. أولائك لهم الأمن. الله says those people are going to receive أمن and safety. وهم اختدون. And they are the guided ones. So. الإيمان والهداية. Safety and guidance are for the people of إيمان. The مؤمن. إيمان أقول لأهل السنة والجماعة is. قولون a speech. قولون على اللسان. قولو في اللسان. It's a call on its speech that is started and it's mentioned on the tongue. يعني it's speech on the tongue. It is also عملون. It is an action على الجوارحة on the limbs. And it is also إيمان يزيدو بالطاعة وينقصو بالمعصية. It increases and decreases. إيمان is قولة العمل. It is the speech of the heart and it is also the speech of the tongue. It is also the action of the heart and it is also the actions of the limbs. Those four. And it increases and decreases. It increases in the obedience of Allah and it decreases in the obedience of the Shaytan. It increases in the obedience of Allah and it decreases in the obedience of the Shaytan. So these people اللذين آمنوا these who believed اللي is mentioned here اللذين آمنوا ولم يلبسوا إيمانهم بالظلم. أولئك لهم الأمن وهم مهتدون is referring to a people who stated the Eman on their tongue and they believed it in their hearts عن it manifested on their limbs. The second benefit that a person will receive the second benefit that you see in الإيمان is الحياة الطيبة you're going to live a good life الحياة الطيبة وطمقنينة القلوب and the tranquility of the hearts comes from it and this is not for ولا يكونوا إلا لأهل الإيمان الحياة الطيبة وطمقنينة القلوب the good life and the tranquility of the heart is only for the believers those are the ones who Allah تعالى those in the Quran they're going to receive it The good life الله تعالى يسألني آية من عمل صالح من ذكر أو أنث وهو المؤمن فلا نحيانه حياة طيبة ولا نجزي أنهم أدرهم بيحسن ما كان يعملون الله يقول any man or woman who comes with righteous action that person does righteous action من عمل صالح من ذكر أو أنث وهو مؤمنون but with the condition that that person is a believer فلا نحيانه حياة طيبة الله is going to give you a good life the good life is connected to your إيمان ولا نجزي أنهم أدرهم بيحسن ما كان يعملون and Allah is going to reward you سبحانه وتعالى in the best that you used to do افتحوا هنا إيمان is the key to a good life if you're trying to attain a good life if you're trying to achieve a happy life a prosperous life if that's what you're looking for and you're not looking for it through إيمان then you're looking for it in the wrong places and you will never find it happiness is in الإيمان و بالله believing in Allah و داركة that's why we say الحياة الطيبة و طمانينة القلوب لا يقول إلا لأهل الإيمان ممارزة always remember that a good life and the tranquility of the heart is only for the believers I've mentioned the evidence for a good life what about the evidence is for a tranquility the tranquility of the heart الله تعالى قال الذين آمن وتطمئن قلوبهم لذكر الله على بذكر الله تطمئن القلوب الذين آمن وتطمئن قلوبهم بذكر الله تطمئن القلوب this ayah clearly shows us and tells us that those who believe الذين آمن وتطمئن the ones who believe who've come with iman they're the ones what Allah is going to give them tranquility of the heart they are going to receive tranquility طمانينة that's where they're going to receive it و داركة بعض السلف this story this statement actually was mentioned by was mentioned by two imams من آيمة السلف it was mentioned that ابراهيم ابنو أدهم and Abu Yusuf they both went out with each other one day and when they went they went to the ocean and they both had two piece of bread Abu Yusuf and ابراهيم ابنو أدهم were dipping their bread into the ocean into the sea and they didn't have soup they didn't have anything else to eat with it they just have two dry breads and they both started to take the breads and started to dip it into the ocean into the sea so when it becomes soft so they can chew it and they can eat it they said to each other ابراهيم ابنو أدهم said to Abu Yusuf he said to him لو علم الملوك و ابناء الملوك ما نحن فيه من النعيم والسرور لجالدون عريه بالسيوف he said لو علم الملوك if the the kings and the children of the kings were to know the happiness that we have the tranquility that we have the joy that we have they knew that the bliss and the blessings of Allah that we have the النعيم the سرور the happiness and the blessings of Allah that we have if they knew it the kings and the children of the kings would know what they do they would come out with their swords and they would try to take that away from us they would try to take away from us the happiness and the joy and the comfort and the goodness that we have I'm asking you all a question every one of you who's watching and listening we have these two imams they don't have anything they have no wealth they have no money they are dipping their bread into the ocean into the sea and what are they doing they don't they don't have meat to eat with it مع ذلك with that said they are they believe that they have happiness they believe that they have joy and that is true they do have it but the happiness that they are referring to and the joy that they are referring to and the blessing that they are referring to is that is a happiness that nothing can buy و لذلك الشيخ الاسلام ابن تيميا he said إن في الدنيا جنة ما لم يدخلها لم يدخل جنة الأخرى ابن تيميا said that in this dunya there is a jannah if you do not enter the jannah of this dunya you will not enter the jannah of the hereafter and Shaykh الاسلام تيميا mentioned the jannah of this dunya well it is what is it brothers and sisters it is الإيمان بالله it is to believe in Allah سبحانه و تعالى believing in Allah سبحانه و تعالى is jannah in this world how is it a jannah in this world because it is what brings about الحياة الطيبة وطمانينة القلوب it is what brings about a good life it is what brings about the tranquility of the hearts that is what Allah تعالى mentioned in those two verses that I gave من أعمل صالحة من دكة لنأونها وهو مؤمن فلنف ينه حياتا طيبة ولا نجز ينه ونجلهم بيحسن ما كانوا يعملون الآية أن الله تعالى يسد الذين آمن وتطمئنوا قلوب ومن ذكر إله لا بذكر إله تطمئنوا القلوب الآية the third benefit that the believers receive when they have when they come with الإيمان الإيمان بالله is الشيطان وليس له سلطان وعلى أهل الإيمان Shaytan has no strength and no power over them the people of الإيمان Shaytan has no power over them the believers Shaytan has no power over them لسوى الله سبحانه وتعالى سنة آية إنه ليس له سلطان على الذين آمن وعلى ربهم يتوكلون إنما سلطان هو على الذين يتولونه والذينهم بهي مشركول Shaytan he has no power over the believers إنه ليس له سلطان على الذين آمن وعلى ربهم يتوكلون the ones who are believers of Allah and the ones who rely on Allah alone he has no power over those people إنه ما سلطان هو the ones he has power over the people he controls the people he can subjugate are who على الذين يتولونه the ones that take Shaytan is their ally those are the ones he's got control over those are the ones who you tend to see every now and then struggling and crying over their desires and the lack of ability to overcome their addiction those are the people who have control over as for the المؤمن الصادق the truthful believer there's no power over them if he comes to that believer and tries to misguide him all that believer does he says أعود بالله he has the strength and the iman the fourth benefit that is in الإيمان و بالله the benefit that you get from believing in Allah my beloved brothers and sisters is اللهم اللهم سبحانه وتعالى he is the one who defends the believers the believers are defended by Allah Allah protects them سبحانه وتعالى he takes care of them they are under حماية الله Allah's protection that's what Allah سبحانه وتعالى he said in the Quran إن الله يدافع عن اللدي لأامن Allah defends the believers he didn't say he defends the non-Muslims he said I defend the believers that's the characteristics he mentioned إن الله تبارك وتعالى he said ألا إن أولياء الله لا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون الذين أامنوا الذين أامنوا وكانوا يتقول الله mentions ألا إن أولياء الله لا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون that the ألا إيزا فالله هو that the ألا إيزا فالله الذين أامنوا those who have come with iman and they've also come with وقتقوا the people keep the iman التقوا they're the allies of Allah أولياء الله and Allah mentions to us what that there's no fear there's nothing they need to be scared of يعني why are you scared الله is protecting you لهم وعقباتهم من بين يدي ومن خلفي يحفظونهم من أمر الله you have you're protected from the front and you're protected from the back you're protected from all directions no one can harm you no one can cause you harm rather anyone who tries to harm you because you're the أولياء الله anyone who tries to harm you الله تبارك وتعالى will be in direct war with that person that's why the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and told us in the حديث القدسي من عادا لي وليا فقد آدان تول بالحرب anyone who shows enmity and hate towards my allies that person is in direct war with Allah I ask you guys a rhetorical question that doesn't even need anyone to answer it because it's obvious and it's well known who would win in a battle between Allah and the creation who's going to win the creator or the created who's going to win the creator is going to win الله سبحانه وتعالى so the believers أهلو الإيمان the people who believe in الله سبحانه وتعالى who have the true إيمان that is needed from them الله will defend them and if people slander you people criticize you even if people plot and plan against you because you're a true مؤمن Allah is going to protect you سبحانه وتعالى you are under the آية you fall under the آية إن الله يدافع عن الذين آمنوا you also fall under the آية ألا إن أولياء الله لا خوف عليهم ولهم يحزنون الذين آمنوا وكانوا يتقون you also fall under حديث القدسي من عادة من عادة ليوليا فقد أقدنته بالحرب the fifth benefit that you get from believing إن الله سبحانه وتعالى is the أجر العظيم you're going to get a lot of reward in believing إن الله