There is nothing about you or your life that is not tailored, by your Higher Self, to achieve that which you have set out to achieve... Your tolerances for the incarnation can appear to be overwhelmed for short periods of time... The means by which you cope will be your own. To you, or to others, they may look like limitations or weaknesses, but they are far from that. Whatever means you use to cope with periods of pronounced stress, they are there for a reason, despite any societally-based values superimposed upon them. Some of you resort to medicating your selves - legally or illegally. You may immerse yourself in religion, alternative spiritual ventures, business or work activities, new relationships, family life, recreational pursuits, or whatever it is that brings you temporary comfort and relief. You may get stuck for periods of time in any one of these avenues of coping, be it bingo or new age spirituality. In your life, there is a deep, mystical purpose to all perceived weaknesses or less than socially-approvable coping means. Even your own self-approval or self-disapproval will fulfill the purposes of the larger process of your transformation. (Ksceondra El Hara) - www.mateo.net/guest/davidson/Relationships_of_Transforma.pdf

People judge you not because who you are, but because of what they're not. (Dean Fraser)

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. (William James)

The key to being unaffected by what anybody says or does is to be very clear about 'who I am' and 'what I am not.' (Dean Fraser)

If you worry about what everyone is thinking of you, then you will find yourself living everyone else's life but your own. (St. Germain through Jeannie Weyrick)

It matters not what others think, cause you and God both know the truth. (Unknown)

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. (Publilius Syrus)

Don't be bothered by the fellow who belittles you; he's only trying to cut you down to his size. (Unknown)

Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. (Unknown)

Surround yourself with people who'll respect and treat you well. (Claudia Black)

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential. (Brian Tracy)

The opinions of others can be valuable as information - period. Happiness depends on approval of self; that achieved, approval by others tends to follow. (Unknown)

Don't be concerned what others may think of your actions. You understand where you're coming from even if no-one else does. (Dean Fraser)

Live such a life, that if someone spoke badly of you, no-one would ever believe them. (Unknown)

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. (Bernard Berenson, 1865-1959 Lithuanian-born American Artist)

So long as you live and work, you will be sometimes misinterpreted and misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist)

I have no regrets, I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. (Ingrid Bergman, 1915-1982 Swedish-born American Screen Stage Actress)

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. (St. Francis De Sales, 1567-1622 Roman Catholic Bishop Writer)

Columbus followed a calling from within, that no-one else believed. From the courage to set aside his fear, the courage to be true to himself and the courage to explore possibilities - he found a whole new world. (Dean Fraser)

…be compassionate to yourselves, be loving to yourselves, recognize that you are imperfect beings that hold within you the divine essence and therefore the potential for perfection. When you are compassionate to yourself, you start to accept yourself as you are now - in the moment. And as you start to become able to accept and to love yourself, so it becomes easier to extend this "love", compassion and understanding to those around you. For too long you have looked upon each other in your physical forms only. You have seen only the outer reflection, the physical body and you have not seen the Spirit and the Soul that is contained within' - the heart essence of the being. (Quan Yin through Caroline Fitzgerald (Radha) - www.gaiamind.com/gather-uk.html

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (Madame Dorothe Deluzy, 1747-1830 French Actress)

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. (Henry Winkler, American Actor Comedian)

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. (Og Mandino, 1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker)

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. (Ethel Barrett, Missionary)

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism. (Peggy Noonan, 1950 American Author Presidential Speechwriter)

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. (Buddha)

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves. (Sydney J. Harris, American Journalist, 1917-1986)

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. (Abraham Lincoln)

The key to the healing of abuse of any kind lies in this one awareness: It is not the respect of others that you have sought and needed – it is your own. (Unknown)

Let us put forth the understanding that your DNA is changing. Can you imagine how much energy that takes? Give yourself the time to absorb this energy. Never before have humans been asked to go through so much change in such a short period of time. This era you find yourself within is quite unique. (Mother Mary)

