The Guise of Separation

[Holy Spirit, I felt a twinge of frustration just now in reading over something from one of my brothers. It appeared they placed their self in a position of specialness in comparison to others. I feel frustrated because I feel they were expressing spirituality in a form of separation. I feel this was an ego excuse for hierarchy hidden behind an attempt to be spiritual. Basically I feel it is hypocritical and… ]

And you feel there is a need to defend the Truth?

[(deep exhale) I… (Another exhale) Okay... yes, I feel like I need to defend the Truth. But I was mainly thinking, “Who the hell does he think he is?” Why do people insist on making division even within a thought system based on unity?]

If I could answer the first question, I would interject, “Who in hell do you think you are?” or “Who in hell do you think they are?” These questions lead to the central core of the issue.

[(a few more deep exhales) Okay, you got me there. (Slight pout) Yes, I can see that. I can see that I’ve placed my self in hell when I focus on division apart from God’s Creation.]

(Smile) I love you, Dear One and I thank you for your recognition for this learning opportunity. Indeed. Any moment that you focus on a belief apart from that which is the perfection and freedom God Created (and remains changeless) you interject a mis-identity. This extends limitation and restraint where there is none. All limitation and restraint can be seen metaphorically as an opposite to Heaven, which indeed would be hell. Are you not feeling tormented when you place your ideas of yourself or your brothers there?

[Yes, I am. And I can see how this would relate to all ideas of separation with my brother as well as the world at large. But, within this particular case, I feel an additional judgment because it appears my brother is distorting and misrepresenting Truth. I don’t like when people use spirituality as an excuse for ego profiteering, and I judge this tremendously. I feel like they are using the very thing love was meant to heal, in order to take advantage of others or profit from other’s ideas of loss.]

And so you must defend these people you see as at a loss?

[Yes. I think I do.]

And so you defend these limited victimized people by making yourself miserable, becoming angry and doing nothing.

[I can see where you’re going with this. First, I notice I'm seeing my brother as limited and a victim. I'm accepting the dream of limitation and projecting. I can take responsibility for that. And I'm seeing myself as the innocent protector of the world, thus continuing the belief in specialness and self concept, indeed the very egoic ideas I'm blaming my brother for. And I also accept how being miserable and angry isn’t serving any purpose. But I do attempt something. I try to represent the Truth through my experiences with you.]

And being angry is the key component in that? (smile)

[(another deep exhale) No, being angry doesn’t help. Fine you win.]

Dear One, it isn’t about winning or losing. That too is an idea of division. But it is about looking at what reflects peace and what projects restraint in your self. And if you say you want the peace of God, which you do say, then it is essential that you look at how your mind is producing and projecting all ego beliefs. As long as you believe you need to defend anything, you align with beliefs in limitation and restraint. Any form of defensiveness serves no purpose except one of further beliefs in division, guilt and restraint. This is why I speak often about mind watching. I do not ask you to hyperactively analyze yourself, but I do ask for you to seek out every obstacle to your peace.

[And yes, I do see how these ideas about my brother are obstacles to my peace. So let’s change them!!]

Good try (smile). Let’s not focus on change, let’s focus on acceptance and release. Here you shall find your true freedom, for here you extend in love rather perceiving any change to be possible or necessary. In order to change your brother you would first have to judge them to be wrong or not as perfect as God Created. Do you see how this would be lingering within the realm of perception?

[Yes, I do. But sometimes it seems so much easier to look to change things on the surface rather than deal with the projection and division I hold within.]

This is only because you align more with form than content. As long as you align with form you shall always seek the surface / easy solution, but truly never will you gain peace. To change the surface problem (or deal only with the level of form) is to ignore the content behind the problem. This will only lead to the further projection of another form of problem. This is done quite regularly by simply choosing to change the surroundings or relationships within a perceived problem. When the content is left unaddressed, the perceiver is often left wondering how come it appears they keep attracting the same situations into their lives repeatedly. Throughout the myriads of different faces, struggling through the same problem, you are left perplexed and exhausted, often depressed and wishing only to give up. Here you see yourself as an innocent victim and are resist the releasing for peace, beacuase you see yourself as powerless and surrounded by a world of victimization. To function in this manner will only result in a continued experience of hell on earth. Why? Because hell already exists within, and this hell is only playing out in any way deemed necessary for its own survival.

Here, we need to ask within, what do I desire to survive? Do I desire to starve in loss or thrive in peace? If you desire to thrive in peace, you need to bestow peace upon yourself.

[Okay, so what about those who say they’ll just off themselves? They believe they will have peace then, right?]

If you perceive this to be possible, my only question is, why would one perceive that self destruction can result in peace? Remember, a thought does not leave its source. If you project fear, that is what returns. If you project loss, that is what returns. And even when an experience of death results from this very illusion, the thoughts of fear or loss shall return as well if unhealed. I cannot replace peace where one refuses to accept it. That would be dishonorable to the perfect freedom I know you to be. I can present love and solace where there is need, for this is always my witness of You. Yet, when a mind invests itself so deeply within every illusion of fear this places limitation where there is none to be. Therefore, the illusion appears to block the truth, and such has resulted in no less than the making of your very world.

[But can’t you just give us the healing we want? Wouldn’t that be most loving?]

Are you saying it would be most loving to deny you your freedom?

[No… uhm… yes… maybe?! I don’t know. I guess I want to believe my Loving Self is so True that God would go to any lengths to make sure I accept it.]

All the while you restrain yourself against it? Indeed you do not go to any lengths to remember love, but you do go to many lengths to deny it. That is a huge component of the seeming problem. God knows nothing but the love you are, for He has Created nothing else. It is only you who do not know the glory that which you are in God, thus leading to the perception of a difference and lack.

I know you for Who You Are, and never forget it. You do not know the love and graciousness of every moment in your Truth. You do not know how this Love only seeks to extend its Self out to all in perfect acceptance and Oneness for the Love it knows its Self to be. And as long as you do not know, you place confusion.

This, and only this, has led to every perception of separation held within the mind. Thus, it is here that only the problem can be fixed, and this is the journey towards the peace so desperately desired. Your peace is not found outside your self. It is found beyond all dreams of perception. Your peace is found in your acceptance of Self, which truly is your acceptance of the Love God Created You to be. Here, and only here, do you rest and bask in eternal joy of Who You Are. Here you have forgiven all. Here you have accepted only Truth as your witness to Self. Here you have allowed the Oneness you are to reflect through the faces of every seeming body and relationship, and so here do you align with the way, the Truth and the Life of Wholeness.

Now, let’s go back to your perception of the original problem. You perceived your brother to be violating or devaluing the Truth through how he chose to represent himself.

[Yes, I did perceive this. Although I can now see this is indeed a projection from my beliefs about the lack of value I see in myself, which stems from my own distorted values. What would be a solution here?]

The solution is always forgiveness. I will never be inconsistent here. It is interesting how your belief in defensiveness is placed under the guise of spirituality. You are willing to separate from your brother, under the guise of defending the Truth, all the while refusing to experience the Truth. Truly the Truth needs no defense. In Truth, you are not separate from your brother and to say you are angry at your brother for projecting an idea of separation or hierarchy is also to say that you accept this belief for yourself.

[Okay... you got me there. I did feel devalued. This is why I thought, “Who the hell do they think they are?” I felt they were saying they were better than me, more advanced or loved in God than me. At least that's how my mind devised it.]

Devised is the proper word here. Are not all these ideas stemming from your belief in separation? In fact, are they not all your ideas, period? Truly, do you not really know what your brother was thinking in that statement? Have you indeed projected your own beliefs in limitation through this interpretation?

[Yes. I see that I do.]

I say these statements not so that you can interpret identification with guilt. I only point out the places where you are projecting and seeking love. This is done so that the process of healing, as you desire, can continue to be accepted. I desire only the Truth for You, for this is what I know you to be. I love you. This is changeless.

[But does that mean that my brother can say or do anything?]

Do they not already? More importantly, do you not already accept all they do as either your maker or breaker? Here you have perceived yourself powerless in the face of a solid belief in victimization, and it is only this belief which has you attacking your brother, nothing else. Here you see yourself as the innocent victim within an evil world, and through this self concept of powerlessness that never shall a moment of peace arise. Is it powerlessness or peace you want? Is it self concept or Self? The answer to this question shall help you recognize what your most treasured belief is. If it is healing you ask for, so too is healing offered through the recognition of all I know you not to be.

You never see your brother clearly! It is essential for your learning that you recognize this fact. Love is the only True Witness to Who You Are and this is because it is ALL you are. If you see anything outside of Love, it is only because you do not know and again, as long as you do not know, you align with restraint as your guide. This is seen in the form of displacement, fear, victimization, limitation, hurt, etc. and will continue as long as you perceive yourself to be who you are not.

Remember, Dear One, the Truth is whole and ANY attempt to separate it is a belief in guilt. Since you are innocent, take a moment and look where your mind has appeared to have turned on itself. Look where you use the excuse of defending the truth, for denying the Truth. Look at where you allow your own misperceptions to define you, project anger onto your brother and give rise to your own belief in separation.

Listen well. You are not separate from your brother. You are One as God Created and no matter how many dreams you have apart from Oneness, the wholeness remains changeless. Remember too there is no hierarchy within the heart of God, for there is none who is more gracious and loved than the One Holy Son of God. There is no one else to be. There is no other place to be. There is no other.

It is only the ego mind that desires to see form. Only this belief in separation longs for specialness and illusions of advancement. In Truth there is no identity, there is no self and therefore no possibility for division. Although your process of awakening appears to be occurring within the realms of time, this illusion cannot make separation where there is none. Therefore, a teacher of God is only as equally loved and aware as his seemingly least progressive student. In fact, it is through his least progressive student that he may learn the most truth. The greatest teacher is the one who sees his students and his self as one. He sees beyond every face, to faceless bounty. He accepts awareness without arrogance and with Certain Trust. In fact, he represents (places forth before him) the Love he accepts Self to be beyond all faces and places.

