But the System Likes Me; It Really Likes Me

One of the most challenging aspects of this time and place is overcoming the temptation to have the System like us -- approve of us, appreciate us, praise us, reward us, and embrace us.

We are all firmly situated in the System, with little chance of any other recourse, but our prevailing attitudes about this situation make all the difference. The same goes for motivation. 

If we believe that the System is inherently good but merely flawed or corrupted, we will not attend to the inner guidance and discernment assuring us otherwise.

If we yearn for System accolades, acknowledgments, privileges, and laurels, we will not take the steps necessary to align ourselves more firmly with God and Creation. 

We cannot avoid living the System, but we can eschew the System living within us. 

Negative motivation is too weak to save us from the System's lures. Our motivations must be overwhelmingly positive. They must exist outside the System, and we should pursue them with a high-spirited sense of adventure and gratitude. 

Living and thinking "dangerously" is everything but a drag.