سبحانه وتعالى you're also going to get والبشر يوم القيامة you're going to receive God hides the day of judgment and that is specifically أهل الإيمان only for the believers That's what Allah تباركة عليه سني آية وسوف يؤتله المؤمنين أجر العظيم Allah is going to give to the believers a lot of reward specific for the believers they're going to receive what they're going to receive أجر العظيم great reward وسوف يؤتله المؤمنين الله is going to give to the believers no one else what is he going to give them الله is going to give them what أجر العظيم and great reward also الله تباركة عليه he says وبشر المؤمنين بأن لهم من الله فضلا كبير give glad tidings to the believers that the day of judgment they are going to receive what they are going to receive فضلا كبير great virtue from their Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى great reward glad tidings great reward all of that is for the believers يوم القيامة look at the benefits that you get in this world look at what you get the day of judgment in this world you're going to live a good life in this world you're going to find tranquility you know and the day of judgment nothing to worry about don't be scared don't be concerned don't feel sad you're reassured that your place is going to be جنة and what is better than جنة the sixth benefit in coming with الإيمان وباللهي سبحانه وتعالى is الأخوة الصادقة true brotherhood and true sisterhood and الاتحاد to be united والاعتصام all of that comes what it comes في ظل الإيمان under the shade of an iman under this term الإيمان people of different countries people of different ethnicities and background people of different colors people of different tribes all of them become brothers and sisters they become what brothers and sisters that's what Allah سبحانه وتعالى He said إنما المؤمنون إخوة that the believers are brothers they are sisters إنما المؤمنون إخوة the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يسانين حديث المسلم أخ المسلم the prophet also said صلى الله عليه وسلم المؤمن للمؤمن كالبنيان يشد بعضه بعضها the prophet also said مثل المؤمنين في تواديهم وتراحمهم وتعاطفهم كمثل جسد واحد إذا اشتكى من العضون تدعى سائر الجسد بالسحر والحمة the prophet also said عليه الصلاة المؤمن للمؤمن كالبنيان يشد بعضه بعضها the believers that's what they are towards each other they are one body they are like a building cemented together يشد بعضه بعضهم they strengthen one another they are to each other the believers that if one person is suffering or one person is going through hardship or one group of people are suffering the whole entire ummah feel the pain of those people because they become like one body المؤمن للمؤمن كالبنيان مثل المؤمنين في تواديهم وتراحمهم وتعاطفهم كمثل جسد واحد you're like one body one body that if your finger today was hurting you and you wanted to go to sleep you can't your eyes cannot sleep because of the finger that's the believer the way they are towards each other they feel each other's pain these six that I just mentioned are the six benefits that you receive if you believe in Allah SWT that does not mean that these are the only six that you get there are many more but I already mentioned some the second thing that I wanted to speak about in this introduction is إيمان is claimed by many people there are many people come and say that I'm a believer I believe in Allah I'm a مؤمن what I want to say to you my beloved brother and sisters is the statement of Hassan Al-Basri who said he said ليس الإيمان بالتحلي ولا بالتمنى ولكنه ما وقر في القلب وصدقته العمل إيمان محسن البصري he said إيمان is not just a تمنى wishful thinking and إيمان is not something you beautify yourself with and you dress you clothe yourself and you no إيمان is something that settles in the heart and it's then something that shows on your limbs it manifests on your limbs it goes into your heart and then it shows on your limbs it's not just oh it's in my heart I've got a good heart no it goes into your heart and then it shows on your limbs that's the truth the woman that's not wearing hijab the man who's shaving his beard these people lack إيمان there is a deficiency in your إيمان your إيمان is reduced the إيمان is branches branches الإيمان وضعن وسبعون الشعبة علىها قول لا إله إلا الله وأدنها إيماطة الأدى عن الطريق والحياء الشعبة من الإيمان إيمان is branches from the branches of the إيمان is to cover yourself and conceal yourself my beloved brothers and sisters understand my beloved sisters to conceal yourself and cover yourself and where the hijab is a branch from the branches of the الإيمان and so if you do not cover yourself properly and the way that the sharia is legislated you are missing a branch of an إيمان your إيمان is reduced and it distances you from Allah سبحانه وتعالى the same with the brother who shaves that individual's إيمان is reduced and it is reduced in accordance to whichever disobedience that you come with so إيمان as I mentioned is not a claim it's not a دعوة إذا دعوة ما لم تقيمة ببئينات الأبناء وهاجعية with the claims that we come with we have to bring evidences for it we have to back up our claims and our statements الله سبحانه وتعالى سنة القرآن ومن الناس من يقول آمننا بالله هو باليوم الآخر وما هم بمؤمنين يخادعون الله والذين آمن وما يخطعون إلا أنفسه وما يشعرون في قلوبهم مرض فزادهم الله مرض there are people ومن الناس من يقول آمننا بالله وباليوم الآخر وما هم بمؤمنين there are people who claim that they believe in Allah that they believe in the day of judgment they believe in the angel they claim they believe in that حني they are claiming it الله سبحانه وتعالى what does he say وما هم بمؤمنين these people are not believers they are not believers however much they scream I'm a believer I'm a believer however much he tries to hang around with the believers he's a منافق معلوم النفق he's a hypocrite known for his hypocrisy ايمان is not just a claim so here insha'Allah in the second part of my introduction I want to speak about two situations I'm a two examples that distinguish the منافق from the مؤمن المؤمن الصادق the truthful believer and the hypocrite what is it that distinguishes them الله when we claimed ايمان and we said we are believers الله سبحانه وتعالى he tested us to know which of those two groups we're going to be from الله سبحانه وتعالى ايها حاسب الناس ان يتركوا ان يقولوا اهمنا وهم لا يستنون ولقد فتنوا الذين من قبلهم فلا يعلم ان الله والذين صدقوا ولا يعلم ان الكائدين الله says did the people actually think that when they say I'm a believer and I've come with ايمان did they really think that Allah is going to let them go and just just take your claim for it no when you say I'm a believer okay you're going to be tested that statement of yours which is I am a believer would be put to the test for what if you're truthful or if you're a liar if you're truthful then you are a mu'min and if you're a liar then you're a munafiq you're a munafiq because you're claiming ايمان but you don't really have it you're a hypocrite you're a hypocrite so let's ان شاء الله تعالى see the signs to distinguish that Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned in the Quran that distinguishes it is the حد الفاصل is مفرق طرق between the munafiq and the mu'min the first one is the believer when he is called to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he said Allah and his messenger have said this in this issue Allah who سبحانه وتعالى judged it in this way this is what Allah who سبحانه وتعالى and his messenger have said this is the قضى من عند الله this is the judgment of Allah and his messenger the believer what does he do and what does the hypocrite do Allah تعالى تعالى تعالى تعالى تعالى he says إنما كان قول المؤمنين إذا دعوا إلى الله ورسولي ليحكوم بينهم أن يقولوا سمعنا وأطعنا وأولئك هم المفلحون الله سبحانه وتعالى he said إنما كان قول المؤمنين the statement of the believers the mu'minin إذا دعوا إلى الله ورسولي إذا دعوا إلى الله ورسولي there is an issue that is outstanding the believer has a conflict with another believer there is a conflict between two believers both of the believers are told Allah and his messenger have a judgment in this issue both of the believers because they love Allah because they love the messenger what do they say سمعنا وأطعنا we hear what Allah says we obey what Allah and his messenger say we hear and we obey Allah and his messenger what does Allah say in this issue I hear and I obey the other one says what did Allah say in this issue and his messenger I hear and I obey because of the iman they listen and they obey what Allah says that is what Allah mentioned in the ayah that the people who do not accept the judgment of Allah and his messenger are not believers فلا وربك لا يؤمنون حتى يحكموك فيما شجر بينهم ثم لا يجدو في أنفسهم فلا وربك لا يؤمنون حتى يحكموك فيما شجر بينهم that they are not true believers they are not true believers the people when you tell them Allah and his messenger say and they don't accept it they don't surrender the minute you say to them Allah and his messenger say they say you know what get out of here are you truly going to just mention these verses like that to me whatever whatever you say to them Allah and his messenger say they always have an excuse they have an argument يعني ده هوا and their desires is what governs them that's not what the believers are like my beloved brothers and sisters the mu'min is not like that the mu'min what did Allah mention about them سميعنا واطعنا وأولئك هوم المفلحون I hear and I obey whether it goes according to my nefs or whether it doesn't I hear and I obey let's look at the munafiqin how are they like when Allah and his messenger are mentioned so you and I can know where we stand where we stand with the Quran where do we stand with the munafiqin or with the believers this is when we should be scared and worried all of us should be scared all of us this is where we get scared الله سبحانه وتعالى يقولون أمن بالله وبالرسول واطعنا ثم يتولى فريق منهم من بعد ذلك ومأولئك بالمؤمنين وإذا دعووا إلى الله ورسول يحكم بينهم إذا فريق منهم معرضون الله تبارك