Today began the ascetic fast. No food is to be eaten and only one bottle of water is to be drank. I talked with my friend Job for the first time in a long while. I brought our conversation past the trivial talk of jobs, houses and preoccupations to that of purpose and the spirit. Where i am at present, the next phase of evolution, beckoning others to the light, engaging those i come across in conversations of the spirit. For all my talk, he did his best to knock me off balance or take my feet from under me. Telling me i was wrong. But when i asked him what i was wrong in doing, he said that he agreed with all i am saying but to engage people is my mistake. That we are to leave others alone and let them develop their own relationship with god. I had to remind him though that it was our conversations with each other that began our journey. To talk and make others thoughts become solid, if they are of the mind set to bring that about. They are the ground; the message is the seed. And yet if we do not engage each other, then what we do is only for self and there lies our current problem. It is not that it is for us to force our thought or ideas or knowledge on others but to forgo the conversation that shares the ideas, so understanding can grow. I am told i am wrong in what i am doing. However, the conversations are lengthy and i am realizing that people who are saying this to me are not hearing what i am saying but they are too busy defending or wanting to seem in knowledge and so their mind is busy developing a response rather than listening then thinking, for after they hurl their stones at me, i question them about what it is they have heard me say and they have no words. I ask them questions of things spoken of spiritually and their reply is, “I do not know what you are saying.” If they were spiritual, they would understand.