The Only Choice that Matters

Every moment offers us a choice between fear and love.  Miracles are the natural outcome of choosing love.  The fearful mind spins a web of complexity that makes the hardships of the world seem inescapable.   Life does not have to be hard and the world that fear has fabricated, is entirely escapable.  Answer fear with love and you will find the peace you seek.

The subconscious cannot distinguish between reality and imagination.  The images we impress upon our mind, especially when accompanied by emotion, yield the same experience whether they are true or fictional.

If you hope to spare yourself from fear, there are some things you must realise fully.  The mind is very powerful and never loses its creative force.  Every instant it is creating.  It is hard to recognise that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains.  There are no idle thoughts.  All thinking produces form at some level.

Your purpose on Earth goes far beyond satisfying critics or proving yourself according to standards others set for you.  Your purpose is to recognise the greatness within you and to deliver it.

When the outer world is kind to us, we are being kind to ourselves, immersed in the projection of our loving thoughts.  You will never find peace by blaming external people and events for your misery, or by giving them credit for your salvation.  You are doing it all to and for yourself.

Everything you can imagine and experience, is within you and is available to you.

You further attest to the reality of sin and its effects, when you feel guilty for the pain or sorrow you believe you have caused others.  Your true Self, and the true Self of any other person, runs far deeper than the self that experiences pain.  No matter what mistakes you have made and others have made against you, your inner being remains perfectly intact, impervious to human error.  It was not the act that hurt, but your interpretation of the act.

Tip the balance of justice in your favour by realizing that the only real justice is forgiveness.  No one has the power to rob you of your happiness, unless you give that power to them.

Leave unhappy memories in the past

When you focus on painful memories, you create a painful past and drag it into the present.  When you focus on joyful memories, you create a joyful past and experience peace in the present moment.  All your past except its beauty, is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing.

God has no memory of our sins because He was never aware of them in the first place.  “God does not forgive because He never has condemned.  Forgiveness is required only by those who have condemned.  If condemnation has never entered your consciousness, forgiveness is meaningless and unnecessary.

The future you expect is a projection of your beliefs about the past.  The future will be like the past only if you keep thinking the same thoughts that created the past.  When you change your thoughts/perceptions about the past, you change your thoughts about the future and you create a better future.  If you regard yourself and life through the lens of fear, guilt and mistrust, you will expect a morbid future.  If you regard yourself and life through the lens of love, innocence and faith, you will expect a bright future.

Release the ego

The ego is obsessed with planning because it believes that if it doesn’t control everything, something terrible will happen.  But the exact opposite is true.  If the ego doesn’t control everything, something wonderful will happen.  Ironically, it is the ego’s preoccupation with control that keeps something wonderful from happening.  More accurately, the ego’s preoccupation with control keeps you unaware that something wonderful is already happening.  The only correct expectation of the future is one of limitless good.

Stop worrying about the future

You don’t have to worry about the future.  You never did and you never will.  The future will take care of itself.  Your job is to establish your consciousness in the wonder, beauty and value of the present moment, which will make you happy now and keep you happy then.  Wellness is your nature and your destiny.  All else is the product of twisted, negative thinking.

Comparison is the death of joy.  No wonder so many people are neurotic.  Mark Twain

Do not compare yourself to anyone else – be your own person.

Your wholeness is intact and your worthiness was never in question.  You do not have to compete to prove yourself, for you have unique gifts that no one else can deliver.  The judgement that you have been running from will never come.

No one connected to their true Self would think of hurting someone else.  So while crime is ostensibly a police issue, it is more fundamentally a wounded-soul issue.  When you are free of pain, you are incapable of inflicting pain.  Thus we heal suffering at its root, not its symptoms.  All societal healing begins with self-healing.

Do not judge others

It is tempting to try to fix other people rather than face and heal our own fears and judgements.  When you accept your own innocence, you will know precisely how to deal with difficult people. Under the cloud of judgement, you cannot see anyone clearly.  “Without forgiveness I will still be blind”.

Any illness and pain, whether physical or emotional, is our way of holding someone else guilty for hurting us.  If we did not blame others, we would never be sick.  The first step to undoing pain or illness is to identify the perceived source of your suffering or loss.  Mind is the only cause and body is the effect.  “I am affected only by my thoughts”.  Even the slightest sigh is an expression of a belief in victimhood.

Recognise that no person, group, situation or condition, has the power to take away your happiness.  No one, no thing – ever.  No one and nothing can take away your peace unless you give away your power.

There are two ways to change how you see somebody you have difficulties with.

First, acknowledge their good qualities and what you appreciate about them.

Second, acknowledge how this person has helped you grow.

Everyone helps us.  Some help by being kind and some by being unkind; so that we may choose kindness, no matter what they do.  You have a soul contract with your adversary to help you advance spiritually.  He is your dear friend who has agreed to wear the costume of enemy to motivate you, to reclaim your power.

You will never gain by blaming others for your loss.  You will always gain by honouring others for their contribution.  This reversal of perspective is the most helpful shift in perception you will ever achieve.    

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