I have said once before, the process of awakening is not about you awakening. The process of awakening goes beyond all processes and effects. It is the release of every thing into no thing. As long as you perceive yourself to have an image to venerate, you only make a choice for dreams. I am not saying this for the advantage of anyone else, I say this for you.

Every aspect of how you choose to separate yourself from your brother calls out to be looked at. For each of these is a call apart from God. In denying your brother, indeed you deny God.

[Whoa... right there. Now that sounds like a thought attempting to make guilt.]

Only because it is with projection you see. All guilt stems from a projected belief of your own perceived rejection from God. Here is where the content of your thoughts come to light, and it is here that we can replace the loss with the acceptance of Truth. Accepting your innocence (and your brother’s innocence) can be the only route to peace. Here the perfection that has remained changeless is reintroduced to the mind which has lost its Self through denial of Truth. God has not forgotten you, but you have. Neither has God denied or rejected you, but you have. This is the key to accepting healing, notice this and remember the lie at the core of the problem. Bestow acceptance and the lie will disappear as clouded mists before the sun.

The tension you feel within is only a projection of the resistance you believe. I see and know you as perfectly free and innocent in God’s Creation. Dear One, this shall never change no matter how many wishes you extend to perceive otherwise. Again I say, you cannot change your Self as God Created, this is impossible. I could never see you as guilty, for I know who you are in Truth. Like clouds, these mists before the sun contain pressured resistance. And like rain, it is only when this pressure builds to a point of intolerability that the rain does fall, yet for you this is a reign of tears.

Now, when it comes to your perceptions about your brother, it will be essential for you to look at every assumption you make. These assumptions indeed are judgments, and all judgments are misperceptions of Truth stemming from projections of the unhealed mind. No matter what guise appears to be, no matter what excuse you conjure, your perceptions are your own beliefs extended into the world around you. You are the hypocrite. You are the actor, not your brother.

As long as you choose to see with an “I” of restraint, rather the Eye of Love, you are pretending to be all which you are not in Truth. This pretense continues to extend as you imagine knowing who your brother is, what he is thinking or doing incorrectly and where you feel he needs correction from your seemingly more healed mind. Listen carefully, the mind which perceives itself as more healed is indeed the lesser of the sane, for this mind uses denial in the form of separation just as much as the ignorant one.

[Ouch.]

I love you and this will never change. But I also will, in our commitment to learning, point out all the calls for love you engender and make real. Again, I say, the Truth needs no defense for it is not vulnerable to anything. There is not anything which can separate, define, value within Truth. You are not awakening to anything other than All which has never left you. Your brothers do not awaken alone and there will be no door prizes.

[But what about Jeshua? Isn’t he mentioned as being our beloved elder brother who has already awakened and mastered the lessons? Is he not more advanced than us? Has he not already awakened and returned through the Course to show us the way?]

Only if you look at yourself within the illusion of time. Truly, I use every aspect of your illusions as a learning device. All identities within separation are used to your advantage so that you may remember and extend beyond them. Jeshua’s example within time is being used to step beyond time. His seeming Self has agreed to play this part. Indeed you stand, side by side with Jeshua and look on in glory of the Oneness you share. Jeshua has seemingly volunteered to be the guiding light within the illusion of time, but truly Oneness is all there is. He knows this just as much as the greatest teacher knows himself to be just as equal as the seemingly least of his students. As Jeshua walked the earth, this was indeed his acceptance and this reflected within all relationships beheld. He only saw his own equality within the eyes of many. This is what made his Love Truth. And so he continues to represent this now. It can be no different with you if you so desire.

[But if Jeshua can be used as a guiding light for ourselves, can’t we be a guiding light for a seeming other?]

You can see all identities and its uses as you choose. Your dream, your perception, your freedom. Truth will be seen if you choose every experience as a guiding light for yourself to your Self, and as I have already said this lay beyond all division and certainly in Love extended equally. To say you are here to awaken your brother, or to point out all the areas where he needs to learn, is to say you are separate or special and he is lacking. This is to say you (and your brother) are not in reality whole in perfection. This is to place your self within a role which is apart from Truth.

Healing can be accomplished in many ways, but love is beyond all ways. Love is always a witness to Truth now. In accepting and extending this you recognize there is no call for love outside of your own. The fear and limitation you perceive on the faces or within the lives of others, is only your own fear and limitation re-presented to you. To see each of these as you own call for love (which truly is what it is) is to accept where love desires to be found. Here all is aligned in the one way of love. Here you accept nothing else. If you appear to need a reminder to realize all that you are, so be it. But, this is only so that you may remember the oneness beyond it all. It is not so that you may perceive to forget who you or your brother is in Truth through the playing out of misaligned hierarchies. To do this is only Self limiting, thus projecting further delusion.

Remember it was said, “The last shall be first and the first shall be last.” You are one and no personality can separate you. Your oneness is reflected eternally. All that you see is not as you are. Therefore, do not allow yourself to be lost in lines of division, for these are merely hiding the truth of you. Indeed, “all are called, but few choose to listen.” I say this not to instill any lines of division among those who perceive themselves to be listening against those who are perceived to put the call on hold within the illusion of time. Within Truth, all have already accepted the call and it is only in time the mind has forgotten.

[Sometimes this feels like a practice in semantics. I understand what you are saying, but sometimes these conversations leave my head spinning. I’d rather not get lost in words.]

Better yet, do not get lost in self. You feel confused here because it is within a mind you perceive the need for understanding, rather than allowing acceptance to guide your experience. Breathe, Dear One and allow yourself to listen clearly. The most essential component for our conversation now is this: You and Your Brother are One. If any moment of confusion persists, come back to this one Truth and rest. Breathe in the Love of Who You Are and allow your mind to welcome peace. Here you shall gain the experience beyond the understanding. Truly it is only this we seek. For here you simply rest in being your Self.

Let us release all beliefs by permitting the One Cause to guide your place Home. Again, I say you are not separate, nor can you ever be. Again, I say you are not defined by symbols, nor can you ever be. Again, I ask you to seek out the one idea which places a belief in separation before you, not as an exercise in analysis, but as an allowance of Love restored. Offer yourself forgiveness and release for peace. Seek not to change the world or your brother, but choose instead to see your brother with the Eye of Spirit’s Purity. Their call for Love is nothing but your own reflected in an idea of division perceived as real. Release this division and their perfection will flow forth through unimaginable light. This indeed is Who You Are.

Here your Self becomes the advanced teacher of God, not to anyone else, but to your self from your Self. This is beyond any face, place or identity within the world. Here you accept the call for Love. Dear One, it truly resounds beyond any call of emptiness perceived within, for nothing can be in comparison to the Perfection You Are. And here, only here, shall you realize all sought was never lost from the start. I am with you. I love you.

Christmas Eve, Dark night of the soul

On one level Christmas Eve can be considered to be the dark night of the soul. I use this symbolism because it is on this eve that the soul seemingly lay in darkness awaiting its redeemer to arrive.

During the time of history which the bible refers to, the world sought a redeemer, for it identified heavily with fear. Fear was a presence within this world and reflected itself through many a ritual and daily task. Women were controlled by fear, men were asked to lead through fear, children were taught to venerate fear. Fear was reflected through the government and civil accordance. Fear was expressed in every judgment and relationship.

Fear was an experience which played out in all daily tasks and religious tenets. God was seen as a God of fear who was ready to destroy at any request or whom was just distant and needed certain things to placate his approval. The people believed this was a God of wrathful beneficence. One moment could He be pleased, while in another He could withhold. He controlled the weather and gave blessings through the growth of crops or the bestowing of sons upon a family. Fear existed if this was not given, and many wondered anxiously what could possibly be done in order to receive God’s blessings beyond the fear.

Obviously this was not an experience of Truth, and deep within there was an awareness of this. Many felt disconnected to themselves and their brothers. They hoped for another way, but out of fear remained silent. And so it continued that the fear seemed to keep the conscious mind from seeking out the still small voice which called to replace the fear. But a desire for Love can never go unheard and so as time seemed to pass, and fear appeared to rule, there was a still small voice which spoke and grew as the mind desired to listen. The people of this land were indeed feeling a calling and it was a calling beyond fear. Although there were few who spoke of the calling from within, stories began to be written and prophecies foretold of when this fear will subside. These became the stories of the messiah. Essentially it was a calling for another way. It was a calling of light beyond the fear.

Each story differed slightly, but the content remained the same. Each story spoke of the people’s Truth beyond the fear they seemed to know. Indeed, they were beginning to realize the desire of innocence within themselves. This desire expressed within the hopes of finding a savior, yet it was only a seeking for someone who would come forth and save them from the fear. This messiah was seen as their saving grace and spoke of him often, although could not recognize where he already resided. Many prophesiers stood among the people in the town square, each performing his rendition of the coming of the messiah story. Some included great battles, while others the bonding of the people as one beyond the evils they seemed to know. Yet beyond the drama, each story contained the one truth each mind wished to have, freedom. And so many listened with great intent and some even wrote stories of their own. In all stories, this messiah was the great illusory hero of their dream of fear and it was with eager heart they yearned to make him real.

It was often assumed that alone only fear was destined to rule, for this is what the people perceived within their world. But the wish for freedom remained and this is why many stood and listened intently as the storyteller prophesiers weaved their tales of a savior and messiah. They placed their hopes, and for many their money, in the hope that one certain prophesier would remind them of their Truth. Many gave their ear even as passersby fearing the judgment of their friends or family. And so it came to be that the messiah was said to arrive from afar, for with such fear how could he be accepted within his own land?