يقول في قلوب مرض أمرتاب أم يخافون أن يحيف الله عليهم رسوله بل أولئك بل أولئك هوم الكافرون الله تبارك تعالى يقولون they say the munafiqin أمن بالله وبالرسول واطعنا we believe in Allah and we obey them they say it like that ثم يتولى فريق منهم من بعد ذلك after that when the judgment of Allah is passed in the issue those are not believers those are not believers وإذا دعووا إلى الله ورسولي يحكم بينهم when they are called to Allah and He is messenger when the sister is told this is what Allah said about the hijab when the brother is told this is what Allah said about the the bed this is what Allah said about the salah this is what Allah سبحانه وتعالى said about this particular situation what is the munafiq say وإذا دعووا رسولي يحكم بينهم إذا فريق منهم وعريضون a group of them turn away they turn their back they don't listen they don't adhere they don't want to see what Allah and His messenger just say in this situation الله says وإيا كلهم الحق يأتوا إلهي مدغنين أفي قلوبه مرض they are sick people these are sick people they are not healthy people they are a sick group of people who choose to disobey Allah and His messenger إنه دعا الله تباركوا تعالى وإذا قيل لهم تعالوا إلى ما أنزل الله وإلا رسولي رايت المنافقين يصدون عنك صودودة when they call to Allah and His messenger the Qur'an and the Sunnah they told about it الله says رايت المنافقين يصدون عنك صودودة you see that the the munafiq he turns his back and he's running away he doesn't want to hear all of that in the 21st century brother wake up get your head out of the sun this is a statement so you hear from them أخي are you truly just going to mumble those same آيات أخي we used to hear this in the 90s man get over that man life has changed keep up with the world be progressed are you really that dimwitted they insult you they belittle you like in believers hold on to your book hold on to the Sunnah والله they're going to know one day one day they're going to know that the path that they're treading on the path that they're taking والله they're harming no one except themselves they are going to destroy themselves والله many of them are living upon depression and stress and sadness many of them are dwelling over harms and problems that's the truth of their life they are missing the the tranquility that we're talking about the munafiq والله he doesn't find joy the second situation that والله the munafiq and the believer is when they are in the battlefield when the the jihad and the battlefield it's it's happening the believers they're steadfast they don't run they believe in Allah and Allah mentioned me والما رأى المؤمنون الأحزابة قالوا هذا ما وعدن الله ورسوله وصدق الله ورسوله وما زادهم إلا إيمان وتسليمه look at the believers when they saw the army والما رأى المؤمنون الأحزابة قالوا هذا ما وعدن الله ورسوله this is when Allah this is the promise that was told to us by Allah and his messenger that's what they say the believers والما رأى المؤمنون الأحزابة قالوا هذا ما وعدن الله ورسوله وصدق الله ورسوله and his messenger have told the truth وما زادهم إلا إيمان وتسليمه إيمان has increased for them and submission they just submit submit submit past the believers وربدا منفقين ويدقول المنافقون ويستادين فريق منهم النبي يقولون إن بيوتنا عورة وما هي بيعورة يريدون إلا فرارة يعني المنافق يقول الله ورسوله this is what they promised us this is nothing but deception يعني and does not submit all he wants is to run away from the battle المنافق and the believers are never the same and I've mentioned enough for you to comprehend to take on board anything which I have said that was wrong incorrect is from me and shaitan and Allah his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم ورحمدك أشدو الله إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأعطوه إليك السلام عليكم if you're enjoying these videos and you'd like to keep up to date with all of the courses we're going to be running make sure you head over to amauathome.com


When it comes to software delivery and operational performance, the DevOps Research and Assessment, or DORA, has developed metrics to measure the effectiveness of organizations' development and delivery practices. Hi, I'm Cesar Cvedra, Technical Marketing Manager at GitLab.  These metrics can be used as a common way or an industry standard to compare how well organizations are doing, but they can also help leaders and teams measure and improve what matters in relation to their software delivery and performance. We'll cover the change failure rate metric, define as a percentage of changes to production that resulted in degraded service and require remediation. The specific feature introduced in GitLab 14.10, that we will cover is new DORA metric API, change failure rate. For a GitLab project, the specific calculation for the change failure rate is the number of incidents divided by the number of deployments during the time period. For this MBC, this metric is only available for production environments. Let's see how this new feature works. Here we see the GitLab project name PlanExec, which has five close incidents within the last three weeks. Also, notice that this project has had only one deployment to production, indicated by the successful run of this merge request pipeline in the last three weeks. If we run the API for the change failure rate for this project with a time interval of daily, which is also the default, we see that on April 5th, the rate was four and on April 4th, it was one. These add up to the number of incidents that were resolved on these dates, since we always assume one deployment as the denominator of this calculation. For the monthly interval, we see the value is five. The total number of incidents resolved in the last month. For the all interval, we also see five. Let's head over to CICD Pipelines and run the pipeline manually to increase the number of deployments to production to two. We rerun the API for the change failure rate for this project with a time interval of daily, and we see that there is a new entry for today. April 27th with a value of zero, since there hasn't been any incidents created today. When we rerun the API for the change failure rate for this project with a time interval of all, we see that the new rate is 2.5, which is half of the previous value since we now have two deployments to production. The calculation and display of the change failure rate Dora for metric provide insight into the effectiveness of your development and delivery practices without having to spend time calculating this metric by hand. It also helps you better measure and improve what matters in relation to your software delivery and performance. I hope you enjoyed this video and until next time.


Hello, I'm Dr. Mike Nickerson. I'm corresponding author of a paper to be published in the journal Human Mutation, entitled the UBID-1 Prenyl Transferase Links Mediquinone Synthesis to Cholesterol Metabolic Enzymes. Snyder's Cornell Dystrophy was first identified in 1924 by two Dutch researchers, but takes its name after work by Walter Snyder of Switzerland based on papers published in 1929 and 1939. The phenotype of the disease is very striking and is shown in Figure 1 from the paper. The phenotype arises from abnormal deposition of cholesterol and lipids in patient corneas, resulting in decreased visual acuity and usually requiring a corneal transplant later in life. The photos in Figure 1 were taken by Dr. Jane Weiss, who identified her first SCD patients in the late 1980s at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Identification of those patients led to a 25-year effort by Dr. Weiss to collect framies from around the world, which would later enable identification of the disease gene. I began working with Dr. Weiss in late 2005 and we published our results identifying UBID-1 as mutated in SCD in 2007. A few weeks after a group from Canada led by Dr. Mark Samuels published identification of the same gene as mutated in SCD. The current work shows a novel mutation in six families with SCD, four of which are from a region of Finland within 60 kilometers of each other. The mutation is a G2A change, resulting in a substitution of glycine at 177 with a glutamic acid. We show that the mutation in the Swedish Finnish families is likely a founder mutation. The four different families share an identical haplotype across the UBID-1 locus, and the alteration cosegregated very nicely with disease in virtually all patients examined. We immediately were interested in the enzymatic implications of SCD mutations and working with Toshio Okano of Japan, who recently published in Nature that UBID-1 was the first vitamin K biosynthesis enzyme. We examined wild type and SCD mutant UBID-1 to find that vitamin K biosynthesis was reduced by 20% to 40% by different SCD mutations. We performed molecular modeling on SCD mutant UBID-1 with Dr. Wolfgang Brandt of Germany, and we show that the SCD mutation introduced striking structural perturbations to transmembrane helices and key amino acid residues in the active site. So molecular modeling results coincided very nicely with our enzymology results. We went on to show with Dr. Thorkel Anderson of SAIC in Frederick that UBID-1 bound to two enzymes that are key components of cholesterol synthesis and processing in cells. These are HMG-CoA reductase, which is a target of statins, and it is a key regulatory enzyme in cholesterol synthesis. And also, SOAT-1, a key enzyme in cholesterol storage. SOAT-1 asterifies cholesterol for storage within cells. In conclusion, we have a novel alteration in SWEED-FIN SCD families. We have now examined the global collection of SCD families, which totals 51 families, and we have found 23 different missense alterations. We think these results have implications for corneal health, vitamin K2 action in coagulation, and also vitamin K2 function in the electron transport chain in mitochondria. Enjoy reading the paper. Thank you very much and feel free to contact me with questions. Thank you.