The Light of those who strive to lift themselves up shines out from Earth, and we see the many areas where it has been anchored. Against the background of the dark, the Light is a beautiful sight and we see the result of the hard work put in by the many Lightworkers. Compared to recent times, the Light is magnificent and counter balancing the dark energies that would otherwise control your planet. We see that the Light is expanding, and as it does so it transmutes the dark. (St. Germain through Mike Quinsey)

You can support your transiting in many ways, but the key word here is self-nourishment. Do those things that make YOU more comfortable. Because you are of the "serve the others" polarity orientation, it is natural for you to want to turn your energies outward toward serving others, but it is at this time that you need to prepare yourself for your subsequent service, which requires that you take care of your own needs first at this time. If you take the longer view, all of the care that you give to yourself and those close to you now will be an "investment" in the treasure that you will make available to others when the time comes for you to do that.

Think of it this way: You have a tool you call a ratchet. It is used to turn things like screws and bolts in a forward direction and makes use of the leverage of torque. After each turn forward, the ratchet pulls back and powers up for the next turn forward. The screws and the bolts are constructed with spiral tracks on them that cause them to move forward by being turned or cycled by the tool that turns them. The ratchet provides forward motion by dropping back to power up for the next thrust forward. The spiral is the shape of evolution, and each turn on the spiral is a movement forward as well as outward or inward. By withdrawing and turning your energies toward your own process and comfort now, you are powering up your next turn on the spiral, your next movement forward and outward, and you are becoming the agent for service beyond that which you are capable of now. So look at this time of withdrawal as being the ratchet, gathering energy for the next movement forward and outward. You will be in center stage soon enough, but this is your process now, in preparation for that next movement in your lives.

So this process of ascension involves a withdrawal from the world around you. Many, if not most, of you are feeling this now, and some of you are not knowing how to be with that experience. We have talked much about the necessity of withdrawing and detaching from the drama around you. We want to emphasize how necessary this is to your process now. The world around you will get along without your need to feed it with your energy now. It is on a crash course with oblivion and will pass away within the next few years. You are not needed in this world now. Your task now is to prepare for your service at the end of this world and to blaze the pathway to the next reality that will follow. (Operation Terra) - www.operationterra.com

As the Light pours forth through the beauteous beings who have come to Earth from other worlds to assist in her Ascension, much wondrous progress has been realized. To those courageous volunteers, I extend my most sincere and heartfelt praise and gratitude. The tasks for which you have volunteered yourselves in selfless service are indeed formidable, for worlds in such states of confusion and chaos are not easy challenges to overcome. So congratulations, my brothers and sisters, for both individually and collectively, you are succeeding.

If I may, I would like to offer a suggestion to you, dear courageous ones, a suggestion that can make your “tour of duty” on Earth a little easier. Realize that each of you has answered the call to assist this world in her upliftment, has come here from other worlds, other dimensions, other universes. Each of you has achieved your ascension and already exists within the body of Light on your home world. Many of you here at this time have already achieved fifth or higher density. That means you have already ascended from the planes of gross matter, you have already learned the lessons and achieved the integration necessary to elevate; however many of you simply do not remember. If you had not already achieved ascension from third density, you would not be here as way-showers for those of this world who are preparing to make their ascension for the first time.

However, the primary requirement for voluntary service is a double-edged sword. Compassion, dear ones, is what caused you to extend yourselves in service to this world. It is your compassion that brought you here, and it is your compassion that can cause you to become stuck again. Even though you are ascended beings on your home worlds, while you are serving through third density vehicles, you are subject to clouding from the distortions created by the mass consciousness of this world. Yes, dear brothers and sisters, you have more clarity than the unascended ones who are still striving to reach the higher worlds. You are nevertheless, affected by the layers of third density that permeate and surround this world.

My ascended friends, you are like parents to children, and like them your duty is to show others the way to become all they can be, to help them develop and mature into whole, balanced, responsible adults. Like all good parents, you suffer when your children cause themselves pain and hardship because they did not learn the lessons you so lovingly tried to teach them. So, I ask you, what does a good parent do when children ignore the teachings they have been given, and continue to perpetuate seemingly negative circumstances in their lives? Does that parent repeatedly rescue the children from their own mistakes, and continue to try and impress the same lessons over and over again? Or does that parent eventually step back, and allow the child to reap the consequences of their actions.