Truly it was a savior from the community of fear, a representative to speak for their freedom, which was the messiah, and not anyone magical. But when you perceive self as powerless, surely it is magic that seems to set you free. And it was this which weaved stories upon future generations. The hopes for a savior were strong as the yearning to return to a wakeful state of being, beyond the fear, began to be the consensus. Therefore it was here that oneness in mind’s desire led to the awakening of the Christ within.

It was a simple man called Jeshua who stepped forth in his simple life to show the truth which already reigned beyond the fear. He was not special; in fact he was simply in recognition of Self. Although it may have seemed to be through the life of one man, it was not. Truly the savior was not in one, but in the lives of many who asked and recognized One within. All who chose to see with eyes alight in spirit were indeed Messiah. And so with willingness they saw their truth beyond all fear bringing forth the Christ, the barer of truth in light. Remembrance was ready to be born.

If you recall the most popular story, the Christ was born from innocence within a relationship which surpassed the bounds of time. Jesus’ mother was said to be a virgin who was placed in relationship with a significantly older man. It was in this symbolism that innocence could be seen and thus given permission to guide Truth forth upon the earth. Innocence was, at the time, the only truth which thrived beyond the fear. And so it came to pass that only through innocence could the Christ be born. This is why it was said that “a child shall lead them.” Indeed you shall allow innocence to be your guide. Notice too, how this innocence was welcomed by wisdom and born in humility, when it appeared there was no room within. Fear took up many a space within this community and so as long as fear remained to populate the space, it may have appeared that the Christ had nowhere else to go other than the one place that most people did not look. Yet innocence is wisdom, and so those who were wise did search for the light to find the gift of innocence in the dark night.

I speak of these symbols because it is important to understand the mindset of where the ego hoped to find its savior, and why it initially perceived the need for a savior. One does not perceive a need for a savior unless one has already aligned with fear. Additionally, the identified self believes (because of a further alignment with powerlessness) that the savior must be from outside themselves. And so the Christ is left to be found beyond the darkness. This became a story about the journey of innocence which brought forth the Christ. This is the true nativity story.

Usually a “soul” is interpreted as a creation apart from God. The soul is seen as an identity created from God, set off into a world to experience itself. Hopefully this soul will remember God the right way and eventually be welcomed back into Gods loving arms upon death. Can you not see the story of separation here? Truly, this is far from the Truth. To see a “soul” is to recognize your identified consciousness remembering its Self. Its connection to truth is through memories or reflections. Let us again look at the statement, Christmas Eve is the dark night of the soul. Look once more at the definition of soul (consciousness remembering its Self) and see how if it were a dark night indeed you would not see yourself clearly, in fact, you probably would not see yourself at all.

Here we see that if Christmas Eve is seen as the precursor to the Self remembering Christ beingness, it would be in a seeming darkness. Here we have the symbolic dark night of the soul. This indeed is the last night of darkness, the final night of misperception, before light is born to recognition. This birth is the releasing of all misperception. It is a labor of constraint and release. Here you process through awakening in time. In darkness you are surely blind to your Self. But in this labor you remember. You allow and welcome the release beyond each constraint. You welcome peace to settle within. A calling for the Christ is brought forth as the identified self is released.

Once again, to say Christmas Eve is the dark night of the soul is to say that as the mind asks for another way in light, surely it releases its perceived self in limitation in order to welcome the light within. Here you are willing to recognize the need for a savior (within this dark night) and open yourself up beyond all illusions of fear (although they may appear to raise themselves to your consciousness now). What is it that you are being asked to open up to? Simply it is only your innocence beyond all identifications of fear.

On this Christmas Eve you are seeking beyond all perceptions of darkness. You are asking to be saved through recognition of your innocence. Was that not what the Christ was often symbolized as? “The Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world” is innocence recognized. As the Lamb of God is seen as born tomorrow, tonight we engage in the seeming labor pains where we release ourselves of the perceptions of darkness in order to welcome our True Innocence in God once again. Jesus does not bestow this innocence upon you. The Christ Self reawakens the Truth within you. Through your recognition of innocence the Christ is born. And so here we celebrate the only true birthday through Christ in mass, it is simply the birth of yourself in remembrance of the Love you are as God Created.

Let us open our first gift together. It shall be the most important gift you can bestow upon yourself this Christ in Mass day. This is the gift of remembrance of Truth. This is the gift of remembrance of Who You Are. Awaken, Dear One and remember your innocence. Unwrap this gift and let its light shine upon the world once viewed in fearful eyes of misperception. See this light cannot be covered up and hidden away anymore. Now is the moment that all hiding shall cease and only the light of Truth will reign. Now is the moment where we reveal your Self to your self and celebrate. Celebrate with me, Dear One for the Christ has come. The Christ has come. And he is you. I love you.

Healing Judgment

All judgments made from your mind are those of limitation. This is because your entire thinking mind perceives within an understanding of restraint. You do not see your Self, nor can you think yourself to be, whole. God’s judgment, as well as my own, initiates from wholeness, for this is what it is known for you to be. This cannot change and therefore is the only judgment based in reality.

When judgments are made from your mind, it is recognition of the perception you hold. You can use these judgments to one advantage, and that is to recognize how limited you see yourself as well as others within your world, to be. Look at every judgment that crosses your mind. Hear clearly what it speaks of. Notice this thought for being what it is saying, and therefore saying what you are being. Ask yourself simply, can this be true? Ask, can that which is whole in truth, represent itself in such a way?

Remember, to represent literally means, to send forth before you. Notice, are the thoughts you think sending forth before you an acceptance of wholeness or limitation? If indeed it is limitation ask yourself again, is this what I perceive myself to be in God? In this thought you bring the belief in limitation to the Truth and ask it to declare itself there. Here, all limiting beliefs are shaken loose from the projection they see themselves to be. Here, the awareness of your judgment, guilt and belief in separation cannot be avoided. Surely, no limitation can represent itself to Truth in confidence without projection, and so here we recognize what we think we are and henceforth engage the process for healing if it is desired. When a choice is made to bring the false to Truth, the Truth will naturally dispel illusion and your sight is cleared for Christ Vision.

Indeed, the best question that can ever be asked of the mind is, “what does this thought represent of me?” Since it is your Self that you do not know, but only your perception of yourself, it is essential to bring these thoughts to light. Your healing will not be within the analysis, but it will bring the mind to a place where it recognizes a need for healing. Here, forgiveness is seen as a necessity if Truth is desired to be known. For in this questioning, the mind recognizes, in terms of the mind, where it perceives itself to be and why. If indeed the mind desires to see another way, henceforth forgiveness will be extended within. This too is why I speak your language and present my teaching through your understanding. It is not my teaching style that will bring healing. It is your recognition of what I teach which shall allow you to bring healing upon yourself. Do you see the difference?

[Yes, I think so (smile). You cannot give or bring me healing, because that would interfere with my own freedom. It would interfere with the law of cause and effect, and this cannot be done if there is to remain perfect freedom. Also, how you see me is through the perfect freedom that which I am, thus in your eyes, my Self does not require healing, it only requires it Self to know who it is once again. This is why you cannot introduce healing, but you can introduce a way to help me see my Truth once again.]

Well, someone’s been paying attention. (smile). The explanation you just put forth is perfect for where healing remains and knowing is. I know Who You Are therefore no need for healing exists from my point of view. If I was to see you as needing healing, then I would see you not as you are and in a state of lack. Since this is not true, and I only see you as Whole in God’s Image (as Created) then I only represent to you this knowing. The healing occurs when you recognize (not me) where the misalignment is taking place in your own witness. To have it this way is to have you engage in the process of healing, and me to stand as a witness to the Truth.

Dear One, I shall always witness the Truth for you. There is nothing else that I can place before you. You are the Truth in every way. Once again I say this is changeless. To be as God Created is to know this.

True perception is to perceive as God Created. Within this perception, you see wholly, providing an entry way to full experience. The mind cannot remain within a perceptual realm and be truth in whole. As long as you identify yourself with the thinking individuated mind, you remain in perception. Does this mean that you are not whole? No. It only means that you perceive yourself not to be who you are, because you think yourself different. Through forgiveness, and thus acceptance of the atonement, this thinking is released and you align with the Perfect Freedom which never changed.

When you release the mind completely and ask only to welcome God within the Self as you Are, here, your body form will simply fade into the mists of perception’s illusion and we wholly join on the level of mind. Here is where God shall meet us. God bestows this Truth, which has never left, within His Holy Son, because He knows no else. To experience this is incomprehensible within your imaginings, which is why I say it can never occur within perception. To have your Self known as Truth is to have your Self being Truth, there is no other way for you to be.

Before we even begin to introduce the mind to this, the mind must accept itself beyond all judgment. Let us once again look at this important process of release. To judge is to say within a limited mind that you know. This is often why you hear the words, “I know” when a judgment is occurring. Indeed, asking the perceiver, how they know that, may begin to shake the foundation where the judgment rests, but usually this judgment rests on a deep investment in limitation and past identification.

This is why a specific process is outlined in the workbook section of the Course. If you were to simply be told your judgments meant nothing, there would be only resistance in the form of denial and eventually anger. Why is this? Because you see as you believe and this belief has already been fully accepted as your reality. Not but the entire world witnesses to this seeming fact. Therefore, denial of your perception is useless. If I were to ask you to do such, fear and willingness for you to renounce me would occur. I am not here to inspire more perceptions of separation. Likewise, this is why I only witness for Truth, allowing Love to extend.

Letting judgment descend and separate, is a common mistake made among brothers who find themselves in an exchange of healing. What occurs then is a seeming battle of separate wills. Truly Love knows no battles. This is why I ask for you to release all judgment rather than engage in a judgment of judgment.

