The following is an excerpt from a conversation with El Morya contained in Excerpt from Telos Volume 2 published on Cosmic Lighthouse.

Here are some questions to ask yourself to understand your path to success:

1. What about my self-image prevents me from acknowledging the success I already am?
2. What are some of my gifts that are a natural part of my success in this life?
3. What belief systems do I subconsciously hold that block my success?
4. How can I make better use of the Divine timing and other opportunities in my life?
5. Who are the people in my life who have helped mold my ideas of success?

This morning during my walk I was considering our upcoming New World Summit, where we'll be discussing your experiences with community, especially trying to create new ones.

Hopefully we'll get to cover the wide range of issues involved in every community -- purpose, organization, promotion, operation, etc.

Besides those, I anticipate also talking about how people act within it, especially how they lobby to have their differing perspectives and agendas adopted by the group.

The Great Depression. I was about 17 years old. Hoover was still president. People had been living high off the hog. And then, boom, comes the Crash. It was so sudden. Guys jumped out of windows. They didn’t know what to do. The wise men ran around, and then they cried out after Roosevelt for the government to help them out. Regulation. They asked for it. They cried for it. The wise men were lost, just as they are today. The free market fell on its fanny. We learned nothing. It’s exactly the same today.

One of the great balancing acts of life is to weigh the interests of the ego vs. those of the soul. This is nowhere more difficult than in setting our course through life.

Once upon a time I thought it was enough to simply decide what I wanted to do and then do it. Though in a sense that's still true, now I realize that the desires of my ego are not necessarily those of the entity behind my existence (which we'll call the soul, or inner self).

I got an email from a friend yesterday echoing sentiments I've heard elsewhere over Obama's selection of Clinton administration and Wall Street retreads for his economic and national affairs teams.

Their frustration is understood, because they see these people as complicit in getting us into this "mess" in the first place.

Many lightworkers have put their hopes in Obama to lead us to the promised land. Then again, do they really think that the change they want to create is possible from within the existing order, whether by Obama or anyone else?

Sometimes in seeing others we come face-to-face with the mirror and see things within ourselves. I did that today.

It's not like I didn't know those things were there inside me. It's more like I overlooked them and tried to go on about my business.

But now they are my business. Perhaps more so than anything I'm trying to do for you or the rest of the world.

What I saw really put me in my place.

The third leg of the Peace Pyramid is to focus on health and vitality, bringing balance to the wellness of our affairs.

This does not mean putting attention on that which we consider ill or diseased, or otherwise not functioning in an appropriate manner. Those are simply symptoms of a system that is out of balance.

The manner of restoring that balance is to find the flow of energy within the system, and identify and address those areas where that flow is obstructed or redirected.

Today I will focus on the server's relationship to his or her reality. The practice of this focus is the second point of the base of the Peace Pyramid.

Relationship is not something limited to the romantic sense of loving affairs between two human beings. Rather, it refers to the relative position, perspective, and means of interaction by which we engage all aspects of our reality -- especially the other people who cross our path.

The election's over. Finally! Barack Obama has broken through, and it is a grand day indeed.

But I celebrate not for Obama and all the karmic and historic baggage that's been placed on his shoulders.

I celebrate for the expansion of consciousness that has finally poked its head through the fog into the public awareness.

Understand that this election was not about Obama or McCain. It was about consciousness awakening to the possibility it is more than we allow it to be.