Okay, hello. This is William and Sarah at GitLab. And today we're going to show you how to make a merge request to the handbook when your content is in a Google Doc. So it's always, always much better to make the merge request first right away and skip the Google Doc. And then you can skip this whole video. But in case you have content in the Google Doc that you want to get in a merge request, we're going to walk through how to set that up today. So the first thing we're going to do is go to the handbook page that we want to edit. And go to the bottom of the screen and click on edit this page. You might need to drag your browser window around. And then this will bring up the actual markdown page and go ahead and click on edit. Which is up in the toolbar area over there. And so this is a markdown representation of this page. And if you want to learn markdown, there's a video on our YouTube channel that talks about how to learn markdown in five minutes. Or at the bottom of this screen, there's usually a little link that says markdown. Actually it's not here. We'll link in the description video of this video a link to the markdown video. But if you Google GitLab markdown, you'll find how to learn markdown. So you're going to find the spot in this that you want to edit. And what I find is when I'm using this editor view, it says soft wrap up in the top right corner. And if you click on that, it kind of wraps the lines and makes it easier to read instead of going off the screen. So I think we want to edit the approval workflow. Is that right? Yes. So the first thing I think is that the point four about the invoice, we want to move that down into the preceding section or to the following section. Yes. Yeah. So go ahead and copy and paste that. I don't want the numbers though. So. Yeah. Cool. And then this whole section we're going to replace with the content in your Google doc. Is that right? Yes. So I would delete that stuff. Cool. And now we're going to go over to your Google doc. So go over to the Google doc that has your content. And command a to select all of the content. And then, you know, command C to copy it. And then in another tab, you are going to Google for rich text to markdown. And usually the first one that pops up is this Medusas. I use this all day long, one of my favorite tools and you just paste in your Google doc content there, convert to markdown. And you have a reasonable view there. So now you just copy all of that, go over to your MR and paste that into that section. Now there's a few things that we're going to need to massage that I will point out. So if you notice that go up to the top where the subheader was. So the first thing is that procedure to pay process is got two hash marks. That means it's like a level two header. And then underneath that is requirement identification and approval workflow which are at level four. And then yours is also at level four. So ideally you want yours to be a level below, but I thought you would have to change all of your stuff. Instead, you should be able to make approval workflow just a level three. Same with that one and the same with the ones below it. That just happened to work out in a lucky way on this page. The idea is you want all of your headings nested. So fours go under threes, go under twos, et cetera. So the only other thing to clean up is when you do a rich text to markdown conversion is sometimes there's extra white space. So you can kind of see like between paragraphs sometimes there's like two or three spaces when there should only be one. Do I change color? No, don't think so. That's just showing that you have an active line. Okay. I didn't change color though. Now the last thing we're going to do is we are going to look for any links in your content that are two pages on about.gitlab.com. So I don't know if you know off the top of your head, within your content, did you link to other gilab.com pages? It looks like there's one there. So we are going to turn that from what's called an absolute link, which includes the whole URL into a relative path link, which basically means just delete HTTPS colon slash about.gitlab.com. And so it's just going to start with slash handbook. That's because the handbook is also at about.gitlab.com. So it knows that that is the URL. So do you have any other absolute paths? So other links to other things or other websites are fine, but if it's a link to about.gitlab.com, you want to make that a relative path. For example, up there. It's already cool. So now we're going to add a commit message. So you are going to give this something descriptive. It should be short, but descriptive about the change that you are proposing. Where? Down in the commit message section here. Yeah. So instead of just update update of the page is usually not very helpful. But if you give something short and descriptive and then you can see that it is already going to create up. You need to review more stuff. No, I think I'm good. And then you can see the target branch is already created a new branch for you. And we're going to start a merge request with these changes.  So this is the merge request where this contents not live yet, but we're making a request to merge it. So here you can tag the people that you want to review.  I started out as a professional. That's I like Chase a lot. So I would never want to mess up his page, right? Like, I think that's a good, I don't think I need Jamie to look at anything in particular, just want to know it's done. So, uh, so the other thing is, um, you probably want Chase to approve it before it gets merged. Okay. Is that I would just like add in there and say, like, you know, if you approve, can you comment with your approval or something like that? And then, do you know who will be the final person who will click the merge button, like who is responsible for merging this? Probably Paul. Okay. So you could, uh, you could assign in the assignee there, although you, you want people to review this before, before you assign to Paul, you can leave the assignee blank for now and basically go down and, uh, hit, uh, create merge request or submit merge request. And now you have your MR. And what it's going to do is these, uh, little icons over here are, this is the pipeline and so your pipeline is going to run. It's going to create something called a review app, which means it's going to spin up, uh, a whole version of the website that has your changes already in it. So if other people want to read and review what you did, they can just look at that page. And so when that's done, we'll add the review app, um, so that folks can review it. And if other folks want to review it in the meantime, they can go down here to the changes section. And click on changes potentially. And then, uh, you can see what is called a diff between the handbook. So that is how you take a content that you have in a Google doc and add it to a merge request. Thanks everyone for playing along at home.


Let's take this 62-year-old man with a PSA of 6.4 who's had a prior negative biopsy and elucidate the mysteries of pyrads 2. The patient has type 2 form of low bar hyperplasia or BPH because it's the central zone that's enlarged pushing the urethra for it and that's discussed in another vignette. We could use our ellipsoid volume calculator and give a length, a length would be anteroposterior, times width, times height and multiply that by pi over 6 and get a volume. This volume is clearly going to be over 25 cc so we have BPH. But we are here to discuss the pyrads designation. So let's scroll up and down in the axial projection. The peripheral zone is the wider area around the outside separated from the TZ or transitional zone by the surgical capsule. So let's start with the TZ. The TZ, we'll use it synonymously with the central region of the prostate. It contains the pyrurethral region and then posterior superior we have the central zone which we're going to lump together with the TZ as part of the central zone and we're going to say, okay, in the central region of the prostate what is the major criteria for a pyrads 2? And the answer is multiple circumscribed or slightly heterogeneous nodules but none that deform the anatomic structures or architecture of the central region or TZ of the prostate. So for instance, we've got round and bright right here, very well circumscribed with a capsule. Round and dark right here, slightly irregular perhaps right here. Let's draw over this one because it's not perfectly round but it does have a sharp edge to it like that as opposed to say some charcoal smearing that wipes away this glandular nodular repetitive redundant appearance of the TZ. And that's going to be the same in the central region in the midline here and we're in the back of the prostate I believe right here. Let's see, yep, we're posterior and the same appearance is also seen here with very little peripheral zone visualized. So again, repetitive alternating areas of hyperintensity, hyperintensity, well encapsulated, nodular, not crossing any boundaries. These are the central region criteria or TZ criteria for a score of 2 which will leave us with a pyrads 2 as long as our peripheral zone is okay. So how do we check our peripheral zone? Pretty easy. We look for diffusion restriction. So rather than pull down all the diffusion weighted images, I'm just going to pull one down, the one with the highest B value. And let's look at the anatomy from apex to base and what we're looking for is something really bright that corresponds to an ugly nodular or aggressive mass with mass effect in the peripheral zone. Here's our peripheral zone. Patients had a biopsy and you can see the heterogeneity here. From that biopsy, there's some very faint hyperintensity on the diffusion weighted image but not much. It should be really bright and I'll put up a B value that's a bit lower. I'll blow it up and you can see there was something a little bit brighter there that faded away and that's exactly what benign lesions do. Pregnant lesions will get brighter as you go to higher B values. So this is a B value of around 50 and in the middle you have a B value that is 1600. So nothing getting brighter. Let's look at the ADC map also at the high B value number and we do have an area of low signal that implies decreased velocity but that is the site where our biopsy occurred. Yes, there is some hyperintensity there corresponding to those low psi on the B1600 image but it's not bright enough and there isn't a mass there. If we go back to the T2, let's go back and see the anatomic correlate of that. Right there, nothing there, right there, nothing there. So what are the things that can produce some diffusion restriction? Well, changes in viscosity like in an abscess. That's clearly not the case. Firmness, well that could be the case. Firmness or desmoplasia from scar tissue from a biopsy, hypercellularity with a paucity of cytoplasm. That is not the case here but that occurs with very solid tumors like prostate cancer like lymphoma and then necrotization, cell death, necrosis in the brain is another cause of diffusion restriction that can occur with say heroin toxicity in the brain. So this is an example of a prior biopsy site giving us a little bit of desmoplasia, a little bit of high signal on the diffusion weighted image in the peripheral zone but not enough as you saw it was a little bright on the B50 image it's about the same brightness on the B1600 image. Yes, it is picked up on the ADC map. This was the site of the prior biopsy. There's no anatomic correlate abnormality in that locus on the axial T2 weighted image. This is a Pyrad's 2.