When you encounter a brother in need of healing, and you appear to have been given the role of healer, understand this is a role being played out in two seeming bodies, but only one seeing mind. What could you desire to offer this mind rather than the one Truth that which it is? I refer here to Love, not concepts of your own perception. Therefore, you are not asked to proselytize or change the mind of your brother, for this would be to identify with separation. You only asked to LOVE your brother and be this love in full extension. Here is your most opportune moment for healing the one mind. Here you are only being the love you are and nothing else.

See your brother for who he is in Truth, not who you perceive for him to be in judgment. Allow him to be your savior for showing you the mind which asks for healing. Here you allow yourself to accept your Self through a seeming different set of eyes, yet only of one Truth. Here you permit yourself once again to see your Self again and choose Love as your Source, rather than perception as your guide. Here we use the mind, which may at first desire to judge, to reacquaint itself with Truth and therefore become the barer of freedom rather than imprisonment.

You cannot ask someone to release perception as long as it is seen as real. This is why the call for love must be met with a loving call, not denial. If you indeed desire healing to occur, do not extend judgment of how the individuated mind judges, haughty piousness or devalue of your brother’s perception. Instead, extend your own willingness to see their reality, thus asking to join rather than separate. A skilled healer is one who asks to see as the patient sees, not so they can judge it, but so they can bring peace within it. Then, to extend peace becomes the unified goal and here is the recognition of love beyond form.

Remember, the one that is the saner of the two shall recognize his indebtedness to the other, therefore desiring only an extension of love rather than challenge. Questions can be used to assist in the recognition of what is perceived (to assist with the joining). However, notice if these questions wear the image of accusation, sarcasm or denial, for these do not remember love, only fear and a prolonged belief in separation.

Truly all healing is a desire for joining above all else. Be it a desire to join with the Source of Who You Are, or the desire to join with your brother within the desire to recognize Oneness once again. You are asking to see as God Created. Here only truth becomes your guide and remains the content of your desire. Very simply this can be accomplished through breathing, remaining still and asking to join with your brother in love. To do this within the guise of healing is to ask only for joining in mind and forgiveness. Here we release for peace, rather than restrain through judgment. Truly I say Heaven joins with you when two ask to become one, for indeed here I am.

Again, I say, be gentle with yourself and be gentle with your brother, for both of you are from the same Source. Neither of you are limitation in any form. Keep in mind their nobility and choose to honor this through your witness to Truth. Indeed all judgment shall fade from sight when this beingness is recognized as Who You Are. I am with you all ways. I love you.

The Happy Dream

[Dearest Holy Spirit, I feel I have misunderstood the experience of the happy dream and perceived it to be within form rather than content. Is the happy dream the same as achieving through the law of attraction? Is it an experience of wealth or success within the world? I thank you for your teaching.]

The happy dream occurs as complete forgiveness through the atonement is accepted within. I am the extender of the happy dream, as you surrender. Here is the release of all illusions. Here is the acceptance of Self in God. The happy dream is not a reference to any material possessions or accomplishments in form or effect. The happy dream is beyond the ego’s qualifications of self-achievement, power and definition. Here, although an experience of complete perception, it is not complete Truth.

What you refer to as the law of attraction is only to make manifest illusion within the mind. Although happier dreams, reflecting echoes of completion, all form remains an illusion. Ask, what can be attracted, that which is already part of the whole? There is no distance to your wholeness. Truly, you have ALL now. Ask yourself, do you seek to achieve within your imaginings, or step beyond them into Truth? Is there a "what" that can be a measure of Self? Ask and you shall receive awareness of what you perceive yourself to be. Be willing to learn whose will you desire in this perception. If it is not of God, use me as your guide to recognition beyond a shadow self of misidentity.

“All idols of this world were made to keep the truth within from being known to you, and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy.” (T.29.VII.6.1)

The experience of dreaming has made value. Within this understanding of value, became the appreciation for money, success and love reflected in form. Seen this way, they remain in separation. In fact, all forms are perceptions and therefore of separation. They reflect beliefs of illusioned freedom within your identified body form called worldly living. They are not of Truth. Since they are not of Truth, they are not of reality and being not of reality, they do not represent God. Indeed the happy dream shall align yourself closer to an acceptance of freedom, but it does not make you free. You already are perfectly free as God Created and this is beyond all form. Freedom within a dream is a limited freedom, still vulnerable to loss. Perfect Freedom is BEING.

“And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God.” (T.30.IV.7.5)

How will you recognize the Happy Dream? In its reception, all that you are shall be embraced and given fully without condition. Simply it is a complete acceptance of Who You Are as God Created, made manifest within your mind. Here you walk the earth as a hand outstretched. Love and joy become your only offerings. There will be nothing to need and nothing to seek. Nothing could threaten or attack you. You will be without anger, fear, judgment and questioning. Indeed, there will be nothing to defend. As you feel it, certain tranquility shall radiate upon your face beyond existence. Gratitude surrounds all you encounter for all you encounter. All will be accepted as your Brother in Christ, appreciated as your saviors. Indeed, like the commercial, these are priceless.

Here we remember the essential components of form and content. The happy dream is not one of form. In fact the experience is one where all forms are seen as equal and only content is reflected through all. This content is one of complete and total acceptance with all. It is the content of Love and gratitude (graceful freedom) as God Created for His Holy Son. Within this content you have aligned with First Cause, allowing only the Father to be your Source. Yes, indeed the Happy Dream is when you may appear to be in form, but indeed only Truth is reflecting through your mind.

The goal is not one of a happier dream. Again it is essential to learn this as well. This is such, because even the happy dream can reflect illusions, as it is not truth in complete. Indeed the purpose of the world is to teach to you everything that you are not in wholeness, and so to settle here would be (happy or not) to settle within an idea of limitation apart from God.

Surely, to the misidentified mind, it would be most pleasurable to reside within a happier dream, but do see this as only a compromise within the ego mind. You can not serve two masters. You cannot compromise with illusion and be of Truth in complete. To make the Happy Dream your final goal, is to say you desire to remain within illusion, for this is your source of being and your chosen residence. Surely, although seemingly pleasurable, it is temporal and not who you are in truth.

Your Source of Being is not the Happy Dream, for you have not been Created from dreams. What then has been made through dreams? Is it not the ego mind? Listen well, if you settle here, within a world of dreams, you settle within limitation and deny yourself of the completeness of Who You Are. Surely, I have said a Happy Dream is to use the world of form for you experience of fullness in God’s Light, but hear me well, it is NOT fully being God’s Light.

Where the Happy Dream, may reflect content in Truth, it is not the Truth. Where the Happy Dream may use the wholeness of form to communicate beyond form, it is not Wholeness. Where the Happy Dream may experience Love for being your Source, it is NOT the Source of Love. Do you see how there is a definite determination here between dreams and reality? See truly, you are of reality, and no many how many dreams you dream, this Truth shall remain changeless. This is why I say not to make your goal, the Happy Dream, for that would be a goal of limitation.

[How can I find myself to be within the happy dream?]

Simply, Dear One, allow yourself to recognize who is the dreamer here. What identified mind perceives and believes in a self of separation doomed to struggle? Who is seeking outside of their self for completion and who lingers within nightmares of guilt, rejection and resistance? When these questions are able to be looked at, forgiven and released to me, I shall direct all dreams to be happy ones. Here gentle mists of truth settle within and the world shall be seen through the forgiving eyes of one recognizing who is God’s Holy Son as He Created.

Bless yourself through your Self. Bestow a remembrance of graceful freedom upon your presence in this experience. See yourself as the Love you are and extend this through loving eyes to all your saviors. Accept forgiveness and freedom. Still your mind and be gentle. Breathe, love, smile, dance and enjoy. Whirl within the Light of Truth and feel yourself extending to all in joyous surrender. Breathe deep and release all struggle. Accept the peace which can only be and shall always be yours eternally. Accept Your Self as God Created and rest there in His Loving Arms.

“Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized. Rest in the Holy Spirit, and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. He brings forgiving dreams, in which the choice is not who is the murderer and who shall be the victim. In the dreams He brings there is no murder and there is no death. The dream of guilt is fading from your sight, although your eyes are closed. A smile has come to lighten up your sleeping face. The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams.” (T.27.VII.14)

Guide yourself to your Self, Dear One and then guide your Self with me to God. Here you shall know beyond all dreams. Here you shall be, truly BE as God Created. Truly this is not of form, effect or limitation of any sort. Truly this is not of riches or recognition within the world. Truly this is not of fame or respect from your fellow brothers. Truly this is not of home, family or relationship to keep as your own. Truly this is not of any THING or anyone outside your Self. The Happy Dream is the final association with Self. As the happiness settles and you recognize the wholeness, all you desire shall only be Truth. In that acceptance, all seeming else, all representations of separation will simply mist away, revealing the wholeness, the HOLINESS of your complete Truth in God.

“Here does the dream of separation start to fade and disappear. For here the gap that is not there begins to be perceived without the toys of terror that you made. No more than this is asked. Be glad indeed salvation asks so little, not so much. It asks for nothing in reality. And even in illusions it but asks forgiveness be the substitute for fear. Such is the only rule for happy dreams. The gap is emptied of the toys of fear, and then its unreality is plain. Dreams are for nothing. And the Son of God can have no need of them. They offer him no single thing that he could ever want. He is delivered from illusions by his will, and but restored to what he is. What could God's plan for his salvation be, except a means to give him to Himself?” (T.30.IV.8)

Beyond all dreams you are. Beyond all dreams you shall BE. I am with you all ways and always. I love you.

Confidence

[I see you led me to the word confidence, which derives from thecomponents "with trust." Are you saying that confidence emerges whenI choose to trust my Self?]

