You are in the world but are not of it. There is no need to allow the ways of the world to drag you down. Enjoy them,but do not try to possess them or allow them to possess you. In the New Age it is not necessary to wear sackcloth and ashes or to go around declaring that you are a miserable sinner and are not worthy to be called My beloved child. All this teaching is of the old age and is false and unreal. Accept that we are one and that I AM within you. Feel yourself being lifted out of the darkness of all this false teaching into the glorious light. Leave behind all the old and let it die a natural death. Enter the new, reborn in Spirit and in truth, and know the meaning of true freedom. I need you free, not all tied up with self and self-concern. Be like a very small child, free and joyous, and live in the ever-present now.