The Bible told us, hold no graven images before the Lord by God, and it wasn't talking about totem poles or golden calves like we thought. It was actually talking about anything of time and space that you hold more valuable than God or than your true self will block you from the awareness of love. So, spirit is not a religion, spirit is not a theology, spirit is a state of mind, and love is that same state of mind. And you can't know that presence as long as you value anything else besides that presence. That's why, of all the commandments, you know, the two that Jesus emphasized was, love the Lord thy God with all the heart, soul, and mind, and love thy neighbor as thyself, as thyself, not as a separate entity or a separate being. So, when the song said, you literally are your brother, you literally are your sister, that's pointing to all the great traditions that teach that God is love and God is one.  That's why giving and receiving are the same. All that I give is given to myself. There literally is not two. That's what Advaita means, an Advaita vantadanta, not two. This is literally the teaching of not two. And the most glorious experience is when you relax into that state, and if there is not two, then all must be well. It must be that you can just relax in that state of forgiveness, in that state of remembrance of who you are. So, a key element for the ego is the belief in sacrifice, and what Jesus teaches us through a Course in Miracles is, while you believe in sacrifice, then love is unknown, and therefore he defines sacrifice very simply in the manual for teachers as the giving up of what you want. So, he's going to work with the idea, because it's so heavily believed in, and the giving up of what you want is very, very simple. That you have been called by God to the most holy function that could ever be, forgiveness. And that is your calling. Your calling really isn't a calling in form. It may seem to take a form for a little while, but it's really a calling into presence, into divine presence and remembrance. And you have been called by God, and Jesus says, would you now sacrifice the call? If sacrifices are giving up of what you want, you have linear time, we'll say on one hand, and you have the call. To remember God, on the other hand, and really that's the only thing you have to come to a reckoning with. Am I going to sacrifice the call to experience spirit, or am I going to sacrifice linear time? Because sacrifices are giving up of what you want. In other words, you can't value linear time and know the experience of love. That when you start giving yourself over to spirit, time will seem to collapse. You will have moments, glorious, glorious moments of stillness, of losing all awareness of time and all awareness of space. And never the twain will meet. You cannot experience and maintain the experience of that love and have a dedication to anything of time. Not to a career or a job, not to a child, not to a partner, not to the environment or improving Mother Earth, not to anything that seems to involve, we'll say, improvement even. Because who you are created as is pure spirit. You are created perfect originally, and then anything else of time is an attempt to add on to that perfection. That's why Buddha said, empty your mind with everything you think you think and think you know. That's why all authentic pathways to God, be still and know that I'm God, involves stillness and emptying the mind of everything. And you have to have a sense that you will not be obliterated by this emptying, that you will actually be found. You will find yourself through this emptying. So what I'm sharing is, it's okay to let go of everything. Absolutely every concept, every construct. It's more than okay, it's actually wonderful. And everything even in the letting go that you seem to need will be provided without effort. So you don't have to use linear thought to try to figure out the world, to try to solve the world. You don't really have a band of time and space that you can use between birth and death. That's the currency of the ego is time. It's as if you're given a band of time between birth and death to use any way that you want to. That's the human condition, the belief that you have been given time to use any way that you want to. When actually the Holy Spirit just uses time to teach you that there is no time. There's not like a positive outcome for this linear world. We're not looking for a happy picture in the end where everyone sits around and holds hands and sings a song together. We're not looking into celebrations in terms of form. We're not looking into rituals. We're looking into the beauty and the glory of absolute presence and stillness. So really, to answer the call, you just have to cultivate a sense of reverence. Of reverence for your creation, like God. And you can't put your mind's allegiance toward anything of time and space and experience that reverence. It was 24 years ago when I felt this huge, huge calling. And for me saying yes to that meant saying no to the future. No in the sense of ambitions. What will my life be? What do I want it to become? Letting go of the belief that I would want to make something of myself in the future. That one, you might say, mental act of saying, I hand my future over to you. I have no desire for a future. I have no desire to have a better world. I have no desire to fix anything or change anything. It's a desire of unified awareness to be who you are. It's not a desire to change or fix the world in any way. It's an act of saying I would hold no expectations of time and space so that I may come to know who you are and who I am in you. And that makes all the difference. And it's really, as Jenny and Greg were talking about, it's really not necessarily a matter of time. It's really a matter of desire. It only seems to be a process with the belief in time, but it actually is not a process. All attempts to make a better self or even to make a more spiritual self are part of the wheel of karma or part of the wheel, which in the end is defense against the holy instant, the defense against the present moment. And that's what forgiveness is. Forgiveness is seeing the false as false. And you can't possibly see the false as false unless you are aligned with the Holy Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit's function to see the false as false. Human beings, people don't ever see the false as false. You'll never be able to say, I have finally arrived as a human being because the human being itself is a construct that is made to descend against love. Ultimately, love is not interpersonal. That was made up by the ego as a substitute for love. And you know the guilt that comes from trying to improve or make perfect these constructs called interpersonal relationships. It's like sending yourself on an impossible mission that could never be accomplished. So what is this experience of the miracle? Jesus tells us miracles are involuntary and should not be under conscious control. That is amazing. Miracles are involuntary. Meaning that when you give yourself over fully to the miracle, you make no effort to consciously control time and space. There is no effort required in the miracle. Everything, absolutely everything is given. And to the human being that seems absolutely incredible. It seems like it actually even takes an effort to move a finger. It seems like there's conscious control over the movement of the finger. But it's not so. It seems like it requires conscious control to live, to rise out of bed each day, to go to work, to earn money, to feed the body, to clothe the body, to take care of one's environment and one's living space. But actually that's the biggest trick of all.  That's the biggest trick. And you know, that's where stress enters. Thinking you are in control of something or you have personal responsibility over something. That you can control anything at all is where stress and difficulty enter. This is the core of spirituality, the serenity prayer. What you can control, what you cannot control and the wisdom to know the difference. Jesus tells us you can control the direction of your thinking. You cannot control the world and the Holy Spirit is the wisdom to know the difference. Well, what is controlling the direction of your thinking except being in total alignment with spirit? Of giving all your thoughts over to spirit and saying, I would hold nothing apart from you. My mind holds only what I think with God. I cannot think apart from you God. I cannot live apart from you God. I exist as an idea in the mind of God, in the mind of spirit, and I have no life apart from my Creator, no life apart from my Source. That's the most happy experience that there could ever be, knowing yourself as creation of God and alignment with God. But that also means that you don't have control over the world. Some of you have heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of you have heard of the Gospel of Thomas, the Lost Gospel of Thomas. In the Gospel of Thomas, the shortest teaching of Jesus has been found. And that's be passers by. It's just two words that actually would summarize the entire teachings of Jesus Christ. Be passers by. And he actually teaches that in the Course. He actually teaches that in Lesson 128. The world I see holds nothing that I want. The only value that this world holds for you, he says, is that you pass it by and look no further there. When the teachings came through the New Testament and said, Be in the world but not of it. Do you know that for 2,000 years, human beings have been trying to find out what that means? Be in the world but not of it. And yet, what Greg was reading that passes from the Course is basically saying, You cannot find yourself in a world that was made to take the place of God. You cannot find yourself in images because God didn't create you as an image. The Bible says God created you in His likeness and image. There is no image of God. God is eternal. God is pure Spirit. It just means God created you in a light quality as God. God created you as Spirit. And therefore, when you try to find yourself in the form, you look for yourself where it can never actually be found. So what's the answer? If this Be in the world but not of it thing is still not fully in complete alignment, then it must be that you could live in such alignment with such purity, with such grace, with such intuitive fullness that you no longer reacted or responded to any of the images in the world. You were living in your Source, living in the Presence, seeing that you're dreaming but not reacting and responding to any of the dream figures. That's what this is about. That's what happiness is about. It's happy for no earthly reason. Only the ego tells you you can be happy because of certain outcomes in the world, certain form outcomes. But all of us have experienced from planet Earth that when you achieve a form outcome that you think will bring you happiness, it does not last. And then you're forced to go for more goals, more attempts, and maybe look around left and right and see how are they doing over there. They seem happy. They got this, they got that. They achieved this, they accomplished that. They possess this, they possess that. There really is no happiness in possessing. There is no happiness in achieving, as the world would say, you've achieved this, you've accumulated this. What happens in the human life when you retire when you have, maybe you get a gold watch or maybe you get some kind of memorial for all those years at work. But what have you really experienced if you're not happy? If you're not actually happy. What profiteth the man if he gained the whole world and lose his soul? So, you can live a life of joy, but in order to be that joy, in order to fully experience that joy, it has to come from within you. It can't come from the images of the world. It will never come from a man. It will never come from a woman. It will never come from a child. It will never come from a certain configuration of planet Earth. Everyone says, I haven't got my life the way I want it yet, but one day it's going to work out. One day in the future things are going to work out. But it's almost like being on a karmic hamster wheel, going round and round and round and round and just spinning and spinning and spinning. And the spinning itself is a state of discontent, a sense of searching, a sense of seeking, striving. So is this practical? I would say this state is absolutely, positively the most practical experience there could ever be. And is attempting to achieve happiness in form practical? I would say that is the most impractical attempt you will ever make if you search for it where it can never be found. It would be like putting your head through a brick wall, trying and convincing yourself, I'll just keep at it here. And that would be very impractical. And it's the same thing to search for answers where answers cannot be found. Now this call is really very, very simple because it's a call to be happy. It's not really a call to give yourself over to some pre-decided form where you just have to give yourself over and you have to just do what's required of you. What exactly is required of you? This is the theme in a lot of religions. Do what is required of you. Well the only thing that is required is to be happy because God's will is for perfect happiness. But you can see that the honesty must come in from experiencing happiness that is not dependent on the ego or dependent on the world because the ego is not who you are and the world is not who you are. And no experience of linear time will ever yield happiness. It just is perpetual discontent. It is restlessness. It is boredom. It is a sense of incompletion of I'm not there yet. But it's a sense of constantly just spinning round and round and round and round and actually trying to make this discontent acceptable. That's where the struggle comes in. Trying to make yourself content with restlessness, with boredom. Trying to be content with all the concepts of linear time. To dream the impossible dream. That's it. That's it. That's what the intent is. So what we have here, this experience right now is an opportunity to let your curiosity up.  