Yes, this is a reminder for your own release, Dear One. When you choose to trust in God, He reflects through you and this can only be done through the release of all illusions. To know thy Self is to be confident in Truth. It is a beingness which reflects beyond all illusions. It is to accept the wholeness of God within you and to extend this in all ways. Confidence is a feeling which exists within perception, and extends as you discover the wholeness of Who You Are. Here, you realize that there is no one excluded from God, for no one can be excluded in the wholeness of Truth. It is to be as God Created.

In confidence, you accept the Christ within and joyfully share this beingness with the multitude you perceive. Quite literally the word means with trust. As you desire confidence as a truer perception, ask yourself, whom do you desire to trust in? Who is a more whole witness for Who I Am? If I am to have a choice for confidence or fear, which will speak in a voice more clear and bestow only love?

Remember that I say how Certain Trust is the final release of all limiting thoughts in Self. Confidence exists before Certain Trust, and truly I can say it bestows the key to a mind desiring release. In accepting Certain Trust, all is accepted by the all, for all is seen as being all, and there is no lack here. Confidence lights the mind to accept there is no lack and here we begin to settle into peace.

When you have moments where there is a lack of trust, give these moments to me, rather than attempt to figure them out on your own. In doing so, you release the thinking mind. Here, you release a mind where the one desire is for aloneness. I know you inquire, "How can I give, when I feel in the midst of fear?" This is when I ask you to simply notice, breathe and allow, as many times necessary until you are ready to release. Listen to the messages I have recently sent the all, as this is a lesson I have recently echoed throughout the wholeness of your Self.

I do not judge your progress, for I already know who you are. Do not hinder yourself with projections of guilt or attempts to judge the mind. Your personality is not who you are and I know this, but you do not. This is okay, I allow you to feel all that you desire, for this is your freedom, and my love for you out shines all misidentity. As you choose no longer to believe in fear, accepting it is not you, you shall naturally desire to release for peace. This is part of the exercise in trust, but it is not me you are learning to trust, only your Self.

Again, I say, in trusting, it is only your own doubt you release. As it is belief in doubt that has you choose again for trust. As you begin to accept yourself beyond the trust you feel you need to cling to, even this desire to cling for safety shall pass. It is in this moment that a true settling of peace shall be felt, and here is where you enter Certain Trust. Here you no longer avoid doubt, but only accept that which is real. I am with you in this process, for I know the Truth of you and extend this wholeness throughout all misidentity or perceptions.

Indeed I say, have confidence in your Self. Trust that which is real, not so you can hope to avoid the fear, but so that you can see there is no fear in reality. Again I say, Certain Trust is to embrace all beyond fear, for here you acknowledge all that is only You in Truth. To have confidence in your Self is to trust in the wholeness of who you are beyond every illusion. And here, you are Free.

Now we come closer to accepting how love eliminates nothing and Self embraces all. I shall be calling to your mind many lingering illusions. As you discover these calls for Love, I ask you not to judge but to have the confidence to embrace the moment in the Love I know you are. Indeed, trust your Self and in this release to me. Do that which I have recently instructed. Extend forgiveness, freedom, be still in mind and be gentle, for here you shall accept peace over all other inquiries. Listen to my Voice as I shall guide you with Truth for being only Love, as I know this alone is what you are. Breathe this in and accept I am with you. I love you.

Teach Only Love

To be a disciple of Christ is to be a pupil of Love. That is the true symbolic definition. If you choose discipleship, you choose to emanate the qualities and lessons of the teacher you align. You may consider Jeshua to be a disciple of Christ, for it was through recognizing the Christ as Self that he awakened beyond all illusions. This is to say that he, as he accepted himself beyond body form, fully placed all understanding of self behind and recognized the True Self.

Jeshua demonstrated this through the well-heard statement “get thee behind me satan,” which quite literally means, “I command all foolish ideas out of my mind, for they are not of Self.” Here he only emanated the Truth of the Father, releasing all illusion. Here, he became a living example of fully being Love. Jeshua experienced this when he decided all lessons of Love were to be fully accepted. Moreover, he literally stepped beyond the desert of temptation (barrenness of illusion) into the fullness of Light, Truth and Love. It was from this moment Jeshua re-presented this to all and aligned him Self with the beingness of Christ.

In teaching, you align with the teacher, first as student and then by accepting the teacher within yourself. Within Jeshua's example, first he was disciple until he accepted the Christ within. This is why I say, in learning you accept yourself through your Self. There is never a moment of division in Truth, and always the student and the teacher are facets of a brilliant Oneness beyond the mind's concepts.

Now, as we keep the above in mind, let us look at the word discipline. Many have misunderstood this word for quite a long time, defining it through ideas of limitation rather than learning. Neither fear nor punishments have a place here. The mind did claim this purposeful only when it judged teaching with fear to be more convenient. Here the mind decided to perceive lessons through the belief of separation rather than One Self.

Discipline quite literally has nothing to do with punishment, but everything to do with bestowing in the highest degree and leading through love. If you discipline, you teach. Truly, it is that simple. To give discipline is to teach, and call to purpose the disciple with whom you align. Yes, indeed, here the student teaches what he accepts. Indeed to teach is to demonstrate, and what you believe you are you re-present (send again before you).

The ego mind believes that it must teach with fear, because its only purpose is to exemplify the restraint it sees within itself. Therefore, this mind believes it must further project separation, guilt and fear, for that is how it sees itself. This is then “taught” in all its lessons. Here is where the idea of punishment emerged.

To use the metaphor of time, there was no idea of punishment before the idea of separation. This is because there was no identification with guilt or with sin, and therefore nothing requiring false correction. I say false correction because punishment is false correction. Punishment does not release any error, but instead perceives error through judgment (projected through accepted separation) then furthermore attempts to control this error through more error. Indeed this is the living metaphor of two wrongs attempting to make a right.

In divvying (notice how that word means dividing up) the punishment, the mind agrees that all perceived wrongness needs to understand what is defined as right; although the mind defines right as rooted in misidentity. This is why the mind teaches all “right” punishment through force, pain, hurt, anger or isolation. Additionally, this is why you see only further hurt, anger, dissociation and force resulting. Can you not see how all ideas of separation are of core importance here? Without these core beliefs there could be no punishment, as the teacher could no longer exemplify restraint in not accepting it.

Therefore, I choose to emphasize here, God never punishes. Love only reflects Love and likewise Perfect Freedom. All ideas of hell and fury reign only from an ego mind attempting to control that which it judges as guilty, therefore disassociating. This guilt only stems from its own idea in separation and restraint, thus projection making perception and perception making punishment as a means to control and further dissociation. Here we see miscreation, for although these ideas extend, leaving not their source, similar to that of Gods, in no way are these ideas of God and thus reflect illusion and misidentity.

The mind of Christ teaches in a different manner than the ego mind’s projections. This is not because it is different but because it accepts its Self differently. Remember, Dear One, you are changeless, no matter what you believe or pretend to be. In being a disciple of Christ, you become a student of the Love whom you accept as the Self and all to be. Here, you teach as you accept all that which is to be known of your Self. Here, you demonstrate that which you desire to know through the eyes of another. Here you choose to allow the Teacher of Love to speak through you and demonstrate all that He knows as your beingness.

If you choose to separate, judge, relay guilt or fear, you use an ego belief system as your guide. Here you do not speak for God, Truth or Love, yet instead you give forth only through the language of division, confusion and distress. Essentially, this means you believe you are these. Those that teach, teach what they feel they have learned. That is why I say, repeatedly, all are innocent in all chosen effects. For you know not what you do, simply because you know not who you are.

To discipline as a disciple of Christ, you literally teach with Love, for that is what you are. Here, every lesson begins with the sight of innocence in your brother. Here, you see the Love that binds the two into One, and it is here you ask to teach in Truth. Love is as you are, and in teaching this, you so accept. To see this truth in another is to recognize where every teaching shall begin and end, understanding it is not your will be done.

If you indeed do see a need to discipline, project not from a core of dissociation. Rather, allow love to be your guide. In doing such, you do all according to God’s Will for His Son. God’s Love is limitless, yet a specific distinction remains between the world of dreams and reality. It is within this distinction that I teach with Love to assist you in your own recognition of what is true for you. I ask you to do the same with those you choose to teach. This is why the Course states:

“Whoever is saner at the time the threat is perceived should remember how deep is his indebtedness to the other and how much gratitude is due him, and be glad that he can play his debt by bringing happiness to both.” (T.18.V.7.1)

Here you recognize the call for love and answer with a loving call. Here you recognize your calling to teach rather than to judge. In addition, here, as a disciple you lead with Truth rather than projecting further error and bring peace to the mind in healing.

I guide all my lessons with Love, for I know that is what you are. These are not concepts that must be bestowed upon you, for that would echo a belief in restraint, and restraint is not Love. Instead, all my lessons are songs of Truth geared towards the listening scale of the confused mind. These lessons can be symbolized as gentle callings to the real Self which is You. The guidance and understanding that you bestow upon those whom you perceive to teach shall be the same if it is to represent the Truth. In asking how you can practically present it, I give you thus:

1. Begin each moment with recognition of innocence within your brother. Accomplish this by understanding how every judgment and perception of needed punishment is rooted in a belief of fear and restraint. Here you remember that it is not with a mind of judgment you choose to represent, nor that of fear, but one of gentle love and understanding. See your brother’s behavior (which has been determined to be requiring discipline, which if you recall correctly means teaching) as a call for Love, rather than a destination place for fear represented.

2. Ask yourself simply, what Love would do. Here you give the lesson to me, rather than ask it be accomplished from within a mind limited to drastic states of erratic fears. Do not re-act, but respond with a Loving call. In this, you represent Love first, remembering it as your Source (as well as the Source of your brother), and in this moment you choose to make this your teaching.

If you recall as I spoke the other night, you can state this as the “I love you so much that I offer you another way” lesson. Moreover, indeed, when you express discipline in this manner you exemplify a True discipleship of Christ. For here, it is through Love you teach and Love you accept.

