What type of advice is good? (Walking Through Illusion, Thompson)

    Thompson starts out asking Jesus, in Walking Through Illusion, what type of advice was worthy of giving to others.  His response, "The kind I loved receiving."  Giving advice can be good or bad.  The key, explains Thompson, is that unsolicited advice is more of a distraction than a gift.  The advice we need is right in front of us.  If we suffer from something, it is only because we are telling ourselves to suffer, explains Thompson.  Lazarus, from the Bible, suffers in his life but he turns it around once he realizes that he doesn't have to.  He changes his perspective and suffering stops for him.  The best advice, is the advice you are giving yourself in every aspect of your life.  What you give out you get back.  If you want to receive more love, give more love.  If you want to laugh more, make other's laugh more.  If you want to suffer less, create less suffering for others.  Thompson sums it up best in the words of Jesus, "Your body follows wherever the mind takes it, so love the journey, appreciate the gift, and value the growth it offers.  There will never be another experience exactly like this one.  Honor your choices and believe in what they have taught you."