You have perhaps been in the pattern of being selfish. It doesn't matter. Today you can be unselfish. It isn't really unselfish that you have to be, for the opposite of selfish isn't really unselfish. The opposite of selfish is generous.

Be generous. Come from a place of strength where it is easy for you to be generous.

You know the reciprocity of Oneness of Love when you give milk to your baby. Serving the baby is serving yourself. Your breast is emptied, and your baby's tummy is full.

That is an example of love and how mutual and natural it is.

And if you give your baby milk from a bottle, still you are giving the love from your heart.

As you serve another, you serve yourself. This is how love works.

This is not to say that you divest yourself in order to serve. To love does not mean to sacrifice. To love does not mean that you are deigned to sacrifice.

How about it? Why don't We take a break today from whatever is on your mind? Let's just relax into the Beingness of Our Love and forget about everything else. There is always something on your mind, is there not? Let's empty your mind for a while and simply enjoy the love We share. Let's just love and not mind about anything else.

Every person on Earth has his own agenda. He has his own way of viewing the world. In effect, each person lives in his own world, and yet, still, each person is everyone. You are everyone and everyone is you. Everyone shares the same spot.

If you were to time travel, or someone were to time travel to you, you would still be two human beings, and you would recognize each other. Even if you did not speak the same language, you would communicate, one heart to another. Sometimes you communicate better without words.

Although you are to give without thought of return, you are not to give too much of yourself away. You are not to make yourself a slave to others' needs and wants. This is a pitfall. Over-giving does not serve another well. And it may consume too much of your energy and leave you depleted and resentful. Perhaps you are expending too much. What you spend of yourself is not any other person's responsibility. It's your own. Don't blame them.

I did not tell you to starve yourself in order to feed the world.

I did not say to spend so much of your energy that you have none left.

There are pleasures in life, so take pleasure in them. Let life be as a meal you eat. Smack your lips and enjoy every bite. Why not? Why not take pleasure in life?

You are very good, but you are not above living life with pleasure.

Today, when anyone asks you to do something, say, "With pleasure."

When you ask yourself to do something, say to yourself, "With pleasure! It will be my pleasure. Happy to do it."

Sometimes you want Me to be just like you. You want a God Who gets upset with things the way you do. You want a God Who storms and rages at the unevenness in the world as you do. You want Me to rail at injustice and take a fiery stand. You want Me to be a dragon who shoots fire from his mouth wherever and whenever you want Me to, and you want Me to be a lamb with you. Fortunately, I am not a dragon. I set the world in motion. I turned the wheel of it. You are the lamb of God.

Guilt is not honorable. It is a repeated appraisal. It is ego supreme. You punish yourself with guilt, as if punishment would erase error. Erase the concept of guilt. Erase the concept of sin, and guilt will evanesce.

Who are you to lend so much importance to what you see as error? In terms of the whole configuration of the universe, you cannot say with certainty what error is. You see only such a small part of life. Merely the twitch of a horse's tail.

Every child of Mine is meant to receive. Know this: You will receive, but it is not for you to carry the idea that others must give to you. You do not want to think that debts are owed you or that anyone is beholden to you, for you limit yourself when you think that way. You unlimit yourself when you think of what you are to give.

You who are born of light, take delight in Who you are. You are from light, so you might as well sparkle. When you look at light today, how it falls on the trees, how faces are lit up with it, how Godly it is, then remember that you are this self-same light. I adjure you to look at the light.