To let your excitement up. To let your joy up. To open up into what is inevitable. What is absolutely inevitable. That's what this moment is. To not hold back. To not tell yourself, maybe later. Because spirit is not about later. You will never find spirit later. And it's actually a relief to say I give up. To say I stop. To say I surrender. I surrender the game of self-improvement. I surrender the game of believing things are going to get better in the future. I used to think better was good. Make your good better and your better best. It's a wheel that never ends. And then at some point you just surrender and you give up. All attempts at making a better future. The past is gone. The future is but imagined. These concerns are but defenses. The past is a concern. The future is a concern. That's what we're opening to. We're opening to a state of mind. That doesn't have any past regrets or future concerns. Any. Because why? Because they're all really the same. Every thought of the future is the same. It's just a projection of a belief in the past. Are you open to living a life without ambition? I see a nodding head in the front row. Are you open to living without ambition? Because ambition is competition. And competition is cutthroat.  You don't really think Jesus was competitive. If you read A Course in Miracles, does Jesus ever compare himself to other teachers? Ever? Is there ever any good, better, best coming from Christ's mind? Oh, no. In A Course in Miracles, Jesus says, Never underestimate the need to be vigilant against the idea of competition. That's your mind training. That's your focus. That's your attention. Any time a thought of competition enters the mind, or even a thought of comparison, that's just a desire to block the awareness of pure oneness. Because there is no competition in oneness. Oneness doesn't compete. There's nothing to compete against. And certainly love doesn't compete. In romantic love, in linear time love, there's competition. There's jealousy. There's envy. There's insecurity. There's a sense of being incomplete. And there's a lot of anxiety that's tied into that construct as well. But that's not what God's will is for us either. The only way you can see that there's no world apart from your mind is to let go of the pursuit of self-concepts and self-concept images. That's the only way you can come into an actual experience of awakening. Until that comes, then awakening and enlightenment are just another concept, future concept, someday. And Jesus tells us, Be not content with future happiness for it is not your just reward. For you have cause for freedom now. That's pretty strong. That used to be a pretty nice concept, didn't it? Future happiness. That was a pretty acceptable concept for a while. It's a concept. Some of you have read Disappearance of the Universe. Best lifetimes, future lifetimes. Be not content with future happiness for it is not your just reward. So you can feel there's a call in your mind. There's a call into presence. And really that's what this afternoon is about. I want to fully join you in accepting that call. It doesn't prescribe how the world should look. It doesn't prescribe that you live in a cave or that you live in the forest or that you live in a community or that your life looks a certain way. Because this call is so much deeper than the idea of this form or versus that form. It's like it's the call to come into harmony, to be in harmony with everything and everyone. That's all it really is. It's just a call into harmony. It's always open it up to questions, comments, anything. The call isn't that strong enough yet for me. We're using the competition words. It's not that easy because I'm in the future. I'm going to do that and that and that. And after that it's the pause. It's not going to stop again. That's my life. But it's nice to hear. It may seem for a while easier to accept certain concepts from the world and discard other ones. But then again it's like the more the veils come off, everything inside the heart that never quite could accept the competition pill. It's almost like it tried its best to live with it. Until you experienced miracles, I mean I was in university for ten years and degrees and was trained. I could adapt and adjust to the lies of the world, but the world is a world of scarcity slash abundance. Some seem to be in great lack and some seem to not be in great lack and the world kept telling me it's better to be abundant than to be lacking. But the ones that were in the abundance category, they still weren't content and restful. They're still on the wheel too. In fact the ones that would kind of make it with the nest egg and the savings and push all the right buttons and do all the right things they were just as stressed or more stressed when they seemed to have the possessions and they seemed to have the control that they thought would bring them contentment. There still was unfulfillment in that. And it's been great for me to travel around 49 of the United States and 38 countries in the world to meet people, to meet famous people, to meet scholars, to meet waitresses and janitors and to meet thousands and thousands and thousands of people and to just kind of also be the observer and watch and see is there any everlasting contentment and rest on the wheel? Or is this wheel a defense against some amazing state of mind? And it wasn't until I actually thought, well the only way I'll ever know for sure is to step out. Can't you have like a good job and the state of mind at the same time? People have asked me, can you ever have this be an enlightened CEO? Can we ever take to the world the best that the world has to offer like the CEO and I say no, absolutely not. But you still have to live, you have to earn some money and stuff you just can't step out of everything. Well you know that's the way my life went. It was 24 years ago actually when I had been studying the course for five years and I just, and of course I've been raised in Christianity too and you know look at the lilies of the field, they neither spin or toil their clothes even greater than Solomon. Seek ye first the king of heaven and all else will be added unto you. I was familiar with Jesus and his teachings. I was familiar with St. Francis, here I am in Europe now in the 12th century there was this guy down in the CC that seemed to strip his clothes off. I never went to that length. My parents never had to see a naked David walking down the street and go, oh my God, what are the neighbors going to think? But that's what St. Francis' parents had to go through in the 12th century when he literally stripped down in this town square folded his little clothes up and handed them back. His mother could at least make eye contact but some of you are aware of the story.   He gave back his name. He gave back the family name. He literally disrobed of everything and that was quite a symbol of following the teachings of Jesus because Jesus had taught 12th centuries earlier that God will take care of you if you are devoted to serving God. But Jesus didn't get naked? No, he didn't. He actually went to the wilderness and went through the same temptations that you and I have faced the same temptations to take care of the world first. He had to face the same temptations that all the yogis and the saints and the mystics have to face. The full-on front, like facing this darkness, this belief that you're human and that you have to survive. We have a saying called look out for number one. The number one is the hero of the dream. It's the body. It's not look out for the spirit. It's look out for the body. So what my experience was, was a leap of faith where I thought, well, I've got 10 years of university including undergrad, grad behind. I've got degrees. I've got all the tools that it takes to make it in the world and it looks like I could do a pretty good job of not only surviving but striving and arriving. I could get the nest egg. I could get accomplishments. I could get a roof over my head or maybe a number of roofs over my head. Not only a car, but several cars and so on and so forth and make something of myself, make a name of myself in this and this. I actually was so devoted in reading the course for eight hours a day that something happened that I really had fully anticipated was I actually started to hear Jesus speaking to me and he was saying things to me like you will not have a career. You've done that before. This is about escape. This is about transcendence now. This isn't about going through and having a spiritual career, earning money. I will provide for you as I told you in the Bible and as I told you in the course I made it explicitly clear but you must give over all aspects of what you believe to be the life of David. You have to give over the dream character because it's not going to work if you do it partially. You have to do it fully and then that's when the miracle is ignited. That's when I just took off and things just started showing up. I went through five years of not having how Jesus said the birds of the air have their nests and the foxes have their holes but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head. I went through a five year training program of learning to experience the truth of divine providence because we've heard about divine providence from Mother Teresa and Jesus and St. Francis. It's pretty rare actually throughout human history. Most people don't even go there but those are three that I think we could say they went there for sure. When I was hearing from Jesus you will never know it for sure unless you try it. Unless you actually take a leap of faith I say I will handle everything for you if you'll do this one thing for me. Answer the call, forgive. You do this for me, I'll do that for you. This is a divine destiny and the only way you'll know it for yourself is to do it. So I had no puptence. I had no place of residency. I went for five years from 1991 to 1996 without knowing where the body of David would actually lay his head down. There weren't motels used in there nothing like bank accounts and motels and stuff like that. It was like I will show you that you are perfectly taken care of if you will do this for me. And you know who needed it the most?   I was too proud at the beginning to actually say yes. I said no, no, no, I can handle it I can handle it until Jesus finally said would you stop that? That is me doing my function. I told you I would take care of you without your effort without your past learning without your college degrees without all your education I can handle it just fine. And even the last job that I seemed to have came in a very miraculous way as if it was just dropped in and given as if I had forgotten that I had sent resumes out five years ago and it was an old dusty resume discovered on the top of the stack that was the last worldly job that I had and even that was miraculous because I said how did you even get my resume and you know it turned into another miracle story but until we know until we know our complete dependence on spirits we don't know anything the human being is a construct that was made by the ego and it literally doesn't know anything at all even thinking that it knows something about the world is craziness But the spirit can guide you to go through a certain job Yes, that's how it went for me because I had student loans and Jesus never teaches just be like an ostrich put your head in the sand and pretend that it doesn't exist the ego sets you up in debt the Holy Spirit's got to unwind you and for most people most people in the world have debt I would say at least they have the belief in debt if they don't have a massive student loan or a mortgage or something and so we do have to be unwound it's not like we yank ourselves or we're yanked out of the thinking of the world we have to be guided step by step so I think it's a great question in a sense I wanted to first have an experience that spirit was my boss instead of having an earthly boss I thought I would rather like to experience a divine boss someone who doesn't know listening to instructions from someone who does I could work with that so it was David asking asking asking and in A Course in Miracles Jesus says you can see this world without any help at all but if you want to see a world a forgiven world if you want to see a light beyond this world you need help there's no way you egoically are going to see beyond this veil so that's what I call God-dependence that's what I call divine providence and that's why I have been able to go for years without reinforcing the belief in reciprocity how do this for you if you pay me how do this for you in exchange for services that it all works out beautifully there's never been a time of knee over mat and is it a fairy tale it does seem kind of fairy tale-ish I always