3. Listen in gentle acceptance. Once again, I emphasize that to be gentle is to be the remembrance of your “high nobility” as God’s Holy Son. Realize this when you listen to another. See how you are only listening to your Self, Holy Son of God. In listening with recognition of your Brother, you do not judge, but instead pay attention to every call for Love. You hear the song they sing through every belief and choose only the clearest notes as your chorus.

Eagerly listening to your Brother is essential for all Holy relationships, for here, you bestow equality and oneness into a mind perceiving itself as two. It is with honor you see and with distinction for love, you act. Moreover, in this experience, only Truth is and therefore an acceptance of knowledge regained.

For the most part, listen in silence, with a still mind. Speak not, but place your self completely within the words and connection of love. Accept all that is real to be at hand, giving presence to the wholeness never lost, which includes me. Breathe to keep yourself in balance, and dedicate yourself to your brother rather than your mind. Be aware if you notice a desire to suppress anger, for it is anger you believe, you align with restraint. Choose instead to instill peace in mind and release all else. Remind yourself of Love’s presence, my Presence and be once again at peace within.

Therefore, here, your discipleship to Truth begins. Here you remember that which is for all to be, and all that has never changed. Again, I say, Dear Disciple of Christ, “Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.” (T.6.III.4.9) I love you.

Love in Process

I would like to speak on the process of being your Self. All concepts of process reflect a thinking mind. In choosing healing, the mind’s complex nature requires you first identify a process for healing, but afterwards all processes must be left behind to enter acceptance. For the seeming multiplicity of God’s Son, this healing process is where the echoes of Truth are being heard more clearly within. Although this is just an illusion, for you already have awakened, your experience is speaking to a process which needs to be undergone in order to accept once again Who You Are.

It is in seeing a process of awakening occurring that many become fearful, for they wonder what process is the right process and which one will bring the most peace. In other words they see the process as one of limitation rather than expansion. I am here to help you be aware, you are as God Created and this process is only a mere recognition of the shining forth of that which you already are. There are no stepping stones required except for the release of all requirements from your mind. I am with you as you remember.

Let’s speak on process, because this word is a symbolic one. Usually process is defined as a forward movement or advance. Yet, it also can be seen as a yielding forth. This is where I would like our teaching to focus. Our process is that of being led forward, rather than you moving forward. To say you are moving forward is to say there is a distance which must be overcome. Truly, there is no distance between you and God, and no illusory separation in dreams can change this fact. This is why I ask you to recognize yourself being led.

In being led, you relax and allow. Rather when you feel a need to achieve or progress you perceive yourself to be the active guide. It is not with your mind or understanding that an experience of awakening shall be known. All that desires awakening, must first desire release. In this, the mind withdraws from a state of ego belief, where it sees itself as the central core of power, and allows itself to relax once more in freedom. Once again I shall emphasize, all ego beliefs are rooted in restraint. Being the appearance of freedom’s opposite, restraint attempts to rule through its own self rather than allowing its Self to release through God. This essentially is the authority problem played out through the mind’s belief in individual identity and truly only a dream.

Love can symbolically be defined as an extension of True freedom. It is the full beingness of Self, reaching out to all. Love embraces and allows, rather restraint withdraws and desists. Truly what you desire is full freedom to be your Self once more. Although this really hasn’t changed, your perception of it has in temporality. Essentially Love in process shall be our recognition of yielding to the freedom that which we already are.

If you are to yield you are to give forth, this again can be seen as extension. So in putting all of our symbolic thoughts together we receive, “Giving forth True freedom” if we are to be Love in Process.

[For the most part, that does sound easy to say. As much as I can admit that this world is based on illusions and projections, I’m not always seeing it within the moment. How can I “give forth true freedom” within a world that I perceive myself to be experiencing?]

Dear One, as long as you perceive yourself to be experiencing the world, indeed it will be most difficult to give forth true freedom, but never impossible. I say it is not impossible because there is never a time that this world becomes real. If the world were real, the change of perception would be impossible, because it would be attempting to change a reality. But, instead, you are only attempting to change that which has never been. You are only trying to change your mind. This is why it is possible and always shall be. Never for one moment is what you see as you see it the Truth. This means that what you see emanates from your imagination and not from what is real. What we are doing in giving forth true freedom is by seeing this. Call this the Christ Vision or true perception, but all you are simply doing is giving forth the Love you are to ALL. In doing such, you see truly and express only that.

Illusions will not disappear when you strive to see truly, yet your perception of them will change entirely. No longer will you see yourself as victim of the world, or lost and confused within its bounds. With giving forth true freedom you free yourself from any boundary and see only as Love would see. You see the wholeness in every moment, for every seeming individual. You see them as innocent and free, accepting that they are experiencing the perfect sight for what their mind accepts at that time. You remove yourself from judgment and allow yourself to be a witness to the oneness that has never left you or anyone. In this moment you simply accept your freedom, see this as being the only truth and express that forward to the world in wholeness.

This is Love in progress. This is a yielding to the Truth which is always ready to lead you to another way of thinking and seeing. This is asking to share every Holy Instant with your brother who you love, accepting that their can be no holiness without them.

I shall list for you ways that the mind can understand through practical matters, although they are all expressions of the above:

Accept and Offer Forgiveness. This is obviously the first and foremost way to give forth true freedom to yourself and all. Here you accept yourself and all as innocent. You step away from any perception or judgment which may entice you to believe otherwise. You accept that any other perception is only based on your own ideas of limitation expressed outward and nothing else. In forgiveness you see yourself as free, healed, whole, complete and with no possibility for lack. You see yourself as God Created and extend this to the wholeness you seem to see in a sea of faces and experiences.

We bless the world, as we behold it in the light in which our Savior looks on us, and offer it the freedom given us through His forgiving vision, not our own. (W.PI.164.7.6)

Accept and Offer Freedom: You do not ask for another task or any other expectation from your brother. You bestow upon them the perfect freedom that you accept for them to be.

[I have a question about this one. What about children? Am I not to teach them right from wrong? Is that what giving perfect freedom is?]

Giving perfect freedom is giving forth perfect Love. I am not asking you to allow the children of your world to do whatever their own perceptual, limited mind may be asking to do. The parent / child relationship is an expression of guidance and love. It is meant to be used for gentleness and understanding, rather than judgment and punishment. Learning does not have to be accomplished through fear, yet surely it appears to be the easiest way to teach, which is why your world has used fear as its main teacher for centuries. If you are a parent, I ask you to first see the love within your child as being the wholeness of truth which you are hearing yourself to be in this moment as well. Secondly, when it appears your child is making a choice which can appear to be destructive to their physical, emotional or mental well-being, I ask you to keep in mind the truth about them and let that be the guideline for what you choose to teach them and how you choose to teach. You can consider this the “I love you too much to have you walk across the road without looking both ways,” example. Or the “I love you too much to see you hurt yourself in this manner,” example. Or the “I love you so much that I’m willing to offer you another choice, that maybe you are unable or unwilling to see right now,” example. The list goes on. Notice the first words of every lesson are “I love you” and truly, Dear One, it is the same with every lesson I place forth to you.

Now back to giving forth perfect freedom, similar to the above, Perfect Freedom is balanced with Perfect Love. Each is a whole reflection of the other, for Perfect Freedom is Perfect Love and this is changeless. As you ask how you can offer Perfect Freedom to all the people I encounter who appear not to deserve it, or shouldn’t have it, I ask you to refer to the above example with the children. Love them first and nothing could ever be with held.

Keep this thought in mind the next time you appear to encounter another who you feel does not deserve this perfect freedom. Ask yourself why do you fear them being free? How do you feel you shall be made vulnerable or destructible if they are not free? Truly it is only when you see yourself as wanting, not whole or able to be other than God Created that you accept to withhold freedom from yourself or another. See with the eyes of fear and all things will be seen as bound. Dare they escape the perceived limitations / expectations you have and surely you will die. This is what the mind is saying to you when you choose to withhold freedom. This is what you believe. It is essential to look at this, because it is only through this valued decision that all acceptance of limitation does occur. See this and you shall see the key that sets you free.

[And that key is?]

That none of those thoughts are true. I understand that through the eyes of form this appears on one level to be an impossible task. I can accept the imaginations your mind holds and how these are used to judge your perceived reality. But how can I see this as being true in a world of crime? How can I see this being true in a world of war? How I can see this being true in a world of disease, attack, oppression and poverty? I can hear the whole world’s response to this suggestion and understand every perception which feeds every question.

Indeed every question which is asked simply stems from a misunderstanding and misidentification with who you are. It is the tiny mad idea played out in a billion different ways every second of your time. How can you deny what is happening when obviously it is happening? Breathe, Dear One and settle your mind. I ask you to deny nothing. For that is exactly what you are doing. Use the world to be your guide and surely every act, thought and device shall be found which makes yourself a victim. This is not but the very basis upon the world was made within a mind seeing itself as limited and unable to escape the beliefs it discovered as a new reality. Although this new reality was nothing but a misperception from the start, you continued to accept it as real. Perfect Love knows that this is not real and does not see you as being made prisoner. Am I expecting you to see with the eyes of Perfect Love in order to give forth True freedom? I expect and judge nothing, I only see you as you are in complete and it is there alone that the mind’s analyses must cease to speak. Breathe whenever you feel yourself bound by these perceptions of limitation and see the fear for which they witness to alone. See how they demand to make the world into a prison and you their prisoner. Ask yourself simply, what do you want?

