First realize that raising your vibration will not happen because you wish it to happen or will it to happen. It will happen in the way you participate or live your life. It is a naturally-occurring situation.

 

   Therefore in order to be a higher or more enlightened being, live a better life. There are simple rules of addressing this, or attempting to make yourself better. Now when one has plenty, it is more difficult, for it is not as challenging to be loving when you have nothing. As such, aspire for the simple things and appreciate them. Love others as you would love yourself. Be always mindful that your advancement is a daily progression. Take your steps daily, step by step, towards that which you would hold meaningful, as truthful, and as proper. Be not afraid to make mistakes, for mistakes are stepping stones to enlightenment. An error is simply that of a mis-step. Once you make an error, correct. Attempt to live your life in moderation. All excesses lead to difficulties or problems. Therefore, moderation. Put limits on desires, and indeed participate in all things with discretion but with moderation. As life will send you those challenges and difficulties, be still. Do not allow yourself to be easily provoked or rise to anger. Understand the world will be filled with saintly beings, and beings who sin ­ or miss the mark, and are poor in spiritual abundance (spiritual poverty, you see?). They are misguided. Be always mindful to do that which is right - that which you KNOW is right. And if you doubt, imagine God as a person who scrutinizes everything you do. Ask yourself, "If this person were here beside me now, would this be acceptable? Would he or she APPROVE of that which I am about to do?"

   Discipline the self.  Keep the body pure. Keep the mind open and pure in thoughts. Wash the body outside and inside, and wash the mind outside and inside. Allow that of the purity of acceptance and rejection to continue as you move through life. Be ever mindful that your values in life will change. When you were a child, toys were important. Now that you are adult, those toys that were all seemingly important are not even thought of. Other things have taken their place, other values, you see. Above all, be patient.
   

    You will grow to a greater understanding, to enlightenment. Have some idea what enlightenment is. We would say, simply, it is being able to live your life in peace daily. Be productive. Give service, so that each day you may measure it and say, "Today I have contributed to the world. I have been a co-creator with God Almighty. And I have made the world, at least, a better place today." For understand you can be creatively destructive or creatively creative. But each day measure that you have contributed to the world to the benefit of yourself or someone else in the world, that you have taken time to listen to the lowly as well as to the mighty. And in doing so, you have found the middle ground.
   

    These are the items towards enlightenment that must be taken, that are taken, that will be taken by anyone who is moved to progress spiritually while in the physical form. Understand living the life and all that life has to be experienced is the purpose of life. Being able to have an understanding of all things, and to be peaceful with all things, and to have a degree of love for all things is enlightenment. Now, indeed you will meet those who are mundane, who are hideous in their thoughts and deeds. You may learn to love them, for the spiritual quality that is indeed inside of them. But you need not associate with them, nor allow them to take advantage of your self, nor to put your self in harm's way or jeopardy. Embrace those who are indeed full of light and life, but do not attach yourself to them. Take from them that that they offer. Like a candle that is unlit, it takes light from a candle that is lit. And now the room is twice as bright as it was a moment before.
   

    Independence. Self-reliance. Self-determination. Love of self. With every cell of your being, love God Almighty, and live your life in peace.These are the steps to enlightenment.