Love's Beginning

Ego’s version of safety is withdrawal into separate and comparative identity. When you feel any tension, you have surrounded yourself with this fiction, this perception of separate and comparative identity. From within this tension, you can access your willingness. Your willingness is the spark of light within you and all that can never die. See it as a flower, and see this flower blooming. As you are willing to emerge from the perception of separate and comparative identity, you will be assisted in every way.

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We grant you the gift of moving through all experience with nonresistance. You never have a good reason to use the defense of resistance. What is right here for you always–this can handle every perceived situation easily.

The sense of distress means that the ego is attempting to make sense of something senseless, and you are listening to it 💚

Hey, it’s your old pal, Jesus. In another tradition I might go by another name, but for now I’ll be Jesus. I appear to you in this form for good reason, and I only ask for your trust as I show you what you can see today.

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"What I Am," Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

Sometimes you hear these thoughts:

Now pan the camera way back. The ego is guiding you to identify with an I that isn't you. If you can stand over here in judgment of another over there, this means that you have set a framework in place for some to oppose and dominate others. Although this can never be true, your dream is set up to show you this is so. This is why you must become very calm, quiet, and present within the dream. You must listen for the guidance that guides you through and out of what you cannot judge.

You must be willing to access or uncover the bitterness, and that is what relationship is for. We know this sounds grim, but you set the perception of separate ones in place to escape perceptually from what actually Is. This means in every relationship with any separate aspect–a person, an object, a concept, a situation–you must plunge in, feel the bitterness and density, and walk through it with us to the true light. This means you must leave any attachment to the false light–ego’s positive–behind.

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When you find yourself locating any problem in someone or something, stop. This is projection. You made the world, and the world isn’t real. The world can prove one of two things to you: You are punished and victimized, punisher and victimizer, or you are innocent forever. If you are innocent forever, then all are innocent forever. The world can show you this if you stop insisting that it is real. It’s simply a reflection. If you need to see a guilty reflection of your belief in your own wrongdoing enacted by bodies you call other, then the world will show you that. If you want nothing more than to see proof that you are innocent forever through everyone and everything you meet, you will see that, too.

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My thanks to a reader for their question about learning how to love oneself 💚

Also, to understand today’s photo, look for the spiderweb. It’s there, but you might not notice it at first. This is all about noticing what is here but not prominent in our sight yet 🕸

You learn to love your Self (our shared Self) by seeing it everywhere with no sense of threat. The separated aspect you call your separate self cannot be loved because it is not Real, and only love is Real. This is good news, because you can give up trying to love any separate selves. There is great relief here. There is one thing to be seen at all times, anywhere, through any of the different surfaces you seem to see. Love Is already. It’s nothing you have to do. You only have to notice. Notice, and you feel the benign power and safety of what truly Is. This is how you learn to love your Self. You already do love it. This love can never be changed, and then you learn to notice that.

Every density brings you a breakthrough. Remember this whenever you feel a density, a stagnation, or a fatigue, and you are reaching for that which eases you through. The density, stagnation, and fatigue are actually what you have insisted upon. We know it appears fully that you are victim to circumstances related to these states, or even that they are occurring because of a fault or a misstep within a separate self you call yours. This is not true. You only experience limit or block when you insist upon it because you think it is safer.

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Nothing in this right-now situation you seem to be in is your fault or the fault of any other. But everything in this situation is for your benefit and for the benefit of all. Anywhere in this situation that you feel an edge or a block or a density–this is where you can allow the washing away. A significant turning point is when you realize that the washing away of resistant thought harms none and benefits all, always. Another significant turning point is when you see that you need not fuss on the level of behavior. To attempt to control behavior is to reinforce the judgment that causes suffering. Focus upon the thought level, and a sense of safety encompasses you that makes it clear that you need not be concerned with anyone’s behavior. If you are, it’s an opportunity for release.

https://lovesbeginning.com/2022/08/28/relaxing-out-of-drama/