The antidote for misery is to think less about yourself.

When you look at world events and think you are suffering for others, know it is the twang of your own pain that you are feeling. You want to help and yet your feeling sorry for another adds another log of misery to the fire.

Reduce misery in the world by uplifting yourself. When you feel miserable, it is echoed to the world. Your feeling sorry for the world does not benefit it. Just as with an individual who is hurting, your feeling sorry for him does not help him. It may, indeed, help keep him where he is.

Stop feeling sorry for the world.

With the power of your heart and mind, raise the world above the mire it seems to be in. When you embrace misery, you offer alms to it.

Who are you to feel sorry for another. You are not meant to pity the masses. Feeling sorrowful for others is no more noble than feeling sorry for yourself is.

See the world and those in it as lights on earth that soar above the fray. See the world step out of battle onto a plain with a clear and blue lake. See fires put out. See health prevail.

Do not make more real that which you abhor. Watching world news — world upset, world skirmish, world woe — emphasizes struggle. Attention on pain increases pain. It does not erase it.

Sitting on your couch watching turmoil and shaking your head does not diminish it.

Plant a garden. Look up to the heavens, and study the stars instead. See vastness.

No longer see death of the body as tragedy. Tragedy is that from which dramas are made. Dramas by their nature have conflicts. Have no conflict. Do not fight even death.

Death comes to all bodies. That is another way of saying that the soul continues its upward spiral. Plays come to an end, but the performers continue on another stage.

The world is in a stage of life, just as you are. The lowest valleys of your life have pushed you upward. The world is as capable as you.

Believe in heroism. Believe in goodness. Believe that steam and hearts rise. All is ascension. You are ascending and the world rises with you.

When you feel heartsore, know that you are mistaken.

Nothing has happened. In pain or joy, you are you. So is everyone else.

Sprinkle the world with love rather than tears. Find it in your heart to love those even who cause pain to others. You who would like to remove pain from others need to remove your own. Multiply joy, not sorrow.

Those whose bodies live have nothing over those whose bodies die. All are coming to My palace. All are here, if you but knew. If you who have so earnestly believed in misery, you have followed misery. Follow Me.

Swing your attention. You must. If every heart looked on high, misery would not presume to exist. Right now, this moment, let every heart fill itself with My love, and set the model for the world, for you are here to lead it, not commiserate with it.

Your role in life is that which you vibrate. So, then, vibrate high so that the world may sing a different tune, one more like Mine.