Without talking, God knows everything because the fact is, He's in you.  He's not beyond you.  You forget that he is in you. You were born by the will of God.   Through karma you chose parents and longitude and latitude.  And through Dharma you learn altitude and attitude.  When you do not rise to the level where you are supposed to rise, and you do not have power to have manners and values to make your attitude real, the game is lost. 
 
We think we love God because we are spiritual people, but we don't.  We don't believe that God, who rotates the earth, can take care of our routine.  Even though we have synagogues, churches, temples, ashrams, teachers, swamis, and gurus we are unable to learn that God shall take care of things. The way we practice spirituality is a bunch of rituals.  There's no spirit in our spirituality, no flow of spirit.  When spirit flows in us; forgiveness, kindness, compassion, caring, forgiveness to self, being kind and merciful to self, shall be the ordinary routine. 
 
As we grow up we have one thing, which makes us old, weak and sometimes miserable and that is the memory of the past.  I have seen it in many people.  They don't remember all the great things, all the good things that happened in their lives, they only remember all the bad things.  But if you remember all the bad things of the past, good things in the future cannot touch you.  Is that the bargain you want? It's a very costly behavior, because when you do not remember good things, you are not grateful, and grateful is a very beautiful word.  "Great" and "Full."  I know in my heart everybody wants to be grateful, but they don't understand grateful that way.  They want to be GREAT, and EMPTY.  That won't work.  And, just look at the expression, "I am great-empty."  How does that make you feel? 
 
You are supposed to have answers.  You are supposed to answer people.  You are supposed to lift their life. Your character should be like a forklift.  Go into the ground, lift them, and put them on the road, so they can do their journey.  We waste our whole lives in questioning, "Is it true?  Is it not true?"  If your heart takes it, it is true.  If your head takes it, it is not true.  It's as simple as that. What your heart cannot take in is not true.  You don't belong to that study, or that teaching, that group or that lifestyle.  But if your heart says it is true, then take up the banner, help, teach, expand, bless, and go.  Move on.  Both ways, you have to move on.

                                 © The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan 10/05/02