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This source and process originates with our Father in Heaven.  It is available to us because He, as God, wants us to 'fulfill the measure of our creation' and find joy and happiness in this mortal experience as well as in what will come afterward.  However, this joy and happiness as well as the truths that we so much want to understand about who we are and why we are here cannot simple be given to us.  We must receive them.  Therein lies the dilemma that we encounter as we live out our lives.  We want to understand the truth of things and have the joy without the required effort and trial which is needed to give them meaning and value to us.  The way that we value these things is directed related to the price that we pay to acquire them.  The receiving of them is an act of faith and obedience.  Sometimes a lot of faith and a lot of obedience is required before the desired blessings come to us.  I believe that our Father wants to give us all that he has but cannot until we are willing not to so much earn them as to simply put ourselves in to a condition where we can 'receive' them without being overwhelmed.