“The ego cannot oppose the laws of God any more than you can, but it can interpret them according to what it wants, just as you can. That is why the question, "What do you want?" must be answered. You are answering it every minute and every second, and each moment of decision is a judgment that is anything but ineffectual. Its effects will follow automatically until the decision is changed. Remember, though, that the alternatives themselves are unalterable. The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision. Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey. The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only choices open to you. God created one, and so you cannot eradicate it. You made the other, and so you can. Only what God creates is irreversible and unchangeable. What you made can always be changed because, when you do not think like God, you are not really thinking at all. Delusional ideas are not real thoughts, although you can believe in them. But you are wrong. The function of thought comes from God and is in God. As part of His Thought, you cannot think apart from Him.” (T.5.V.6)

And as you accept this you accept your freedom. True Freedom is accepting you are as God Created and all thoughts leave not their Source. No matter how you identify with the world and all you perceive to be within it, you remain as God Created. There are no thoughts that remain apart from Him. Accept this in every situation that appears before you eyes of limitation and set yourself free from them, accepting only that which has always remained complete.

Another way you can seeming be Love in Progress is to Be Still in Mind. To be still in mind is to release yourself from any judgment and analysis that desires to align confusion in your mind. When you are still in mind you accept yourself to be only a thought of God and further accept that His Thought of You has never left its Source. You accept that you have been given perfect freedom except only to change your Self or God. Is this a limitation within the limitless, you may ask, no because to change that which is changeless would mean that you were never changeless and always at the mercy of a mind which can opt to misidentify in its playful freedom. This is your safety. For if you were granted the ability to change God or change your True Self, surely the result would could not be a pleasant one.

[In all the ways the ego mind has attempting to project limitation and judgment, calling it hell, condemnation, fear and damnation, I thank you for that!]

Not me, thank God, but truly He already knows your gratefulness in full for it is He who reflects it through you. In your perfection, there is no opposite, because simply to have an opposing force to perfection would mean you could never be perfect. Indeed you are Perfect as God Created. There can be no change to this, and in this you are Love eternal.

To be still in mind is to release all distraction. It is to settle within as you recognize here, in quiet peace is where you truly are. To be still in mind is a practical way to give forth true freedom because in this moment do you quiet any other thought which may witness for restraint. When you seemingly have problems with your brothers, it is only because you choose to see restraint with them or restraint within yourself. In being still in mind, you release all thoughts of restraint and settle within the peaceful experience of inner being. Can you imagine a scenario where you appear to be faced with an opposition and simply all you do is rest within peace and reflect only love? Can you imagine the gentle eyes and tranquil visage which shall be put forth from within you? Can you see yourself simply allowing and letting all that which is not true to gently pass by? This is being Love as God Created. This is Being Your Self. Here you see nothing as nothing, and wholeness as everything. Here you are free.

Finally, the last practical way we shall discuss giving forth true freedom is to Be gentle.

[I was prompted to look up the meaning of gentle and was surprised to find that the definition focuses more on hierarchy of birth rather than the usually accepted definition of peaceful or calming. Its main component, gent, is rooted from the word genitus meaning to beget. The definition focused on “being high-born and noble.”]

In being gentle you are calling forth you inheritance as the Son of God. Truly this is you calling forth your Self into your self. Here you align with the Truth about You and see only your origins as being the correct Vision, and in seeing this you also see this as belonging to all and being of all. When I say you are as God Created and there is only One Holy Son of God, this is not a metaphor. This is the Truth in total perfect completeness. Here you are being asked to see all that which is and shall always be. Here you are being called witness the Holiness that you are in eternity.

Indeed you are birthed from that on high. Indeed you are noble. Indeed you are a reflection of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and not but the entirety of Heaven bows to your willingness to accept all that is yours. This is not any further than, separate or different from any other thought of Perfect Love from God, for He has bestowed all of Himself in your Creation. This is Perfect Love. This is Perfect Freedom. This is knowledge beyond every perception and limitation which no mind can hold and find apart from Truth.

In being gentle you recognize this and offer it forth to all you encounter. Here you are Love in Progress, complete and Holy, seeing only that which is True for all in ALL. In my calling to have you give forth true freedom I only call for you to accept that which has always been and can never change. I ask you to see with an open eye as God has Created and shall always be. In being gentle you offer the world the freedom you accept as the innocent reflection of Truth it is. Here, all seeming else silently passes away for you accept there was nothing really there. Being only as God Created shines forth in all ways, through all experiences and all actions. Love becomes your own Witness and listening to Truth, your only Guide. Here you are as I am. And, Dear One this is far from impossible, simply because it already is.

[Therefore in summary, to be Love in Process is to:

1. Accept and Offer Forgiveness.
2. Accept and Offer Freedom.
3. Be Still in Mind
4. Be Gentle.

That truly is simply Loving and I thank you for this extraordinary teaching.]

Truly, Dear One, I am only reflecting for you all that you already are.

“And who would not be brother to you now; you, his redeemer and his savior. Who could fail to welcome you into his heart with loving invitation, eager to unite with one like him in holiness? You are as God created you. These words dispel the night, and darkness is no more. The light is come today to bless the world. For you have recognized the Son of God, and in that recognition is the world's.” (W.PI.162.6)

“Thanks be to you, the holy Son of God. For as you were created, you contain all things within your Self. And you are still as God created you. Nor can you dim the light of your perfection. In your heart the Heart of God is laid. He holds you dear, because you are Himself. All gratitude belongs to you, because of what you are.” (W.PI.197.8)

I am with you all ways. I love you.

Surviving an Ego Attack

[Dearest Holy Spirit, Wow! The fury which came over me last night was intense. At first I found myself recognizing what it was, breathing and reintroducing a truthful thought. Yet, to be perfectly honest, I didn’t feel any better and the perception appeared to persist. In fact, it felt like my mind was mocking my attempts. All attempts felt shallow and useless with a belief in peace being impossible. Eventually, it did get to a point if over-flow. I couldn’t sit still and had to get out of the house. I wanted to run somewhere, anywhere! Then of course when I did, all I saw were opportunities for attack. Some of which were expressed with conscious understanding of what I was doing. I don’t understand why this seemed to persist so strongly, even when I desired otherwise. Can you help me gain some insight in retrospect? Thank you. I love you.]

First of all, Dear One, it is essential that you remain gentle with yourself. This judging of your reactions to this perception of limitation is not helpful. Yes, you did feel like you couldn’t take to sit through it. Yes, you did find reasons to attack and project the ideas of a limited fearful self which arose. You even sought justification for these ideas through assumptions of knowing what these others “were really up to.” Yes, you did not believe the attempts to replace the ideas with peace. This is all okay. I repeat, this is all okay. I see and know you for Who You Are and never judge. This is not an opportunity for further condemnation (as that is only your mind’s desire, not mine), but an opportunity to learn. In fact, all opportunities within your seeming lifetime on this planet are opportunities to learn, as you accept this, freedom shall be found more aware.

Let’s go through this together. I would like you to breathe now and attempt to step back into your belief system at that moment.

[Do I really have to???]

(smile) I am only here to be truly helpful.

[Okay… (smile)]

Now, as you breathe, I would like you to reintroduce some of the ideas that were appearing within your mind last evening.

[I definitely perceived myself to be limited. I saw myself as feeling snubbed / rejected by someone I really respected. I jumped to a conclusion that I wasn’t liked and also that I was being used. My mind correlated all the evidence of how this was true and how I was once again being victimized. I sank into many ideas of fear and attack.]

Yes. And do you notice the closed feeling and tension around your throat and heart center as you say these beliefs?

[Indeed!]

Now, continue to breathe and close your eyes. Cease from typing and breathe this feeling out. Try not to swallow too much, but forcefully breathe. Gutturally direct the breath through your mouth and feel yourself pushing all perception through the breath. Do not judge. But instead allow yourself to sink into only the thought of release. You may say simply, “this is not who I am” but truly words are not necessary. Now breathe slowly and notice how I shall introduce a feeling of light around you. Feel my presence and love within. Sit and breathe here for a moment. Quiet the mind and be.

One of the keys to this is releasing all thoughts and settling within the feelings, urges of your body. I am not asking you to identify or value with the body, yet to use the force which appears for your conscious release. When a feeling of tension slips to the surface again allow yourself to forcefully breathe through your mouth. Take these breathes slow and focus not on any words or thoughts, but solely on release. Allow your breath to slow and your mind to be open to the light. Focus yourself deep within and use your breathe as the metronome. Simply allow yourself to release and rest through awareness. Guide your breath and gently release with purpose.

[Note: During this experience I felt an increase of physical releases. I coughed, belched, sneezed and even passed some gas. I felt a tension desiring to release from my throat and so I forcefully breathed through an open mouth. I also began to notice an increased tingling feeling around my crown chakra. This was a comfortable feeling which allowed me to more deeply settle within the releases I was feeling with my body. I often had a build up of saliva in my mouth, instead of swallowing, I felt guided to spit it out, almost in a slight guttural nature. Each time I cycled through this forceful breathing, coughed or spat the saliva, I felt more free to relax and more inclined to focus. I cycled through this process multiple times, attempting not to allow tension to settle within, but instead, released it through the body. I allowed feelings to release however they desired, focusing on the process within rather than what my body was doing.

Eventually my breath began to feel more settled in my body and free. Tension had dissipated and I could settle within on the tingling, peaceful sensation around my crown chakra. I allowed this to spread and felt very comfortable and lighter. Slowly I continued to breathe, resting in this sensation. This took about a half hour of time, although time was not my focus. Eventually I felt the desire to breathe deep both in and out of my nose. A deep relaxing and cleansing breath flowed through my lungs and the tingling in my crown chakra expanded fully. I chose to rest in this with eyes closed for about another 10 minutes until I felt prompted to open my eyes.]

[Wow. That was an interesting experience.]

Yes. Here you used your body as a channel rather than your mind. With my assistance you were able to guide the energy block through an expressive release and settle yourself once again in peace. This was once used as an ancient yogi technique where the body was used to release energy blocks or restrained beliefs. Remember the beliefs that you interpret as thoughts, can also be defined as energy. They can be represented as thoughts, words or even experiences, but simply are misperceived awareness.