There must come a time when each being must take responsibility for his own growth and development, when the rescuing must stop and the parent must step aside. I am not suggesting that the parent become unavailable – just simply that he love the children enough to allow them to learn from their own creations. For in truth, there are no negative circumstances. All are learning experiences, and all are Divine.

What does all of this have to do with you as Lightworkers? My friends your hearts encompass all of creation, and it pains you to see suffering in any world. If you did not have such grand compassion, you would not be here. But, know like the good parent, that repeated rescuing of the same beings prevents them from learning and growing within themselves. If beings come to you saying to you “I cannot do this” share with those beings the truth that they are limited only by what they believe limits them. Share your Light, your wisdom, your compassion. Then love them enough to let them experience the freedom of their own creations. Allow them their wishes to be enslaved by limitation, if that be their choice.

They are, each of them, free-will beings. They have the right to express their freewill in any manner they choose. Allow them their rights, on one level or another they have chosen their experiences. They love them; otherwise they would not continue to create them. You cannot free people from the bondage they have created. Share with them your Light if they ask, but then let them have their right to accept it or reject it. Plant the seeds of truth in their awareness, for this is the most loving and compassionate service you can provide. Those seeds will eventually sprout and bear fruit, if not on this world, then on another.

You are not here to be rescuers; you are here to be way-showers. You cannot force anyone into a state of ascension. Realize, dear hearts, it is your desire for them to become sovereign, it may not be theirs. Do not let your compassion get you stuck in judgement of others. Remember, you are already an ascended multidimensional Master. You were loved enough to be allowed to overcome your own self-created limitations. So do fall prey to the nemesis of Lightwork – compassion allowed to become judgement. Love others enough to be their way-shower, but allow them the freedom to enjoy their enslavement. Ultimately, they will overcome it and join you in the state of ascension. Blessings to you all. (Zee through Katiira Lawrence) www.eneca.org

…without compassion for oneself, one cannot have true compassion for another. Compassion for yourself means accepting yourself exactly as you are, for exactly what you have done and exactly what you are going to do. Become compassionate towards yourself. Then you will release your guilt because guilt is the energy that forms ties which bind you to your karma and your karmic reactions. So, guilt is a great one in this Age on Mother Earth, isn't it? Many are talking about guilt and how guilty everyone is. How guilty their mothers and fathers were, for the mistakes they made, through love! Many say they feel guilty because of things "I did before I came to Spiritual Life, or even the things I did after I'd come to Spiritual Life, when I had off days and times when I was going through the dark depths of emotion, hate. I am guilty about these. I am guilty about the theft, I am guilty about the hate, the violence, of all the other things it is possible to feel guilty about." But NOW is the time to forgive yourselves. Be compassionate towards yourselves. Open up your heart chakras and allow the Love of the Creator to flow through you. These loving energies, in conjunction with Saint Germain's SILVER VIOLET FLAME, and the ELECTRIC BLUE SWORD of Archangel Michael, will free you from your guilt; from your hate for yourself; from the reactions. So, cultivate compassion for yourselves. Cultivate unconditional love for yourselves, because many ones find it difficult to love themselves. They say they love everybody - "I love God, I love everybody and everything that is incarnate and disincarnate" - but unless you love yourselves - unconditionally - it is impossible for you to love others unconditionally.

Learn to RECEIVE love. Many ones say, "I do not feel the love, I do not feel the love of the Father and of Sananda and the love of the rest of the Masters, both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial". You don't feel this love because you deny yourselves it. You stand aside from it. I tell you, NOW is the time to Stand in love, to Stand in Light and allow it to flow over you like a cleansing wave. Just think of what it is like when you stand in the surf, the cleansing sea. How good you feel when the waves wash over you. How clean you feel. Well, now is the time to tune into the cleansing waves of Our Love. Allow them to wash over you. Allow them to clean and cleanse you. (Sananda through John Armitage) - ?????????