Mary, whenever I tune in to my emotions, it seems to me there’s always some sort of pain there. I wonder whether I’m picking up pain from somewhere or somebody else.

Many of you have this question: “Am I picking this up from others, or is this mine?” It is always yours. Accepting this is one of the great challenges of the third dimension. It is also one of the gateways beyond the third dimension.

In the third dimension, there is a duality of mine and not mine, me and everyone or everything else. This duality is a great limit. At some point, it will become clear to you it is all yours. There is nothing that is not yours. There is nothing that is not you. This will be a realization; it won’t be an idea. You can’t believe yourself into this and have it be productive. This belief will suppress you, and it will inhibit your spiritual growth more than it will support it. The way through it is to hold the assumption that it is always yours. This is the most direct path. It is also the most empowered path because you are always empowered to work with yourself.