how can we help someone on their spiritual path?

[Diana]

In my opinion, you help others, and all of existence, by continually evolving and being the very best that you can be. If you are worrying about where someone else is at, you aren't focused on your part in it.

For instance, you are talking to a family member and what they are saying is causing you to trigger (you want to tell them how it "really" is; their lack of honesty is appalling; you want to help them out of their prison of dogma; whatever it is that makes you want to tell them something that can change them). Instead, stay focused on you, and what opportunities are in this situation for you. Perhaps it is an opportunity to learn tolerance. Or an opportunity to communicate from the heart. Just stay focused on you and your own path, and the love will naturally flow from your heart to the other.

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Let me add that this is not easy to do, but it is so very worth the effort and vigilance. You'll just know, when you can train yourself to do this, that it is effective for evolution.

The hardest part of it is to rise above the suffering caused by ignorance. But once again, you occupy your mind by focusing on yourself instead of succumbing to the sadness, and in this way create the future of peace and love everyone wants. It takes a lot of discipline and courage. But the intrepid explorers at the cutting edge of progress must always have those qualities.

I don't mean to suggest that I am so evolved. I struggle constantly with this, but I keep going back to point: me.