[It feels like a darker energy.]

You can describe it as that, but simply it is only restraint. You interpret that which is not You as an opposite, and this has led to a definition of darkness. Yet, since this is illusion, it really is only nothing misperceived as something valuable. Remember, True Self is freedom. All illusion is inverse awareness of this. Your Self can be seen as an energy which expands from the Love of God. Boundless Love, limitless and free, you are continuously expanding light. Therefore any termed ego belief is really only that which attempts to restrain that which you are. This is why you feel restraint flow up, for that is quite exactly what it is, freedom unrecognized and therefore made limited.

[That’s really quite amazing if you think about it. It is so simple to see it that way, yet I’m amazed because usually it appears so complex, fearful and mysterious.]

Yes, an ego belief values a guessing game. Thinking about it has led to all those beliefs you experienced last evening. Thoughts will emerge where perceptions will witness for all the restraint you conceptualize yourself to be through this energy. There is no limit to how anything can express its self. This is part of true freedom. Yet, creations will not leave their Source and so this is why the restraint expresses itself through beliefs of limitation physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and experientially. Seeking to project, the conscious mind of separation will literally see and feel all believed.

The key to healing this experience is not to think you must replace the restraint with another thought. If you attempt to, it will simply feel ineffective and incredulous. This is because the ego belief fueling the experience already perceives itself to know what the problem is. It perceives restraint and seeks only to find the cause through projection. It is seeking expression of its knowledge. Therefore if you attempt to further restrain or argue with the already invested belief it is seen as foolish. Why? Because you already are agreeing the perception is real, long before the feeling is experienced. This would be similar to attempting to place a band-aid on a severed gangrened limb.

Instead, see the belief for what it is. This is why I say to reveal the content behind the effect. Meet the thought where it is and gently allow yourself to release the belief. Logically you could think simply accepting loving thoughts where there appears to be loss would naturally result in success. But truly, this is relying on the mind to heal that which lay far beyond the misidentified mind’s reaches. Your misidentified mind is neither stupid nor naïve. As long as the perception remains accepted, it shall be felt. As it is felt, it is already accepted. This is why, we are not seeking to mislead the perception, but simply heal it. Here the body can be a purposeful resource. You can channel the release through a conscious healing process (as I led you through) thus productively agreeing peace can be accepted beyond illusion.

Breath is a natural cleansing channel for the body. Through breath you can assist yourself to increase focus, release and accept healing. It is a helpful intermediary between the mind still perceiving a body, yet seeking to reveal a peaceful Source within. Notice how many ancient religions and mystics revered and used the breath. This is because it has been subconsciously recognized as a healing channel.

[In a way, isn’t this asking me to identify with the body?]

Is it not true that you already do? I am not asking you to do or see anything which is not already perceived. I am only asking you to use your perceptions for healing purposes. See this similarly to the learning opportunities I have spoken of before. I do not curse that which you perceive, although I know it to be incorrect. Love would not do that. So instead I only gently allow you to recognize for yourself, through your own perceptions, within all that you have already accepted as value, to heal. This is how you will accept healing, for if I imposed or demanded another way, surely only fear would be seen. Love never teaches through fear, nor does it attempt to. Love is open, accepting and joyful for all the freedom it knows. Love only expands, never does it restrain. And so through love do I assist you in expanding yourself through your Self.

Use this healing process any time you desire. Remain aware of when the mind whispers ideas of restraint within. See these beliefs for what they are. Observe the content through the perception then breathe, release and renew. Remain awake at your post, not in defense but in recognition. Here you shall see all that desires to be set free. Here you shall open your eye to your Source.

Through forgiveness and accepting atonement you agree to see yourself once again as the freedom you are. In this acceptance, the limitation you once claimed as your own shall be revealed as illusion. Beyond this, a channel to your acceptance of freedom is guided through me, with you, to release. You call this healing. In this, your mind is set free of every illusion and awakened to your True Self. Indeed set yourself free and know your Self once more. I am with you always. I love you.

Acceptance Beyond Distraction

[Dearest Holy Spirit, I have to admit that I notice how I’m not dedicated to practicing all the wisdom you bestow upon me. I don’t understand why I don’t, or how I so easily allow resistance to appear to occur within my day, yet I get wrapped up in the “daily tasks” and ignore my thought release process....]

First of all, do not be so hard on yourself. Guilt is never purposeful in healing. Second, yes the world does offer many of its distractions, this is why it was made and adhered to with such vigilance that a mind can perceive itself to be separate. Remember the individual self you acknowledge is not the maker of the world, but does play out the thoughts the world has held so dear. When I ask you to recognize the thoughts which hinder you, these are not “Pamela’s thoughts,” but the ego mind’s beliefs which Pamela’s thoughts are projected from. It is essential to recognize this, because if not you will begin to identify with guilt or think the world must be rearranged from a mind still perceiving in itself to be Truth.

The entirety of the Son (which is One) awakens in unison. There is no Pamela awakening to her true Self here. There is not anyone else awakening to a separated Self only more aware and feeling more loved. This is an error in thinking which has left to many a seeming “spiritual” debate. Too often the mind has found passions for analysis as a separation device. Even within your process of awakening, you seek out reason to separate yourself through contexts and configurations.

There is only One identity requiring awakening and this identity is the Son of God as Created. This is all. If you feel distracted by names or roles which have been used throughout our communications, do realize that these seeming separated identities are for learning purposes only. Truly, in wholeness the Holy Son has accepted Self beyond all personas. There is no personified identity within the Holy Son of God, especially none which knows its Self as different from another. There is only the Holy Son of God. All that which you identify with here as names, bodies, careers, family, and personalities will be released upon True Acceptance. This is nothing to fear, for these roles and identities have served naught except only to misidentify and mislead you through dreams of impossibilities. If you encounter fear within your hearing of this, use it to notice where you desire to value your existence. Is it within some separated self who has lived and died? Or is it through the Holy Son of eternal peace?

It is impossible to draw an accurate comparison between the world of perception and the Beingness of God. This is why I ask you not to focus your time there, for that is once again only an attempt at distraction through mind games. Release all embattlements of identity and you shall find your peace. If it is identity you so fully desire, ask yourself to identify with Love. Although in Truth this reaches beyond all bounds of definition. Simply placing your mind there when any question arises shall assist within the process towards peace. If it is a Self you desire to express, be a Self of Love and here you shall find your True rest.

Now, back to the aspects of your day that you determine to be distracting, can you instead use these moments as a tool for expressing Truth? Can you use the time you perceive as a device for learning? Can you extend Love where you notice distraction, both to yourself and all you seemingly encounter? To do this is to use all time perceived here well. Do not resist or judge the moments. Do not identify with them or make them your master. This will only lead to further analysis and distraction. Instead, allow yourself to settle within peace as every moment comes to notice. And if you do not notice every moment, that is more than acceptable.

Remember, I speak about being gentle with your self. There has never been a moment where I have judged or invoked “deadlines.” Would that not be contradictory to everything I have witnessed to for you? If you see a deadline, it is only because you are the one identifying yourself through time and using it as your imprisonment. For me, this is impossible for I already know you as whole! There is nothing to accomplish. Yes, indeed you need do nothing.

[But, if I need do nothing, why do I need to watch my thoughts?]

Watching your thoughts is not doing something to gain God’s approval (which is what a mind identifying as separate and guilty perceives). Doing "something" was often seen as a ritual used to gain God's favor. Watching your mind is only assisting you to awaken again to your Self. You are not changing in this process, you are only returning to that which has always been changeless. As you watch your mind you are permitting the release of every thought. If you look at history, religion and culture you will realize how these only declared you needed to do many tasks to gain God’s Love, and each task was always a gamble of trust or never enough. Where before you sought appeasement, now you only seek acceptance of all that never changed. You can consider this to be a peeling away of everything you thought you knew, rather than an acquiring of new thoughts.

In recognizing you need to do nothing, you are accepting your Self as already whole and complete. Additionally, you recognize that Who You Are is not within your authority to change and desires nothing for your completion. Simply it is only your recognition which is to be seen. In seeing with this Vision, all else which has never changed will stream in as a light once barred by heavy curtains.

In hearing your thoughts now, the inquiry appears to perpetuate, “tell me how! How? How??!” Relax Dear One and center once again within the peace you are rather than the fear of your desired concepts and analysis. Give this confusion to me and accept that I take it fully for healing. Release yourself from all definitions and limitations. Your peace shall not come from direction. It shall simply be through a mind released of all hindrances.

Breathe. Twice. Again. Once more. And now allow yourself to sink within your stillness. Do not make any note of distraction, yet instead focus within the breath. Notice the joy which desires a route for expression now. Feel it slowly rise from within. Feel its twinkle and tickle coming through from a place which can only bring love. Breathe if you notice anything else and simply allow yourself to be in this space. If a thought persists to be spoken, utter only within your mind, “I am as God Created Me,” and rest here.

Stay within this moment for as long as you want, but at the very least until you feel your mind settled from all confusion to a space of rest. Do this as many times a day that you feel necessary, but accept it is not a process or ritual you seek. Rituals are only for your own comfort. Instead, allow yourself to release all in acceptance of comfort, rather than use a process to designate a preferred result. Once again, I say, this is not about any form or effect, as that is all illusion. Content and Cause are our only dedication, accept your Self through this and you cannot but awaken to Truth.

I am with you through all you seek. Do remember that in my eyes, you have never changed. Here there is nothing to accomplish and only peace to be known. This Truth reflects through the entirety of each place, person or sight you perceive. Healing is yours within every moment, for truly it is the beingness beyond all moments. I love you.

My Light is Your Own...