remember I would read the fairy tales and I would watch the Disney movies and the Pixar movies and all those things and nowhere in those movies were they struggling about how they're going to pay the mortgage you never hear Cinderella wondering about saying to the prince okay I'll marry you what's in your bank account or talking to the step-mother step-sisters and everything with all these logistics the talk I hear the chatter of the world is all about logistics it's not really about content it's about specific logistics it's like one long logistical nightmare it just goes on and on day after day and you solve one set of logistics and then you get another set and then you go finally you're making the bed at night and you go phew man what a logistical world this is a logistical nightmare and then you've got to deal with more logistics the next day but I have found that the spirit handles the logistics and part of what I know with Greg and Jenny just getting married and they're actually having fun floating around Europe and seeing how it's going to work out in form trusting they had jobs they had educations careers no different than anyone else that's what makes it more impressive or more inspirational I would say is everybody's working with the same default set of time and space and yet the happy happy ones the happy you get is when you realize that it can be done through you rather than by you people say well for someone that's just happy and into I need to do nothing you're a pretty busy mystic you do a lot of talking and traveling but it doesn't really feel like work to me this doesn't really feel like work but you can still own things but not get owned by things now I have no attachments but I have stuff yeah Jesus says in the Course ownership is a dangerous concept that's left to you and he's speaking to the ego of you because you know the sleeping you why is it so dangerous because in heaven the real you doesn't own anything how could oneness possess something if there's nothing to possess there aren't any objects so the reason it's a slippery slope is because Jesus says take not one step on this twisted staircase that leads away from heaven for having taken one step you will not recognize the rest yet they will surely follow he's describing the descent away from heaven down into oh it won't hurt just a little bit a little white lie a little bit of possession really won't hurt but anybody who's known the way my life's gone is I'm into giving give give give then share extend extend more than you could ever imagine because you're really giving to yourself and really it's actually more of a state of mind of giving I'm not like a philanthropist like Carnegie or Gates or Turner or Buffett where I'm giving away millions of dollars because what's the point possession sometimes people say to me well there's a big difference between having a lot in this world and being in debt no there isn't if you perceive yourself as having a lot of things and stuff or you perceive yourself as deeply in debt it's the same trap either way people still try to tell me one is better than the other try it out see for yourself see if you can find peace and harmony and possession or in debt I say they're both the same the ego is that clever and sneaky it tells you that they're different but then when you try to play it out and do the best to try to control it it's crazy look at how I use you know look at Marilyn Monroe go through as many examples as you want in history you'll find it's a very very slippery slope and actually a slope that you would be better off leaving behind entirely than trying to go skiing you might wipe out if you go on that slope as I understand it the things I see is not pure love if I don't see pure love in people or situations that's when it's my ego yeah the ego made the veil yeah so then most of the time almost all the time I don't see pure love and seldom see pure love and then I can understand that's my ego that's projecting so when I talk to people when I talk to my ego if I don't see total pure love in them some some people it's easier for me to not project bad things others it's easy to do that and just different levels but I never see pure love in anyone not even you I would like to I don't my mind goes off and I'm projecting on you too and so when I'm talking to you now and I don't see pure love I'm talking with my ego don't I and the answer I get is not pure because it's it's going through my ego when I listen do you understand what I mean let's look at it this way everything that the ego made the Holy Spirit can use everything without exception so the Holy Spirit can use words and the Holy Spirit knows the prayer of the heart God knows the prayer of the heart before a word is even spoken so the Spirit is so loving it's there fully answered and when a question's asked or when you put some words out the Spirit's always like oh it's adorable the Spirit sees everything as just adorable but I need to use words yes in other words the ego made them the ego's invested in them but there's a higher use of words and Jesus was a good example of that and Buddha was a good example even Ramana Maharishi didn't speak many words but it was helpful Nisargadatta the words can be used in a very helpful way now you shouldn't beat yourself up about perception because that's what Greg was reading earlier that perception can be healed if given over to the Holy Spirit you can just say all these words and images I give them over to you to use for the great awakening that's a wonderful thing the other thing is what you're really praying for underneath this perception of bodies and words in the world is for true vision that's what your prayer of your heart is you're calling out for Christ's vision when those workbook lessons come in I want to see things differently above all else I want to see above all else I want to see things differently all you're asking is that the prayer of your heart rise up to reach God and you're really saying underneath all the words whatever the words are hand gestures or kneeling behind all that the prayer of your heart is I really want to see with vision because Jesus tells us in the Course the body's eyes were made not to see and the body's ears were made not to hear sometimes people are concerned with eyeglasses they say I work I even have glasses on to correct my vision don't worry it's not real vision 2020 is not really good vision it's still blindness because I've got 2020 blindness or 2010 blindness blindness is blindness Stevie Wonder what a character he's blind and yet he's got this head gone and this big smile on his face and the keyboard gone Ray Charles Helen Keller you can go through all these characters that seem to be disabled in some way and yet they've got all this light shining through them because the light is not of the body and it's the same with words I've heard Rumi mention before and there's Kabir and there's Emerson and there's all these great spectacular poets and when we read the poets our hearts go they start to swirl we start to feel this energy going inside of us something's touched in our hearts through those words Rumi my gosh I mean my words yes through your words but I am not used to my words I can hear your words and the spirit can use your words why not yours because I'm talking about me lack it's lack that's the beginning of them the question is lack why should I use words in a bridge from lack I mean I really mean are my words really for me because I don't need them I can listen I can ask the spirit to talk to me through others but do I really need my words why should I need them if the spirit's not telling me but to speak well I think your words first of all it takes courage to ask a question I mean it can seem easy just to sit back and not question anything just to accept what our parents told us what the government told us what we read in books just to blindly accept all this hodgepodge of much ado about nothing it's easy to accept all this hodgepodge of nothingness and I think it takes courage to start to question what happened to me I wasn't hard on myself in fact Jesus said good good we need to do more of this you need to question everything that you perceive and everything you believe in your mind that's a good use of questions you don't have to be talking like Buddha or Jesus in one instant there's seemingly a phase where first you give yourself permission to ask questions and that's what I did at the beginning with the course I just was always asking these questions of spirit I was very curious I was happy that this curiosity got reignited because if you're in the I know mind if you actually believe you already know something about the world then the mind is actually closed to healing I don't believe that I don't believe I know and that's why you're asking questions but that's good too so I think you need to just realize that you're actually following spirit even in the questioning aspects it's working when I went to the movie years ago I was at the movie theater there was a mother with her small child sitting next to her and the little boy was questioning everything about the movie why did that happen where did she come from and for two hours the child was very loudly verbally questioned asked like 300 questions and I have to tell you my experience was I fell in love I absolutely fell in love I quickly let go of my belief that I had paid money to go and watch a movie I actually started to tune in to the curiosity of this young boy I could listen oh I wasn't paying attention to the movie after a while I was so in love with this little boy because I thought how wonderful and I thought I would fall in love with his mother too that she would let him do that in the movie theater I thought that's amazing courage amazing faith that she would let her boy do that for the entire movie and it worked out beautiful hushers came in nobody came in to interrupt it I fell in love I felt lifted up I left that movie so happy I thought well that's one of the best experiences I've ever had in the movie theater because I tuned in to the curiosity of that little boy who didn't think he didn't presume they knew anything and it was almost like taking his mother's hand show me teach me you know I love that I wanted the same curiosity that that little boy had I wanted to be that curious about spirituality as he was so yeah there's no problem with the questioning it's just the spirits even using your words and your questions I don't have an opinion about anything in this world that's the I have discovered that there is no such thing as a dualistic world so when people ask me about politics about communism and democracy believe me I was I did kindergarten I did grade one through twelve I did ten years full time of university including undergrad and grad and I actually had a very eclectic career so to speak in college I studied conservatory music conservatory of art I was in the college of design, art and architecture I studied engineering and I did calculates I did trigonometry I did everything in this world all the different disciplines I had my fingers in every pie and it also was very helpful when Jesus said now have you seen enough that all of these disciplines all of these education systems and all of these different areas were all made up by the ego and there was no wisdom in any of them absolutely none that literature the poets some of them were starting to send me in the right direction psychology most of Freud edifice complex he had a great curious mind but he had a lot of theories that were pretty twisted the ego was all over those and actually Freud was terrified of God he was absolutely terrified of God he didn't bring God into his teaching Carl Jung the shadow, the unconscious mind he started to Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow there were symbols that started to come into my mind even from philosophy from literature whatever I started to get the flood of symbols coming in of spirit speaking to me through all of that but basically Jesus said are you about ready to end this educational career are you more interested in the kingdom of heaven than worldly education which is ignorance there is no such thing as learning that's what I had to learn from Jesus after all those years of grade school junior high high school and 10 years of university he said you've got an unlearned at all and without exception you can't hang on to any bit of worldly learning because the ego is what learns the spirit doesn't learn it was created perfect what business does the spirit have learning anything it was learned was added on to perfection and only obscured perfection that's why Buddha said empty your mind of everything Buddha was not a fan of learning and Jesus Christ is definitely not a fan of learning I have not yet been invited to speak at a high school assembly the principal the teacher has probably run me out of the place oh my god what is he teaching here you know but I'm teaching happiness actually that's what my life is about now but this is the wisdom of the perennial wisdom of all the great sages which basically say you have to let go reverse this idea that you're a person accumulating more ideas because it's going nowhere it's going nowhere I have a question there you know it says several times in the book that it's only my thoughts that could hurt me or harm me I don't know the English word I can be hurt by nothing and then it says that I can't elect to change every thought that hurts me and it describes like a process there starting by getting more and more I am convinced that there is no suffering but what does Jesus mean that I would change change your thoughts I can change the thoughts that hurt me that's part of his mind training program where at the beginning he starts off with lesson number four is the first time he starts talking about thoughts in the workbook lesson number ten out of 365 is the second time he starts talking about thoughts and these thoughts do not mean anything my thoughts do not mean anything he's first identifying all the thoughts that you think you think as a human being are all attack thoughts all of them and then underneath this heavy thick layer of attack thoughts which is all thoughts of the past and the future are these real thoughts and the Holy Spirit's job is to take you to change your mind about your mind from believing in these attack thoughts to experiencing only thoughts I think with God my mind holds only what I think with God that's where it's all heading swirling quickly down to that but only the Holy Spirit can make that transition how's the Holy Spirit going to go from a mind filled with attack thoughts to a mind that has only I am as God created me I am Spirit I am one how are you going to go from trillions of attack thoughts down to only thoughts that you think with God it's called guidance happily tell you that's what the last 24 years have been go here go there call so and so you know go to India that was an interesting one it just came in all these thoughts are guidance thoughts and it's from the Holy Spirit which is loosening the mind from thinking it knows anything about anything in this world it's almost like you're going unwinding from these attack thoughts and you're going into these pure thoughts when Nina and I were meditating while Greg and Jenny were talking we were just taking meditation outside out in the Lowy and it was a meditation of emptiness I remember we've been meditating for I don't know how long it was and then I'm not going to open my eyes and say I'm empty I am really empty I can't even imagine a word coming out of this emptiness and that's the gift of the Holy Spirit to take you from seemingly trillions of attack thoughts down into be still and know that I've got that's like the drain when you get down to that emptiness when the mind is really drained because I feel that I could detach myself from the thoughts but not actively change them it sounds like more affirmations if I try to change them but I'm sure you'll take them and detach from them yes it's actually and they are then replaced it's a great affirmation you can think Stefan will never change his mind it's good Stefan will never change his mind because Stefan's part of actually part of the problem Stefan will never be part of the solution like in the end Jesus the man was part of the problem and the Christ Spirit is the solution the I amness is the solution Jesus is a course historical man that was another one attack thought most people don't like to think of Jesus Christ as an attack thought but what I'm saying is you won't hear this in most lectures either but what I'm saying is in the end he told me forgive me your illusions what he's saying is forgive the man forgive the apostles forgive all of history and accept yourself as the I am presence that's what he's talking about when he says forgive me your illusions so Stefan will never change his mind it's good to know that from the beginning otherwise you can drag yourself nuts yeah reading that but I was smiling out there I was actually smiling and I was in my meditation and I heard your voice and I started to smile and then I heard your voice say I started out to visit my old mother today driving the car and somehow I ended up here now that's a miracle that's a miracle see you didn't try to make that happen no I just noticed you ended up here to what's this place called part in hand you ended up in hard in hand instead of your old mother see I can even say the words old mother I don't have any guilt about it because I know that old is the unreal and mother so you see it starts to get all funny after a while it's all like people say military intelligence a lot of you can laugh at that too oxymoron there military intelligence we can start to do that with old mother we can start to do that with everything because why because the ego made it all up to try to keep us guilty and the more we loosen our mind from these concepts you start to realize that you're none of them you were never Stefan that's the release that's the ultimate release point you don't have to put the stuff on word at the end of I am it's enough before Abraham was I am before the Old Testament was I am before Moses was I am before Abraham you know people oh my gosh he's our father the father of the Jewish tribe what kind of grammar are you speaking before Abraham was I am you know play lady you got your structure wrong now we didn't he had it right before time was I am but that's why we have to be so willing to empty our mind of everything because how are we going to experience the I am this that's prior to time if we're so addicted to linear time how will I ever remember I am this if I'm so addicted and I'm counting the days and the hours I'm counting my paycheck I'm counting how much I owe you have to give all that over to the Holy Spirit and say help I want to devote my mind to a higher purpose but I know you're going to handle all of the specifics and logistics for me if I give it all over to you say you take it you know I got such a relief when you said this stuff I would never change you smile I could see it I don't have to fix that I just have to look at it you're off the hook Stefan is off the hook from trying to figure out how to change his mind how do I do that stuff I'm going to never change his mind or David will never learn to pronounce your pain drive yeah we're free see this whole world is very simply the belief in private science and private thoughts so the reason that some thoughts are pushed down and not talked about is because the mind actually believes they're true it believes in secrets some of its thoughts are unconscious and it believes some of them are not good to share if I share this I could lose my boyfriend if I share this I could lose my house if I share this I could lose my job now I always say use discernment you're not going to your boss tomorrow and saying listen the world's an illusion and these tasks that you've been giving me are illusory tasks and I'm just going to have to let you go actually the Holy Spirit wants you to reach a place of such God dependence and such reliance on the Holy Spirit's voice and the will let go of corporations of families that's what Jesus taught he said follow me leave everything behind he was talking to the mind he wasn't saying you can just take this off he didn't tell St. Francis just take off your clothes and you'll be enlightened St. Francis did that it was symbolic gesture he still had a lot to deal with he still had to put some clothes on when he went out and lived in San Damiano in the cold snows he didn't wear sandals but he still had to face a lot of things it was just a symbolic gesture and that's all we're doing we're just saying Holy Spirit guide me use the things of time and space so I can unwind my mind from the guilt of believing that it's all real I want to be a happy song I want to be in joy I want to be in laughter I want to be free I want to feel intimacy I want to feel love and connection with everyone and everything that's like the prayer of the heart that's really calling for vision that's where that all comes true is in the light beyond the dream that's the waking from the dream but while I perceive a world there's one simple thing that you have to do to experience the happy dream and that's don't judge it don't judge anything about it don't think this is better, this is worse this is good, this is bad we can't play this game of good illusions and bad illusions higher illusions and lower illusions you know in the end we have to start to realize they're all the same but it's only the Holy Spirit that can take us there I have this question in my mind just going around how can I just surrender? I just want to surrender I don't know how I just want to surrender I don't have anything to say about that the thing that helped me in the course is when Jesus says he said you have been poorly taught here we go I've been poorly taught and then he said resign now as your own teacher and then he said you have taught what you are but you have not allowed what you are to teach you that was pretty profound you have taught what you are but you have not allowed what you are to teach you so it's like this is the human condition of trying to tell stories trying to convince people of things trying to justify things there's so much guilt the mind is so guilty in this sleeping state that it's always trying to justify something prove something and in the end when you get down on your knees it can't even just be one word help that was my favorite prayer I mean really from the heart really seeing like I need a lot of help so I was always like help help help help and just from the attitude of that help it's very humble that's why I think people sometimes fall down on their knees because it just feels like it's like a surrender position like I can't do it that's how A Course in Miracles came a psychologist Helen Schuchman was listening to her boss one day talking about the whole condition of their working conditions and the stress and how crazy it was in New York City Columbia Presbytery Medical Center and went through the whole spiel and he said there must be a better way there must be a better way and he thought that she was going to make some joke or give them a smart remark or something like oh Bill but she instead said you're right Bill and I'll help you find it and just in that little crack of willingness of humility and humbleness to say there has to be a better way to live and the answer came that The Course in Miracles actually came with a lot of personal references in the original dictation that had a lot to do with Helen and Bill and even though most of that was edited out it came from a prayer and I join you in that prayer right now I know that you have a calling and that that calling will make you so happy to say yes to that so very happy and things can can fall apart yesterday Nye and I watched this movie I Am Tom and it's based on a true story and in that movie there was a child being killed there was seemingly racial prejudices all kinds of things it was very emotional I had just had all these tears of joy coming through and the joy when I watch a movie like that is the joy of the spirit coming through me so strong it's kind of like of what's real and what's true which just grows so strong in me but it's such a powerful mechanism for drawing that out in me and through me and I just felt just so grateful I was like rinsed out I just had tears of joy pouring down I couldn't hold them in and I remember every verse 9 I said so open thoroughly opened up but it's just the spirit's use of the symbols just as another reminder of how loved we are that all of these make-believe things can't really take away that love it can't really even cover it it's just bursting through I always say too that everyone I meet I feel like we are lifelong companions in this journey and that's all this all is about for me just for this moment just for that moment of connecting of saying yes together we shall overcome together the ego cannot stop us we are so joined and I really feel that with everyone that I meet lifelong companions on this that we're drawing forth each other our mind is drawing forth witnesses right now kind of a quantum way like it's time to wake up time has come and we're drawn very strongly into that and it's like a symphony it's like that movie you Kypolic you have over here as it is in heaven I got to meet Kypolic and he showed me his storyboards he told me how he met his wife his soul mate and his sister and how the three of them storyboarded that amazing movie spectacular movie as it is in heaven and I thought he found his calling somebody just told me he's just almost got the second one the sequel is almost done he's just got it somewhere you were months of production but it's already been filmed and he told me that himself he said all these 15-20 years of filmmaking he never really found his calling even though he was one of the most renowned filmmakers over here Kypolic until that miracle happened with that movie he never knew what it was all for all his skills were just empty until he joined together with his wife the three of them with his sister they got the spirit juice to start flowing and he was a 20-year course student who decided I'm going to let God come through me and I think it's a master piece of Star of Spiritual Awakening I show that movie at the beginning of like a week in the week people's hearts open up on day one and it's a piece of cake the other six days are we're like sliding down a slope you know because everybody is so open they don't have to like feel each other out for three or four days they just watch as it is happening boom their hearts on their sleeve and they're open yeah my mother she's 96 now she she has always loved watching movies she gave this movie to her when she was about 90 and she watched the thing and said this is the best movie I've ever saw she was just crying and yeah what a gift to be able to just share that with you and hear that